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>The answer has to be A We have this problem at work. You try to contact customers and they never respond. Sending repeated queries has no effect. The real an

by panny 4y ago

>The answer has to be A We have this problem at work. You try to contact customers and they never respond. Sending repeated queries has no effect. The real answer is: The question is poor and ambiguous, therefore the question is wrong. It reflects poorly on the academic institution asking it. I would be in search of a new school for my child if I saw many test questions like this. They didn't even enumerate the answers correctly. It is asking for the best plan of action for the University without clearly specing out the goal and all its parameters. The goal may be "Determine if at least half of our first year students had a positive experience." and that can possibly be solved with 90 responses if at least 60 had positive experiences. It's just like when your boss asks for a time estimate on a task he's barely defined. It depends on the spec he's asking from you. Without clear specification, the question isn't answerable.

defrost 4y ago
> It reflects poorly on the academic institution asking it. Only in so far as it is posed with a multiple choice response and no opportunity to make a comment. The question itself is about a commonplace occurrence in statistical sampling.
- panny 4y ago
  >The question itself is about a commonplace occurrence in statistical sampling. It certainly is, but once again, the question does not specify enough information to choose an answer. Maybe A is correct, if you have a backup/secondary email to try. Maybe, like so many of us who work with email notifications, they can see the email wasn't opened. Or it bounced. Or it was opened and flagged as spam. Is that all the information you have? You emailed 120 of them and received 90 clickthroughs? Well sir, that is an astounding clickthrough rate! Perhaps that exceeds every expectation of responses and is itself actionable. Perhaps the best plan of action for the University is to discover their magic clickthrough sauce and monetize it. What is the best plan of action? Impossible to answer when they haven't specified a goal.
  - defrost 4y ago
    You may have missed the part where I pointed out that it's a fine question .. that requires an opportunity for comment. It's not a multi choice question (a form I dislike) but a question that requires a reasoned response.
    - panny 4y ago
      >it's a fine question >It's not a multi choice question But it IS a multiple choice question, and it is ambiguous, which is why it's not a fine question. It's a sloppy, poorly constructed question, which isn't even enumerated correctly, allowing the instructor to select the "correct" answer based on unspecified reasoning, potentially discriminating against the person answering the question (which I suspect is the intention).
      - mlyle 4y ago
        > which isn't even enumerated correctly You keep saying this, but the screenshot shows that the student has used an elimination tool (the X on the left) to eliminate one of the possible answers (C). > allowing the instructor to select the "correct" answer based on unspecified reasoning, potentially discriminating against the person answering the question (which I suspect is the intention). The question looks like it's from albert.io, so the answer is predetermined (and generally provided by the vendor).

by panny 4y ago

defrost 4y ago

> It reflects poorly on the academic institution asking it. Only in so far as it is posed with a multiple choice response and no opportunity to make a comment. The question itself is about a commonplace occurrence in statistical sampling.

panny 4y ago
>The question itself is about a commonplace occurrence in statistical sampling. It certainly is, but once again, the question does not specify enough information to choose an answer. Maybe A is correct, if you have a backup/secondary email to try. Maybe, like so many of us who work with email notifications, they can see the email wasn't opened. Or it bounced. Or it was opened and flagged as spam. Is that all the information you have? You emailed 120 of them and received 90 clickthroughs? Well sir, that is an astounding clickthrough rate! Perhaps that exceeds every expectation of responses and is itself actionable. Perhaps the best plan of action for the University is to discover their magic clickthrough sauce and monetize it. What is the best plan of action? Impossible to answer when they haven't specified a goal.
- defrost 4y ago
  You may have missed the part where I pointed out that it's a fine question .. that requires an opportunity for comment. It's not a multi choice question (a form I dislike) but a question that requires a reasoned response.
  - panny 4y ago
    >it's a fine question >It's not a multi choice question But it IS a multiple choice question, and it is ambiguous, which is why it's not a fine question. It's a sloppy, poorly constructed question, which isn't even enumerated correctly, allowing the instructor to select the "correct" answer based on unspecified reasoning, potentially discriminating against the person answering the question (which I suspect is the intention).
    - mlyle 4y ago
      > which isn't even enumerated correctly You keep saying this, but the screenshot shows that the student has used an elimination tool (the X on the left) to eliminate one of the possible answers (C). > allowing the instructor to select the "correct" answer based on unspecified reasoning, potentially discriminating against the person answering the question (which I suspect is the intention). The question looks like it's from albert.io, so the answer is predetermined (and generally provided by the vendor).