Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.
Because each and every one of you made a decision that at a moment of such urgency, it was less important to measure what the polls said than to measure what was right.
Natural disasters, like Hurricane Sandy, provide periodic reminders, not of the shortcomings of GDP necessarily, but what GDP is designed to measure and what it is not designed to measure.
They do seem to me to measure what we really want to measure rather better than the more usual figures.
Current quality measures are easily gamed and do not really measure what they are intended to measure.
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The intermediate goal of MET is to discover what we are able to measure that is predictive of student success.
And there is Tobin's q, a ratio of the stockmarket value to the replacement cost of its tangible assets an attempt to measure what it would cost to recreate a company from scratch.
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It is not an exact science and depends on what you want to measure.
Walker and Fred McMahon, the two outstanding economists who led this effort at Fraser, deserve much credit for launching the most serious effort to date to measure what matters, and giving us so much material to ponder.
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We also encouraged schools to adopt better assessments -- not just one-size-fits-all approaches -- to measure what our kids know and what they're able to do.
But, the main point of this rambling piece is not to confuse what our statistics are designed to measure and blame an orange for not being an apple.
The formula itself makes sense because what GDP is attempting to measure is the gross domestic product.
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She said what you really wanted to measure was consequential deceptions, meaning the level of deception that moved voters.
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Consider now how we are implementing the Common Core assessments: summative assessments to measure what percentage of students failed.
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What the measure fails to account for, however, is the 1% chance that the firm could lose an indeterminate amount in excess of that number.
Throughout the book he decries the allegedly low savings rate in the U.S., but this merely speaks to what a worthless measure our savings rate is.
We tend to manage what we measure, and by identifying a specific bedtime, you might find yourself developing the habit of turning off the light earlier.
Later, at home, I removed the dressing to bathe my eye, then I covered my good eye with my hand to measure what improvement, if any, had occurred.
The department also quotes research from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the United States which has argued that good teaching is vital to pupil achievement - and as such it is important to be able to measure what represents effective teaching.
Unfortunately, the SEC has not disclosed much in the way of personal information about the whistleblower, so it is difficult to take a full measure of what the individual may have contributed to any SEC investigations.
"There's no way to measure if what we're doing is something relevant, " Rodig said.
What are the best ways to measure progress and the impact of that progress?
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The next thing will be to measure precisely what's happening at that interface between the objects and the fingers.
Independent experts say the research shows a way to measure objectively what is now one of life's most subjective experiences.
Until this study, it was difficult to measure if what people say to each other about their brand experience has a direct effect on sales.
India's PM Manmohan Singh has been increasingly turning down requests for foreign trips by officials in what is believed to be a measure of austerity.
More work is needed on the measuring side, but I believe the problem is in principal solvable, once we agree on what is the right thing to measure, namely, inspiring a capability for lifelong learning.
"It's really what seems to be a true measure of the experience that the patient's having, " and it gives a number to pain severity that can guide care, said one expert with no role in the studies, Dr. Costantino Iadecola, director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College.
This causes cracks to appear in the ocean seafloor -- this is what we think, " explains Buckland, adding "So you can measure what's happening to the landmass of Greenland by looking at the sea.
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