Steve Jobs famously said βYou can please some of the people some of the timeβ in response to a tough question at a conference. A situation related at https://scottgraffius.com/blog/files/jobs.html reminded me of that quote.
#SteveJobs #Teamwork #Forming #Storming #Norming #Performing #Adjourning
But in hyper competitive cultures where militarization has been revered by too many people, and deceptions and uses of force (of all kinds) have routinely been the means by which certain folks prosper, (and also the means by which all of the social hierarchies are kept intact) -tons- of authoritarian related views have been seen as "normal" by far too many regular people. And maybe especially by mediocre people who benefit from these arbitrarily created social hierarchies.
#statstab #244 Scale Norming Undermines the Use of Life Satisfaction Scale Data for Welfare Analysis
Thoughts: People's answers on a scale may not correlate as we expect if they change their perspective.
#psychometrics #norming #bias #measurement
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-021-00460-8
Scale norming is where respondents use qualitatively different scales to answer the same question across survey waves. It makes responses challenging to compare intertemporally or interpersonally. This paper develops a formal model of the cognitive process that could give rise to scale norming in year on year responses to life satisfaction scale questions. It then uses this model to conceptually differentiate scale norming from adaptation and changes in reference points. Scale norming could make life satisfaction responses misleading with regards to the changing welfare of individuals. In particular, individuals who would say that their life is "improving" or "going well" might nonetheless give the same scale response year after year. This has negative implications for the use of scales in costβbenefit analysis and other welfarist applications. While there is already substantial empirical evidence for the existence of scale norming, its implications for welfare analysis are sometimes understated on the grounds that this evidence might simply be the product of errors of memory. The paper presents new empirical evidence for scale norming from two surveys (N1β=β278; N2β=β1050) designed such that errors of memory are an unconvincing explanation for the results.
This is all not new and relates to fundamental ideas of #sampling in #Statistics, #Epidemiology, and #Norming in psychometric applications.
In this educational piece I co-wrote with Edwin de Beurs and @admin we refer to many of these principles and the importance of the sampling process -- and more importantly, many of the older references we pulled together are good places do start reading up on the historical treatment of this topic:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpp.2742
The introduction to Chapter 2 (reliability/precision) acknowledges that the sampling process can lead to significant differences in the determined coefficients,
that they therefore [2014, p. 37] "should be estimated separately for all relevant subgroups"
and that this is also important to assess potential consequences for #TestFairness.
And in Chapter 5 focuses especially in the discussion of #Norming of #TestScores on such aspects, including relating to our previous discussion...
#NFL #Race #Norming #CTE #Black
Begun in the 1990's by the same league that has been majority Black in terms of players, yet to this day finds it nearly impossible to hire Black head coaches "The NFL...pledged to halt the use of 'race-norming' β which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function".
The National Football League hates the majority of its players and a significant portion of its fanbase.
But enjoy making rich white racist men richer!
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