Word: misunderstand
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...think I think people at Harvard tend to misunderstand what diversity really means,” he says. “I would value class diversity a lot more.” Mitchell, who comes from a working-class background and lived in a diverse part of central Texas, says he hasn’t found many similar people here. Many students at Harvard come from privileged backgrounds, he says...
Many critics also point to the consent forms people sign when they join a clinical trial. Even when the risks are clearly spelled out--and they frequently aren't--patients tend to misunderstand what's actually going on. The truth is that less than 5% of subjects in Phase I trials, which measure the toxicity of a new drug, will receive any health benefit whatsoever. Yet when a 1995 University of Chicago study quizzed patients about why they enrolled in their Phase I cancer trials, fully 85% answered, "Possible therapeutic benefit...
...That doesn?t mean that the critics of the WEF have gone away, even if they have been less visible this year than many expected. But two things about their case against Davos continue to puzzle me. First, I think they misunderstand the nature of the businessmen and businesswomen who attend these conferences. By and large, those who come here (remember: many of them are European) do so at least partly because they are genuinely interested in non-business issues, and because they want to learn more about questions of corporate social responsibility and the like. One long-time...
Besides his lack of structure, Weinberg’s other main failing is that he seems to misunderstand many of the arguments against him. He dismisses them because they violate the axioms that he has chosen to live by. What exactly is “truth” and what does it mean “to know”? To Weinberg, truth is learned through observations, and we test theories by how they conform to those observations. To his critics, the very nature of who Weinberg is affects those observations, and thus they can’t be counted...
...Don’t misunderstand this, the Red Line wants to win, or at least take out hated rival Tufts. But it’ll be all good once the teams leave the field...