Insensitivity to sample size about 45 babies are born each day, and in the smaller hospital about 15 babies are born each day. As you know, about 50% of all babies are boys. However, the exact percentage varies from day to day. Sometimes it may be higher than 50%, sometimes lower. For a period of 1 year, each hospital recorded the days on which more than 60% of the babies born were boys. Which hospital do you think recorded more such days? 56% of subjects chose option 3, and 22% of subjects respectively chose options 1 or 2. However, according to sampling theory the
Palace of the Babies Palace of the Babies "Palace of the Babies" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, "Harmonium". It was first published in 1916 and is therefore in the public domain. Bates takes this poem to signify that the author of "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman" was not altogether "the village atheist". The palace is a church, inhabited by believers for whom the walker has slight regard. They are immature if innocent "babies" nourished on dreams. But disbelief brings loss, as the last two stanzas imply. Night for the moonlight walker brings the harsh torment of crows' wings, not