March 9, 2007

The Rise of RFID, is the Death of Sampling Method Part 2

Any result from the sampling method introduced by the Statistician still have an error. Why we have to depend on the result consisting with an error? So, what is the reason to stick on this theorem when we have the capabilities to study the whole population.

What happen if the whole population tagged with an RFID tag ?? We can easily measure the whole population since every information is already save in the RFID databases. Today, the database system goes very fast and vast. We can easily record every single item information all around the world. People are not talking about Megabyte, Gigabyte or even Terabyte. We talking about an Exabyte. Exabyte is a unit which equal to one quintillion bytes which is 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes. We can tagged everything with an RFID tag. Anything, just name it. Every single paper or plastic in this world can be tagged with RFID tag and also can be monitored through a RFID network application system.

Probably the theory of sampling method might be practicable or suitable to the entomologist or microbiologist. May be, that is the grey area for the RFID technology. I don't know. For me, it is difficult to tag the entire insect with RFID tag or to tag the virus and fungus. If they want to measure the population of insect, the sampling method still practical to them. It would not be as popular as the statistic result generated from the RFID databases.