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Back to the drawing board

After looking into the difficulties and and the huge effort to set up a dedicated Forecast Channel built around charts & graphs to get accurate data on the world and national mid to long term problems, I’ve concluded that it would be a very risky venture.

I was encouraged when Ross Perot started a website in 2008 called perotcharts that provided charts on looming budget crisis issues. Apparently the website is no longer active. The public response to his website was poor based upon websites that tracked Perot’s website performance. The NY-Times column called “By the Numbers” on statistics and charts caught my eye, but it appears the interest and the number of articles on statistics has fallen off.

The Era of Distrust  was even around in Mark Twain’s time. One of  his famous quotes was: “There are three kinds of lies … lies, lies, and damned lies … and statistics.” Sorry kids, it seems the really truthful forecast data and facts on long term issues will remain in the labs and computers with the people who compile the data … for now.

But if you are like your grandpa … you don’t give up trying. Even if someone is singing to you to; “Turn out the lights, the party is over”. Be persistent if you are purposefully driven to achieve a particular goal.

Maybe Perot charts can be rejuvenated as a web site if it looks at all crucial long term problems, that have the objective of Continuous Measurable Improvement to avoid disaster … it will need the blessing of the influential pundits.

Another area to look at is the polling companies. The public pays attention to their statistics and charts. Grandpa will check into how they are funded and what type of information they look for to go out to the electronic media and the printed media. Tune into future grandpa’s blogs kids … the party is not over …yet.