Hi everyone,

You have to love plane rides since you get a couple of hours of uninterrupted time. I was able to make mucho progress on the 3:9 Beta version. I’ve eliminated 5 of the 20 forced rank questions. They were overall pretty good, but after moving some things around to replace bad or borderline items and eliminating 2 questions entirely. I dropped the number to 15. I’ve got my eyeball on 4 or 5 that will make up the “short-form” version. But I’ll need more data (300 or so responses) to make that jump statistically.

I also dropped all 20 of the scenario questions - there were a couple that were good but overall they didn’t add much except for “how did you answer that?” kinds of discussions. They didn’t reflect the natures nearly as well as the composite scores from the 20 forced ranks. Instead, I’ll be building some baseline questions to better reflect the 9 aptitudes, and use that as a multi-method validation/construct validity check.

Also, I’m expanding the “dad” questions a bit. In a week or so I should a working version of the BETA 1 survey, which many of you have been waiting for - I’ll work with our Survey Vendor to help us build an auto-response model so you can get your results right away. That’ll be very cool.

I was also able to script out a short video, so things are moving along nicely. So hang tight!

Dan