Comments on: Unappetizing Spaghetti Diagrams https://6sigma.com/unappetizing-spaghetti-diagrams/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:45:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michael Donegan https://6sigma.com/unappetizing-spaghetti-diagrams/#comment-25169 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:16:36 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=1413#comment-25169 psabilla, Could you please contact me concerning you Wharehouse article kast year. I am writing a business plan and have some questions. Thanks

]]> By: Robert Edward Cenek https://6sigma.com/unappetizing-spaghetti-diagrams/#comment-25168 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:28:25 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=1413#comment-25168 Ditto to Chris P and Levi. No more complicated than the current system.

]]> By: Levi https://6sigma.com/unappetizing-spaghetti-diagrams/#comment-25167 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:40:20 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=1413#comment-25167 You should note that the diagram in question was created by Republican Staff Congressman Kevin Brady, who is the ranking Republican on the committee. Do you think he intended to portray the plan as clearly as possible, or did he perhaps want to make it look as confusing as possible?

No doubt the plan itself is very complex, but one must be careful to distinguish a bloated and complicated *representation* of the plan from the plan itself. Taking a representation designed by an opponent of the plan as the simplest possible representation is probably a bad idea.

]]> By: Chris P https://6sigma.com/unappetizing-spaghetti-diagrams/#comment-25166 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:11:58 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=1413#comment-25166 The first diagram was meant to be an explanation of the new plan, but as a statistician I am trained to ask, “Compared to what?” when I see data. I have yet to see a similarly designed diagram for the current system. If the point of the diagram was to show that this is a complex system with multiple points of regulation, then it has succeeded, but it is not evidence that the reform is worse than status quo.

]]> By: Matt Williams https://6sigma.com/unappetizing-spaghetti-diagrams/#comment-25165 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:09:35 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/?p=1413#comment-25165 Dan Roam has posted about this issue, specifically in respect of healthcare reform, and is going to be working on it himself – I’m looking forward to the results: http://digitalroam.typepad.com/digital_roam/2009/08/clarifiying-health-care-dont-expect-much-from-the-media.html

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