On: Quality is Fractal, from restaurants to software.

[joe_the_user]

Uh as you admit below, your argument here is mistaken.

Fractals are geometric patterns only. The restaurants are not "self-similar" in any geometric or fractal sense - the napkins don't particularly resemble the steaks. The only thing a good restaurant has a consistent quality. They don't resemble fractals any more than steaks resemble chairs and napkins.

[MaysonL → joe_the_user]

With a reasonably defined quality space, what the article is saying is that the measure in any quality dimension is likely to correlate highly with that in any other: i.e. the measures are self-similar.