...Yes, it is. First, the focus should be drawn to getting accurate poll results. A representative sample is a valuable tool in politics, but it is easy to have bias with those samples. That is why random representative sampling has been implemented. What is a random representative sample? According to the Business Dictionary, a representative sample is a small quantity of something( customers, data, people, etc.) that accurately reflects a larger entity. And when something is chosen randomly, it is without method or conscious decision. So, a random representative sample is a technique that uses a small quantity of a population, who are all chosen without any bias. This method allows all the individuals in a population an equal chance of being selected. Political experts value random representative samples greatly. These samples can be sent to a random cell phone user via text to get their opinion. More than likely, people will more readily respond to the short survey via text, than a call. And text messages, give the cell phone user a description of what the surveyor...
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...My theme of exploration is Oskar’s mental health. I think that the way Oskar chooses to express himself is different than how other people might act in a situation like losing his father in the deadliest terror attack to ever happen at that point and time. That’s why I chose to explore Oskar’s mental health deeper than what the book let readers get. I want to better understand Oskar’s actions and thinking. For my creation I made a collage that represents Oskar’s brain and what’s going on inside. I tried to make it as chaotic, yet put together, as possible. Because in the book, even though Oskar tends to go off topic and some of the things he says are random, his thoughts are structured so they all fit together and I wanted to present this project...
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...Introduction to Randomness and Random Numbers. Randomness and random numbers have traditionally been used for a variety of purposes, for example games such as dice games. With the advent of computers, people recognized the need for a means for a means of introducing randomness into a computer program. Surprising as it may seem, however, it is difficult to get a computer to do something by chance. A computer running a program follows its instructions blindly and is therefore completely predictable. Computer engineers chose to introduce randomness into computers in the form of pseudo-random number generators. As the name suggest, pseudo-numbers are not truly random. Rather, they are computed from a mathematical formula or simply taken from a pre-calculated list. A lot of research has gone into pseudo-random number theory and modern algorithms for random numbers have the characteristic that they are predictable, meaning they can be predicted if you know where in the sequence the first number is taken from. For some purposes, predictability, is a good characteristic, for others it is not., Random numbers are used for computer games but they are also used on a more serious scale for the generation of cryptographic keys are for some classes of scientific experiments. For scientific experiments, it is convenient that a series of random numbers can be replayed for use in several experiments, and pseudo-random numbers are well suited for this purpose. For cryptographic use, however...
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...just like my family, but in my opinion, I don’t think it’s the actual same. My family and I like to be different every year. Even though we still buy each other gifts, there are some things we just buy for the fun games! Every year we try to come up with a new game, sometimes we play cards to win a gift. The fun about winning one of those gifts is that it’s not something that you expected, for example, a tissue box or maybe even a candle because it can be random. It’s the best to have a random gift because later on, we actually might just use it, which makes the fun out of the random gift. People also have their own types of recipes, mine so ever tries different things every year because my family and I like to switch up things every once in awhile and try something new. We usually look up recipes in a cook book or the internet and would bring it to each other’s houses. My family and I like to try new things every year because we wouldn’t want to get bored with the same thing every year something new is also exciting! My family and I also like to visit each other’s houses so we wouldn’t get bored going to the same one house every year. Before opening all of our presents my family and I like to try the new recipes that everyone has tried to make. My aunt however is more sticking to what she loves to make, cupcakes. In my opinion they are never bad; they always have a good taste the best I ever had and a pretty decorations on them. My mom also likes to stick...
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...Altruism and Psychology Adam Barker PSY 490 Capstone Course in Psychology Dennis Plunkett, MC, CC July 29, 2013 Altruism and Psychology The random act of kindness that I completed this week was buying an old man a coffee in front of me at Starbucks. He ordered a Grande Pike with room. I heard the order and said “I’ll get that miss” and without even hesitating handed over my card to pay for the drink. The older man look at me with a cracked smile and confused kind of look before muttering the words “you didn’t have to do that young man, but thank you” I replied with a smile on my face “no problem Sir”. Now, let’s look at a definition of altruism: Altruism involves the unselfish concern for other people. It involves doing things simply out of a desire to help, not because you feel obligated to out of duty, loyalty, or religious reasons. (psychology.about.com) When reading the above statement I think that it is important to point out the key words “unselfish, not because you feel obligated to out of duty, loyalty, or religious reasons”. By reading this it is my interpretation that in order to be altruistic you have to do something and NOT gain anything by doing it. What do you think? Now let’s breakdown the various reasons I could have done this: 1. To ensure that I did my random act of kindness as assigned by the school 2. To get a good feeling and a sense of pleasure, knowing that I helped someone 3. To make sure that I got points on my card 4. To speed up the process...
