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Also, your first job right after college is not the predictor of the rest of your life. So be comfortable with going with the flow a little bit. At the same time, don’t shy away from confronting decisions and doing what you can to be informed and move forward. This is not the time to run away from your fears (i.e. procrastinate...
...making her case, Hoxby used the number of rivers and streams in a metropolitan area as a predictor of the number of districts in that area. She then employed a technique called instrumental variable regression to isolate the effect of school district size on test scores...
...victories kept coming for Harvard, but none was more important than an emphatic thrashing of Princeton and Yale in the annual HYP meet. With the Crimson, Bulldogs, and Tigers always vying for EISL preeminence, the showdown has become the dual season’s predictor of February championship success. In 2004, Harvard fell to Princeton 192-161, and the Tigers took home the EISL title one month later...
...Yale should probably keep its eyes open and beware. This is likely only the conclusion of the first, more moderate stage of the Revolution. They say that the past is the best predictor of the future—and if history is any indicator, we can predict Handsome Dan XVI’s imminent decapitation and the eventual fall of the ancien regime. After all, they also say that those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it—and who at Yale knows anything...
...Hu’s study—the largest of its kind—agrees with the position of scientists like those at the American Heart Association (AHA), who hold that obesity is an independent predictor of cardiovascular disease...