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...recent New York case, for example, Attorney Michael Finkelstein produced evidence showing that a federal grand jury list included only 1.1 of every 10,000 voters in Harlem, compared with 62.6 of every 10,000 voters from the city's fashionable and predominantly white East Side. A statistician testified that the chances of obtaining that disparity in a random selection were smaller than the probability of a poker player being dealt 24 consecutive royal flushes in a fair game of five-card stud...
...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...
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...