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...meetings] didn’t correspond well with our courses,” Rapley says. “If you had a meeting at a certain time as tutorial you couldn’t go...That’s a big concern, a lot of students have felt that we haven’t been involved...
...argued that polling has become "less scientific and more speculative. It means polls should be trusted only to verify broad shifts ... rather than specific point spreads." Even this may be optimistic, since the flaws in polls may be systemic and not random. I would guess that poll numbers roughly correspond to the category of people who are susceptible to telemarketers. If you rely on a cell phone, have caller ID or are worried about identity theft and privacy, then, respectively, you don't have a phone number pollsters can call, you won't pick up the phone...
...interpreted as just endemic to the academic world, they are troubling but not tragic. It is worth considering whether the triumph of quantity over quality might impede our functioning as individuals and as members of the society of tomorrow. The daily barrage of information from news sources does not correspond to the time we have to really process or understand it. It is quite possible to imagine a day in which the pressure for productivity, fueled by concerns for advancement, will trump careful, critical thought, the crucial “necessity to make distinctions and to avoid sweeping generalizations...
...mouth is." Pollsters must rely on what voters tell them. That can lead to error, says Leigh, because "you're sampling only a fraction of the population" and "people might say anything just to get rid of the interviewer." Overall poll results - percentages of the total vote - may not correspond to numbers of seats won. And in marginal seats, on which many elections turn, the margin of error can exceed the margin of victory. In '01, the betting markets' predictive power in these seats "really surprised us," says Leigh. "But the people who were betting on those seats knew them...
...We’ll probably have them correspond with Senior Toast Day, or some other slightly inebriated activity,” Corker said...