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For this task, I will share with you a lecture I gave, for you to extract the form from the content, (again: just focus on the form and ignore the content being shared). This may as well aid you getting related to my user persona, the communicational style and narrative preferences and then replicate those attributes on the task at hand.

Transcript: “So back in 1968, there was a guy named Walter Mischel and he had reviewed He's a social psychologist he reviewed the personality literature up to that point and concluded that the typical personality measure only predicted the Typical performance measure at about point two and that's actually remained relatively stable I would say it's a little higher than that's probably point two five Especially if you do things like correct for measurement error and so forth and what Mischel said was because it's only point two five Let's say you square that that's five percent of the various you leave 95% of the phenomena unexplained you might as well not even bother measuring personality and so that actually killed the field of personality from a Psychometric perspective for about 25 years really until about the early 1990s when people woke up and thought wait a minute What are the typical effect sizes in other domains of prediction and then they found out that well the point two zero Correlation that was typical of personality prediction was actually pretty damn good by social sciences or health sciences standards Like it doesn't sound good when you just think about it as a absolute measure Because it leaves 95% of the phenomena unexplained But when you compare it to other things that people consider of reasonable magnitude, then it turns out that personality Psychologists are doing just fine. And then also in the 1990s and I'll show you some of this their economic calculations done And so one of the calculations would be well imagine that you have maybe you took 20 companies and you did a Distribution of the productivity of their employees. It's a hard thing to do because you have to measure their productivity It's like how the hell do you do that right with salespeople? You can measure sales. That's pretty straightforward with lawyers You can measure hours billed like there are some there are some occupations where the performance measure is sort of built into the job But if you're a manager in the mid level of a large corporation, how the hell can you tell how productive you are? it's it's so there's a measurement problem on the Productivity measurement and as well as the performance prediction end and it's a very intractable problem And the way that people often do that is by saying well, let's say you're a manager in the mid level of a corporation How do we determine how productive we are you are? Well, we might ask you to compare your your work productivity with your peers Maybe construct up a questionnaire asking about your efficient use of time and so forth And then we might get your peers to do the same thing to you we might get your supervisors to do the same thing to you and we might get your your subordinates to do the same thing to you and then aggregate across all those measures and Infer that that aggregate Opinion actually constitutes a valid measure of productivity You actually don't know right because that assumes that what you're doing that your peers and your supervisors and so forth Our rating is actually Related in some positive manner to the bottom line of the company and you actually don't you actually can't figure that out This is actually I think why large companies start to become unstable is because if there's enough layers between the operations of the people in the tiers of the corporation and The real outcome measure which is basically profit because that's what we've got Then the the relationship between your activity as a manager and the productivity of the company starts to become Increasingly blurred and that might mean that you're working as hard as you can on something that's actually going to cost the company money So you would actually be much more productive From a profit perspective if you just didn't go to work at all and that that happens a lot in large corporations because you'd never know Especially if there's a lot of steps that have to be undertaken in a process Before you can test the product in the market. You have no idea if you're wasting time and resources”