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Year after year, the award categories are populated with consistent archetypes: the underdog, the obvious filler, the perhaps-not-particularly-deserving-this-year-but-boy-is-it-about-time-she-won-already. The winner selection process, intrinsically tainted by Academy politics, is anything but quantitative??statistically, even the most impulsive civilian guesser is likely to make at least one correct prediction. This lends a satisfying, authoritative feel to one’s preferences regarding, for instance, Meryl Streep—who should be given an Oscar every year, by default, just to thank her for being Meryl Streep?...
...Statistics 104: "Introduction to Quantitative??Methods for Economics...
...King is not solely focused on the social sciences’ quantitative side, said Government Professor Kenneth A. Shepsle. “He’s actually interested in getting young scholars to take whatever evidence they have in whatever form it comes in—whether qualitative or quantitative??and simply be systematic about it,” Shepsle said...
...with some watered down math classes and a cushy core title. They throw “Reasoning” into the title to make the requirement sound less daunting, and it does momentarily fool some of the more unreasonable. But no matter how big a word “Quantitative?? is, math can’t hide behind it.All QR classes aim to “introduce students to mathematical and quantitative modes of thought,” and not one of them meets after 11 a.m. This is the core meant to whip the lazy literati into...
Although I wouldn’t admit it in an interview, as far as my interest in finance, I was a bit shaky on the details too. I knew that I wanted to try something new, and that I wanted to do something quantitative??I am an economics concentrator after all. My ultra-liberal friends dismissed my interest as selling out. I could “work for the man” if I wanted, but I couldn’t complain when they made me buy them dinner. While I don’t mind jumping...