Beautiful Romantic Wrought Iron Beds, Canopy Beds By Claudio Rayes Punch list Q From Ellen Smithee: A comment in the February issue of Angie’s List Monthly says that the term punch list gets its name from a period when contractors would punch a hole next to each completed item on a project list. The hole would go through two sheets, creating a copy for the customer. This has intuitive appeal, but so do a lot of folk etymologies. What say you? A I’ve no personal experience of this term — it seems to be restricted to the civil engineering and building industries in the US and has never been used in Britain. Searching around, it turns out that the explanation given in the publication is a bit inadequate. I’m in two minds about the story of its origin. I was sceptical about your story to start with, in part because the Oxford English Dictionary’s first example for punch list is dated as recently as 1961. No doubt Americans with long experience in civil engineering projects will now be disagreeing with the OED, for good reason. That’s the best I can do, I fear.
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gloss You can use the "find" (find in frame, find in page) feature of your browser to search the glossary. 0-1 box A box of numbered tickets, in which each ticket is numbered either 0 or 1. See box model. Affine transformation. See transformation. Affirming the antecedent. A valid logical argument that concludes from the premise A → B and the premise A that therefore, B is true. Affirming the consequent. A logical fallacy that argues from the premise A → B and the premise B that therefore, A is true. Alternative Hypothesis. In hypothesis testing, a null hypothesis (typically that there is no effect) is compared with an alternative hypothesis (typically that there is an effect, or that there is an effect of a particular sign). and, &, conjunction, logical conjunction, ∧. An operation on two logical propositions. Ante. The up-front cost of a bet: the money you must pay to play the game. Antecedent. In a conditional p → q, the antecedent is p. Appeal to Ignorance. Applet. Association. Average. Bayes' Rule. Bin.
Date of Birth Information, Age Discrimination and Background Checks | ESR News Blog By Les Rosen, Employment Screening Resources Most authorities agree that any information tending to reveal a job applicant’s age should not be requested on an employer application form or during an oral interview. Asking for date of birth during the selection process could violate the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 as well as various state civil rights laws. Asking for date of birth tends to deter older applicants from applying. If the application material contains date of birth information, the inference is that a firm may be methodically denying consideration of older workers. However, special problems are faced when an applicant’s date of birth is not available for background screening. Under the Federal Age Discrimination Act, there is not an absolute prohibition against asking for date of birth or age. This is consistent with earlier regulations from the EEOC in 1981 (See 29 Code of Federal Regulations Part 1625).