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Crude as it was, Burgess??s algorithm predicted parole violation more accurately than psychiatrists who had access to all the same information. You see, the psychiatrists had a handicap: they had interviewed the prisoners and based their judgments on informal impressions. Burgess??s study revealed an unintuitive truth: quick, subjective human judgments are flawed...
During shopping period, we are Burgess??s prison psychiatrists, predicting whether a professor is likely to violate his parole by overworking or boring us. Like those psychiatrists, we are too heavily influenced by quick personal impressions. How many times have you been disappointed by a class you loved during shopping week...
...told her family that they were going to a house party in Santa Monica, and she was last seen the night of June 23 at Burgess?? Los Angeles home, according to witnesses...
...remains. But “nothing below their waist” is no longer the central mantra of successful children’s lit, provoking a backlash in recent years. The 1996 winner of the Carnegie Medal, Britain’s equivalent of the Newbery Prize, was Melvin Burgess?? “Junk,” a novel about a group of heroin-addicted, anarchy-loving teenagers living on the streets. Apparently worried about seeming too bourgeois, Burgess also included a scene of forced prostitution. Keep in mind that this book is a winner of the same award...
...Dion and, as years slide away from them, their passionate romance withers under the burden of his alcoholism and lack of artistic success. Knapp breathes life into the faithful housewife and struggling single mother, radiating what their relationship once had been and the hope she has for its recovery. Burgess?? Dion is a tempestuous and embittered failure as an artist, husband and father. His sparks of energy and enthusiasm throw the brokenness of Dion’s life into a sharp relief that makes his degeneration from love-struck youth to disillusioned middle-age beautifully tragic. Meanwhile...
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