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One type of statistic you won't find, however, is a listing of the academic performance of various groups within the general population. What is the average GPA of varsity athletes? Of Jegacies? Of certain racial groups which are affected by affirmative action?
Ho said the book's measure of general intelligence, G, is defined so that the IQs of men and women are equal. Ho said this normalization implicitly renders G a worthless statistic.
Similarly, director John Dahl is after something more than a nostalgic evocation of the old film noir style. He can light a mean street, a smoky barroom or a morning-after bedroom in the best tradition of the genre. But these venues are no longer situated in a big city...
The statistic about college women, which Roiphe often refers to in her talks, comes from a survey of American college women and is often published by Take Back The Night groups.
Only four of 19 undergraduates interviewed yesterday said they found that particular statistic realistic.