INTRODUCTION:
Many processes in the world can be studied and analyzed; everything is a process in one way or another. One system that might not be considered a “process” at first glance, but which operates as one, is the education system. If you consider graduation rates, literacy rates, and the general intelligence of an educated populace as the variables being tested, one could determine if the education system is in control or reliable. We originally wanted to perform this study to compare the American education system process with the education processes of other countries. This topic’s appeal stems from America’s failing education system in contrast to other countries which have perennially superior education systems.
However, while it is clear the education system is indeed a process, attempting to analyze it came with some hardships. A potentially infinite number of variables as well as difficulty finding data steered us in a new direction. Hard drives. Our group members have all had hard drive issues in the past, and we couldn’t help but notice how …show more content…
Regarding the other hard drives sold, the average cost per gigabyte differs greatly between the brands due to the difference in products offered. These costs are included below and show the costs differences across firms. Strangely enough, the cost per gigabyte and the annualized failure rate by brand do not have a strong correlation. This might mean the most important factors consumers consider when purchasing hard drives may not be reliability or cost. Moreover, if this is the case, it may indicate the parameters (controls) a producer sets on their process could be lowered on annualized failure rate. Lastly, except for the MTTF of hard drives, we did not find any relevant aspects of the data set following the probabilistic models we learned about in class. The 4TB HDD bar graph and a
Many processes in the world can be studied and analyzed; everything is a process in one way or another. One system that might not be considered a “process” at first glance, but which operates as one, is the education system. If you consider graduation rates, literacy rates, and the general intelligence of an educated populace as the variables being tested, one could determine if the education system is in control or reliable. We originally wanted to perform this study to compare the American education system process with the education processes of other countries. This topic’s appeal stems from America’s failing education system in contrast to other countries which have perennially superior education systems.
However, while it is clear the education system is indeed a process, attempting to analyze it came with some hardships. A potentially infinite number of variables as well as difficulty finding data steered us in a new direction. Hard drives. Our group members have all had hard drive issues in the past, and we couldn’t help but notice how …show more content…
Regarding the other hard drives sold, the average cost per gigabyte differs greatly between the brands due to the difference in products offered. These costs are included below and show the costs differences across firms. Strangely enough, the cost per gigabyte and the annualized failure rate by brand do not have a strong correlation. This might mean the most important factors consumers consider when purchasing hard drives may not be reliability or cost. Moreover, if this is the case, it may indicate the parameters (controls) a producer sets on their process could be lowered on annualized failure rate. Lastly, except for the MTTF of hard drives, we did not find any relevant aspects of the data set following the probabilistic models we learned about in class. The 4TB HDD bar graph and a