Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hospital, they found no fewer than seven XYY men, or 3.5% (as well as one XXYY). This, they estimated, was 50 to 60 times the normal incidence. To check this estimate, the Edinburgh investigators examined 266 newborn boys and 209 adult men without finding a single XYY. In a random collection of 1,500 karyotypes, they found only...
Instead, setting a life pattern, he drifted between such random diversions as studying Serbo-Croatian and founding a record company to preserve the music of early New Orleans jazzmen. Inevitably, as the son of the late syndicated columnist Heywood Broun, he became a sportswriter "with a crust of adjectives as thick as barnacles on a pearling lugger."* Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting. "I brought to the stage," he recalls, "a keen sense of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope-and none of Stanislavski...
...glossolalia. But prose style is one of the minor differences between Updike and his contemporaries. The larger fact is that however valid his own objectives and achievements, he has ignored the mainstream of contemporary Western fiction. The French, in the roman nouveau, have reduced the novel to a random series of received sounds and images; the English are tearing apart seven centuries of established order...
...admission of women to Lambda Nu comes at a time when several Stanford dormitories are also converting to coed living. In allowing Lambda Nu to become the campus' first coed fraternity, Stanford stipulated that the women must be selected by random draw among those who sign up rather than by any selective "rush." After the first year, Lambda Nu has promised to select its men by draw as well...
F.C.C. has already chosen 2400 students for the inaugural class. As an experiment, they did not use normal criteria of admittance, but chose students at random. "Testing is a particularly in-exact science for people coming out of a ghetto," Lynn said...