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...interpreted as just endemic to the academic world, they are troubling but not tragic. It is worth considering whether the triumph of quantity over quality might impede our functioning as individuals and as members of the society of tomorrow. The daily barrage of information from news sources does not correspond to the time we have to really process or understand it. It is quite possible to imagine a day in which the pressure for productivity, fueled by concerns for advancement, will trump careful, critical thought, the crucial “necessity to make distinctions and to avoid sweeping generalizations...
...mouth is." Pollsters must rely on what voters tell them. That can lead to error, says Leigh, because "you're sampling only a fraction of the population" and "people might say anything just to get rid of the interviewer." Overall poll results - percentages of the total vote - may not correspond to numbers of seats won. And in marginal seats, on which many elections turn, the margin of error can exceed the margin of victory. In '01, the betting markets' predictive power in these seats "really surprised us," says Leigh. "But the people who were betting on those seats knew them...
...called the Guinness Book of Records answers such questions with gusto ... [It is] the world's greatest grab bag of mosts, leasts, longests, shortests, fastests and slowests ... Chosen to compile the book were Norris and Ross McWhirter ... [They] comb thousands of journals to keep their superlatives up to date, correspond with authorities in 110 countries, scan heaps of musty books to track down obscure points ... And when all else fails, they turn to an army of volunteer assistants, including a mathematics expert lodged in Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum...
...We’ll probably have them correspond with Senior Toast Day, or some other slightly inebriated activity,” Corker said...
...We’ll probably have them correspond with Senior Toast Day, or some other slightly inebriated activity,” Corker said...