Word: proportionment
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A small part of the Times’ computations included each school’s percentage of female faculty. With 22 percent, HBS had the highest proportion among the top-ranked institutions, although it stood just below average among all the schools in the ratings.
70% Proportion of elderly citizens who have gambled at least once in the past year
17.2% Proportion of airplanes nationwide found to have fecal coliform bacteria in their drinking water
I grant that it is likely, as President Summers alleges, that he made this hypothesis “in the spirit of academic inquiry,” intending to provoke a scholarly investigation into the causes behind the current gender disparity in math and science. But while there is scientific...
PINKER: First, let’s be clear what the hypothesis is—every one of Summers’ critics has misunderstood it. The hypothesis is, first, that the statistical distributions of men’s and women’s quantitative and spatial abilities are not identical?...