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Still, there was no reason to suspect that Harvard wouldn’t post another two dozen points on the scoreboard. The Crimson was averaging 37 points and 427 yards per game. The Big Green defense gave up an average of 25.7 points and 377.7 yards per game. The math simply added up to another Harvard blowout...
...pollsters sampling the whole country? Pollsters usually interview about 1,000 registered voters and, thanks to the magic of statistical math, 95% of the time those 1,000 accurately reflect the opinions of the entire country, give or take a margin of error of plus or minus 3%. But some people are not reached. Polls are conducted by phone, which leaves out about 8% of adult Americans, including those in institutions (prisons, hospitals, military bases), some low-income people and the approximately 4% of adults who have only cell phones. Then there are the people who hang up on pollsters...
This deference to politics also extends to the math department...
Professor Andrew Engelward, who teaches Math 21a, “Multivariable Calculus,” also rescheduled his midterm because of the election. Originally, the exam for the 290-student course was on the night of Nov. 2, but Engelward changed it to Thursday...
...result would not have been that I would have persuaded any students that taking math midterms is more important than the Red Sox winning their first World Championship in 86 years,” he said. “Instead I would have just convinced a bunch more students of the false stereotype that mathematicians aren’t connected to the real world in any meaningful...