Word: data
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone professing to analyze an individual without even once talking to him, making behavioral predictions on such mystically obtained and inherently distorted types of data, using such unscientific methodology and thereupon proclaiming to the world his "conclusions" deserves but one comment: he has either unwittingly succeeded only in giving some sort of insight into himself, or he is pulling our collective legs...
...draft boards. A federally controlled lottery system would change this, and the President has called for a report on the draft boards to be delivered in December. Perhaps, as Senator Jacob Javits has suggested, the caprices of local-board autonomy could be eliminated by establishing area and regional boards. Data-processing equipment would take the place of subjective judgments by local board members...
Translated back into English, Camelot was intchded to enlist social science data-gathering and model-building techniques in the service of America's global efforts to prevent social revolutions ("internal war"). The project was to concentrate on the Latin American countries, where left-wing insurgencies were getting to be a pretty scrious problem in the early 1960's, and a major field office was to be established in the region to co-ordinate data-gathering operations. The initial Camelot project was to be a three-to-four year undertaking with a total cost of about five million dollars...
...Licklider, was clearly just what the behavioral science people at ARPA needed to re-establish themselves with the Pentagon bureaucracy. It was not to be an information gathering project as Camelot had been, but would center instead on developing new ways of using and interpreting behavioral science data. Thus it entailed none of the diplomatic risks that had proved fatal to project Camelot (and almost fatal to the little social science bureaucracy within the Pentagon as well). At the same time the behavioral science officials at ARPA also believed that the M.I.T. project might convince the higher levels...
...demands of last April's strike relates to the effects of Harvard's expansion into the Cambridge and Boston community. It is clear from data on Harvard's growth and population, and housing market trends in the city as a whole, that the effect of Harvard's presence has been to raise rents sharply and force low-income families out of the city. Specifically, by not building a sufficient amount of housing to take care of its own growth, the University forced its students and faculty onto the private market where through greater economic power they in effect forced...