"I am not a dignified man," he later told Low, "but I would like to have my past presented with a measure of seriousness -- because -- it has been, for all my clowning, a serious piece of business".
In those reviews, estimates of the intervention effect (in terms of odds ratios or relative risks) were presented with a measure of statistical significance (p-value).
Presented with such pointless measures, most people (and by most people I mean everyone) would rightly tell the tobacco companies to go shove their cancer sticks in a sun-free spot.
Ace Smith, the campaign manager for Mr. Brown's proposition, said Ms. Munger's tax initiative was of little consequence to the governor's plan, calling the theory that voters shut down when presented with multiple tax measures "stale conventional wisdom".
Consistent with previous research [ 19], we found some indication that respondents who were presented with a difference measure answered more knowledge questions correctly than those who were presented with a ratio measure suggesting that difference measures were understood better than ratio measures regardless of presentation format.
ALBANY — Voters who are to decide in November whether to expand full-scale casino gambling in New York State will be presented with a ballot measure with a noticeably rosy outlook.
Wednesday's vote was largely symbolic — Democrats voted last week to authorize legal action as part of a broader rules package — but it was the first time that lawmakers were presented with a discrete measure dealing with what was a dominant issue in the Nov. 6 midterm elections.
The problems of noise contamination and uncertain initial conditions are treated by using simulated data and converged estimates are presented with computation times measured in CPU seconds on a VAX 11780 computer.
Importantly, respondents consistently reported the wrong direction of effect for adverse events, particularly when presented with a ratio measure.
2. In the present study respondents with different risk factors perceived such factors differently, a finding which was also reported by Weinstein et al 19 who reported that smokers in the USA perceived the risk of smoking differently, when compared with non-smokers, when they were presented with questions which measure their belief about smoking risks.
