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...those student-athletes of the Class of 2002, the reasons for finishing out their fourth year will differ. There are women chasing after another national title and men hoping to break into the nation's elite top-ten rankings. Some will do it because they love spending time with their teammates, others because it's the best way to be part of a party on Saturday night. Some simply want one last hurrah before heading off to Wall Street or Med. School...
...then beleaguered IBM. "The last thing IBM needs is a vision," he said, playing up the company's immediate ills. President Bush--the first one--famously lamented voters' focus on "the vision thing." Bill Gates once said that "being a visionary is trivial." Ahem. Wall Street begs to differ. In the post-bubble slowdown, investors can't get enough vision from decision makers. In fact, in many cases they can't get any. And that's the problem...
There are four reasons why the percentage of students who support a living wage for all Harvard workers might differ across the two surveys: (1) by chance alone the first survey included more pro-living wage students than the second survey, (2) the two surveys differed in question wording, question order, sample selection or survey administration (e-mail and telephone) (3) the attitudes of all Harvard students changed over the last 15 months, the explanation The Crimson prefers, and (4) the two samples did not come from the same populations...
Given the timing of the two surveys, it is quite likely that the populations from which the surveys were drawn differ, the fourth possible explanation. Last Sunday’s survey population comprised students who were accessible by e-mail or telephone between midnight and 8 p.m. Anyone gone for the weekend or camping out in the Yard, for that matter, was not part of that population. The January 2000 poll, in contrast, surveyed people on campus immediately before or during finals. The two populations surveyed may also differ because of “nonresponse bias...
...Other universities have had success with this approach of showing how perceived and actual norms differ. Northern Illinois and the University of Arizona pioneered this approach with alcohol use," he said...