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It’s not only teachers that cheat. Turns out that Sumo wrestlers try to game the system as well. You see, a Sumo wrestling tournament involves 15 bouts, and a wrestler must win a majority to avoid dropping in the rankings. It doesn’t materially affect him whether he wins 14 matches or eight—just that he emerges with a better-than-even winning percentage. Knowing this, Levitt looked at the last matches in tournaments—when a wrestler with a 13-1 record going into the final round was matched with...
...would be great if it could be expanded to affect more students in the future,” she said...
...SHARON: You don't have to volunteer to be hit. But it doesn't affect me at all. It's strange for me. All my life I defended Jews. So now suddenly I have to be protected from Jews...
Controversy over University President Lawrence H. Summers’ January remarks on women and science did not appear to significantly affect students’ choices in this year’s admissions...
While in the past, the concepts of molecular bonding and structure were taught by themselves in introductory chemistry courses, Liu said that they will now be taught in the context of how they affect DNA and DNA replication...