Present: Joanna, Marilyn,
Yongjoo, Alex, Marlynne, Tom
We discussed the sequencing
of the Distributions post-VA activities. We had been operating on the
assumption that we’d first explore the notion of normalization as a
precursor to working on quantitative metrics, but Marilyn and Joanna were
skeptical that the kids would make much sense of this. This is the meeting
where we made the critical decision to flip the order on its head by first
developing comparison techniques using distributions of the same size, and then
extending that to populations of different sizes.
Here is where we introduced
the “broccoli preference” idea, and were considering first doing an
actual survey of two classes of the same size, then two classes of different
sizes. However, as we spoke, we realized that the notion of a quantitative
metric required us to have at least three or more classes of the same size (so
we could talk about how distribution A was “closer” to distribution
B than to distribution C).