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...hunch is that this may not be the case, in which the statistic of 34 percent choosing the correct answer is about right--a bit above the guessing level (25 percent) on a four-choice multiple-choice item...
After any correct answer, the team captain may choose to stop and split the winnings. If the team fails at any round, its members walk away with empty pockets...
...hard for me to keep track of the cavalcade of stars that the club offers. The Friars Club is like trying to play a game of Jeopardy! where the correct response is always, "I don't know who he is, Alex, but I wish he'd cover himself with a towel...
...garde reformers," irrational on textbook economics, ill-informed on "statistical studies and anecdotal evidence," inverted on the role of "understanding" in the "New Math " of the 60's (except that it was, indeed, "the mathematicians" who pushed that misguided effort into our schools) and tangential about "textbooks." He is correct to call for continuing improvement in teacher education to support more challenging mathematics in every classroom, but wrong to downplay the central role of pedagogy in pre-college math classrooms...
...already looking ahead fearfully to the day when there's only one distinct voice in the morning. We liked to feel that we were something special here." They were. New York, Chicago, Boston and Washington, D.C., are now the only towns left with truly competing newspapers. And Woodbury is correct about the effectiveness of JOAs - in the late 1970s, 28 cities had two papers joined at their wallets via JOAs; today, only 13 do. "It's one of the great mysteries of newspaper economics," says Woodbury. "Denver is a boom town, going high-tech and attracting a lot of transplants...