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Saturday, December 30, 2017
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016
CAT Questions for CSO 405: Sociology of Work and Industry. May-August 2016 Semester
UNIVERSITY
OF NAIROBI
DEPARTMENT
OF SOCIOLOGY
CSO
405: SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND INDUSTRY
SEMESTER: May – August 2016 [Regular & Module II Programmes]
Friday, November 06, 2015
CSO 302: CAT Questions For Sept-Dec 2015 Semester ~ Qualitative Research Methods
UNIVERSITY
OF NAIROBI
DEPARTMENT
OF SOCIOLOGY
CSO
302: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
SEMESTER:
September-December 2015 [Module II Programme]
CAT
QUESTIONS [Released: 7.30 a.m., November 06th 2015]
CLICK Here To Access the CAT Questions
DEADLINE: Saturday ~ November 28, 2015, Strictly by 11.00 a.m.
Sunday, November 01, 2015
CSO 405 ~ Work and Industry ~ CAT Questions For Regular and Mod II Classes ~ Sept Dec 2015 Sem
Hi Class,
I am giving you the link below to enable you to access the CAT Questions promised to you in class last week. Do pay close attention to all the instructions given in the CAT Paper, including strict deadlines for the respective classes.
CLICK TO ACCESS: CAT Questions For The September-December 2015 Semester.
Rgds,
MY
I am giving you the link below to enable you to access the CAT Questions promised to you in class last week. Do pay close attention to all the instructions given in the CAT Paper, including strict deadlines for the respective classes.
CLICK TO ACCESS: CAT Questions For The September-December 2015 Semester.
Rgds,
MY
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Questions of a Life: Haiku
Will it rain or shine?
Be my baby safe n'yo hands?
Where'd Time go 2 die?
Be my baby safe n'yo hands?
Where'd Time go 2 die?
Monday, October 12, 2009
Monday Morning Questions of the Quarterback
What did they know that I, Quarterback, didn't?
What did I know, so that they didn't:
-- Didn't know, nor know that they didn't,
-- Didn't know that I knew,
-- Didn't have to know, nor have to have,
-- Didn't have to tell me save that they knew not (save that I knew) what I did know?
What difference will all that make now, in that in which it makes no difference,
And in that in which it makes?
What questions will they not ask that I myself have?
And that I myself dare not ask?
And not not ask?
And that I myself will not answer?
And not not answer?
What did I know, so that they didn't:
-- Didn't know, nor know that they didn't,
-- Didn't know that I knew,
-- Didn't have to know, nor have to have,
-- Didn't have to tell me save that they knew not (save that I knew) what I did know?
What difference will all that make now, in that in which it makes no difference,
And in that in which it makes?
What questions will they not ask that I myself have?
And that I myself dare not ask?
And not not ask?
And that I myself will not answer?
And not not answer?
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Alien Brother We Didn't Ask M/Any Questions: Haiku
A roomful of tears.
Pictures, days, we remember.
Rainbow in the... Time!
Pictures, days, we remember.
Rainbow in the... Time!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
On Being Ahead of the Curve
On CNN's Quest Means Business, Richard Quest last night sought to know from three leading G20 personalities whether "we" (if I got him right), presumably G20 we, were "ahead of the curve"? The phrase, I believe, had been used earlier in the day by Timothy Geithner, the new US Treasury Secretary. Mr. Quest interrogated the concept by means of a simple, u-shaped (not s-shaped) curve drawn on a hand-held whiteboard.
Despite not being quite sure of the concept himself, the first time Mr. Quest posed the question, he correctly inserted another curve taking off from and running, partially, above the "base" (or "standard" or average) curve. The second and third time he showed the audience his curve, however, he clearly suggested that being "ahead of the curve" was somehow simply a question of where along the "base" curve one was. That was wrong.
The Canadian Finance Minister was correct to say, "I think we are on it"; though even he was apparently not so firmly grounded as to the correct meaning of the term "ahead of the curve." The Argentinian Central Bank boss was quite emphatic that "No, we are not ahead of the curve." As far as I could tell, he had not been shown the graphic, however, and so one does not quite know if he is a master of the concept.
