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Rant: The Decline of the English Speaking Peoples
So it turns out it’s muy important that immigrants, legal and illegal, learn English as a condition of citizenship, guest-worker status, indentured servitude, whatever. Who knew the great Melting Pot Nation of America has been living on borrowed time for the last few centuries by not strictly enforcing an English-only rule among the huddled masses and wretched refuse who show up here? President Bush has wisely counseled that “The Star-Spangled Banner” should be sung only in English, lest we lose our “national soul.”
Thank you, Middle Eastern 9/11 hijackers, for finally getting the point through our thick skulls that our greatest security threat is the influx of Spanish speakers from across the Mexican border. (Forgive our slowness, but all too many of us descended from immigrants.) It’s bad enough we have to eat foreign food and answer that extra question about which language to use at the ATM. Thought experiment: How much is that additional second or two slowing down the U.S. economy and driving down productivity, precisely at the moment when the Chinese are breathing down our necks like a bunch of hopped-up, post-industrial railroad coolies? All the greatest minds of the second, and probably last, American century—Lou Dobbs, Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, Ann Coulter —concur that becoming fluent in English should be a condition to live in these United States. The visionary Dobbs, channeling the great American-turnedEnglish poet T.S. Eliot, goes further still, dissing divisive St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, with their prominent displays of non-American flags, just as Eliot cracked on the “apeneck” Irish for their self-evidently subhuman nature. It’s embarrassing enough—humiliating really—that the United States doesn’t have a state religion, which would facilitate community, enforce national identity, and ruin nonbelievers’ weekends. We can at least have an official language, and it’s a damn good thing everyone agrees it ought to be English, since most of us speak it already, and it’s probably pretty close to what “American” would sound like if we hadn’t been British colonies originally. Thank you, Rep. Tom Tancredo from the suspiciously Spanish-named state of Colorado for having the courage to introduce a constitutional amendment that would declare English “the official language of the United States.” (And for being the most forceful advocate of building a wall between Mexico and the U.S., though I hope he’ll be more 9/4/2017 Rant: The Decline of the English Speaking Peoples – Reason.com http://reason.com/archives/2006/07/20/rant-the-decline-of-the-englis 4/11 careful checking out the government contractors than he was with the ones who worked on his house in the Centennial State a few years ago. Seems they employed illegal immigrants.) Come on, already: If I moved to Australia, you can be damn sure I’d learn to speak Australian. Indeed, when I think of the need for English literacy tests for immigrants, I remember my maternal grandfather, Nicola Guida, who showed up at Ellis Island (what a polyglot slum that was!) in 1913 and then proceeded to waste most of his time working manual labor jobs like quarrying rock and digging basements by hand and raising four children, rather than taking the time to learn English, the ingrate. It’s one of the great pities of my life that, because I speak no Italian (other than what I picked up via the Godfather movies) and he spoke no English (other than what he picked up via Gunsmoke), I was never able to communicate effectively to him just how un-American he was. I take some solace in the fact that, even if Congress passes no law to force English on immigrants, plenty of thirdgeneration Mexicans will find it equally tough to talk with their grandparents. As the Pew Hispanic Center documents, about 80 percent of third-generation Latinos in the United States speak English as their dominant language—and exactly 0 percent speak Spanish as their dominant language. The rest are considered bilingual, which means they’ll be able to tell their elders in their native tongue to learn English or get the hell out of the Land of Opportunity.
