He found that a combination of certain measures of arithmetic achievement, IQ, and ninth-grade marks were predictive of achievement in bookkeeping courses. ... From the data of 128 college men and women enrolled in the first quarter of principles of accounting, Larsen (40) developed four multiple-regression equations, using the following as predictive factors: age; sex; veteran status; size of high school attended; rank in high school class; size of senior class; cumulative high school average; previous study of bookkeeping; grade point average during first quarter in college; grades in coll...

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In the Gifted and Talented Programs, minority children are often overlooked when nominations are made to these programs because they perform poorly on IQ and achievement tests. ... She boasted a 3.8 grade point average and a high Law School Aptitude Test score. ... The University of California Berkley School of Law admitted every black with a grade point average of 3.5 and Law School Admission Test of ninety or above, but only 42% of whites with equally scores were admitted. UCLA School of Medicine accepted twenty-seven blacks while admitting no whites or Asians with GPA's of 3.24 ...

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Tourette Syndrome "When I breathe, it breathes. When I speak, it speaks. When I try to sleep, it won't let me. Whatever I attempt to do, it's there, waiting to spoil the moment. To a doctor, it's a disorder, a medical oddity. ...

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Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill is an act-utilitarian and is most likely to support an act as right if it is likely to produce the most good for the most people. On "don't kill", it would depend on the situation. If a lot of people would be happy from the killing of one person then this rule can...

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What exactly is a cult, one may ask. It is like a gang, except it can sometimes be in a sense closer. In gangs people still have there different points of view, in cults people are brainwashed, in a good or bad sense, to all have the same ideas and morals. Cults make people want to join because most...

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Kapitel 16 Ein letzter Faktor fuer das Interesse ist die Faehigkeit. Man kann aber nicht von der Hypothese ausgehen: Je hoeher die Faehigkeit, desto hoeher das Interesse. Eine Untersuchung von Rathunde (1992): Er unterschied zwischen ernsthaften und spielerischen Interesse. "Spielerische- Inte...

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The Scope of the Problem The relationship between health care and health. "In developed countries, the marginal contribution of medical care to life expectancy is very small." (Fuchs1998) Many critical factors associated with poor health may be outside the health care system. Universally, the poor are sicker, and inequalities in health persist in industrialized countries with universal financing systems designed to provide equal access. Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Holland, and the World Health Organization extensively documented large and often increasing gaps in health status and social ...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. The parts dealing with World War II are most closely associated with actual events. Twenty-three years have passed since the end of the war, and for much of that time the narrator has been trying to write about the bombing of Dresden. He was never able to write the book. When he thinks about Dresden's place in his memory, he always recalls two things: a dirty limerick about a man whose penis has let him down, and "My Name is Yon Yonson," a song which has no ending. ...

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