Re: SPC Theory

[John <jsdwd@ksc.th.com>]

on 9/5/01 1:28 PM, John McConnell at wysowl@msn.com.au wrote:

> John David Kromkowski wrote,
> 
> Again, I say that understanding variation is not beyond the capacity of good
> middle school education.
> 
> I agree with John.  Many of us will have witnessed first hand how anyone who
> has the desire to can learn to understand and reduce variation, including
> learning how to use control charts.
> 
I also agree.

I took the bead box to my daughter's 4th grade class, had the kids draw
samples and plotted the results on a run chart.  They could see it and
showed no problem understanding the idea that things vary and could readily
give examples in their every day lives of variation.  Nothing special about
the class, just a normal group of kids.

John S. Dowd
jsdwd@ksc.th.com