Word: errors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about as easy to explain an addition error by an IBM machine as it is the Yankees' four game losing streak last week. IBM machines don't lose; somehow the Yankees...
...perhaps this approach--why did the Yankees lose?--is wrong. More to the point is why did the Dodgers win. Why did a team that in the past has been well trained in the key fielding error, the choke, the "I lost the ball in the sun" routine suddenly turn respectable...
...tone of the session was set by Idaho's Democratic Senator Frank Church, the 1960 Democratic convention keynoter. Cried Church: "One man, in this day and age, clothed with the power of the presidency, can deliver us into fiery oblivion-foolishly, unnecessarily and finally, by just one error of judgment. Any American President who mistrusts the winds of freedom and tampers cavalierly with the delicate balance of terror upon which the peace presently depends, might well be the last American President...
...After error in "gang-punching" the conversion of raw test scores, 25 of the 150 freshmen taking the Spanish placement test last Wednesday were informed incorrectly that they had fulfilled their language requirement. The Office of Tests will notify these freshman today that they had actually, in the harsh and cold statistical world of the computer, failed their tests...
...mistake in computation was first noticed by the Office of Tests after it received several phone calls from mystified freshmen into Friday afternoon. "The students refused to believe," Office spokesman said, "that they had so highly." The computer staff; which had already puzzled over the high results, discovered an error in the digital evaluation of the raw and their subsequent conversion late a normal test curve...