The far-reaching nature of big data analytics projects can have uncomfortable aspects: data must be broken outof silos in order to be mined, and the organization must learn how to communicate and interpet the results of analysis.
"We fully support the recommendation in the recent NFER report that a wider pilot, using a British version of the tests, be carried out in order to see how they could be introduced without adding to the costs and workload of schools or to the uncertainties and unfairness of the present system, " they said.
The details do not matter, except to say that this is precisely the sort of experiment that might be carried out in space, in order to eliminate the distorting effects of gravity.