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Each observation in our height and weight data set has a residual, which is its vertical distance from the regression line, except for those observations that lie directly on the line, for which the residual equals zero.

Naked Statistics

Charles Wheelan

After years of economic crisis, Portugal decentralized its drug oversight operation in 2012. A funding drop from 76 million euros ($82.7 million) to 16 million euros ($17.4 million) forced Portugal’s main institution to outsource work previously done by the state to nonprofit groups, including the street teams that engage with people who use drugs.

Once Hailed for Decriminalizing Drugs, Portugal Is Now Having Doubts

Anthony Faiola and Catarina Fernandes Martins

Racism refers to the theory and the practice of applying a social, civic, or legal double standard based on ancestry, and to the ideology surrounding such a double standard. That may be what the economist Glenn Loury intends when he identifies “a withholding of the presumption of equal humanity.”50 Racism is not an emotion or state of mind, such as intolerance, bigotry, hatred, or malevolence.

Racecraft

Barbara J. Fields, Karen Fields

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