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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.Subscribe
This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
This venn diagram would be easier to interpret if there weren’t circles around each of the labels. Circles should be used to indicate a set, not to highlight a label.
Also, C can be a nightmare, too: The person who doesn’t know what they’re doing but volunteers to teach others.
[Shudder]
hey! bork is an “A’
Eh…I beg to differ with that first comment. It wouldn’t make any sense without the circles.
The circles ARE actually parts of the Venn Diagram … you know, a subset of “good with ideas” is the group “prima donnas”.
True example: A favored staff in my department is coddled & protected by her direct supervisor and, therefore, coddled (or ignored) by all the other managers. Therefore, at all staff meetings she is the main person doing most of the talking most of the time, which wastes a lot of time & annoys a lot of people. But what can you do with a prima donna? She’s special & she knows it.
I agree with both bork and Viewtiful_justin: Circles do indicate a set, but the circles around A and C confuse that definition in this diagram. I’d say you need the circle around D to define it as a set, and none around the others. Or, how ’bout squares around all four labels?
Aaand, my lunch hour is now over. Well-spent time. I’ll be watching Indexed for a diagram describing the ratio between the time spent on non-work-related activities during the work day (such as commenting on entertaining blog posts) and the triviality of those activities.
D = downsized 8 months ago due to “down economy”
Brent: actually, C was downsized because D was able to put the blame on him.
http://www.interpersonalskillslab.com/forum/?p=110
Interesting link makes it look like the Cs edge out the As
maybe this would be better represented in a graph, with “good with people” on one axis, “good with ideas” on another, and A, B, C and D placed out in the four “corners” of the graph…?
I hate that I immediately tried to rationalize my B status, but am comforted that I am not trying to correct a humorous venn diagram like our A friends.
A = Oscar Martinez
B = Jim Halpert
C = Michael Scott
D = Dwight Schrute
This is more classically a quadrant diagram (the basic Gartner tool):
vertical scale is Good with People,
the horiz. is Good with ideas; then the quadrants are:
A | B
————–
D | C
So, according to bork and agnesmcgee, all those who are good with ideas are prima donnas?
Or, it’s exactly as it’s drawn with prima donnas being a *subset* of good with ideas.
Actually, if you draw another big circle intersecting the two others with D as a subset of it, your name for it would be ‘Knows the rules’.
Hi, your Here’s the deal link is broken in case you didn’t notice. I tried to send you an email about it, but I couldn’t find a contact link.
Great site otherwise. :-)
@Sg3000 – Bork does not understand subsets and thinks that *everybody* who is good with people is a pushover. He’s definitely a member of D.
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Sorry that the standards of all your respective editorial style books aren’t being met, but have you considered that maybe this is a comic, and not a peer-reviewed journal?
Great diagram! Would definitely print and stick to the wall of my office if I could be sure that my co-workers had a sense of humour…
Oh how I love this. I’ve shared it with the non-D people in my life. Thanks, Jessica!
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cleaver!
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