A seemingly unrelated paper I was asked to read

I've been doing a brush up on my statistics skills recently.  This has been going pretty well since my degree is in math but I still want to "knock the rust off" as we start some data analysis work here in the OneNote test team.

One of the papers that I was sent my way to read is this one:

•Measurement of statistical evidence on an absolute scale following thermodynamic principles,
V. J.  Vieland,J. Das,S. E. Hodge, S-C. Seok, September 12, 2012

 

It's been pretty interesting so far and I really recommend reading through it (several times).  It's in PDF form so jump over and check it out.

 

Now, a paper on coming up with a method of scaling temperature using solid methodology may not seem at first glance to be related to software testing.  But I am really intrigued with the idea of the absolute scale - a scale in which a unit of movement, in any direction, always means the same.  I've read through this three times already and am starting to see how it works.  I figure after another three readings I will be ready to start thinking about how to apply this to testing OneNote.

 

Stay tuned.

 

Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms always welcome,
John