During the course of the rhetoric surrounding the 1984 Presidential
election campaign in the United States there were a variety of
statements made that gave me pause. For example, I heard candidate
Ferraro explain her poor showing in pre.election polls by saying. "
I don't believe those polls. If you could see the enthusiasm for
our candidacy 'out there' you wouldn't believe them either. "
Obviously, trying to estimate one's popularity in the entire voting
population from the enthusiasm of your supporters at political
rallies is not likely to yield accurate results. I suspect that
trying to statistically adjust the " rally estimate" through the
use of the demographic characteris. tics of those who attend would
not have belped enough to be usefuL A modest survey on a more
randomly chosen sample would surely have been better. At about the
same time, Secretary of Education Terrell Bell released a table
entitled State Education Statistics. Among other bits of
information, it contained the mean scores on the Scholastic
Aptitude Test (the SAT) for 22 of the states. The College Board had
previously released these mean scores for all states. At this point
the mass media began carrying reports inter preting the
differences. The Reagan White House pointed out that spending more
money on education was not the way to improve educational outcomes.
To support this they pointed to the mean SAT scores of Connecticut
and New Hampshire. New Hampshire had modestly higher SAT scores but
lower . . per pupil expenditure."
General
Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2014 |
First published: |
1986 |
Editors: |
Howard Wainer
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
163 |
Edition: |
1986 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4612-9381-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Mathematics >
Applied mathematics >
General
|
LSN: |
1-4612-9381-2 |
Barcode: |
9781461293811 |
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