Word: cutoffs
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Unlike the typical '60s reminiscence, Mad Men doesn't have a baby-boomer perspective. (Creator Matthew Weiner, 42, was born after the boomer cutoff.) Its sensibility is closer to artifacts of its time like The Apartment or John Cheever's Wasp-character-study stories. In Mad Men, the boomers are a market for Clearasil or the children of the Drapers and their friends, largely unseen and unheard. (In a new episode, Don instructs his grade-school-age daughter how to mix a Tom Collins for guests...
...friend” has become a verb, the acquisition of another recognizable acquaintance translates to enhanced social capital. Or does it? The Penn State study found that, once someone had more than 800 friends, people started deeming him insecure. It’s unclear how 800 became the cutoff, but there...
...much more accurate. In his study, he included 144 women aged 25 to 46 in order set baseline levels of AMH, and then compared these levels to those of over 3,000 women aged 58 to 70 who had undergone menopause. By creating a regression curve, he determined a cutoff level of AMH that triggered menopause, and by placing the young women along this curve based on their AMH levels, could predict when they would hit the Change - and how many more years of fertility they could expect...
...Disseldorp acknowledges that the precise AMH level for menopause may differ among populations, and thus anticipates that additional studies like his will need to both verify his finding and perhaps establish other cutoff levels for women of different racial and ethnic backgrounds...
...honor that we have,” Coakley said. Students are first selected for candidacy based on their GPA, according to Coakley. Students are divided into one of three broad areas—social sciences, humanities, or natural sciences—based on their concentration, and a GPA cutoff is then established for each area. Coakley said the committe looks at grades, difficulty of courses on the transcript, and evidence of other outstanding achievements. Students accepted into the society said they were grateful for the honor and excited to be recognized. “I remember reading about the award...