Word: inference
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...Cambridge” last year, said that Cambridge continues to conduct the census because the federal government requires it in order for city agencies to receive over two million dollars in annual funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.Semonoff added that although she would not infer a drop in homelessness from one year’s census data, the appearance of a long-term trend might ultimately be more informative.“We’d need to have a couple years of a trend in a row before making any conclusions,” Semonoff...
...understanding.”And Higgins Professor of Biology Daniel L. Hartl, who co-teaches the spring semester course in the year-long introductory Life Sciences sequence, wrote in an e-mail, “From what my students know, and don’t know, I can only infer that most AP biology courses do not have the depth or rigor to justify testing out of a college course.” The study’s authors, Sadler and University of Virginia Assistant Professor of Science Education Robert H. Tai, presented their findings...
...making connections that are kind of fleeting but they’re very intense…It’s this funny musician community,” Krukowski says.Krukowski also writes prose poetry, and holds public readings from his work on occasion. Although otherwise hesitant to infer any direct connection between his art and his teaching, here he makes an exception. “My prose poetry is actually very strictly rhetorically correct,” he jokes. “Hence why I feel I’m qualified to teach Expos...
...little bit and find new ways to point out the inherent inferiority of Yalies. We’d hate for them to get complacent. So, this year, rather than simply writing the usual vaguely clever but mostly lame jokes and value judgments that infer that Yale sucks, we’re going to try something different. We’ve assembled some numbers that prove, empirically, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Yale sucks. A lot. So, to Harvard students: pat yourselves on the back, like you do every morning. Yalies: weep. THE STATS Rhodes Scholars, 1947-2005 Harvard...
...burglary” does seem to be somewhat liberal—I wasn’t so shocked. Indeed, when I stepped into the hallway outside my bedroom last month to see the police arresting a level three sex offender, I hardly batted an eyelash. One might infer from all of this that I regret my choice of schools, but that is not the case. Though I may not have fully realized it when I decided to enroll, Harvard’s opportunities for undergraduates are unbeatable and easily compensate for the terrors of urban living. Thus, the deceptive lure...