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How Good Design Adds Value to Your Ministry


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Graphic design is often underestimated in its ability to add value to a ministry organization.

It adds value to the overall representation of God to the community as well as added value to the reputation of your ministry. The design process can generate new ideas and allow you to discover your audience and their needs.

Design can then help you turn ideas into innovative and competitive services that are suitable for your audience. You can also use design to make your ministries everyday processes more efficient and to strengthen your evangelistic approach.

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Spurious Correlations: Having Fun with Statistics


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The word correlations does not equal fun. At least, to me it doesn’t. Maybe you’re a statistics wizard who thinks correlations are the bomb. Power to you. My point is that for most of us, correlations are, well, a necessary evil.

I do know the ground rule of statistics, of course: correlation does not equal causation. Just because two quantities happen to occur at the same time, multiple times, does not mean one is causing the other (or the other way around).

Statisticians call these spurious correlations: a mathematical relationship in which two or more events or variables are not causally related to each other (i.e. they are independent), yet it may be wrongly inferred that they are, due to either coincidence or the presence of a certain third, unseen factor (referred to as a “common response variable”, “confounding factor”, or “lurking variable”). (Source: Wikipedia)

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