Bill Clinton works for Hewlett-Packard

Suppose Bill Clinton goes to work for Hewlett-Packard after he's done at the White House. Let's assume that he is put in charge of quality control for a particular printer assembly line. How should he decide which printers are of high enough quality to be sold? He could do something similar to what Michael Jordan did, that is, he could print out a test image and see if he thought it looked good enough. I don't know that much about Bill, but with a good night's sleep the night before, he might manage to adequately evaluate a couple hundred printers. However, sooner or later all of the printouts are going to start looking the same and Bill's ability to evaluate their quality will drop. In any case, paying Bill to sit there all day long and look at the printouts would be pretty expensive.

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