<p>Hope your team ends on an up-note!</p>
<p>I could care less about IVY football. great sport played badly.</p>
<p>People in the Ivy League say, "I COULDN'T care less," which is the original, more logical form of that idiom.</p>
<p>I COULD care less about English - a great language - being written or spoken badly, but unfortunately I don't!</p>
<p>I could care LESS about English than I do about IVY football, if there WERE an amount less than ZERO.</p>
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People in the Ivy League say, "I COULDN'T care less," which is the original, more logical form of that idiom.
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<p>You are correct:</p>
<p>"Care less. The dismissive ''I couldn't care less' is often used with the shortened 'not' mistakenly (and mysteriously) omitted: 'I could care less.' The error destroys the meaning of the sentence and is careless indeed."</p>
<p>Stunk and White pp. 42</p>
<p><i could="" care="" less="" about="" english="" than="" i="" do="" ivy="" football,="" if="" there="" were="" an="" amount="" zero=""></i></p><i could="" care="" less="" about="" english="" than="" i="" do="" ivy="" football,="" if="" there="" were="" an="" amount="" zero="">
<p>... better think that one through.</p>
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<p>"... better think that one through."</p>
<p>"The dismissive ''I couldn't care less' is often used with the shortened 'not' mistakenly (and mysteriously) omitted: 'I could care less.' The error destroys the meaning of the sentence and is careless indeed."</p>
<p>At first I thought I was confused; now I KNOW I am confused.</p>
<p>It makes sense. You <em>couldn't</em> care less. Because you care so little. It always confuses me when people say "I could care less". Okay. So go ahead and care less. What does that mean? :)</p>
<p>It is "Strunk & White" I believe or was that your opinion of the book?</p>
<p>"I could care less"
So Strunk and White says that it should be "I couldn't care less" and finds the omission of the negative msyterious. Let's see, saying one thing, and meaning just the opposite, ah yes, it's called irony, very popular with young people, I believe. Mystery solved.</p>
<p>idler, you are a genius. Join mensa.</p>
<p>"Ha it was confirmed! Check out Byerly's post (5.7 % were latinos)
thats roughly around 200-300. And around 10% are low income for sure! Damn I am smart! lol"</p>
<p>This is inresponse to DHA_3000's assertion about the # EA minority applicants. First, I have reproduced the relevant section of the text for you and for everyone else:</p>
<p>"This year, more women than men have applied - 50.6 percent - and minority students comprise a somewhat larger percentage than last year when Asian Americans totaled 23.2 percent, Latinos 5.7 percent, African Americans 5.2 percent, and Native Americans 0.8 percent."</p>
<p>Ok, now notice that while the stats for female applicants are in the present perfect tense (This year, more women than men HAVE APPLIED), the minority stats are relative to last year's numbers. If you read that part carefully enough, it says "...and minority student comprise a somewhat larger percentage THAN LAST YEAR WHEN Asian Americans TOTALED 23.2 percent, Latinos 5.7 percent, African Americans 5.2 percent, and Native Americans 0.8 percent." (emphasis mine)</p>
<p>This only means that THIS YEAR the numbers are somewhat larger. They have not specified yet how many of those minorities have applied (present perfect tense again) this year.</p>
<p>So DHA_3000, before you begin dancing around in your underwear screaming, "Damn I am smart! lol" you better notice the subtleties in life before they come crashing down on you one day when you least expect it! I know - reality does bite, sorry.</p>
<p>-Jon :D :)</p>
<p>P.S. DHA_3000, as far as the number of wealthier Hispanics applying in your area - you seem to have recourse to a flawed representativeness heuristic. Just because they're driving their BMW's where you live doesn't mean they're not scrubbing money to take the local bus or depending on their parents over here where I live. Many more applicants from over here (I'm referring right now to Latinos), are of the lower-middle class and truly from the middle class. This is publicized widely believe it or not in community newspapers, on the local news (on tv), on school newspapers, schools' online e-zines, etc. These are figures to be proud of - the minority students rising for such a prestigious challenge despite their hardships. This is something that makes our communities proud - not some show-off brats driving up in their BMWs. Even so, I'm not generalizing about minority applicants (like you are). I'm only saying what's true in my state. I live in NY. Compare that to your state, and then wonder who has the more representative sample to work with.
You might also want to do some reading on the representativeness heuristic. It also seems like the availability heuristic has flawed your opinion (the incident where you remembered the Mercedes and BMWs). Some psychology does prove useful every now and then doesn't it?</p>
<p>-Jon</p>
<p>"I could care less about" "couldn't {caring} less"</p>
<p>seriously guys why must we analyze something like that!?</p>
<p>Any idea how many early applications to Yale this year?</p>
<p>Smariomaster- you finished with the represtative heuristic in AP psychi too?</p>
<p>Penn received a 21% increase in ED apps this year.</p>
<p>I think we know which Ivy is the new pimp in the league. ;)</p>
<p>(Great, now Byerly is going to throw back some "harvard is king" stuff at me)</p>
<p>Yale got 4065 applications for early admission...more than Harvard. Yale got 3.4% more applications and Harvard received 5% fewer.....all from Yale Daily News November 18, 2005...</p>
<p>Princeton- The number of applicants for the University's binding early decision program rose nine percent over the previous year's figure with the Class of 2010, amounting to the second-largest early decision applicant numbers since the Class of 2001, the Communications Office said today.</p>
<p>Up 9% this year to 2230 for early binding applicants</p>