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In his famous 1958 book, The Rise of the Meritocracy , British sociologist Michael Young proposed the following formula: IQ plus effort equals merit.
What you have left is a run of formula films and glorified video games pitched to the adolescent audience.
While it is acknowledged that such a method would not work well for books, the idea was that the number of occurrencies of a lemma (a technical though convenient term for the `thing--word or phrase--under study'), multiplied by, say the Audit Bureau of Circulation sworn circulation of a periodical would yield a figure that could legitimately be called its Exposure . Obviously, such a number would be far too large to manipulate readily, so, using a formula familiar to statisticians, it was normalized to produce a simple decimal number of only a few digits which I called the lemma's Exposure Index . The purpose of the exercise was to connect the frequency information with the language as it is used and perceived; in addition, the approach would serve to eliminate from consideration those materials which, though published, were little read, with a consequent low influence on the lexicon.
Mirror ). A few gripe that the series is just a formula boys' boarding-school adventure story gussied up with magical trappings (see last week's discussion in Slate 's ), but young readers don't seem to care: According to Bloomsbury, the book's U.K. publisher, Azkaban broke an opening-day sales record--16,853 copies in the first 100 minutes on sale.
Faced with the charge that she's "lowbrow," Brown has espoused a "high-low" formula under which Talk will endeavor, according to one staffer, "to balance the higher-brow stuff and the trashier stuff."
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