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MEASUREMENT
QUALITY OF LIFE
Measurement of Quality of Life is very subjective.
A progress metric has more utility than a static metric.
QUALITY OF LIFE
Measurement of Quality of Life is very subjective.
A progress metric has more utility than a static metric.
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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
I am revisiting some of the issues relating to measurement for the social segment of our socio-enviro-economic system. Money metrics related to economic activity and impact have been used for centuries. They have been used in their modern form for many decades, but over this time the use of money as a metric in this manner has become less and less fit for purpose. But metrics for progress and performance in the social segment of the system and metrics for progress and performance in the environmental segement of the system are very weak or completely absent. Part of this is because it is not easy to create and deploy metrics that are easy and effective in either the social or the environmental segments of the system, and up to now there is no widely accepted concensus about how to design the system performance indicators.
The following was an initiative from TVM about 5 years ago that got essentially zero response.
It is becoming increasingly clear why progress towards better metrics is so difficult. There are many reasons that together make fast progress impossible, but without a much more even balance between the roles of social, environmental and economic metrics in the functioning of the system, many of the issues that need to be addressed will continue to be ignored. Better metrics are no longer a 'nice to have' but are vital to decision making for a sustainable future.
Peter Burgess
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I am curious about what all of you think about your QUALITY OF LIFE?
A message sent to a small group to test the TVM idea about how QUALITY OF LIFE performance might be assessed SENT date: Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:42 PM FROM: Peter Burgess TO: Frank Wennin SUBJECT: Re: A Map for Profound Wellness. Dear Frank et al, I am curious about what all of you think about your QUALITY OF LIFE? What are the elements that go into giving you YOUR quality of life? For myself, these are the various issues that I think about ... for myself, and also for others: ACCESS to a variety of things that matter: (1) Clean air (2) Clean water (3) Healthy food (4) Energy (5) Healthcare (6) Education / skills training (7) Transport (8) Physical safety / security (9) Religious / spiritual freedom (10) Recreation (11) Cultural activities (12) Community cohesion MY OWN STATE OF: (a) Happiness (b) Home / shelter (c) Material goods (d) Job / employment / income (e) Opportunities (f) Health / Wellness (g) Wealth (h) Relationships / family (i) Relationships / friends (j) Stress (k) Longevity As to measurement, it is difficult to get at an 'absolute' number that has any meaning. On the other hand it is much easier to get some measure that is 'relative' and will show trends. So ... my current thinking in this regard is as follows: * ... For each of the above elements, consider 1 to be the value that reflects a decent quality of life ... from your individual perspective. * ... For each of the elements, then give each a number that reflects how you are relative to a decent quality of life ... so 0.5 will represent being a long way short of being where you want to be, and 1.5 will reflect you being at a situation that is really very good. * ... Do this exercise for how you figure you are at the present time. * ... Then do the same thing, thinking back to where you were at some time in the past ... a year ago ... or perhaps 10 years ago. * ... Then do it again, but this time thinking forward to where you can reasonably expect to be in a year's time into the future. I would love to get feedback about this framework for assessing the progress for quality of life . I have tried to make it relatively easy and simple while compiling something that is really useful. Though I have gone though many iterations of this idea already, but would welcome independent input and fresh views. It is entirely possible that I am too close to this to be objective any more. With best regards PeterB |