Abstract: A method for analyzing inputs from a user to modify a financial plan with a computer system is disclosed. The method may also include displaying a plurality of images to the user, where each of the plurality of images is associated with a different query, and receiving an instruction to randomly select a subset of the plurality of images. The method may additionally include selecting, randomly, a subset of the plurality of images for presentation to the user and displaying the subset of the plurality of images in a different manner from a remainder of the plurality of images. The method may moreover include repeating, for every image of the subset: receiving a selection of one of the images; displaying to the user a query; and receiving an answer. The method may also include determining from the answers, a classification of the user's attitude toward financial resources and storing the classification.

Abstract: A method is provided to monitor operation of a sucker rod pump, the sucker rod pump having a strain gauge mounted on a walking beam for determination of load. This method compensates for gradual changes in load due to temperature drift when gradual changes in surface card area are occurring and the surface card area or the measured average loads are within a range of a predetermined base surface card area or base average load. When the surface card area or the measured average load is not within this predetermined range, a correction is made to adjust a smoothed minimum load to an adjusted buoyant weight of the sucker rod string. This adjusted buoyant weight is the value that the smoothed minimum load would be expected to be.