Stephane Hamel and I were having a conversation earlier today about the online discussion Christopher Berry and I have been having about...well, I think it's about selling web analytics to the Canadian business community. It's gotten into some different areas and Stephane picked up on these in his comment on my Responding to Christopher Berry's Vexing Problem, Part 3 post entry. Christopher has since posted A Vexing Problem, Part 4 and I promise to get to it soon (heaven knows what that means with me, of course).
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It's amusing to me that I take a weekend off and several of the blogs I write get lots of traffic. Maybe I should stay away from the computer more often?
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Stephane was most curious about my "I'm also quite sure logic (at least as we're using it here) isn't the answer because the language of analytics (as exemplified by this blog, June Li's, (oh, just pick any one but not Stephane Hamel's or mine because Stephane and I use different language models, me all the time and Stephane much of the time) is to effect action, not promote logical processes. Effecting action rather than promoting logical processes is not specific to analytics although analytics really enforces that former aspect of language."
I asked Stephane if I could respond to some of his comments in a post and he, gracious man that he is, agreed. My purpose is to clarify what I meant by the above. I'll also add some when I respond to Christopher's latest.