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...present prior to the study, affects a dependent variable. So like we just said, there is something about the participant that we're going to study that we don't have to alter in the participant. We will make this a little clearer a little later with some examples and descriptions. But first, quasi-experimental simply means participants are not randomly assigned. In a true experiment, you have what is called random assignment, which is where a participant has an equal chance of being in the experimental or control group. Random assignment helps ensure that when you apply some kind of condition to the experimental and control groups, there isn't some predisposition in one group to respond differently than the other. A true experiment and ex post facto both are attempting to say: this independent variable is causing changes in a dependent variable. This is the basis of any experiment - one variable is hypothesized to be influencing another. This is done by having an experimental group and a control group. So if you're testing a new type of medication, the experimental group gets the new medication, while the control group gets the old medication. This allows you to test the efficacy of the new medication. Ex post facto designs are different from true experiments because ex post facto designs do not use random assignment. True experiments have random assignment because you're looking at something else. In ex post facto, you are looking at a prior variable present in the participant...
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...assessed Lab 5 Built-in functions and methods ASSESSMENT INFORMATION This worksheet is one of the seven assessed lab sheets. It can be assessed within the next 5 weeks. Let me know in advance when you’d like to be assessed. Deadline: Thursday, 17th of July. Do not forget to have it ‘signed off’ after you have been assessed. 1 introduction This laboratory worksheet covers the use of built in functions, methods and classes within the Java programming environment. This laboratory involves the creation of a number of Java programs. Make sure that you save any code you write. Also make sure you save any results or notes that you observe about your work. Note that you are unlikely to complete this worksheet in just one laboratory session. 2 Preliminaries Create a project in Eclipse called CS1002_Lab5 and create a corresponding class (say CS1002_Lab5). Try and organise your work (from the following exercises) into separate methods as we did in the previous worksheet. 3 Strings Copy the following code into your project and run the program. public static void main(String args[]) { double number = 1.0/3.0; System.out.println(number); DecimalFormat number_format = new DecimalFormat("#.##"); String formatted_string = number_format.format(number); System.out.println(formatted_string); } Is it showing you an error? Can you fix it? The DecimalFormat class enables us to format numbers (and other classes) in a variety of ways. In the above example we are formatting the number to...
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...Random Breath Tests for Drivers is a Smart Thing to do As a six year old little girl I was faced with what I thought was the worst news of my life. In April 1989, my father was hit head on by a drunk driver and was killed instantly. Almost twenty years later and this horrific memory still plays over and over in my head. If random breathalyzers were performed more often by police officers then maybe my father would still be alive today. I believe random breathalyzers for drivers is a smart thing to perform on a daily basis around the world because they will keep intoxicated drivers off the road and keep our roads and highways safe. Far too many people drink near the legal limit not realizing that they may innocently go over the limit. It’s not uncommon for us to be out on a Saturday night with a group of our close friends, have a few drinks and drive home. Sometimes it’s difficult to gage ones alcohol intake and is easier to assume that we are okay to drive. The legal limit in most states is 0.8%. If a person is driving while above the legal limit they are arrested and charged with drinking and driving more commonly referred to as a DUI or DWI. Driving under the influence of alcohol can be seriously harmful to themselves and innocent bystanders such as my father. Alcohol blurs our judgment and decreases our reaction time which can be crucial while operating a motorized vehicle. Driving while under the influence is illegal and those that violate that law should...
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...organized in such a way that they provide a model or a kind of coherent picture about how and why the universe works the way it does. These sets of statements are called “theories” and are much more than a simple list of “facts and figures” like you might find in an almanac or a telephone book (even though almanacs and telephone books are quite useful). A good physics theory is far more interested in principles than simple “facts.” Noting that the moon appears regularly in the night sky is far less interesting than understanding why it does so. We have confidence that a particular physics theory is telling us something interesting about the physical universe because we are able to test quantitatively its predictions or statements about the universe. Indeed, all physics (and scientific) theories have this “put up or shut up” quality to them. For something to be called a physics “theory” in the first place, it must be falsifiable and therefore must make quantitative statements about the universe that can be then quantitatively tested. These tests are called “experiments.” The statement, “My girlfriend is the most charming woman in the world,” however true it may be, has no business being in a physics theory because it simply cannot be quantitatively tested. If the experimental measurements are performed correctly and the observations are inconsistent with the theory, then at least some portion of the theory is wrong and needs to be modified. Yet, consistency between the...
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...A wall of text is something that is frowned upon in most, actually virtually all Internet societies, including forums, chat boards, and Uncyclopedia. You should not make walls of text because it can get you banned anywhere unless it is a place that encourages walls of text. I highly doubt any place does support something so irritating and annoying, but anything can exist, but not really because unless you are in heaven then that can happen. But no one actually knows that was just a hypothesis, a lame one that is. Actually not really lame. You can create a wall of text supporting site, but you would be hated if you do that, so do not. But you can if you like, but I discourage that. Now on to the actual information of walls of texts. The wall of text was invented when the Internet was invented, but actually it was slow at that time. So whenever it became fast. But there would need to be some free or not free community for people, and that community would be able to have walls of text. But that community probably wouldn't have actually invented the wall of text. So basically, no one except God and Al Gore knows when or where or how the wall of text existed/was invented. Noobs probably invented, but probably not. Who knows. Walls of texts are usually filled with a lot of useless information and junk. Information and junk can be the same, but only if the information is junk or the junk is information. But who cares. The information/junk inside a wall of text are usually related to...
