Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Math of Unemployment," you just tug at the Gordian knot of joblessness. The rate is high, you explain, because women are entering the labor force in record numbers. One is then led to believe that unemployment isn't as bad as it seems because male breadwinners are still working. This is a fallacy...
Your article claims that "unemployment is no longer the national trauma it once was" because of extended jobless benefits. Your mathematician should stick to math...
...three chance that your true score would be somewhere between 570 and 630; there is a one-in-three chance that it would be below 570 or above 630. According to an ETS booklet, a 72-point difference between two students' scores on the SAT math section, and a 66-point difference on the verbal section, is so statistically insignificant that "it cannot be taken seriously." For the Law Boards, a difference of 67 points cannot be taken seriously...
...goes on to say that "other ETS data, which ETS Executive Vice President Solomon said could not be made public because 'it would be misinterpreted,' show that students from the Northeast do best on the tests and Southerners do worst, and that males do better than females (on the math College Boards, at least...
This year there have been almost no student complaints, Hallet said yesterday. The typical "Physics I-Biochemistry 10, and Chemistry 20-Math 21 conflicts" have been avoided, she added...