Actually, as Curtis argues, nostalgia formed the basis of Trivial Pursuit's appeal from the moment it was released in 1982: The game concerns itself with useless information, yes, but useless information of a very specific sort: detritus from the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, which flattered the baby boomer by making his golden years seem vital, even historic.
The potential relationship between reporting any compliance information (yes vs no) and PRO protocol checklist total score was assessed with dot plots.
When he opened them, Keller saw that his daughter was looking down at him, and nodding slowly, a tentative smile quivering like a parenthesis at the sides of her mouth, a parenthesis he thought might contain the information that, yes, once he had been able to reassure her easily, as she, in believing, had reassured him.
"There is an effort to try to gather information, yes, in same cases inappropriately, and the president is now doing a thorough review, in order that nobody will have a sense of abuse," he said.
MZ: You can control all your information, yes.
During preparatory analyses, dichotomous variables were constructed representing the religious background of the participating midwives (yes: Protestant, Catholic and Muslim versus no: none and humanist), low (<9%) versus high (≥9%) percentage of Muslim clients, interested in or in need of additional information (yes versus no and do not know).
The information came from, yes, a jailhouse informant.
It took the academy's wizards 450 pages to distill the information from thousands -- yes, thousands -- of scientific papers on dog and cat nutrition.
A month after his son's accident, he had introduced a bill financing a $1.7 billion program to expand what was then called the information superhighway -- and yes, he did contribute to the development of the Internet.
