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...ROTC policy, the Harvard Republican Club has misrepresented the significance of a highly unscientific exercise. Last week, the HRC concluded its poll of Harvard undergraduates with an impressive 1,700 responses, 62% of which favored official recognition of ROTC at the College. Yet the HRC’s claim that the poll shows “strong support for official recognition of ROTC among Harvard students” is dubious at best. A substantial self-selection bias and a low response rate show that this poll can tell us very little about opinions towards ROTC on campus. The discussion...
...self-selection bias. Only the students interested in answering the email, and if so, the specific questions presented in the poll, would participate in the exercise. Therefore, since there is a clear and significant difference between the population that selected into the survey and that which did not, any claim that the views of the 26 percent of Harvard students who responded to the poll are representative of the opinions of the 74 percent who did not is groundless...
...Philip Zelikow, a former State Department lawyer who wrote a memo opposing the interrogation techniques. The CIA's program represented a "large collective failure" of both parties, Zelikow said. He called for an independent investigation along the lines of the 9/11 commission - which Zelikow himself directed. (Zelikow's previous claim that his anti-torture memo was suppressed by the Bush Administration didn't get much attention at the hearing...
Whitehouse seemed more inclined to use Soufan as a stick to beat President Bush. Reminding Soufan of Bush's claim that Abu Zubaydah had given up the names of Mohammed and Padilla under "enhanced interrogation," the Senator asked if the claim were accurate. Soufan, ducking the unsubtle invitation to call Bush a liar, suggested that the former President was misinformed. "I think the President - my own personal opinion here, based on my recollection - he was told probably half-truth," Soufan said...
...worth of horse manure for his garden.) But as in any mess, that hasn't stopped the parties' getting political in their response. And Gordon Brown, Britain's already browbeaten Prime Minister, has had the worst of it. In response to publication Tuesday of his party's own profligate claims, Conservative leader David Cameron was quick to sound contrite. Tory MPs, he thundered, "appalled" by the detail, would be made to cough up for "excessive" claims. Rules on what his MPs could and couldn't claim for, he added, would be tightened. A day later, Cameron goaded Brown to "show...