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...tried to dig himself out of holes with lines like "a small office called President of the United States" and how a hand count in Miami-Dade being "in accordance with the principles of the country." And not one (this was the very first witness; Gore had a statistician up next, and Bush has a current list of 20) that consumed two and a half hours of a mini-trial whose supposed 12-hour clock is ticking. It wasn't the Bush lawyers that were trying Sauls' patience...
...wonder that the latest New York Times/CBS poll shows that voters are not panicked about the current lack of a President-elect. They've realized that they aren't particularly involved in the electoral process anyway. Unless you're a constitutional lawyer and a superb statistician, when the Sunshine State finally does figure out who the next President will be, you won't be able to understand how he was chosen. Sheesh. It is a nationwide anti-climax and frankly, after a week of "too-close-to-calls," we're getting a little frustrated...
DIED. LESLIE KISH, 90, statistician who formulated, among other things, the "margin of error," an assessment of the accuracy of opinion polls; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Kish used his new population sampling techniques in 1948 to predict a narrow Truman victory over Dewey--when almost everyone had forecast a Dewey landslide...
DIED. JOHN TUKEY, 85, statistician and National Medal of Science winner who coined the words software and bit (for binary digit); of a heart attack; in New Brunswick, N.J. His work extended beyond mathematics to environmental and social issues. He warned that aerosol cans harmed the ozone layer, criticized Alfred Kinsey's sex-research methods and advised that the Census be adjusted to count more inner-city dwellers...
...important thing to remember is that bits are bits. In the digital world there are no movies or magazines or pieces of music. There are just 1s and 0s, for which we did not even have a name until 1946 when Princeton statistician John Tukey concatenated the words binary and digit into the term...