Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...persistent refusal to debate or even recognize him, McCarthy ironically underlined the point Bobby is seeking to make: that Gene has become a stand-in for Hubert. If he dropped out of the race, McCarthy told a TV interviewer, he would prefer Humphrey to Kennedy. Realizing his error-many of his anti-Administration supporters would leave him if they thought he was merely playing the spoiler's role to block Kennedy-the Minnesotan later hedged his statement, then took a jab at reporters who refused to accept his backtracking. "The people who are with me who seem...
...Galileo, Pascal, some expert gamblers and the U.S. Census Bureau. Probability theory says that if a jar contains 1,000,000 beans-half black and half white-and somebody scoops up 100 of them, he will almost always draw half black and half white, within a 3% margin of error. Gallup views the nation as a big bowl of beans. On a strictly random basis, he picks 300 sections of the U.S. and selects five voters in each section. Then he sends his interviewers-who are mostly middle-aged women working part time-to poll those five voters...
...trying to measure what the public wants, the pollsters argue that a wise politician can trust his own instincts about 75% of the time, but a sound poll will give him a correct reading 90% of the time. That makes a 10% margin of error-and there is no guarantee that, in fact, the margin is not apt to be much larger. Thus the powerful polls can help democracy triumph, or at least muddle through-as long as the politicians and the public remember the margin of error and refuse to be hypnotized by the augurs...
...that the ritual is not an act of God's grace but a human response to it-which means that the individual must be mature enough to understand the meaning of such a decision. The traditional under standing of the sacrament, he says, is simply "an old error of the church...
Could the post-Derby urinalysis have been in error? Could Dancer's Image's urine sample have been tampered with or mixed up with a specimen from some other horse? Kentucky's drug-testing methods came under severe attack at last week's hearing from Fuller and his attorney, Arthur Grafton. They questioned both the security in the laboratory and the accuracy of its analysis. When Owner Fuller demanded some of the specimen for an independent analysis, he was told, sorry, it had all been used in the original tests...