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...Statistics concentration can be summed up with one simple statistic: As of November 2005, there were exactly four concentrators. You can properly infer from this data point that personal attention is a benefit of concentrating in statistics at Harvard. Unfortunately there aren’t many others. If you truly love statistics and it is your passion and you want to become a professor in statistics—which probably also means nobody will want to hang out with you on Saturday nights—then concentrate in it. Otherwise take this approach: concentrate in something you are actually interested...
Religious beliefs then differ from other beliefs in two ways: in degree and reach. They are more intense and more likely to demonize the opposition. When one side claims to have God on its side, it is easy to infer that the Devil is on the other...
...personal anti-Semitism, or of their inaction against racism in Sudan and South Africa, or in any disproof that Israel was committing illegal acts of occupation or violence against its indigenous people—all with extraordinary financial, military, and diplomatic support from our government. Summers’ inference rested merely on the fact that the petition was being circulated at the same time that innocent Jews were being assaulted and Jewish cemeteries being vandalized in Europe. Summers’ January 2005 speech at the National Bureau of Economic Research emphasizing women’s innate deficiencies and dismissing well...
...puts up a fight on the couch and, whack, as they fall to the floor; yet there is the hint that this may be the renewal of an cat-and-mouse old game between them. A minimalist movie doesn't offer many explanations; the viewer has to infer what's going on in the characters' heads, hearts and loins...
...Cambridge” last year, said that Cambridge continues to conduct the census because the federal government requires it in order for city agencies to receive over two million dollars in annual funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.Semonoff added that although she would not infer a drop in homelessness from one year’s census data, the appearance of a long-term trend might ultimately be more informative.“We’d need to have a couple years of a trend in a row before making any conclusions,” Semonoff...