This means that none of the country's many ethnic and religious subsets is disenfranchised.
Why, he asks, shouldn't governments do the same After all, government policies, like a supermarket's special offers, are designed to meet the needs of particular subsets of the population.
Although there are new statistical techniques to identify and banish spurious correlations, such as running many tests against subsets of the data, this will always be a problem.There is some merit to the naysayers' case, in other words.
So to tease apart cause and effect, Dr Laurent, together with Mark Stopfer, who also works at Caltech, disrupted brain waves to see whether the disruption altered perception.Dr Laurent's group had previously shown that when a locust responds to different smells, different subsets of nerve cells in its brain are activated, and soon begin to synchronise their signals.
Where immigration disadvantages subsets of the population, Gordon Hanson of the University of California, San Diego reckons that charging an entry fee to migrants or their employers could help pay for training or benefits for those who lose out.A frosty welcomeAdvanced economies may also fret for their budgets.
By clever wiring of the tabulating machine, it was possible to count the number of cards with particular combinations of attributes.Hollerith also invented a sorting machine, to facilitate the tabulation of subsets of the population.
Colouring can be used to group subsets within the data or, as in this case, to create a heat map.
One of the fastest growing subsets of disabled veterans is a group judged so disabled that they are eligible for an "unemployability" payment of $3,100 a month for someone with a spouse and one child.While most disability payments are made in addition to anything veterans earn, this is not the case for these more generous benefits.
In the past, federal law required Medicaid to cover only subsets of the poor.
And terrible marketing neologisms such as "bleisure" can help companies think more carefully about how to attract certain subsets of customers.What does the average business traveller need to know?
Mr Blanchard and Mr Leigh ran their own battery of robustness tests, and found that excluding several different subsets of outliers including economies on IMF programmes did not affect significance.
