Word: medians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fill gaps in their knowledge. A full quarter of the student body is non-denominational; the rest represent 46 different denominations, with the largest group--13 percent--Catholic. More than half are women, many of them attracted by the school's unique Women's Studies in Religion Program. The median entering age is somewhere...
Investments in tangible items were far less rewarding than bets in the financial markets. Real estate prices failed to keep pace with the Consumer Price Index, which was only 4.6% higher in November than a year earlier. The median price of a single-family house went up less than 4%, from $65,900 to $68,200. An acre of Iowa farmland, reflecting the slump in agriculture, dropped from $2,147 to $1,801. Explained Robert Jolly, an Iowa State University assistant professor of economics: "The major buyers out there are other farmers." And many of them had trouble holding...
...annually throughout the 1970s, are also getting more affordable. Prices have been more or less flat since the spring of 1981 and have declined rather strikingly when inflation is taken into account. For example, since 1980 the Consumer Price Index has risen by nearly 28%, while the median price of new homes has grown by only 13%, to $70,700. (Note to nostalgia buffs: ten years ago the median home price was $27,600.) Last week, however, the Government provided evidence that housing costs may be heading up again. The Labor Department reported that the October CPI rose...
...last week, a strange thing happened. The nation's median scores rose...
...SATs provide another example. A few years ago the test's sponsors, hoping against hope, ran a statistical study to determine if some "drift" in the SAT score scale might account for the steadily declining median national scores. They found a drift, all right--but it went in the wrong direction. The upward drift indicated the score decline was even more severe than it looked...