Fins-TD-07
Dr. Alexander N. Christakis, Law of erroneous priorities (draft) (January 2000)


Date: 22 Nov 1999 07:21:35 EST
From: Dr. Alexander N. Christakis <CWAaleco@aol.com>
To: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins98@att.net>
Subject: Law of erroneous priorities


	Whenever two or more observations made by stakeholders
	in the context of a complex situation are interdependent, 
	assigning priorities for action on the basis of 
	aggregating individual and subjective "importance voting" 
	leads to spurious priorities and ineffective actions.  
	The effective priorities for action can only be 
	determined after discovering the interdependencies among 
	the observations through a dialogue focusing on 
	"influence voting."

	"Law of erroneous priorities" (draft), discovered after
	analyzing data from 17 cases/applications of the 
	CogniScope system within the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug 
	Administration].

	Dr. Alexander N. Christakis
	<http://www.cwaltd.com/index1.htm>.