Word: misreads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...random telephone poll revealed that a another third opposed divestment, whereas in the UC referendum taken in dining halls only about a sixth said they opposed it. This discrepancy says something about the two different polling methods. Clearly person-to-person methods, whether UC referenda or SASC petitions, misread campus opinion by discouraging divestment opponents from airing their point of view...
...agree, and said in the article, that there are in fact some athletes at Harvard who confirm the scholar-athlete stereotype. I refuse to be misread as lumping all athletes together in the negative stereotype...
...idea what was up," says Zue. The invitation turned out to involve 48 hours of rigorous testing with hundreds of voice spectrograms. At one point, the Carnegie-Mellon team tried to trip up Zue with the phrase "A stitch in dime saves nine," expecting him to misread dime as time. But Zue, having grown up in China, had never heard the old maxim. He passed the test and made believers of a generation of speech scientists...
Moreover, Keene is particularly concerned about "the centrality of the role of political pollsters in campaigns and governance. Pollsters occasionally misread the public sentiment, she says, and can unintentionally give poor advice to politicians by either assuming that poll results are completely accurate or misunderstanding the data...
...courtroom in lower Manhattan, a smiling Sharon told reporters, "I am pleased that we won on this point." His attorney, Milton Gould, added, "I'm glad we're not going to get beaten on etymology." Moments later TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave said he felt that the jurors had "misread" the disputed paragraph and insisted once again that the passage in no way accused Sharon of responsibility for the massacre. The passage simply echoed the findings of the Kahan report, Cave said. He defended the magazine's use of confidential sources in seeking information about the events leading...