Author: Dr Paul Langely

Cheers 22 Meets Catch 22

CHEERS 22 MEETS CATCH 22

Dr Paul Langely 685 Views

Joseph Heller’s Catch 22, published in 1961, has been described as both a dark comedy and absurdist fiction, and as one of the iconic novels of the 20th century. The term Catch 22, is defined by the Collins English Dictionary as follows: “If you describe a situation as a catch-22, you mean it is an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing, but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing.” As

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Tufts' Ordinal Oversight

TUFTS’ ORDINAL OVERSIGHT

Dr Paul Langely 760 Views

It is unusual, after 46 years of database development to point out that there is a basic flaw that unfortunately renders the entire exercise irrelevant. This is the situation that the Tufts University Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) database finds itself in once questions of the axioms of fundamental measurement are raised. The concern rests on two considerations: first, the properties, from a measurement perspective, of the direct and indirect multiattribute preference instrument that have been widely accepted and applied in modeling over the

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