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ABOUT SEAN STANNARD-STOCKTON
Sean Stannard-Stockton is the president and chief investment officer of Ensemble Capital Management, located in Burlingame, CA, midway between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. From 2006 through 2012, Sean authored the Tactical Philanthropy blog and wrote regular philanthropy columns for both the Financial Times and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. In 2012, Sean officially ended the blog to focus on growing Ensemble Capital.
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Quick suggestion:
Substitute “lists of grantee reporting requirements” in for “standards”
-Jacob M.
I also like this one from xkcd about statistically significant studies:
http://xkcd.com/882/
Great illustration! Of course, while this certainly applies to electronics (and grant applications), it may not apply to the solutions to social problems. One may need to measure different needs differently. Sometimes one size really doesn’t fit all.