#quantitative

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

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Abstract

Quantitative methods (QM) are characterised as ‘hard to teach’ and often marginalised in undergraduate Sociology curricula particularly in the UK, due to many factors, including students’ attitudes towards numbers. This can lead QM to be viewed by students as not mainstream Sociology. This article argues that QM can support Sociology graduate futures due to clear transferable skills. But QM must be taught in a way that does not ‘trigger’ students’ negative dispositions towards the subject. This article, using the example of a large introductory undergraduate QM module, outlines a pedagogic approach that addresses students’ attitudes to QM, while building learner confidence. Key elements of this approach to QM include storytelling, relevance, support and value. This article ends with a discussion of the efficacy of this framework based on a two-year evaluation.

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Numbers are "triggering" because they describe objective reality, which leaves no room for "lived experience."

[bakhtin]

This is probably a long shot, but I'm taking a quantitative methods seminar, and I'm struggling to understand which tests I should run (I tend to be a more rhetorical and qual researcher...). Any SPSS heads out there who want to help me out with this rough draft flow chart I'm trying to make?

[jamesvelissaris]

James Velissaris - The Best Practices to Improve Quantitative & Fundamental Investment Approaches

The quantitative and fundamental investment strategies are also known as the Quantamental Strategies and are thus named because of the fact that they involve a comprehensive approach to investment. Strong players in the industry like James Velissaris have run in-depth studies about the best practices for quantamental investment and here you can get a personal insight on how it works:

Some Amount of Mean Reversion:

Velissaris believes that the mean reversion strategy works wonders for short term trading. Under the mean reversion, as an investor you need to estimate the amount of time available before the price of a stock will reach an average range. The time that is available on hand before the stock price reaches an average is when the most amount of return on your investment can be achieved.

Why Mean Reversion Works:

The investment that you make through the mean reversion strategy is a well calculated move and not just something that you leave on fate. It is one of the most reliable quantitative measures of investment which is why you are more likely to have a successful investment experience. The trends that appear in the mean reversion strategy seldom lead you astray when you want to make a successful short term investment.

Prevents Losses:

On the basis of experience, James trusts the mean reversion strategy as one of the strongest quantamental investment methods because the prices are bound to return to the mean within the stipulated time. This is something that helps in making money while the pendulum of the mean reversion is upswing while mitigating losses when it is estimated to be downswing.

Success Stories:

While no investment is free of risk, people like James Velissaris are of the belief that investment strategies like mean reversion when employed with the help of seasoned experts can prove to be most beneficial for the investors. The investment strategy is purely based on trends and estimates and it is natural for a stock to reverse to its mean when it moves from its course. There have been successful investors that have made the most of the swings in the stock prices using the mean reversion investment strategy.

Picking the Right Stock:

James Velissaris reiterates the fact that no matter what your favorite investment strategy is, it is also important to find out whether it is right for the stock in question. In order for the mean reversion investment strategy to work in your favor, it is important for stock to be an ideal. There are stocks that take the perfect path to match the trends of a mean reversion that you estimate for them. When you are able to identify the best stocks for your investment capacity through the mean reversion method, you can be sure about getting the best returns.

In the process of investment, it is natural to be prepared for risks, monetary investment instruments are never free of risk, which is why you need to learn about all the aspects of investment and take help from an expert to make the right move.

[herbivore-studies]

24•February•2021

Started a new unit in my quantitative reasoning course. It’s going well so far, thankfully because I’m not the best in math haha.

[allcolorsinone]

Now that the questions are getting slightly difficult, today's goal is to solve 20 questions in 18 minutes.

[notcuneta]

One Week of Dreaming

They say when you dream

Make it bigger than ever

Even if it’s impossible

At least you will never regret it later

One day I dreamt of becoming a teacher

Every morning coming to a classroom

Where you can find happiness and different emotions

Isn’t that beautiful?

Seeing the youth learning and dreaming

On the second day of dreaming

I am now in a law court

Defending the defendant

Whether he is guilty or not

On a third day of dreaming

In the middle of the road

Wearing a uniform of a traffic enforcer

Preventing any vehicles from crashing each other

“It is the job of traffic lights, why do we even need that?”

Ask yourself, when no one is watching you, do you follow the rule?

On a fourth day of dreaming

Sleeping peacefully in my bed

And then I feel a sudden touch in my forehead

Slowly opening my eyes

And there he is, the man of my dreams

The only man who I cherish the most

On a fifth day of dreaming

The moon is shining in its full

Oh man, I landed in the earth’s only natural satellite

Wearing my space suit

Holding a flag and bury it in the ground

On a sixth day of dreaming

Carrying my luggage in my hands

Setting my wings in the sky

“Good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome onboard”

And now I am ready to fly

On a seventh day of dreaming

I look around and everyone is crying

Look where we are, wearing a black gown

Smiling and giggling

Holding a piece of paper— a paper that will always tell you that,

“Your first dream has come true, now chase the others”

One night I woke up

Realizing all is just a dream

But I have the power and ability

To make it into reality

Just trust yourself and everything will be possible

[twintherapists]

When someone in the faculty meeting makes a statistics joke, I’m like:

[edenvaatstra]

First exercise: Here and Now: LYNDA SIMMONS

Photographs of my Abstract and Atmospheric Model from my very first exercise, Here and Now by Lynda Simmons for ARCHDES 102: Design 1, one of three courses I’m studying in my Bachelor of Architectural Studies.

These are photographs from my very first exercise, Here and Now by Lynda Simmons for ARCHDES 102: Design 1, one of three courses I’m studying in my Bachelor of Architectural Studies. The first three photos (my Abstracts) are of one of the paintings I did for my Submission Portfolio and are edited to produce different abstract qualities in the work. I then made an Atmospheric Model taking the textures, colors and abstract qualities from my Abstract and photographed it in ‘plan’ and ‘section’ to produce qualitative characteristics. I chose to work with paper, clay, string, plastic, balsa wood and colour pencil to create a textured, busy composition. This caused the model to posses layered, noisy, crinkled, curved and structural qualities. The next step was to take the photograph and extract the quantitative ‘toolkit’ characteristics to make ‘measured drawings’ using Illustrator. These ‘toolkit’ lines helped produce a Partial Section through a seat, table, floor and wall in a room if you like. Unfortunately I left my Partial Section in my locker at the University when I had to leave due to the lock-down because of the Covid-19 Pandemic and do not have any photos of it. When I can retrieve my work I will upload pictures of it to this post. Anyway this was a very exciting and new way of looking at buildings for me and I enjoyed this exercise. My first painting A Take on the Sydney Opera House was inspired by the Sydney Opera House and consequently the rest of the exercise was informed by the famous performance space. My Atmospheric Model inherited the curved forms and textured qualities from my Abstracts and then my Partial Section could be described as an echo-y, noisy and busy space derived from a music performance environment. If I were to take this project further, I would recreate my Partial Section as I now have a slightly better idea of how to use Illustrator and I would also focus on opening up my Partial Section into a less cave-like and more concert hall-like space.