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...design of the experiment is straightforward enough, and it might have been started earlier but for one drawback: there was no way to check on the women being tested to make sure that they did not sneak an occasional secret drag. Now NIH has found a chemical detective. Researchers at San Antonio's Southwest
Final papers have another, more mundane, drawback. The time required to grade them intelligently is far greater than that required for examinations. In some of the College's enormous and understaffed courses, this is quite impractical...
...village and town councils-less than one-thousandth of the population-whom Ayub calls "persons of status in their communities." In the average constituency, six candidates vied for only 500 votes. While the electors, or basic democrats in Ayub parlance, are 80% literate (national average: 16%), a basic drawback of the system is that they include few intellectuals or business and professional leaders. Thus Ayub's electoral system is far from representative of society as a whole-although it is certainly closer to democracy than such authoritarian regimes as Egypt's or Indonesia's, which use similar...
Though some critics dismiss the Rorschach as an exercise in "clinical liturgy." most psychiatrists and psychologists still give it high marks for uncanny ability to reveal the innermost secrets of a test subject's personality and emotional problems. But it has one drawback: interpretation of the results is a difficult job in which even experts often disagree. Rorschach testers often have to ask questions to draw out more than one response to each blot, and judgment may be colored by the interplay of personality between tester and tested. Attempts to devise a standardized scoring system have generally failed...
Oakland began with a spacious, 2,000-acre campus, a fat-free academic diet, and a spartan atmosphere of no dormitories, fraternities, sororities or organized athletics (TIME, Sept. 28, 1959). It had one major drawback: serving almost entirely as a commuter college in a low-income area, it was expected to demand Harvard-level performance from poorly prepared youngsters...