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First Print Errata

Welcome to the Errata thread in the book discussion of the How to Measure Anything Forum. An author goes through a lot of check with the publisher but some errors manage to get through. Some my fault, some caused by the typesetter or publisher not making previous...

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Computing the Value of Information

 Originally posted at http://www.howtomeasureanything.com, on Monday, December 08, 2008 10:08:08 PM, by Unknown. "I’m trying to quickly identify the items I need to spend time measuring. In your book, you determine what to measure by computing the value of...

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Challenge Me

As I mentioned in the book, I often offer a sort of measurement challenge to an audience where I'm speaking about measuring the immeasurable. I ask anyone listening to give me an example of an impossible measurement at any time during the conference and, after a 15...

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Facilitating Calibrated Estimates

The book shows that calibrated probability assessments really do work and it gives the reader some idea about how to employ them. But facilitating a workshop - with calibrated estimates or any other formal method - has its own challenges. Participants ask questions or...

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Do you have questions about the content or use of a download?

If you have any questions about the downloads and how they are used for reference in the book, this is the place to post them. The downloads are meant to provide readers with examples that are already set up and, in many cases, can already use on practical problems....

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Intro To IT Value

Yes, IT seems to stump a lot of people that try to measure its value. But the methods for measuring value don't have to be that difficult. First, my readers will know that measuring the value means reducing your prior uncertainty about the value. My readers also know...

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Bayesian vs. Frequentist?

Under the Errata forum in a thread I called Second Print Run Corrections , one poster replied that he believed I incorrectly applied the term confidence interval in the book. I discuss several errors in that post in a reply in that thread. But it introduces another...

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