measuring

“Hooton had made his name measuring the heads of criminals.”

Simon & Schuster: WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR?

“Yes, but averages and the "trend estimate" numbers we publish assume that most of the variation, whether based the errors involved in measuring a sample rather than the entire population, or based on subjective survey design decisions that pollsters make, from question wording to identifying the likely electorate, is random.”

The Huffington Post: Could The Polls In Election 2010 Be Wrong?

“With very little research and effort put into establishing a baseline, this, for me, is a good indicator that there's no true interest in measuring the impact.”

The Huffington Post: Rahim Kanani: Measuring Human Rights: An In-depth Discussion with Andrea Rossi of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

“In their analysis, the Elway pollsters notes the "striking differences" between automated and live interviewer polls in measuring vote preference in Washington, with Murray doing consistently better on live interviewer polls conducted by Elway and CNN and worse on the automated polls conducted by SurveyUSA, Rasmussen and its subsidiary Pulse Opinion Research.”

The Huffington Post: New Polls Show Senate Control Rests On Four Toss-Up States

“This series also set the bar for all Science Fiction and Fantasy series that would follow and only relatively few have succeeded in measuring up to that standard.”

Ranking the Star Trek Series

“The data artifact that the studies you cite are measuring is that job classifications themselves are highly segregated by IQ.”

State Universities vs. Vouchers, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

“And that leads one to interest in measuring and comparing "the coin" among different states within the United States and different countries.”

European Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

“I suppose this is accurate since they are measuring from a 2007 baseline.”

Matthew Yglesias » Poverty and the Recession

“The second most frequently cited barrier was the difficulty involved in measuring outcomes and proving value.”

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