Apply at least one aspect of the VBM to the following discussion prompt:
However, think about the grade school telephone game and how the story changes from beginning to end. It’s easy for a story using data, and interpretation of the data, to change.
Just watch the news every night across a few different stations and see how the same news item- which is data- is reported differently.
Even ignoring the incredible and blatant bias of some media channels, there are differences in what is covered on each event or issue, and the tone of the subjective reporting leads to different conclusions.
As we prepare to provide a report to our client organizations, think about Biblical principles and the VBM on these questions:
- What is our role as data collectors?
- What is our role as data analysis?
- What is our role in providing recommendations to our supervisor or a client company?
