عن الأشياء التي لا تقاس

by محمد عادل

في هذا الكتاب أتحدث عن الأشياء التي لا تقاس. أتحدث عن الإعلام، السياسة، الدين، علم النفس، علم الإجتماع، و هي ما يجمعها البعض تحت مسمي العلوم الإنسانية. هي أشياء لا يمكن قياسها بالأرقام و علي الرغم من هذا فهي تشكل العوامل الأساسية المؤثرة في سلوكيات البشر. أحاول مع القاريء أن نفهم هذه الأشياء علي أمل أن نفهم الإنسان و سلوكياته، علي أمل أن ننتبه لقيمة الأشياء التي لا تقاس كما إنتبه إليها الصحابة قديماً

156 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2011

Reviews

[Omneya]

I think this is the kind of books young Egyptians need to read right now. It comes from an intellectual mind who knows how to receive information and analyze it, it approaches pretty much everything: sociology, politics, mass media, science and religion. It is engaging and educating and will sure make its readers question and search for answers.

[سارة المغازى]

من الكتب التى لو وجدت فى مجتمعات تحترم العقول لوضع فى اكثر الكتب مبيعا بلا مبالغة ... الكتاب يجعلك تفكر طوال الوقت ولا يستخدم اسلوب علمى سردى ممل بل يلجأ للتفكير معك بصوت عال ... المعلومة والتواريخ لا تضايقك بكثرتها فهى موظفة لأيصال فكرة وهو الأهم فالكاتب عرف كيف يستخدم ما يعرفه كى يستخلص الحكمة... يعيب الكتاب شىء واحد فقط انه لا يحوى فهرس ... اتمنى الا يتوقف الكاتب عن انارة عقول الناس بمثل ذلك الفكر

[Hesham Amin]

استطاع الكاتب أن يوصل افكاره و التدليل عليها عن طريق تركيب كم كبير من المعلومات و الأحداث كقطع الليجو. الكتاب ممتع و إن كان من الممكن أن يتوه القارئ وسط هذا الكم من المعلومات التي تتنوع و لا يربطها نسق واحد على مستوى الكتاب ككل نظرا لطبيعته ككتاب مقالات.
أنصح بقراءته أكثر من مرة او بشكل متجزئ.

[Eman Khamies]

النظر للامور من زوايا أخرى.. رائع جدا واكثر ما اعجبني تحليله للاعلام

[Sara El-Kady]

I really enjoyed it... it made me look at few things differently.

[Usra Zar]

مواضيع مختلفة نجح الكاتب في الربط بينها باسلوب جميل و سلس
و تحليل موضوعي
استفدت من الكتاب كثيررا

[Magdy Shonoda]

Good read. I think the contents are important for other people to know and think about.
Many of the topics and issues covered in the book are interesting and well supported (at least this is what I think will be the case with others, excluding me sometimes) with information (but almost no references), examples, (sometimes very biased) opinions and reasoning/good-analysis.
Despite my criticisms and some different disagreements, I DO recommend the book.

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Random comments: (I do not really have to define random, or do I?)

- Your book is a collection of articles, not a book. (I know you know that. My point here does not imply a bad nor a good thing, just what I think about the book.)

- I think one should not confuse between what can/cannot be *measured* (either objectively or subjectively), and what can/cannot be *proved*. [How to measure/talk-about human emotions? (from the chemical reactions POV or from how do they feel (subjectively)); sugar tastes sweet (scientifically proved), but how much sweet (sweetness) does sugar taste?; Is there a creator or not! ..]

- Definitions:
Unmeasurable: Not able to be measured objectively.
Immeasurable: Too large, extensive, or extreme to measure.

- "Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that." - Homer Simpson.
The book lacks of "References", come ‘on!
For me, just writing down a number does not tell anything about how accurate it is. (btw the story you mentioned about Neil Postman is amazing) - Sometimes while reading, I really needed references not because I do not believe you, but mainly because: to read more about the topic, my background/knowledge is very limited so I cannot validate or accept what is mentioned peacefully/easily, and/or to see if I will understand/interpret your reference(s) the same way as you did.

- Science has a fuzzy nature of right and wrong. Most people do not get what science, hypothesis, theory, fact, law mean.

- How accurately can you measure things? Accuracy and measurement are inseparable concepts. - (Accuracy is a measure of how close the result of the measurement comes to the "true", "actual", or "accepted" value.) -- Add here other concepts like: measurement error, approximation, tolerance, and precision.
["When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together." - 'Relativity of Wrong' essay by Isaac Asimov]

- عوامل الخظا في العلوم الانسانية -> I had major issues and major disagreements with this article.
- تاثير الاعلام -> I think this was very important article. (Although you were unbalanced in your opinions with the Television part, but given/considering some thoughts, that is acceptable)
- محاكمات نورمبرج -> was an excellent article.

- No index =/ (seriously really annoying)

- Many of the information mentioned were really good, the examples were too. And I TRULY enjoyed all the historical parts.

- In MANY different contexts, your opinions were very biased, I had many disagreements with the conclusions! - but that is very acceptable for me. -Sometimes I felt confused (lost), no good connectivity in the thoughts, sometimes the examples were not clear enough to tell the message. (still very acceptable for me)
My main problem (esp. with the first two articles) was that I found a stream of (solid) opinions/information, you connected them in a certain way to prove something, and the thing is: I find myself agree with many of the little dots, but not with the whole picture. (Each part of the cell works but alone! -- without the tiny connection(s) or final conclusion(s))

- Is Mathematics the only way to measure things? - [irrelevant, but in Mathematics, there is something called: "Non-measurable set", which ".. is a set whose structure is so complicated that it cannot be assigned any meaningful measure" - Wikipedia. (Vitali set) ]

[Mohamed yassin]

يتناول شرح الا ساليب المختلفة في الدعاية وكيفية اللعب علي العرائز الدفينة في شخصية كل واحد وعلي سبيل المثال مجموعة من السيدات تتمرد وتشعل نار الحرية رمزا للحرية واعلان عن مسحوق تحضر الكيكه الجاهزه وقلة مبيعات للشعور بالذنب من تجاه الامهات وعمل حملة تركز علي اضافة بعض المكونات والتي تتلخض في بيضه وبعدها حقك المبيعات المرجوة

[Mo'men Elfadly]

كتاب رائع يتكلم عن غياب المرجعية في الكثير من قرارتنا
انا متابع مدونة كتابتي من زمان و نصحت محمد انه يجمع مقالاتة في كتاب
محتاج قراءة اكثر من مرة لان الدروس المستفادة كثيرة

[Marwa]

الكتاب ورغم احتوائه علي العديد من الاخطاء النحويه ، فانه يعرض فكر مختلف يدل علي ثقافه علميه وتاريخيه لا يستهان بها للمؤلف ، فهو صاحب رؤية وتحليل مختلف للاحداث والمعلومات ، انصح بقرائته

[Aya Metawee]

يخليك تفكر و تفكر و تفكر و تستمر في التفكير طول مده القراءه
جميل، لازم اقرأه تاني نظراً لكميه المعلومات

[Ahmad]

تجربة ذهنية ثرية .. :D
انا اتعلمت و انبسطت كتير