Word: predictabilities
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...course, kids. Virtually every American child takes a standardized test at some point, and yet there is widespread confusion over what tests do and do not measure. Insta-experts from the media and from antitesting groups often repeat fallacies: blacks do better in college than their SAT scores predict (actually, for reasons that aren't well understood, blacks tend to do worse in college than matched groups of whites with the same scores); how well you do on the SAT will determine how well you do in life (SAT scores have little power to predict earnings...
...absurd as it may seem to the uninitiated—and as impossible as it would have been for me to predict a few years ago—it has been Radcliffe, which used to be the women’s college here at Harvard, that has helped to define my undergraduate experience and my understanding of my university and its history. That history is still unfolding, and the shockingly imbalanced ratio of female to male tenured Harvard faculty alone makes clear that there are still miles to go before we sleep. (Only 18.3 percent of senior faculty members...
...election approaches, the White House will especially want to avoid getting into more trouble in Iraq and projecting images of confusion and faulty leadership in foreign policy. It is premature now to predict that in order to head off these dangers it will choose pulling back over pressing ahead—we could get our act together, and things could start to break our way. But the aggregation of incentives to pull back enumerated above is already formidable. A decision to back off—whether intentional or by default, whether by declaring victory or by palming...
Just because most experts predict the legal damage to be limited does not mean the political fight will end soon. One of the reasons the fight feels even uglier and more desperate than usual is that it comes at a time when almost every political institution seems tarnished. To the extent that the Bush Administration has to answer for David Kay's failure to find any WMD in Iraq, its answer is that fault lies with the shortcomings of the intelligence community. The spies, for their part, have been quick to remind their allies on Capitol Hill of the White...
...going to have particularly strong growth. Something goes on that affects total factor productivity growth, and we don't fully understand it. Fiscal and monetary policy in the '90s made it cheaper for businesses to finance investments in productivity. But it was way beyond any economic model to predict...