Talk:Histogram/Archives/2012
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"Seven Basic Tools of Quality"
Am I the only person who doesn't care for the prominence given to the "Seven Basic Tools of Quality" phrase. Certainly, histograms may be used in quality control, but the phrase "Seven Basic Tools of Quality" has the distinct feel of being somebody's marketing gimmick for a commercial (or semi-commercial) package of consulting services (something like "Total Quality Management", or "Six Standard Deviations"). Or perhaps someone's written a book called "The Seven Basic Tools of Quality" (by analogy with "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" or "The Five Disciplines" or "NASA's 101 Rules" or whatever). In any case, I'm nervous about this kind of sloganeering. What do other people think? RomanSpa (talk) 13:11, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
- With regards to the "perhaps someone's written a book", you can click through the link to the article, look at the "references" section and see that in fact Kaoru Ishikawa devoted at least part of a book or two to the subject and the American Society for Quality has a web page devoted to it.
- Regardless, "Seven Basic Tools of Quality" appears three times within the histogram article:
- Are you objecting to all three mentions? Just the infobox? Just the lead mention? Just the "see also" mention? -- DanielPenfield (talk) 13:40, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
- I agree with RomanSpa. The "Seven Basic Tools of Quality" could be listed once, perhaps, in an applications section. I think the caption on the graph at the topic is really out of place. Histograms are, after all, one of the "basic tools" of any type of data analysis. It is one of the basic tools of Exploratory data analysis, density estimation, distribution fitting, etc. but there is not room to provide a slogan for all of these. When did histogram get taken over by quality control? Mathstat (talk) 22:02, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
- Agree and
Removed from the infobox. However the template is Template:Infobox quality tool -can't we use a more generic infobox for statistical charts and diagrams? Is there one? --Cyclopiatalk 17:45, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
- Agree and
- I agree with RomanSpa. The "Seven Basic Tools of Quality" could be listed once, perhaps, in an applications section. I think the caption on the graph at the topic is really out of place. Histograms are, after all, one of the "basic tools" of any type of data analysis. It is one of the basic tools of Exploratory data analysis, density estimation, distribution fitting, etc. but there is not room to provide a slogan for all of these. When did histogram get taken over by quality control? Mathstat (talk) 22:02, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
