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What happened in the presidential election in Florida was a statistical aberration that the system will survive. The more important story is that American democracy is turning into a plutocracy. The best predictor of which candidate is going to win any political race is who spends the most money. DIANELOS GEORGOUDIS San Jose, Costa Rica...
Schauer said that ideology is a strong predictor of Supreme Court decisions and influenced the case by determining which side the justices listened to more closely. Yet he stressed that "ideology is different from partisan politics...
...think this is a very good time to be answering hypothetical questions," Christopher said when asked about Gore quitting with a loss on Monday. Scalia's statement, he said, was merely self-justification for the stay, and not necessarily a predictor of future behavior. "Let's just ride with it and see what happens...
STRESSED WIVES Wives who want to know whether their marriage will survive should perhaps check their stress hormones. According to a recent study that examined the effects of stress on marriage, rising stress-hormone levels can be a predictor of divorce. Women whose levels rose while they were discussing their relationships, even in a pleasant way, were twice as likely to get divorced as women whose hormones remained constant...
...Especially when 50 percent of the former has a part of its daily wealth riding on the latter. The drift of the Dow and NASDAQ has been cited as a possible predictor, even a determining factor, of a national election meant to set a course for a full four years, which is quite a large sample of what used to be called the business cycle. Yet at election time, a voter can use the markets to sample his own heart; after all, every investor would prefer to vote with his broker's blessing...