Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thernstrom's research effort was gargantuan. Information from city directories, the U.S. Census, old tax records, among other sources was analyzed by computer. Where the mass of information was too great to be considered as a whole, he considered random samples of Boston residents and closely studied their careers and those of their children. The result is eminently readable, but also imparts an aura of impartiality that is missing from most non-quantitative social histories. Judgments concerning the fairness of social systems may vary considerably, but the degree of social mobility in a community is quantifiable. Thernstrom has made...
Properly programmed, the computer can plot the trajectory of a rocket, keep track of a store's inventory, correlate census data and help predict weather more accurately. But can it be trusted to make the kinds of life-and-death decisions that doctors do? The answer may be yes, according to a team of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. The researchers report in the American Journal of Medicine that they have taught a computer to exercise virtually the same clinical judgment that a physician must use in choosing a form...
...report, compiled from 1970 Census figures, shows that 13.1 million families live in physically substandard housing units, are overcrowded, or pay an excessively high percentage of their incomes for rent...
...Word of the program spread through the neighborhood, and the doctors now average about 30 patients a day, with ailments that range from a child's simple cough to stomach cancer. Since the clinic opened, it has referred 196 patients to Cabrini, raising the hospital's "bed census" by about 5%. "The idea is working," says Hospital Board Chairman Sister Irma Lunghi. "We're not saying that this is going to save the hospital, or the community either, but it is a start...
...only free school periodical. He is unique in drawing the personal endorsement of Jonathan Kozol, author of Death at an Early Age and Free Schools. He aims at radical reform of the school system, particularly in libraries and history departments, and support of alternative schools. He advocates an educational census to determine the number of bilingual and crippled children and illiterate adults of non-English speaking origin to establish programs suited to their needs...