At the risk of sounding like a suck-up, Language Log gets a lot of citations these days, and it’s SEO ranking is quite amazing. I doubt that George Will himself has read any of Mark’s posts on this topic, but it seems likely that one of his interns (or whoever does his grunt work) HAS run across it and maybe even brought it to his attention. This is an OLD topic.
Hi,
I am a inventory manager for a chain of car dealerships in Georgia. After hearing about the transportation nightmare now in Haiti, the owner of my company has expressed interest in donating cars (read: tax benefits!) to Haitian orphanages. Now, used car donations is nothing new for us as we do it for tax purposes nearly every year, but I’m not sure where to get started on figuring this out as far as donating to Haiti. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks.
“It’s not the flashy side of the decennial census. It’s much more technical, guided by statistical quality standards, and it rests on careful work with large and complex response files and geographic reference files. But it is crucial to the quality of the census, and we must get it done well.”
Is this a joke??? What part of this census operation was “flashy”?? I’m sure this next portion of the census IS more technical… I just hope your number crunchers aren’t pressured to cut corners and do things that might result in even further inaccuracies like some of the enumerators were forced to do… and their field work was no less critical than any other part of this process.
I was very defensive of the census and it’s criticisms when I first started working… sadly, that changed back in May when management at the regional level became idiotic. Now I find myself happy for this to be at an end and not be associated with it anymore.
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Without digging too deeply into the grammar or meaning, [3] just plain sounds wrong to me. If I had been a 17th century blogger, perhaps I could have made my purely personal prejudice a carved-in-stone zombie rule, thus saving the world from the menace of irrational grammar.
Hmmm…thought this five-point question from a recent exam of mine would supplement the previous Comments well:
3. For each of the following, determine whether discrete-type (D) or continuous-type (C) numerical data result from it. (Circle D or C.)
(a) Time: D C
(b) Rate of speed: D C
(c) Number of persons: D C
(d) Amount of something: D C
(e) Number of something: D C
Now, it would be hard to believe someone at the Bureau
would consider the answer to Part (d) to be D, but, unfortunately, that’s just what the sentence “This mismarking would result in responses that double the amount of circles” indicates…
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At the risk of sounding like a suck-up, Language Log gets a lot of citations these days, and it’s SEO ranking is quite amazing. I doubt that George Will himself has read any of Mark’s posts on this topic, but it seems likely that one of his interns (or whoever does his grunt work) HAS run across it and maybe even brought it to his attention. This is an OLD topic.
Hi,
I am a inventory manager for a chain of car dealerships in Georgia. After hearing about the transportation nightmare now in Haiti, the owner of my company has expressed interest in donating cars (read: tax benefits!) to Haitian orphanages. Now, used car donations is nothing new for us as we do it for tax purposes nearly every year, but I’m not sure where to get started on figuring this out as far as donating to Haiti. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks.
“It’s not the flashy side of the decennial census. It’s much more technical, guided by statistical quality standards, and it rests on careful work with large and complex response files and geographic reference files. But it is crucial to the quality of the census, and we must get it done well.”
Is this a joke??? What part of this census operation was “flashy”?? I’m sure this next portion of the census IS more technical… I just hope your number crunchers aren’t pressured to cut corners and do things that might result in even further inaccuracies like some of the enumerators were forced to do… and their field work was no less critical than any other part of this process.
I was very defensive of the census and it’s criticisms when I first started working… sadly, that changed back in May when management at the regional level became idiotic. Now I find myself happy for this to be at an end and not be associated with it anymore.
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Without digging too deeply into the grammar or meaning, [3] just plain sounds wrong to me. If I had been a 17th century blogger, perhaps I could have made my purely personal prejudice a carved-in-stone zombie rule, thus saving the world from the menace of irrational grammar.
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Hmmm…thought this five-point question from a recent exam of mine would supplement the previous Comments well:
3. For each of the following, determine whether discrete-type (D) or continuous-type (C) numerical data result from it. (Circle D or C.)
(a) Time: D C
(b) Rate of speed: D C
(c) Number of persons: D C
(d) Amount of something: D C
(e) Number of something: D C
Now, it would be hard to believe someone at the Bureau
would consider the answer to Part (d) to be D, but, unfortunately, that’s just what the sentence “This mismarking would result in responses that double the amount of circles” indicates…