wallenator
Structural
- Apr 22, 2014
- 6
Hello, everyone, and Holly Jolly.
This is not a real technical question I have, but something of a curiosity. Goes like this:
I have been using this little trick probably since I could walk and talk, and it has served me very well. It is a shotgun shade tree method of analysis I use to determine the effect of slight changes in a variable. In my mind this is a linear scale with extremes at both ends, black and white, with my variable somewhere in the gray area somewhere between the two. Now I can move it to the left or to the right slightly, but what effect will this have, and which direction is more desirable to me? What I do is look at each extreme at either end to see what happens at these extreme. This usually makes it obvious which direction I need to move.
A simple example is brightness of light to look at something. A little brighter, I don't look as pretty, a little darker, more romantic, and so on, could be confusing.
So I go to the extremes to see what the result would be. To the right I could try doing brain surgery, all the way to the left, only thing I can do is sleep, hide or...can't see anything at all.
So my result is that I want to increase the lighting, not dim the lights.
It's just a quick tool I use when I want to see what the tendencies are when I make a change.
Can anyone tell me if there is a name for this or what type of analysis (if any) this is? I have been doing this in my everyday life and work and it has served me very well.
Thank You,
The Wallenator
This is not a real technical question I have, but something of a curiosity. Goes like this:
I have been using this little trick probably since I could walk and talk, and it has served me very well. It is a shotgun shade tree method of analysis I use to determine the effect of slight changes in a variable. In my mind this is a linear scale with extremes at both ends, black and white, with my variable somewhere in the gray area somewhere between the two. Now I can move it to the left or to the right slightly, but what effect will this have, and which direction is more desirable to me? What I do is look at each extreme at either end to see what happens at these extreme. This usually makes it obvious which direction I need to move.
A simple example is brightness of light to look at something. A little brighter, I don't look as pretty, a little darker, more romantic, and so on, could be confusing.
So I go to the extremes to see what the result would be. To the right I could try doing brain surgery, all the way to the left, only thing I can do is sleep, hide or...can't see anything at all.
So my result is that I want to increase the lighting, not dim the lights.
It's just a quick tool I use when I want to see what the tendencies are when I make a change.
Can anyone tell me if there is a name for this or what type of analysis (if any) this is? I have been doing this in my everyday life and work and it has served me very well.
Thank You,
The Wallenator
