Transcript MESI Top Ten [PPT]

2014 MESI
Top Ten Challenge
And the winners are. . .
This year’s top ten challenge
How is program
evaluation like
Obamacare
(the Affordable
Care Act)?
A trick answer. . .
How is program evaluation
like Obamacare?
IT DEPENDS!
10. They’re
both fluid,
evolving, and the short- and
long-term implications are
uncertain.
Plus people are afraid of
them.
9. Both receive
serious criticism by
those who do not
like the results.
8. Both are impossible to
explain in 10 words or less.
7. Some people like it,
some people hate it, but
most people don’t really
understand it!
6. The people who need it
most may be the least likely
to know that they do.
5a. The Tea
Party hates both.
5b. Fox News sees them as
another government boondoggle.
4. Many people love
to hate them.
3. You have to have it—and
smart people want it!
2. E-val-u-a-tion
fits in-to a short hai-ku.
O-bam-a-care, too.
The #1 reason that program
evaluation is like Obamacare:
Both are committed to
addressing pre-existing
conditions!
The 2014 MESI
Spring Training
adjourns
See you next year!