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...pollsters decide who is a "likely voter"? This is tricky. Pollsters assign each surveyed voter a score based on the answers to multiple questions (such as "Did you vote in the last election?") that indicate the likelihood that he or she will vote. The highest-scoring voters are deemed "likely." How high a score produces a "likely"? It depends. Pollsters first estimate what the turnout will be on Election Day and then designate the same percentage of their respondents--again, based on highest scores--as "likely." Assumptions of who will vote thus have an enormous impact on poll results (especially...
...heart of all of what we know as our “identities.” The constantly shifting balance of powers renders most of us minorities in some respects, at some times. Given the fluctuation, how do we negotiate the competing claims? To which identities do we assign primary, secondary, et al, importance, and to which do we feel most bound...
...movement continued to gain steam as 86 professors, including 73 of the 86 female senior Faculty members, signed a statement “to urge the Harvard administration to assign its highest priority to reversing the downward trend of the past three years in FAS senior offers to women...
Despite these problems, our professors seem to feel a need to assign this much reading. Do they want to prove that they are making us work hard? Is quantity really the only means they have of gauging our engagement? Are they so out-of-touch with our thought processes that they dare not evaluate them, that they do not believe they can make us think better and harder? Quality is much more difficult to quantify. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield writes that “Harvard has become too easy” and that “there...
Bryant now bounces from the criminal-justice system into the civil arena. His attorneys may have to assign a price to keep him from giving what will be a very sordid deposition. Atlanta attorney L. Lin Wood, who represents the plaintiff, told TIME, "There have been no settlement discussions with respect to the civil case," adding that Bryant's apology was independent of the civil matter...