[Year 12 IT Apps] MMOS data collection and validation

[Laurie Savage]

Of course it was, talk about cart before the horse. I still work with
Science teachers who buy the whole long wavelength EMF causes cancer
'hypothesis'. And if it does let's just throw out 20th century Physics and
replace it with Holistic Phlogiston Aether Theory. Activation Energy
anybody?
E=hf ?

Grumpily,

Laurie

Laurie Savage
https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home

On 3 September 2015 at 14:23, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> Actually, it was "Cancer  <https://xkcd.com/925/>
> ​
> causes cell phones <https://xkcd.com/925/>", but yes, it was great for
> Informatics.
>
> I included that cartoon in one of my Informatics textbook chapters, but
> I'm not sure if Cengage ended up agreeing to pay to license it.
>
> But (knowing my editor is a member of this list - Hi e!) I'll not go into
> details about permissions.
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
>
> On 3 September 2015 at 14:08, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> My favourite weird question was "On a scale of 1 to 5, what is your
>> favorite number?" I'm guessing he will be able to use these data to create
>> a hypothesis like "
>> ​​
>> Mobile phones cause brain tumours" (an earlier sketch of his).
>>
>> Laurie
>>
>> Laurie Savage
>> https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home
>>
>> On 3 September 2015 at 12:54, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ​Hi, data miners
>>>
>>> Next year, the Informatics kids will be expected to gather authentic
>>> data for their MMOS (multimodal online solution).
>>>
>>> Today's XKCD includes a Google survey to find 'weird correlations'.
>>>
>>> One question asks how good a speller you are on a scale from 1 to 5.
>>>
>>> Quite cunningly, another question asks you which of these words you know
>>> - and there's a list of about 20 obscure words... some of which I strongly
>>> suspect do not exist.
>>>
>>> Fakers or liars will probably indicate they 'know' some words that are
>>> known to not exist, thereby giving a self-diagnosis of the honesty of their
>>> answers.
>>>
>>> I thought it was quite a clever method of validating survey data.
>>>
>>> ​Try it yourself - it's fun.
>>>
>>> ​
>>> ​​
>>> http://xkcd.com/1572/
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Mark Kelly
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>
> ​
> A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt
> and beg for it. (Jack Handey)
>
> Mark Kelly
>
>
>
> mark at vceit.com
> http://vceit.com
>
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