Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During his cross-examination Bailey sarcastically noted that in advance of his court appearance Fort had composed a four-page "antipress release," complete with biographical data, and had coupled it with a request for anonymity. "Your method of protecting your anonymity," Bailey asked incredulously, "was to send out twelve copies of this release to members of the press?" He also got Fort to acknowledge that he was not certified as a psychiatrist, although he had spent a one-year internship and a three-year residency in the field. Snapped Bailey: "I doubt he [Fort] has the ability to recognize...
Collier said he may compare the actual house assignments to those that would have resulted if the previous method of assignment, designed to maximize the number of students assigned to their desired houses, had been retained...
...complex scoring system, devised by Frank Kulash and Neal Fenty, is based on the method for tallying a cross country meet. The highest game in the match is worth twelve points, with each successively lower game awarded one less point...
Rosovsky says he made this change to create an assignment system that is "more straightforward and easier for freshmen to understand." The method did encourage students to list the Houses in their actual order of preference (something administrators have been curious about for several years) rather than devise elaborate schemes of juggling the rankings "to beat the computer...
...more accurate statistical picture of the Houses' relative popularity will undoubtedly be paid for by the many members of the Class of '79 who receive Houses ranked in the lower half of their list. Although Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College, insists that "the results of the new method will depend on the way in which choice is distributed" and that "if the distribution is similar to last year's, there will not be much difference in the results," Collier does admit that Rosovsky's method is more likely to result in fewer people receiving their first choice...