Word: predictabilities
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...Pairwise Rankings, which aim to predict the field for the eight-team NCAA Tournament, Harvard dropped to the precarious eighth place. Fortunately, the plunge is a bit misleading. The Crimson’s RPI- a significant component of the Pairwise calculation- suffered from playing such weak opponents last week, even though Harvard won all its games handily. This technicality will be adjusted for come selection time, pushing the Crimson more comfortably in at-large position...
Because scientists can predict what the motion of the star should look like if the galaxy is flat. information about the galaxy’s actual shape—for instance, if it is in fact lopsided—might be gleaned from a comparison between the predicted and the actual trajectory of the star...
University President Lawrence H. Summers will face the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) today for the first time since his controversial remarks on women in science last month, and many professors predict it will be the toughest meeting of his three-and-a-half year tenure...
...monthly Faculty meetings are usually dedicated to hashing out FAS policy—Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s Annual Letter to the Faculty and a report on the progress of the Curricular Review are the two items officially on the agenda—professors predict that today’s meeting will likely shift towards a discussion of Summers’ controversial tenure...
...grades are supposed to be a measure of each student’s eventual mastery of the course material, how can a professor have figured out the grades before students have even been taught? The bell curve requires that professors have the skills of Carnac the Magnificent and can predict the distribution of their students’ talents and abilities before the undergraduates have had chance to show them off. While Harvard professors are some of the most talented people in the world, none of them has that kind of prophetic power...