Word: simpson
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...Simpson's paradox" in introductory statistics is an outcome that seems counterintuitive upon first inspection. On Monday night, a Simpson's paradox happened, and it wasn't only because the target of a pro-legal immigration protest was a man named Simpson...
...bond formed during the protest was in stark contrast to the apathy normally associated with worldly issues. By raising awareness, the rally also raised the stakes people have in this issue, enlightening them and promoting their interests. Over dinner, I talked to a fellow student who afterwards looked up Simpson's S-1394 bill on the Internet and read it because his interest and curiosity had been piqued by the protest...
Odds are that Senator Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.) did not go home that night to tell his wife that he'd be back at the Institute of Politics anytime soon. Odds are that he did not change his mind on the Senate bill S. 1394 restricting legal immigration. Odds are that other speakers may have been scared away. For Simpson had received the honorarium of a combative battery of questions following his speech in addition to the jeers of 150 bullhorn-touting, slogan-shouting, rabble-rousing students...
...information distributed by the Massachusetts Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Coalition created the massive energy. Even those people who were just there because they were curious either joined the protest or read the fliers. People flocked to sign a petition asking the Judiciary Committee in the Congress to split Simpson's bill...
...Once the immigrants are gone and there are no more scapegoats for America's economic problems, who will Simpson blame?" said Joel B. Pollak...