Word: graphing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That blacks on average score lower than whites on IQ tests is not disputed by anyone who has studied the scores. (The cumulative test results form a bell curve on a statistician's graph.) Everything from that point on is subject to challenge, including whether IQ tests are a valid measure of intelligence or even what intelligence is. Murray and Herrnstein side with those who believe IQ is real and reasonably measured by the available tests. Their truly inflammatory notions are in what follows. While they acknowledge that intelligence is shaped by both heredity and environment, they say heredity plays...
...reads, the diagram presents an "alternative sexual response cycle--an ongoing continuum of pleasure, orgasm and ecstasy." Although this continuum requires some further explanation, the visual aid provides a critical framework for discussion. To corroborate the scientific nature of the writing, the book includes an appendix with flow charts, graph and sample questionnaires...
...with all big issues, there is another side to it: the level of passionate beliefs and impulses. We call them irrational only because they resist rationalizing away; they are as important as anything that can be put on a bar graph or a spread sheet. In the interests of truth in labeling, opponents of the health plan, like me, and supporters should explore these motives. I'll show mine, if they'll show me theirs. Better yet, I'll show both sets...
...should be possible to draw a graph predicting the level of rape that would occur in a battle context according to the officers' degrees of tolerance or disapproval. The greatest number of rapes would happen if 1) the soldiers were under direct orders to commit rape. Slightly fewer would take place if 2) there were fully articulated official approval of rape, as with the Soviets entering Germany in 1945. The levels would descend with 3) tacit $ official approval of rape, 4) official neutrality on the subject, 5) tacit official disapproval, 6) spoken official disapproval, 7) direct orders not to rape...
Knowles joked about the graph's small size,made a face and pointed to the bright yellow bars...