People Analytics Jeopardy

Chapter 1&2&3

100

Jen is trying to resolve the issue of...

Turnover 

200

People's Decisions -----> ?

Competitive Advantage 

300

Statistics applied to detect patterns and predict future performance

Analytics

400

All of these together are 

1) Scientific Literature 

2) Organizational Data 

3) Stakeholder Values 

4) Practitioner Experience 

Evidence-Based Management (EBM)

500

Stakeholders must agree on metrics such as... 

list at least 3

head count, hired, turnover, promotion, diversity

Chapter 4

100

A guess about what causes what

hypothesis

200

Job title is an example of which variable type

Nominal 

300

The best variable to use in most cases is 

Ratio

400

Consistent data collection over time using a dashboard 

Advanced Reporting 

500

Eating vegetables is healthy. How many times a week do you consume vegetables? 

This is an example of a 

Leading Question 

Chapter 5

100

The most common in a data set

Mode

200

This data set 5,1,7,2,3 

is short and fat or tall and thin?

Short and Fat 

300

When the manager doing the performance rating rates all employees low (such as a 1) on all questions 

Severity Error

400

Rating an employee in the middle of the scale for every question on a performance review

Central Tendency Error

500

The three conditions of causality are...

1) x and y are correlated

2) x must occur before y

3) all other explanations could be excluded

Articles

100

Fill in the blank. With statistics, you can't prove things with _____ percent certainty

100

200

True/False. When creating a survey, you should change the wording of all the questions so that the desired answer is negative

False 

300

True/False. Every result that is numerically or statistically significant is useful 

False 

400

Fill in the blank. A well-designed survey should create a normal ___ curve 

bell

500

Fill in the blank. You should ask questions about _______ behavior rather than thoughts or motives

observable