#measurement
8 articles
- 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.
- 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.