The Friday Funny: “Yeah that’s not what I was looking for at all.”

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There’s probably no evaluator or client on earth who hasn’t had to do a little back-and-forth to negotiate what the key points are and how they should best be expressed in reports and presentations.

There is a need to balance conveying what’s really key with being responsive to the concerns of the client, all

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Fixing the race – Sydney “world’s fifth most liveable city”

Picture of Hong Kong from The Economist

Is the woeful level of analysis of research studies a sign of the pressure on existing media services to push out more news with fewer resources?

Here’s another one. [Disclosure: Melbourne, long tagged "one of the world's most livable cities" is my home town].

The Sydney

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Confusing objective and subjective measures

Ronak Gandhi |Whitehaven Beach, QLD, https://www.facebook.com/SeeAustralia

Reports this week that Australians are “the happiest people in the world” set off the dodgy data warnings.  (Quite apart from the usual problems of relying on average results)

The newspaper  report was headlined

 

Smile, we’re the world’s happiest nation

May 23, 2012 – 2:04PM

Australia

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The Friday Funny – every presentation

In Genuine Evaluation we focus a lot on asking the right questions, bringing an evaluative frame, and basing answers on sound evidence.  But effective communication is also an important part of genuine evaluation, which is why this video caught our eye.  Hat tip to Stephanie Evergreen on twitter (@evalu8r) for sharing this.

What’s new and exciting in evaluation? Looking two seconds ahead

Stuart Henderson recently posed an interesting question on the AEA LinkedIn discussion forum:

Having just returned from the AEA meetings and come across the book The Two Second Advantage (Ranadive and Maney), I’m wondering what people think are some exciting developments in evaluation.

The book, “The Two Second Advantage” (Ranadive and Maney), suggests that

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