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Finally, consider the psychological impact on the students whose grades are artificially lowered to reflect a statistician's agenda or to "discipline...
...graduate of the University ofMissouri, and also studied at the University ofChicago and Bryn Mawr. She worked for the IllinoisState Department of Labor as a statistician...
...when H.L. Mencken collaborated with a statistician on three articles trying to establish the worst state in America, Mississippi won that upside-down contest, but with Arkansas and Alabama hotly contesting the bad eminence. Arkansas, near the bottom in most categories, was at the bottom for insolvency. V.O. Key Jr., in his famous study Southern Politics in State and Nation, gave the prize for fraudulent elections to Tennessee -- but Arkansas was a close second. Diane Blair, a political scientist who has written the best study of the state's constitutional structure, calls Arkansas nearly ungovernable. Yet Clinton has governed...
...Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, the Defense Intelligence Agency last week released an internal estimate of 100,000 Iraqi soldiers killed, 300,000 wounded. But DIA said those figures had an "error factor of 50% or higher" -- to a statistician, a grotesque number. The Pentagon has little wish to refine its figures either. It has strained to avoid both the derision aroused by the body counts announced during the Vietnam War and anything that might sound like a callous boast. Some other assessments indicate the U.S. figures...
Among the most respected critics is Andrew Solow, a statistician at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Marine Policy Center in Massachusetts. Solow asserts that the computer models used to predict the greenhouse effect are so weak that they cannot even account for the modest 0.5 degrees C warming that has occurred over the past 100 years. "We all believe in the physics of the greenhouse effect," says Solow, "but to say almost anything about timing, the magnitude of change or its geographic distribution is more than...