Today was a little slower, right before the holiday. Tim (my fellow extern) and I spent a few hours "playing with data." The product managers are ranked using four different measures. The four metrics are weighted somehow and a rank is determined. We tried to determine the weighting mechanism that is used. We had all of the numbers in a spreaedsheet and we tried several different techniques.
This reminds me of one of our curricular focuses, which is mathematical habits of mind. One of the habits of mind that we stress is to have students be experimenters. This is exactly what we did for a good portion of the afternoon. We also tried incorporating some other measures with our own weighting system to see how the rankings might change.
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