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...students who are in the younger half of their age-class are underrepresented by more than 10 percent. But don’t worry, warm weather babies: a simple Harvard College Facebook search reveals that no birth month predominates among current undergraduates.While Gladwell’s theory might not predict Harvard’s demographics, he isn’t trying to advance a catch-all explanation for success. He’s not claiming that one factor, like birth month, could be the primary determinant of whether we fail or whether we make it big. Rather, his contention...
...Experience Principle, which can be summarized (with some liberty) as the idea that the Pirahã do not speak about anything outside the realm of their own immediate experience or that of someone who is alive within the speaker’s lifetime. This assertion itself is said to predict the aforementioned linguistic deficiencies, and through its implications, to defy some of the most basic tenets of the linguistics world. And here is where the road gets rocky.Everett’s claims fly in the face of some of the most basic and established beliefs in the fields...
...Rates of heart attack went down 50 percent,” Ridker said. “This is a magnitude of effect about twice as large as what you would predict. Similar studies found a 20 to 30 percent reduction in risk. The question becomes, ‘Why does this happen? Did we hit the sweet spot...
...favoritism.Professor of History Mark A. Kishlansky, who chairs the committee that hired Jasanoff, emphasizes how any faculty candidate must have “both talent and achievement,” especially if they apply while still in graduate schools. “It’s very hard to predict how people are going to turn out before they finish their theses,” he says of GSAS’s students.Kishlansky adds that the window of opportunity for being hired after graduating from the GSAS is fairly small, typically no more than seven years. Ideally, potential candidates would...
...Some predict Japan will fare marginally better in its recession than the U.S. or the Eurozone. The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) projects that 2009 GDP will grow 0.1% in Japan, compared with 0.9% in the U.S. and 0.5% across the Eurozone. "Financial-debt-to-GDP ratio is an advantage, and debt in the private sector has not increased, unlike in the U.S. and European countries," says Hiromichi Shirakawa, chief economist at Credit Suisse Japan. "The economy is less vulnerable." Nevertheless, he says, Japan is not an island: nothing points to an economic recovery in Japan unless...