World's Oddest Cardigan

...Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Blob--Wednesday, 10/28/15

This Reverse Inspiration blogger is sporting stripes, a short-sleeved grey cardigan, and pants.  Definitely captured some of the definitive elements and one of the colors.

From ladyinviolet.com

But my outfit is all about the green...and the strangely blocked cardigan (color-blocked and blocky-shaped).

*Grey/green sleeveless cardigan (JNY), $8.82/wear+
White/grey striped top (Kohls), $2.83/wear
Green pants (JCP), $2.51/wear
Light grey wedges by BCBGeneration, $7.00/wear
Silver blob necklace (JNY), $2.45/wear

Outfit total: $23.61/wear

Well, a green-teal color, anyway.  I figured it was close enough to green to wear with these green pants, but perhaps my bright teal pencil skirt would be a more exact match to the shade.  But maybe the trusty blob necklace will draw people's attention away from this color semi-mishap.

I'm really glad I put this week's outfits together before we left on our trip.  I had zero energy to do so when we got back.

And after work today, it was raining and windy and (dare I say) kind of chilly for a person without a jacket/coat (thankfully I had an umbrella at least).  It's starting to feel a lot like autumn (though I still had my fan running in my office, so who the hell knows).

Today's time capsule post comes from way back when I was taking an undergrad introductory marketing course.  I had just finished the second test in the class:

When I got home from taking my exam, I flipped through the chapters of the book to identify which problems I missed. There were 8 problems that I had struggled with a bit and was able to determine that I missed half of them - I had actually barely gotten one of them right but had applied multiple choice test-taking heuristics and managed to eke it out. But I also found that I had missed one question that seemed obviously correct to me at the time. So my test score prediction was 90%.

Robert was quite surprised that I could remember what the test questions were, and though I could not sit down and totally recreate the test from memory, I did remember many of the questions outright and could basically recognize relevant terms or statements from the book and then remember the question about them.

Two of my misses were totally fair - the questions that were asked about two stages of the product lifecycle wanted answers that did not match up with what I thought were the important aspects of those stages, but I should have been able to answer but did not remember. One was somewhat annoying simply because I misread the question as equating size to sales volume rather than size to number of firms in the market and thus answered the wrong question (and knew the right answer to the actual question).

The question that I confidently answered incorrectly chaps me because I suffered from both too much actual knowledge about the example being used (segmentation strategy for REI) and the book stupidly equated psychographic segmentation with the Claritas system of customer profiling based on Census block-level data. Since I know deeply that the probabilistic "lifestyle" segmentation programs like Claritas and Tapestry...

Just this past weekend in Denton, I was talking to Tam about a question she wrote for her recent probability exam--I thought that I would be able to suppress my industry knowledge about how direct mail works enough to recognize that in the context of the test, I should use a Poisson distribution to answer the problem.  (The class only covered a limited number of distributions and it is the best option of the lot.)  But my response to that segmentation question on my marketing exam is a good reminder of how I get tripped up sometimes by knowing too much about a subject area.  I'm guessing that most students taking undergrad courses do not have this problem.

Plus: this is my life.