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...experiment as chairman of the university's speech pathology and audiology department, those estimates were surprisingly accurate. On the average, the volunteer students came within 3½ lbs. and 1 in. of picking the weight and height of the speakers-far closer than they would have achieved with random guesses. "Apparently," says Lass, "there are adequate perceptual clues in the voice, which reflect, to some extent, the physical features of height and weight." He is confident that future research will prove his thesis. Hello, officer, I'd like to report an anonymous obscene phone call from...
...says Sherry Ward, who as senior adviser to the Union Dorms was one of the few women living in Pennypacker until this year. Ward says she made assignments to Pennypacker on a random basis and the "livelier, happier atmosphere" is entirely the students own doing...
Statistics 103, Introduction to Statistics. An introduction to the basic concepts and methodology of statistics. Students will gain skills in handling elementary problems of the probability, distribution and random number of dollars. Caveat: Students actually expecting to rely on statistics can expect a greater return by taking Statistics 135, Introduction to Statisticians...
...Gilmore, the suicide bid may have taken him still further from his desired death-a desire that some psychologists now believe may have motivated his apparently random killings. A pardon-board hearing of his case was delayed last week until December so that he can recover. To head off another suicide try-so that the state may execute him at the legally chosen time-Gilmore will now be held in the infirmary in "as close to solitary confinement as this prison has had in years," said Warden Samuel Smith. Meantime Gilmore has little to do except mull over the book...
...said that advanced art in America through the '50s and early '60s had one single native guru, that man was Cage: at once the most avant-garde and the most transparent of composers, the Marcel Duchamp of music, the man who erected combinations of silence and random sound into an aesthetic strategy in order to give art the inclusive density of life. It was Cage's example that prompted Rauschenberg to formulate his much-quoted remark that "painting relates to both art and life... I try to act in the gap between...