Developing Skills and Habits for Effective Communication and Analysis in Retirement Planning
Dive into the essential aspects of retirement planning, communication strategies, and data analysis techniques. Learn about Colbert Bump phenomenon, data sourcing, and presentation methods for a comprehensive approach to retirement exercise.
Developing Skills and Habits for Effective Communication and Analysis in Retirement Planning
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Communicating Quantitative Information Behavior? Retirement exercise. Colbert bump. Artists. Homework: Proposal. Presentation
Behavior vs Knowledge False or at best incomplete dichotomy • Also, especially, school/courses for acquiring abilities • skills • analysis • calculation • communication • sharing & learning from others • habits of mind • skepticism • professionalism • discovery • curiosity
Activities • exercise • practice • demonstrate • share • participate • authentic learning
Retirement exercise • What are the first questions to ask? • What are the various sources? • What are assumptions made?
Data • Where / how does data come from? • sources • methodology • Note: sampling methodology can be okay • Sometimes experiments not possible • Double blind not possible for smoking • Data may need to be constructed…
Colbert Bump • Claim made by Stephen Colbert (in character) that going on his show provides a significant benefit to political candidates, entertainers, etc. • How to test? • what is a bump? how general? • Colbert selection / self selection • Responses • http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/colbert_bump.pdf • others
Construct matches match at specific point in time (close to appearance) people who went on the show with people who did not • party • incumbency • donations
Discussion • Enjoyable article—read it! • Another D: data!
Presentation • Remember instructions! • proofread and polish • standard format for references • 1 pager OR 1000 word (3 page + diagram(s)) • Remember D's • definition • denominator • dimension • distribution • difference • dichotomy • data