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...undergoes in her life, menstruation. This natural incident that every woman has to go through eventually has never been made public as much as it now. We see commercials on the TV for sanitary napkins, hear people talk about it casually on the streets and we hear it getting mentioned in movies, songs, TV shows and mothers talk about it openly with their daughters. Menstruation is seen as such a natural thing that no one has any shame talking about it anymore, which is a huge difference from how it was in the past. Just 80 years ago it was such an big issue that even woman had trouble talking about it among themselves even behind closed doors. It was something that people were embarrassed to talk about to the degree that mothers refused to explain it to their daughters or even answer their questions. It was “something that should not be talked or even thought about”(Brumberg, 1997)[1] in the eye of the public. This was mostly because in those times people still could not fully understand what was happening to female body in that particular...
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...A wall of text is something that is frowned upon in most, actually virtually all Internet societies, including forums, chat boards, and Uncyclopedia. You should not make walls of text because it can get you banned anywhere unless it is a place that encourages walls of text. I highly doubt any place does support something so irritating and annoying, but anything can exist, but not really because unless you are in heaven then that can happen. But no one actually knows that was just a hypothesis, a lame one that is. Actually not really lame. You can create a wall of text supporting site, but you would be hated if you do that, so do not. But you can if you like, but I discourage that. Now on to the actual information of walls of texts. The wall of text was invented when the Internet was invented, but actually it was slow at that time. So whenever it became fast. But there would need to be some free or not free community for people, and that community would be able to have walls of text. But that community probably wouldn't have actually invented the wall of text. So basically, no one except God and Al Gore knows when or where or how the wall of text existed/was invented. Noobs probably invented, but probably not. Who knows. Walls of texts are usually filled with a lot of useless information and junk. Information and junk can be the same, but only if the information is junk or the junk is information. But who cares. The information/junk inside a wall of text are usually related to...
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...University of Phoenix Personal Ethics Development Jason T. Clark PHL 323 Ethics in Management July 26, 2013 Kent M. Lauderdale Personal Ethics Development Character, morals, and values are factors that assist in creating an ethical system. The development of ethics from childhood to adulthood is individually based. The ethical system is not a process that comes with birth, but core ethical beliefs in which assist an individual in making decisions. As a father who has dreams and aspirations for my children, it is a strong goal to ensure that they learn what it takes to achieve positive success. I have considered myself to be a duty-based individual who focuses on the role of a father who supports his children and takes care of any responsibility to those who I love. I have served in multiply roles where my duty-based responsibility has placed me in positions in which my decisions strongly affect the lives of others. Values are those things or actions upon which the individual or organization spends time and money. The values that define each person sometimes have a similarity that creates relationships, friendship, and marriages. These same values can be disliked by other cultures and people that cause bad situations like wars, terroristic acts, and domestic cultural violence. Key values of most cultures are faith, family, and life. The faith or religion of a cultural can bring friends and families together or divide them. The friends I associate with are Muslim...
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...University of Phoenix Personal Ethics Development Jason T. Clark PHL 323 Ethics in Management July 26, 2013 Kent M. Lauderdale Personal Ethics Development Character, morals, and values are factors that assist in creating an ethical system. The development of ethics from childhood to adulthood is individually based. The ethical system is not a process that comes with birth, but core ethical beliefs in which assist an individual in making decisions. As a father who has dreams and aspirations for my children, it is a strong goal to ensure that they learn what it takes to achieve positive success. I have considered myself to be a duty-based individual who focuses on the role of a father who supports his children and takes care of any responsibility to those who I love. I have served in multiply roles where my duty-based responsibility has placed me in positions in which my decisions strongly affect the lives of others. Values are those things or actions upon which the individual or organization spends time and money. The values that define each person sometimes have a similarity that creates relationships, friendship, and marriages. These same values can be disliked by other cultures and people that cause bad situations like wars, terroristic acts, and domestic cultural violence. Key values of most cultures are faith, family, and life. The faith or religion of a cultural can bring friends and families together or divide them. The friends I associate with are Muslim...
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...A lot of people are writing now about why Kerry lost. Here I want to examine a more specific question: why were the exit polls so wrong? In Ohio, which Kerry ultimately lost 49-51, exit polls gave him a 52-48 victory. And this wasn't just random error. In every swing state they overestimated the Kerry vote. In Florida, which Bush ultimately won 52-47, exit polls predicted a dead heat. (These are not early numbers. They're from about midnight eastern time, long after polls closed in Ohio and Florida. And yet by the next afternoon the exit poll numbers online corresponded to the returns. The only way I can imagine this happening is if those in charge of the exit polls cooked the books after seeing the actual returns. But that's another issue.)...
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