Choosing Variables

Variable choice is a necessary first step to understandable results. It is too easy to skip.

COVID Effects in North Carolina

The United Way of North Carolina has released three new regional and demographic subgroups. These reports from the COVID-19 Survey. With more than 8,000 respondents, the survey enlightens policy to help people still affected by the pandemic and extended shutdowns’ economic impacts. The report concentrate on financial stability, health, and education effects. The reports highlight the […]

Understanding COVID-19 Variables

It helps to start with a mental model of the variables and how they relate to one another. If you remember your grade school math, you might remember the Venn diagram. Basically, a person must be part of the potentially exposed group to contract the virus. Among those that contract, some will have severe symptoms, […]

Six Mistakes Employers Make in Automated Job Application Systems

Online applications are basically surveys and should be treated as such. As an experienced surveyor, I see the mistakes made by inexperienced surveyors in these automated job applications.