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Plain English About Information Quality Column:
The Silent Scream of Numbers


Column published in DMReview.com
June 1, 2005

By Larry English

In my March column, I reported on the election reform movement that sprang out of problems observed in the 2004 presidential election. As a result, a group called Gathering To Save Our Democracy organized a conference called the "National Conference on Election Reform." I was honored to be invited to speak on how quality principles must be applied to the election processes to produce viable and sustainable election reform. Statisticians, computer scientists, election workers and concerned citizens shared analyses of data that revealed significant problems.

Robert Koehler, an award-winning journalist, editor at Tribune Media and nationally syndicated writer, captured the essence of the conference in this guest editorial, "The Silent Scream of Numbers." Robert has given me permission to publish it here.




The Silent Scream of Numbers
By Robert C. Koehler
© 2005 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

As they slowly hack democracy to death, we're as alone - we citizens - as we've ever been, protected only by the dust-covered clichs of the nation's founding: "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."


It's time to blow off the dust and start paying the price.

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Larry P. English is president and principal of INFORMATION IMPACT International, Inc., Brentwood, Tennessee, and the author of the widely acclaimed book, Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality: Methods for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits. English is cofounder of the International Association for Information and Data Quality (www.iaidq.org). English is an internationally recognized speaker, teacher, consultant and author and may be reached at [e-mail] or through his Web site at www.infoimpact.com.

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