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-6 posts tagged "statistics"
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, August 27, 2020
Professor Alford et al. may be right that our community is better off by keeping the campus open. What I object to is how they reach this conclusion: specifically, their appeal to a Cornell research and a CDC survey as evidence that opening the campus is good. Both inferences are unsound, with the first case
Kelli Smith, Natalie Weber, Mary Bernard and Mary Steurer | Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Notre Dame has seen a number of substantial changes over the last 10 years. Increases in tuition, applications for admission and research spending have impacted the University just as dramatically as other schools around the nation, while other numbers have stayed fairly consistent since the start of the decade. Here is a look at how
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, August 30, 2018
Sarah Kelly and Mary Guardino do an excellent job of discrediting Jeffrey Murphy’s “The statistics on Dreamers are a nightmare.” However, they did not need to do so much research. Murphy’s own sources are either irrelevant to his argument or even directly contradict it. Murphy repeatedly confounds statistics for the DACA recipient population, the DACA age-eligible
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Friday, February 17, 2017
Let me take you back to October of 2015, a little over a month into my college life at Notre Dame. My newly minted friends and I, seeking a way to come closer together, reluctantly decided to fork out $30 to buy Mario Kart for the Wii U. Now this seemed like a relatively mundane
Andrea Vale | Monday, April 4, 2016
Many high school students across the U.S. have come to see the college application process as a numbers game. Associate Vice President of Undergraduate Enrollment Don Bishop challenged this mentality when commenting on the newly-admitted class of 2020 and said that Notre Dame’s process is uniquely holistic rather than just a quantification of ability. “We’ve chosen to
Alex Carson | Monday, October 5, 2015
Late in the first half of its 34-27 home loss to No. 1 Ohio State on Saturday, Indiana was driving with a chance to extend a 10-6 lead. On fourth-and-1 from midfield, Hoosiers head coach Kevin Wilson “rolled the dice,” and went for it, picking up the first down on a three-yard rush. Four plays