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Given the importance of technology in the modern age, I believe this calls for a government financial rescue plan for the land line telephone industry. A package in the tens of billions of dollars is appropriate. And it's vitally important that we hand over this money by the end of next week, or else all telecommunications may cease to function.
Chad, yeah, the polling industry has been grappling with the mobile-phone question for some time now. I wonder where they're at with it now? Still ignoring it and hoping it'll go away? Or figuring that, as far as politics goes, political polls still strive to capture the opinions mostly/only of "likely voters", who tend to be older and thbus tend to have land lines?
I abandoned my landline in 2000 and haven't looked back.
Though it stands to reason that polling data will skew older because it fails to account for the switch, it would be a mistake to think that this only takes place with people in their teens or twenties.
This should be the other way around. If half the kids with an iPhone/iTouch were in Amherst's class of 2012 they would have some real problems. Should be...
Likelihood that a student in class fo 2012 has an iPhone/iTouch: approx 1in 2.
- There are X number of students at Amherst with an iPhone/IpodTouch.
- 1/2(X) of these students are in the class of 2012.
(Though it's true that his grammar wasn't precise, that's how I took his meaning!)
Your formulation is:
- Number of students in the Amherst class of 2012: 438
- 50% of these students have an iPhone/IpodTouch, for a total of: 219
Since in the first example X could be larger or smaller than 438, the two equations yield different results.
I think I wrote this post just to fulfill my monthly quota of weird algebra.
My uncle went to Amherst but in his day I bet they didn't offer landlines to individual students, you probably used a shared landline somewhere in the dorm.
however, the absence of technology allowed us to spend our time protesing the Vietnam war....in person, en masse
why aren't more students actively getting out into the "physical" community to show their feelings about issues these days? This was an effective strategy in influencing lawmakers (who generally are not participating in the online community today)
Can anyone comment on how representative Amherst students are of the general student body in the US and other countries? Richer, poorer, smarter, etc.?
in 2007:
86% in top 10% of HS class
acceptance: 6000+ applicants, 19% acceptance rate; 433 freshman slots
75% have combined SAT scores 1330 -1530
according to www.diverseeducation.com:
"Dr. Elizabeth Aries, a professor of psychology at Amherst College, studied 58 of the 432 students entering the college in the 2005-2006 year, using online questionnaires and personal interviews.......
At the time, she notes, one-third of the freshman class were “self-identified students of color,” 12 percent were the first in their families to go to college and 47 percent received some financial aid (on average $28,000) toward the $40,000 a year tuition. She notes that the college devotes a great deal of money and effort into assembling a student body that is diverse by economics, race, ethnicity, gender, religion and other factors — largely in the hopes that students will learn to live together in a harmonious society and contribute to it. "
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This always surprised me with men especially, as a nice wristwatch is one of the few masculine jewelry accessories for men.