The only hard data have come from seven of the 16 state-run exchanges, which have reported fewer than 300,000 enrollees -- the vast majority of them in Medicaid, not private insurance plans.
"But I have to say the actual hard data has yet to be found.
For the first time hard data had been brought to bear on distributional questions, and the news seemed pretty good.
Stokdyk, who loved that Debevec's avatars were based entirely on "hard data," had to fill in the skin beneath the missing sideburns, which "defeated the purity of the process".
In fact, No Child Left Behind, with its emphasis on standards and hard data, has placed national policy in direct conflict with the prevailing approach of many colleges, where the John Dewey tradition of progressive education holds sway, marked by a deep antipathy toward testing.
Of the three events highlighted here, by far the most interesting about which the least hard data has been revealed is the tale about senior Swiss bankers who have been confined to barracks.
Field observations and small-scale lab studies have hinted that sediments saturated by intense rainfall or melting snow contribute to the rapid growth and acceleration of landslides, but hard data on full-sized debris flows have been hard to come by.
Scientists had previously hypothesized that fish evolved eyespots either to scare off or to misdirect their enemies, but data have been hard to come by.
But lately, the data have been much harder to read.
With this policy focus in place from the outset, the need for hard, credible data has always existed, Rusk added.
