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A Mole of Moles
Randall Munroe (the guy who draws xkcd and writes the blog there, is brilliant. Seriously brilliant. Ever wondered if anything is measurable? Yes.
How Many Points Should be on a Likert Scale?
Resolutions are fun, you should get some! This year, I resolved to produce some Metrics Geek Podcasts. Mostly these are my ramblings on various learning measurement topics (at least for now *cue ominous music*) Metrics Geek Podcast.(8:15) Fewer than 10 minutes and you’ll be a Likert scale expert! Likert Scales
Performance Support
So this Geek has had the chance, at the Learning2011 conference in Orlando this week, to attend some sessions and have some conversations about Performance Support. Without getting all hyperbolic on you, I want to say that traditional training (ILT, WBT, Blended learning, yadda yadda yadda) is the equivalent of Neanderthal Persons while Performance Support [...]
Enhanced Individual Assessment
Blogging today from the awesome Learning 2011 conference in Orlando! SO much sunnier than Seattle was when I left. This morning’s first session was Sarah Bloomfield from Google who talked about, among other things, a different view of assessment. In the corporate learning biz, the focus for assessment (Level 2) is most often individual assessment…which [...]
What’s The Story?
The below graph is the 2010 Quality of Life Index filtered for Cost of Living. I haven’t validated the scale, although it appears to be 1 – 100, nor do I have any idea where the data comes from. But if you can keep yourself from being too distracted by that, take a moment to [...]
Learning Measurement: Taking the Easy Way
In response to an article in T+D Magazine about Learning Measurement, specifically about the difference between evidence and proof, I wrote a reaction here. It’s cool. You should read it. Geek
6 Day Week
There must be some reason this isn’t viable, but to save my life I can’t think of it right now. http://xkcd.com/320/
Microwave magic
I remember, as some of you also probably do, when microwave ovens arrived on the scene. Magically cooking things without heat, they were all the rage among the early-adopters, but they freaked me out. I looked into the glass, through the protective screen to try to catch a glimpse of the microwaves being released from [...]
It’s all Relative
Handily posted on the back of my M&M’s package, in lovely I’m-a-friend-of-the-earth-green, are the nutrition details for this little bag of magic. Only 240 calories! 12g of fat! Dude, this is HEALTH FOOD! Must be the peanut. Makes it sort of like a vegetable, sort of like having a bag of green beans. Wait. 240 [...]
BP by the Numbers
Although reports differ, one estimate I read today said that 181 litres of oil had spilled since the BP spill (gush?) happened on April 20. Litre-to-gallon conversion is 0.264172051:1 About 40% of crude oil is converted to gasoline So we’ve wasted about 19,126,056 gallons of gasoline* It’s 5000 miles from Fairbanks, AK to Miami, FL [...]