The "curve" alluded to is, typically, the learning curve, a variant of which is the experience curve. The latter is more appropriate in the present circumstances. The learning curve is a logistic curve, and reflects the standard or average or "normal" progression among a class of members or units or entities over time. The basic characteristic of learning curves, indeed most if not all curves, is that they are typically plotted on two axes, X and Y.
In the present case, G20 members are taken to be the referent "class of members" whose progression the "base curve" that Quest was displaying to his TV audience represents. If that is so, then no G20 member can possibly be ahead of the curve shown, or even farther along it than any or all of the rest. Where G20 members are, individually and collectively, along the curve at any pont of time is a function of only one metric, the total time-frame plotted in the graphic.
By the same token, one cannot be ahead of the learning or experience curve by simply being farther along it than the rest, if that were theoretically possible. The learning curve is not a concrete, singular road along which we must all ride. It is a conceptualized, mean path. To be ahead of the (standardized) curve, then, is to be on another curve altogether, "above" the standard one. Above all, it is to be not a member of the pack in question. It is to have and to display a better than the pack's average trajectory. It follows from the foregoing that if one is below average, then one is likewise on another curve, in another trajectory, "below" the pack's.
It is conceivable, of course, that a "base" curve could be plotted for, say, the US alone as some sort of standard -- in the same way as the US dollar, or gold, is a standard. In that case, it would be legitimate for any and all of the other G20 members to ask whether or not they were "ahead of the US curve", or for the US to seek to know if it was ahead of any or all of their respective curves. And this is probably the way Richard Quest should have framed his question.
The fundamental point in all of the foregoing is that you cannot possibly be ahead of your own curve.
Despite not being quite sure of the concept himself, the first time Mr. Quest posed the question, he correctly inserted another curve taking off from and running, partially, above the "base" (or "standard" or average) curve. The second and third time he showed the audience his curve, however, he clearly suggested that being "ahead of the curve" was somehow simply a question of where along the "base" curve one was. That was wrong.
The Canadian Finance Minister was correct to say, "I think we are on it"; though even he was apparently not so firmly grounded as to the correct meaning of the term "ahead of the curve." The Argentinian Central Bank boss was quite emphatic that "No, we are not ahead of the curve." As far as I could tell, he had not been shown the graphic, however, and so one does not quite know if he is a master of the concept.
The "curve" alluded to is, typically, the learning curve, a variant of which is the experience curve. The latter is more appropriate in the present circumstances. The learning curve is a logistic curve, and reflects the standard or average or "normal" progression among a class of members or units or entities over time. The basic characteristic of learning curves, indeed most if not all curves, is that they are typically plotted on two axes, X and Y.
In the present case, G20 members are taken to be the referent "class of members" whose progression the "base curve" that Quest was displaying to his TV audience represents. If that is so, then no G20 member can possibly be ahead of the curve shown, or even farther along it than any or all of the rest. Where G20 members are, individually and collectively, along the curve at any pont of time is a function of only one metric, the total time-frame plotted in the graphic.
By the same token, one cannot be ahead of the learning or experience curve by simply being farther along it than the rest, if that were theoretically possible. The learning curve is not a concrete, singular road along which we must all ride. It is a conceptualized, mean path. To be ahead of the (standardized) curve, then, is to be on another curve altogether, "above" the standard one. Above all, it is to be not a member of the pack in question. It is to have and to display a better than the pack's average trajectory. It follows from the foregoing that if one is below average, then one is likewise on another curve, in another trajectory, "below" the pack's.
It is conceivable, of course, that a "base" curve could be plotted for, say, the US alone as some sort of standard -- in the same way as the US dollar, or gold, is a standard. In that case, it would be legitimate for any and all of the other G20 members to ask whether or not they were "ahead of the US curve", or for the US to seek to know if it was ahead of any or all of their respective curves. And this is probably the way Richard Quest should have framed his question.
The fundamental point in all of the foregoing is that you cannot possibly be ahead of your own curve.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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