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Even with averaging, though, forecasts can still be wildly disappointing - as the Philadelphia Fed's Survey of Professional Forecasters shows. In mid-February, the economists collectively predicted a second-quarter unemployment rate of 8.3%. The difference between that and the actual figure, 9.3%, translates into 1.5 million more people unemployed...
...elaborate ruse: the kids in the photos were actors, and there were no chats arranged. The purpose of the deception was to look inside participants' heads when they were highly engaged in a potential social interaction. Partly because the study design was so complex - it's difficult to study actual social interactions on fMRI - no experiment like this had ever been conducted before. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...prepared to live in rural Tanzania for eight weeks, I knew not to have particularly high expectations about the food I would encounter there. Two weeks of orientation seemed to prove me right—we were served the same beef stew, which had more bones in it than actual meat, every single night. Sometimes we hard-working volunteers had to subsist on only makande for lunch, a stew of maize and beans. Needless to say, I was less than satisfied...
...Tarbell, who seemed unclear about what actual services were provided by the Division, said that the HMS administration is conducting a "comprehensive review" of the its programs and that the Division has historically been "relatively small...
There have been many doctor series since then--Scrubs, House, Grey's Anatomy. But several new medical shows focus instead on the nurses and paramedics who provide so much actual hands-on care in the age of overscheduled M.D.s. In these shows, saving patients is a chaotic, bureaucracy-plagued process--when it happens...