But assessment problems may also have contributed to the high proportion of non-committed answers.
We cross-tabulated the responses by type of scenario, comparing proportions of opinions that were compatible with the likelihood ratio approach, the statistical test approach, and the non-committed answers.
Detective superintendent Nick May said: "We remain committed to finding answers to what happened that day on behalf of their (the victims') families, particularly for the two young girls who lost their parents.
So committed Christians have different answers to the question, "How Christian should we seem?" Marisa Egerstrom, an Episcopalian who studies religion at Harvard, recognized Occupy Wall Street as a sign of the times, "a continuation of the Arab Spring".
"It is a very anxious time for everyone because the threat from government is so great – we are working with local councils for a survival strategy and Dan is very committed to that," she answers blandly.
"California is facing many challenges but we are resilient and committed to finding the answers on a wide range of issues including water, environmental justice, equality, opportunity for all and an investment in the future of our children," Butler said in a statement.
"If he simply does what he's committed to do, committed to publicly, which is to appear and answer questions, there won't be a subpoena," he said.
The committed are already committed.
(Even that number is only a conditional answer, since those committed students could still get word that their first-choice school has plucked them off its waiting list, leaving an opening for a student on the second-choice school's waiting list).
This screens out about another 50% because only a committed applicant will bother to answer the questions.
