In a recent post, I compared the weekly one-week average in COVID-19 cases and deaths for the individual states with other countries. When normalized for population, a few key states were doing worse than most…
My maternal grandfather once told me that his grandfathers each had diametrically opposed mottos. His maternal grandfather’s motto was “Haste makes waste,” while that of his paternal grandfather was “Time is wasting.” My grandafather said…
After driving down COVID-19 cases to a low level this Summer, Europe is currently experiencing a second wave of infection. While countries are taking action, Spain has been especially hard hit by this recent surge.…
In 1 Corinthians St. Paul writes “I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready.” I was reminded of this statement…
According to a New York Times article published today, there have been 88,000 cases of COVID-19 reported at colleges and universities across the United States. The University of Georgia has the dubious distinction of most…
Podcasts are growing in popularity. According to a recent article by Statista, 75 percent of Americans are now aware of podcasts, and 55 percent have now listened to a podcast at some point. In case…
From The NY Times – there is a surge in virus cases in counties where at least 10 percent of the population are students at college or universities, while cases in other counties are still…
In a recent post, I called into question the credibility of the current practice of cost risk analysis. I showed that for 10 projects for which a cost risk analysis had been conducted, the actual…
Some recent headlines have cited a University of Washington model that predicts 410,000 COVID-19 deaths by the end of this year, with a range from 288,000 to 620,000, depending on whether or not people continue…
Several years ago, when I was the Cost Director with the Missile Defense Agency I had a conversation about quantitative cost risk analysis with a senior executive with the Department of Defense’s Cost Assessment and…