Word: predictors
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Yale 40, Penn 3, Cause for celebration in Philadelphia as the Quakers break on to the scoreboard. Who ever let pacifists play a game like football? Our guest selector, Duane Glasscock is the only known clone on radio. He's also the only predictor in the world (well, I can't call him a man or a machine) to pick Penn, Colgate 3, Columbia 2. A Sominex Bowl. But brush before...
Region was important in deciding the election, as was ethnicity and, to some extent, Carter's rural but social class ultimately may have been the best predictor of how any individual would vote...
...schools, currently experiencing an unprecedented flood of applications, are particularly opposed to pass/fail. Law school admissions officers, complaining about the lack of information in a pass/fail record, judge applicants largely by their scores on the half-day-long "law board" exam. "Many schools consider college grades a more significant predictor of success in law school than the Law School Admission Test," says Associate Dean Frank Walwer of Columbia University School of Law, which this year has 4,200 applicants for 290 places, "but if you deprive law schools of that needed data, then they have to rely more on that...
...school anyway, with little future ahead of them. What a contrast to the warmth and hopefulness of the teacher in the middle-class suburb!" Most schools, says Ron Edmonds, director of Harvard's Center for Urban Studies, act on the theory that "incoming social class is the principal predictor of pupil performance. If the child does not learn, say the educators, then it is not the fault of the school. I do not think it is possible for poor people to change in the way the schools want them to," Edmonds theorizes. "To feed, clothe, sustain a child...
...these tests might improve their power to measure innate intelligence; but for the time being it is inevitable that they reflect training to some extent, if only because they are given in English to many students who speak Spanish or other foreign languages around the home. As a predictor of achievement in an English-speaking society, such tests continue to have value. As scientific proof of supposed inborn inequality, they remain useless. John E. Chappell, Jr. Research Fellow