#measurement
19 articles
- Quantifying Human-Technical Stability: My Final Survey Deck & Its Weakest Slide
Five minutes to pitch a survey I designed end to end. One slide carries the whole validity argument, and that slide has a circularity problem.
- Sex Differences in PTSD: The Response Paper Where I Confused Prevalence with Vulnerability
Women have higher PTSD rates and lower trauma exposure. My draft read that as fragility. The meta-analysis says something more careful and more interesting.
- Letter to Reviewers: Answering Every Critique of My Scale in Writing
Ten critique points across eight sections, answered one by one. Sorting my replies revealed the pattern: my concessions were cheap and my refusals expensive.
- Nonresponse Bias Strategy: Planning for the People Who Won't Answer
Four strategies, submitted and defensible. Then I reread my own sentence about leveraging positional power to convert refusals — in a study about power.
- Digital Tools: Friendship Data, Filed Between a Pay Rise and Better Hiring
SAS models employee friendships, Alliant scores flight risk, Google asks five questions. One textbook heading files all three as the same kind of tool.
- The Public Speaking Final Exam: Studying for a Test About Talking
A silent final with 54 questions showed which half of public speaking a paper test can measure — and how much the recordings contributed.
- My TKI Conflict Mode Results & the Instrument That Wasn't the TKI
A syllabus linked a free sample test and called it the TKI. Six modes, 36 items, a formula predicting who wins. The real instrument has none of those.
- Mission 4: A Correlation of 0.75 & the Wrong Reason I Gave for It
A fitness dataset returned r = 0.75 between sit-ups and broad jump. The coefficient was right. The reason I gave for reading it as positive was not.
- Inhibited and Uninhibited: Kagan's Temperament Study & the Child I Was
Kagan followed 462 infants for seven years. The finding isn't that temperament predicts who you become — it's that it closes off one corner of the range.
- A Letter to Future Me: The Assignment I Sealed & Reopened This Year
The exercise asked for six SMART goals. My letter has the congratulations, and where the goals should be it says 'pppp'. I opened it to find out why.
- The Telephone Survey Is Dying: Reading the Task Force Report on What Replaces It
Cell-only households went from 3% to 57% in fifteen years. The profession's own task force says the replacement is unsettled, and is honest about it.
- The Walls Were Doing the Counting
Kirkpatrick's four levels, controlled experiments, learning hours: every instrument L&D owns needs a program to point at. Continuous learning removed it.
- Normal Is Not the Same as Precise: The Histogram I Misread for Three Years
Simulating 1,000 samples finally made the central limit theorem click — and then showed me I'd spent three years misreading my own histogram.
- Shared Vulnerability: The Model, the Audit & the Studies They Both Point At
Carson cites Andreasen and Jamison as warrant. Schlesinger goes back to those originals. One number sits in both papers, meaning different things.
- The Opposing Processes Model Explains Why Competition Helps and Hurts at Once
I wrote that people thrive under competition, then scored full marks on a quiz saying the opposite. Same evening, same student, same model.
- Conscious Capitalism as an Acceptance Criterion: Reading the Deck Skeptically
Conscious capitalism sounds unobjectionable until you ask what would count as failing it. Rewriting it as acceptance criteria is how I read a values deck now.
- The Pew Question I Found in Roper's Archive
A workshop had me pick a construct, then sent me into three survey archives. I found the keywords everywhere and the construct nowhere.
- Criterion A: The Trauma Definition I Defended & the Clause Written to Exclude It
I argued trauma should stay objectively defined. The revision I praised for being tighter was written specifically to exclude losses like mine.
- DORA Quick Check - A Critique
A benchmark that scores your team's delivery performance in under a minute. The speed is the product — and why two developers score it differently.