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...article does not provide enough information for readers to assess the possibility that the difference was due to random sampling because it does not tell us how many people responded to the items being compared. Nor does it tell us whether the comparison is based on identical surveys, administered through identical designs. Thus, we cannot tell whether the differences reflect question wording or question ordering or survey administration effects or real change...
...part of that population. The January 2000 poll, in contrast, surveyed people on campus immediately before or during finals. The two populations surveyed may also differ because of “nonresponse bias.” In last week’s survey, just 62 percent of the random sample replied. Before generalizing their responses to Harvard students, we need to know whether the 38 percent who did not answer differ systematically from the respondents. Survey research routinely compares the respondents with nonrespondents on known attributes (concentration, sex, economic background, national origin) that allow inferences about the extent of nonresponse...
...lovers of libraries and bookstores and books in general who also happen to be students, summer is the high point of the year. There is actually time to read that new novel or old favorite, reason to buy that random volume that catches your eye from the bookstore window, freedom to dig into that list of books to read you started last September. I once spent the summer in a sublet that belonged to a graduate student in the English department, and the sublet came with a library I still dream about. I spent that summer devouring what little...
...read was the kind of stuff you’re “supposed” to read to be well-rounded and literate and cool like that. But there are always new and wonderful and crazy books to be read, so we are pleased to bring you some random and not-so-random new titles, just in time for you to blow off your reading period work...
...intellectuals and psuedo-intellectuals who recognize and celebrate the sophisticated and slapstick comedy of “The Simpsons,” but it is more of a general(ly mediocre) survey of various philosophical concepts that can be projected onto the show. We get essays by random associate and assistant professors of philosophy entitled “Homer and Aristotle,” “Marge’s Moral Motivation,” “The Moral World of the Simpson Family” and discussions of how Nietzsche might justify Bart’s behavior...