Making friends already
Plotting the number of bagels my body wants over time, as I approach bagel eating, the curve rises to a local maxima of 1. Just after finishing the bagel, the plateau shoots up almost instantaneously to 3.5 bagels. This is known as the “peak of deception”, because if I’m smart enough to wait t=10 minutes post bagel, the curve dips to -1.
Looking at some real data1 in Allocate, Allovue’s tool for resource allocation modeling. Two different funding formulas, with a total cost with in 0.5% of each other. Look at the swings on a per-school basis.
Without reviewing results, both models seem like reasonable choices. The variance is astonishing.
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If you’re wondering why the math is all wrong, that’s because I didn’t want to show actual district data. I edited the DOM to fudge all the numbers to ensure that I was not revealing any privileged, private, or identifiable data while accurately representing a real situation. ↩︎