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State of Vermont Provides Good News for NASA Employees

Intelligent Design Awards recognize those contributions which most set back evolution of the disease management and wellness fields. Just as engineers say that more is learned from a single bridge which collapses than from 100 which stay up, there are serious lessons to be learned from these humorous failures. (Note: DMPC is officially neutral on Intelligent Design vs. Evolution in general. Just not in disease management and wellness.)

The good news for NASA employees is that no one from the State of Vermont is going to be stealing their jobs anytime soon, because the people who put their RFP together are obviously not rocket scientists. It's one thing being wrong. It's something else altogether being adamantly wrong, and taking pride in how wrong you are. Question 97 reads:

Confirm that your ROI data contains only members who are actively participating in a DM program. “Actively participating” excludes members who have been contacted by phone or mail but have not responded. The State requires information on the exact number of members actively engaged in a program. ROI’s that are not based on engaged and active participation of the member will be considered inaccurate and invalid.

As should be obvious to everyone by now, participants will always show a high ROI, even if you do nothing. This Vermont methodology stratifies for precisely the variable they should be controlling for: motivation.

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