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Re: [FIRST EMAIL] Stop Build Day Survey

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Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes View Post
You said that:
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Ah!
I thought you thought I wrote that OPR and Team Retention aren't correlated. Jim's paper shows that they are.

On the subject of whether OPR would be the useful metric to use gauging team's success, I did intend to convey that IMO the correlation between OPR and Team retention doesn't make OPR the metric to use (focus on, lead with, etc.) in conversations about whether teams are successful.

In the PS: section of another post today, I did mention the domain I prefer. It is very different from the domain containing OPR. What I wrote there was
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... Something along the lines of introducing students to enough positive STEM experiences to open their eyes to the possibility that they might enjoy a STEM career. ...
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