Even those colleagues I once viewed as having left-wing, critical, if not vaguely liberal analyses of the world (at least in their rhetoric towards research and teaching), are increasingly taking the plunge into the abyss for the imperatives of careerism.
Kobach will certainly try to defend this utterly ludicrous claim, as he has in the past, by pointing to vague and/or debunked analyses, including his own, which might suggest that it is possible some population of votes were cast illegally.
Probabilities are more meaningful than safe "anything can happen" platitudes, vague "it's likely" analyses or artificially confident guarantees.
After analysing Madoff's vague, broad-brush statements to clients, Markopolos concluded that it was impossible – not only was it mathematically inconceivable to smooth out all the ups and downs in the S&P index's performance, Madoff would need to use more options than existed on the entire Chicago Board Options Exchange, where nobody owned up to seeing any volume from Madoff's firm at all.
Emma de Souza, from the Society of London Theatre, which analyses attendance figures, says vaguely: "There was a definite decrease in people attending.
Vague earlier distributions were used in the analyses (N[0, 0.001] for log-hazard ratios).
Many of the labels on spending in the database are vague, raising more questions than they answer and developers analysing the data warned that in some cases it could be incomplete.
Further, modelling of time headways under mixed traffic is still vague even after decades because of inherent complexities of analysing such traffic and no significant efforts have been made so far in regard to this.
8 of the 28 studies had a potential for conflict of interest based on the lack of a disclaimer, a vague disclaimer or the possibility of stakeholder involvement in the analyses [ 25, 27, 38- 46, 46, 51, 52].
Utilised priors were reported as either non-informative (vague or flat) or informative in 44.1% and 8.8% of analyses, respectively.
