I’m reintroducing the Measurement Challenge for the blog. I ran it for a couple of years on the old site and had some very interesting posts.
Use this thread to post comments about the most difficult – or even apparently “impossible” – measurements you can imagine. I am looking for truly difficult problems that might take more than [...]
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The Measurement Challenge
March 7th, 2010 · 30 Comments
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Can “expert” training increase confidence while making judgments worse?
February 24th, 2010 · 7 Comments
I came across more interesting research about possible “placebo effects” in decision making. According to the two studies cited below, receiving formal training in lie detection (e.g. so that law enforcement officers are more likely to detect a untruthful statement by a suspect) has a curious effect. The training greatly increases confidence of the experts in [...]
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What to say when they ask, “Why not 100% CI?”
September 8th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 8:20:46 AM, by Dreichel.
“Hello,
This is my first post on your board. I am excited to actually be able to pose this to the author (or to others who want to chime in).
First some background;
I work as an Analyst predicting Budget “Burn Rate”, that is to say [...]
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Lens Model: Negative Value
September 6th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:20:07 PM, by sujoymitra17.
“While using Lens Model (multiple regression), I am getting negative scores for a few parameters and positive scores for few others. I am computing the score using the formula: – <Coeff of parameter-1>*Val of parameter-1+<Coeff of parameter-2>*Val of parameter-2….+Intercept. Since few parameters are [...]
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First Print Errata
August 25th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Welcome to the Errata thread in the book discussion of the How to Measure Anything Forum. An author goes through a lot of check with the publisher but some errors manage to get through. Some my fault, some caused by the typesetter or publisher not making previous changes. I just got my author’s copies 2 [...]
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Variation of Recatch Example
July 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Originally posted to http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Monday, July 13, 2009 2:13:07 PM.
“I would love to see an example following upon the idea of estimating the population of all prospective clients which uses similar sampling method as recatching example. Could you do it for me?
Best regards
Adam”
We might need more details to work out the specific mechanics of [...]
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Random Power Law Generator Example?
June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Monday, June 22, 2009 4:33:03 AM.
“Greetings!
ON the page 187 there is a claim that the author has generated an example of random power law generator, but i cant find it from the examples. Can someone help me with this problem who has find the example from downloads?
THanks,
Markus Kantor”
Thanks for your [...]
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Measuring the Gross Margin of Specific Projects
June 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments
This question was originally posted on Friday, June 12, 2009 10:47:57 AM by mzaret20000 on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/.
“Hi Douglas,
I have been asked to provide the gross margin for client engagements. My company is a recruiting firm that operates like an internal recruiting team (meaning that we charge fixed rates as we are doing the work regardless of [...]
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Pass/Fail Questions
June 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:46:05 PM by
“Hi Doug,
I want to share an observation a V.P. made after doing the 10 pass fail questions. If one was to input 50% confidence to all the questions and randomly selected T/F they would be correct 1/2 the time the difference would be 2.5.
The [...]
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Teaching Graduate Students Calibration
April 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Originally posted on http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/forums/ on Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:42:04 AM, by djr.
“Let me start off by saying, I really appreciate this book and have found it very useful. I enjoyed the calibration exercises and decided to include them in a semester class on decision analysis I’ve just finished with graduate students. Unfortunately it didn’t [...]
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