Word: medians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday considered a proposal that essentially would combat grade inflation by including with each student's grade on his transcript the number of students enrolled in the course and the median grade...
...tests themselves were inherently prejudiced, the question of racial, sexual and cultural bias in ETS tests has been coming up for years. Brill cites an ETS study that found a direct, consistent correlation between seven categories of family income and SAT scores: students from wealthy families have higher median board scores than middle-income students, who in turn score higher than low income students. Brill 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...
...complaint concerns racial bias. Mean SAT scores for blacks, according to an August, 1975 article by Susan Schwartz McDonald in the Philadelphia Inquirer, average about 100 points lower than mean scores for whites. Brill claims that he found a study that showed a gap of 133 points between the median scores of black and white males on Law Boards. Some, including the folks at ETS, argue that the lower mean scores simply reflect inequalities in the educational system--differences in previous training. Executive Vice President Solomon insisted to Brill that the tests "have actually opened doors" to minorities and poor...
...industry to meet the suddenly increased demand for single-family houses. Another major impediment to faster growth: the price of new and existing homes has been rising faster than the average family's ability to pay for them. Just between January and June of this year, the median price for a new one-family house went from $41,600 to $46,200, and the interest rate on mortgages is still hovering around 9%. Notes Doyle Stuckey, vice president of the Greater Houston Builders Association: "If we could get under 9%, it would bring a lot of people into...
...members of the Class of '51, including a number of governmental officials and corporate executives, have an average income of $97,200, according to the Class of '51 official report. The 79.5 per cent who are presently full-time lawyers have a median income of $80,000, and almost one-third of the class has incomes of over...