Word: statistician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent eight months at the front and won the Bronze Star. In 1955, after a stint as a New York cab driver, and now with a degree in business administration from the College of the City of New York, he went to work in Southern California as a statistician for the Southern Pacific Company...
...state-owned oil corporation; of a brain tumor; in Milan. A onetime professor of statistics, Boldrini joined ENI in 1948 as president of its distributing company, and was vice president of the sprawling complex by the time Mattei died in a plane crash; critics dismissed the 72-year-old statistician as an "interim pope," but in his five-year reign he proved to be as expansive and guileful as his predecessor, plunging ENI into extensive new operations in Egypt, the Congo and South America, and playing East against West by bargaining for crude oil from both the Soviet Union...
...According to Bowles, they are "to explain basic statistical concepts and to provide an indication about the class structure of universities. . . ." One can accept the implied conclusions, yet they do not follow at all from the survey taken. I would suggest that this "survey" shows instead how any determined statistician--whether radical or reactionary--can find facts and an interpretation which will fit his predetermined ideas. This is a sad comment on the instructors of Soc Sci 125--and on the increasingly overt politicization of education at Harvard. Jess Hungate...
...When an epidemiologist begins to mine a mountain of case histories, death certificates and related data, he can be virtually sure to find: 1) evidence tending to confirm well-established theories, and 2) something totally unexpected. That is exactly what happened to Statistician E. Cuyler Hammond when he dug into the records of 352,000 men and 440,000 women enrolled nine years ago in the American Cancer Society's long-range epidemiological study...
What, if anything, do these figures prove? Said Statistician Hammond cautiously: "I would rather not hazard a guess as to the mechanism underlying this association." Neither Hammond nor physicians reviewing his data can be certain which comes first-the arterial disease, or the tendency to sleep longer than average...