by david allan van nostrand | Dec 29, 2016 | Items in the News, Voodoo Statistics
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal claims an increase in overtime games in college football is explained by greater parity and cites a number of sources to bolster the contention. When the football (not statistics) experts suggest reasons why parity is...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 22, 2016 | Conformity, Status, Unintended Consequences
Multitasking is for many a status symbol, a demonstration of their importance. Or is it? We took a closer look at multitasking, and here is what we found: Almost everyone is wrong about almost everything involving multitasking. Most people think they’re good at...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 15, 2016 | Marketing, Organizational Behavior, Research
Did you know that to become a barber requires you successfully complete1,500 hours of training and a two-year apprenticeship? That it takes even longer to get a cosmetology license? Yet MBA programs say you can learn to be a researcher by taking a single course that...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 8, 2016 | Gatekeepers, Marketing, Organizational Behavior, Research
We took a closer look at hundreds of online job postings for Market Research Managers and Directors and here are four things we found. Educational Levels. Four in ten required no university degree at all. Half required an undergraduate degree and only one in ten...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 1, 2016 | Assumptions, How to tell good research from bad, Research, Surveys
FREE! is the headline, but there are two other claims shared by every one of the dozens of Free DIY Online Survey companies. Read this and see how you feel about their claims. Our product is easy to use! Most say their tools require absolutely no previous experience...
