My university has a course (maybe in the business or statistics departments? I'm not sure, as I didn't take it) that has a project where the professor gives this very pre-launch data to groups of students in a totally different context: It is presented as Formula One race data, and the task is for the students (the racing team) to decide whether or not to pull out of the important race based on current weather conditions and the potential safety implications for the driver.
The next class period, only after the teams propose their decided course of action, it is revealed where the data really came from. I imagine it's quite jarring, especially for those who decided to proceed, albeit with different risks in mind.
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"an Apache feature I didn't know about" - looks like mod_speling, one of those old-school features Apache has from back when the expectation of a website was that is was just a bunch of user's public_html directories exposed as /~username/, designed to deal with things like case sensitivity and typos in URLs.
It seems like that case is missing a piece. Where is the final analysis showing the results of choosing to race or not? Are there separate instructor notes somewhere?
Having had this in Policy school (albeit a decade ago), I remember the follow-on class basically being: "So, this happened in real life. Except it wasn't racing -- it was the Challenger". (A room of 70 promptly headdesked). What jumped out in the class discussion was how focused the conversation was on economic risks and rewards (x% chance of y payoff, etc), and how "life of the driver" was basically never mentioned as one of the risks of proceeding.
Anyway, eventually you learn to play "spot the Challenger graph" from a mile away. I think it showed up 4 times in assorted courses I've taken over the years (re: Data Visualization and Organizational Design).
The next class period, only after the teams propose their decided course of action, it is revealed where the data really came from. I imagine it's quite jarring, especially for those who decided to proceed, albeit with different risks in mind.