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Why do we feel like we need to put a dollar value on things that are bad in our culture, to get people to want to change them?
André was meeting with a good woman building something very worthwhile to help prevent post-natal depression the other day. Her extensive research studies in Sweden had shown that post-natal depression costs “society” or a “corporate” $4000 per woman and $8000 per man as partner of someone going through post-natal depression, because men earn more, in case you didn’t realise. Let’s leave that one for now.
That’s $12,000. Therefore we should address it. Now she didn’t feel that way, but the corporate partners she was speaking to wanted to know the cost, as did the government bodies she was speaking to about funding.
Why do we need to attach a dollar value? What’s with our obsession with quantitative data?
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By André EikmeierWhy do we feel like we need to put a dollar value on things that are bad in our culture, to get people to want to change them?
André was meeting with a good woman building something very worthwhile to help prevent post-natal depression the other day. Her extensive research studies in Sweden had shown that post-natal depression costs “society” or a “corporate” $4000 per woman and $8000 per man as partner of someone going through post-natal depression, because men earn more, in case you didn’t realise. Let’s leave that one for now.
That’s $12,000. Therefore we should address it. Now she didn’t feel that way, but the corporate partners she was speaking to wanted to know the cost, as did the government bodies she was speaking to about funding.
Why do we need to attach a dollar value? What’s with our obsession with quantitative data?