Discussion Questions
- What is the problem that prompted the development of the IMPACT tool?
- What are the arguments for the IMPACT tool?
- What are the arguments against the IMPACT tool?
- Are the above arguments valid? Why?
Bomb Parts Chapter: Characterizing Different Data Prediction Models
The chapter introduces three other examples: Baseball, Meals, Recidivism based
on LSI-R.
- Discuss how are these models different with each other and with the IMPACT
model. Do you agree with the author’s analysis?
- How does the author characterize WMD?
Application questions
- What are other examples of models that affect our lives? How do they compare
with the author’s characterization of WMD?
- How would you re-design the IMPACT tool to address the original problem??