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Well Would Ya?

Digital Zeus™ wrote 5 days ago: To date the HVACPROTech® Evaluation Boards have a total of one member review of the Ritchie® Yellow … more →

Tags: applications, Charts/Diagrams, Data Logging, Design, Diagnostics & Analysis, Digital, Digital Manifold Gauges, DRSA, FieldTest Evaluations

Draft Legislation on Development and Adoption of an Intangible Assets Metric System

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 6 days ago: In my opinion, more could be done to effect meaningful and effective health care reform with legisla … more →

Tags: Metrology, repeatability, reliability, validity, reproducibility, traceability, Reference Standards, Quality Assessment & Improvement, performance metrics

Thurstone's Missed Metrological Opportunity

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 1 week ago: Leon L. Thurstone (1959, p. 214), an early psychometrician, founder of the University of Chicago Psy … more →

Tags: measurement, Metrology, invariance, traceability, Reference Standards, History, Rasch, instruments, Infrastructure

How normal are you?

organizationalscientist wrote 1 week ago: You’ll have run across psychometric tests – the Stanford-Binet IQ test, the Myers-Briggs … more →

Tags: Organizations, Preference, Psychology, Recruitment, Selection, Testing

Workplace Violence: Why We Can’t Eliminate It (But We Can Reduce It)

George Guajardo wrote 2 weeks ago: No matter how you slice it, this has been a rough week for Americans. Yesterday, an Army Psychiatris … more →

Tags: Assessment, IO Psychology, leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personality, Workplace Violence, Fort Hood shooting, measurement

Genius and Stupidity

secondhandparanoia wrote 1 month ago: Lewis Terman’s (1907) dissertation is now available to freely read via Google Books.  His blun … more →

Tags: Psychology, Lewis Terman, Stupidity and Genius, Dyslexia

Psychometric, not psychodrama …1 comment

anton franckeiss wrote 1 month ago: At first glance, a list of forthcoming psychometric tools, instruments and tests can look pretty dau … more →

Tags: coaching, behavioural change

Just posted on www.economist.com in response to Sept 26 Schumpeter article4 comments

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 1 month ago: Let’s cut through the Gordian Knot to the real issue. That we manage what we measure is as clo … more →

Tags: Capital, Social capital, human capital, natural capital, measurement, Metrology, traceability, Reference Standards, Musical Scales

Three demands of meaningful measurement

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 1 month ago: The core issue in measurement is meaningfulness. There are three major aspects of meaningfulness to … more →

Tags: Capital, Social capital, human capital, natural capital, measurement, Metrology, reliability, traceability, Reference Standards

Response to John Carney's comments on Sept 25th's Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal on NPR

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 2 months ago: Way to go, John Carney!! You’re my new hero! Finally someone has said it right out loud: Even … more →

Tags: Business, Capital, Data, Econometrics, Economics, Economy, Education, Health Care, Healthcare Reform

Designing a Game AI Assessment4 comments

liebke wrote 2 months ago: My good friend, Twitchdoctor, left a comment on my previous post, “Designing a Personality Tes … more →

Tags: cybermetrika, machine_learning, Personality, game_AI

Designing a Personality Test for Machine Learning Systems2 comments

liebke wrote 2 months ago: In my first post of this blog, I dismissed the idea of measuring personality traits in machine learn … more →

Tags: cybermetrika, machine_learning, Personality

This Assessment Pudding Lacks The Proof I Was Promised1 comment

George Guajardo wrote 2 months ago: I spent an hour on the phone with my buddy Tex yesterday (names have been changed to protect the “in … more →

Tags: personnel selection, Personality, IO Psychology, Assessment, decision quality, validity, reliability, Psychological assessments

Reliability Coefficients: Starting from the Beginning

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 2 months ago: [This posting was prompted by questions concerning a previous blog entry, Reliability Revisited, and … more →

Tags: measurement, repeatability, reliability, validity, probabilistic models, invariance, Sufficiency, Quality Assessment & Improvement, Rasch

Reliability Revisited: Distinguishing Consistency from Error

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 3 months ago: When something is meaningful to us, and we understand it, then we can successfully restate it in our … more →

Tags: measurement, repeatability, reliability, validity, reproducibility, statistics, Sufficiency, models, ordinal data

ASK Elsewhere

don't compromise wrote 3 months ago: Our blog isn’t the only place that you can read our thoughts and opinions – or find out … more →

Tags: Authentic Leadership, Talent Management, coaching, Leadership Development, Leading Performance, learning transfer, Life, Behavioral Change, Line Managers

The 360-degree spin

Craig wrote 3 months ago: Article published in HR Leader magazine: The 360-degree spin. 360-degree feedback is a well-rounded … more →

Tags: Human Resources, development, 360 degree feedback, 360 feedback, Assessment, management assessment, psychometric testing

Contesting the Claim, Part I: Are Rasch Measures Really as Objective as Physical Measures?

livingcapitalmetrics wrote 4 months ago: Psychometricians, statisticians, metrologists, and measurement theoreticians tend to be pretty unass … more →

Tags: measurement, Metrology, probabilistic models, invariance, Parameter separation, Meaning, Education, Health Care, Healthcare Reform

How to get the right people in the right places

Paul Derham wrote 4 months ago: Do you have the wrong people driving your business forward? Are they in the wrong positions? (Photo … more →

Tags: Productivity, Jim Collins, right people in right positions, Right People, right people on the bus, Peter Irvine, Gloria Jeans


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