Another quality post from Peter Troast from over at Energy Circle. Be sure to check out their website…

ASHRAE Building EQ: An Intelligent Energy Measurement System.

By Peter Troast (Energy Circle)

If you are one of the gazillion readers of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, then you know that IQ doesn’t predict performance. As with any test issued at a singular moment in a given life to measure a particular trait, the IQ test is riddled with imperfections and limitations.  Despite the transparent short-comings of such measurements, we find them helpful, and we turn to them repeatedly, to gauge our expectations, hedge our bets, and customize (for better and worse) our investments. This applies to buildings as well as brains.

Read the rest here: Energy Circle

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