Re: Knowledge and Variation: Some thoughts on Deming and Fisher

[demingtw <demingtw@ms17.hinet.net>]

Jonathan Siegel wroteˇG

> "The rate of increase in fitness of a population at any time is proportional to its genetic variance in fitness at that time"...
>
> I'm making two claims here:
> 1. Fisher said that the role of genetic material in a population has some of the characteristics and obeys some of the same wave/particle dynamics laws as physics "particles" (Fisher made this association explicitly).
> 2. Much of what Deming said about both knowledge and society makes more sense if one takes the view that  knowledge in a society plays some of the same adaptive role as genetic material in a natural population as described by Fisher (If Deming said this directly anywhere, please let me know.)
>

Dear Jonathan,

I know nearly nothing about genetics and your extended theory, please specify your quotations to help us study. But I am intersted with the subject.  Perhaps you like to comment on Prof. Johnson's Bring the Life to Quality speech In the DEN archieve first.

I think you might made R. A. Fisher's idea like a post hoc one ( I do think we need to clarify many key words like 'variations', unfortunately, this word is undefined in OOTC neither). Please refer to Dr. Deming's preface to OOTC about 'mutation'.  I was surprised with Dr. Deming not mentioned  Prof. Fisher in OOTC and TNE. But Dr. Deming is a purposeful man.

Sincerely,

Hanching Chung