Television Program Review, Data Collection, Data Cleaning, and Data Analysis

HBO is running a "made-for-TV" movie this month called "Recount." It is about the Florida election results in 2000 and the attempts of each party to count the votes in a way that was maximally advantageous to their own candidate. Kevin Spacey is great in the program as the "point person" for the Democrats. And it is a very compelling movie.

(At TMG we hope to never hire the likes of the woman who designed a ballot form for Palm Beach County that could not be understood by many voters.)

Evaluators who use quantitative methods and quantitative data competently deal with a lot of "hanging chad" and "dimpled" observations as they clean the data forms. (Thank goodness that we do not have the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts looking over our shoulders.)

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