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Subject:Health care
Topic:Sensitivity and Specificity
Sensitivity and Specificity Consider how descriptive epidemiology and surveillance are important and useful tools to identify and track trends in disease occurrence, and the basic measures of disease frequency that are used. Remember, epidemiologists count! They ‘count’ in that they make a difference in the world of public health. They also literally count because they measure disease frequency – and then interpret. Think about how visualizing data is an important aspect of this process. Disease Status Screening Status Sick Healthy Total Positive 78 792 870 Negative 22 9,108 9,130 Total 100 9,900 10,000 1. Using these data (above), calculate the following and interpret the results in a sentence. a. Sensitivity b. False Negative Rate c. Specificity d. False Positive Rate e. Positive Predictive Value f. Negative Predictive Value g. Prevalence of Disease Disease Status Screening Status Sick Healthy Total Positive 640 1,400 2,040 Negative 360 7,600 7,960 Total 1,000 9,000 10,000 2. Using these data (above), calculate the following and interpret the results in a sentence. a. Sensitivity b. False Negative Rate c. Specificity d. False Positive Rate e. Positive Predictive Value f. Negative Predictive Value g. Prevalence of Disease 3. Based on your answers to # 1 and # 2, which of the two tests is the most accurate? Why? Which of the two tests performs better, that is, yields the greatest proportion of cases in the population screened? Why? 4.Which test, A or B, would you rather have as a screen for HIV in the U.S. population? Why? Would your answer be the same in a different population? Why or why not? 5. A study was conducted examining a new test for determining carpal tunnel syndrome. Due to the repetitive work that auto assembly line workers face when assembling cars, these workers were recruited into the study. The new test examines nerve conduction (NC) to determine carpal tunnel syndrome. NC screens were performed on 1,200 workers. 650 had symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. Of these, 523 had abnormalities on NC tests consistent with carpal tunnel syndrome. Of those without symptoms, 187 had abnormalities consistent with the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome. Assuming that the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome are the gold standard for diagnosis, construct a 2×2 table and answer the following: a. Calculate and interpret the sensitivity of the NC test. b. Calculate the true prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome. c. Your initial study was a multi-center trial in North America. You want to know how the test will perform in Japan, where the prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome is lower compared to the North American population. What happens to the positive predictive value of your test when you re-run the study in Japan?
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Sensitivity and Specificity
Consider how descriptive epidemiology and surveillance are important and useful tools to identify and track trends in disease occurrence, and the basic measures of disease frequency that are used. Remember, epidemiologists count! They ‘count’ in that they make a difference in the world of public health. They also literally count because they measure disease frequency – and then interpret. Think about how visualizing data is an important aspect of this process.
Disease Status
Screening Status Sick Healthy Total
Positive 78 792 870
Negative 22 9,108 9,130
Total 100 9,900 10,000
1. Using these data (above), calculate the following and interpret the results in a sentence.
a. Sensitivity
b. False Negative Rate
c. Specificity
d. False Positive Rate
e. Positive Predictive Value
f. Negative Predictive Value
g. Prevalence of Disease
Disease Status
Screening Status Sick Healthy Total
Positive 640 1,400 2,040
Negative 360 7,600 7,960
Total 1,000 9,000 10,000
2. Using these data (above), calculate the following and interpret the results in a sentence.
a. Sensitivity
b. False Negative Rate
c. Specificity
d. False Positive Rate
e. Positive Predictive Value
f. Negative Predictive Value
g. Prevalence of Disease
3. Based on your answers to # 1 and # 2, which of the two tests is the most accurate? Why? Which of the two tests performs better, that is, yields the greatest proportion of cases in the population screened? Why?
4.Which test, A or B, would you rather have as a screen for HIV in the U.S. population? Why? Would your answer be the same in a different population? Why or why not?
5. A study was conducted examining a new test for determining carpal tunnel syndrome. Due to the repetitive work that auto assembly line workers face when assembling cars, these workers were recruited into the study. The new test examines nerve conduction (NC) to determine carpal tunnel syndrome. NC screens were performed on 1,200 workers. 650 had symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. Of these, 523 had abnormalities on NC tests consistent with carpal tunnel syndrome. Of those without symptoms, 187 had abnormalities consistent with the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome. Assuming that the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome are the gold standard for diagnosis, construct a 2×2 table and answer the following:
a. Calculate and interpret the sensitivity of the NC test.
b. Calculate the true prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome.
c. Your initial study was a multi-center trial in North America. You want to know how the test will perform in Japan, where the prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome is lower compared to the North American population. What happens to the positive predictive value of your test when you re-run the study in Japan?
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Paper detailsSubject:Health careTopic:Social Cognitive Theory
Social Cognitive Theory suggests that both personal factors and environmental factors influence our decisions to engage in certain behaviors. This discussion is designed to help you think about the different forces that may affect health behaviors. In this assignment, complete the following steps: • Choose a health behavior : Not eating five servings of fruits and vegetables per day Identify and describe at least two personal factors and two environmental factors that influence the behavior. Choose one of the factors you identified in Step 2 and discuss how social support could play a role in modifying that factor. Your submission should be 2 pages in length, and should cite relevant material from your text. You may also choose to cite other sources (journal articles, book chapters) that pertain to your chosen health behavior. All sources should be cited according to APA Sixth Edition format. Reference Glanz, K., Rimer, B.K., & Viswanath, K. Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (2015). 5th edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
