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A front-page headline last Saturday read, "Peace at last for Ulster," and an editorial gushed, "[I]t is not naive to be optimistic about its prospects" and "we must all resist the temptation to see future violence described as a failure of the peace process," although that temptation would surely be strong.
To test this hypothesis, we constructed two reference pools, TP-1 and TP-2, using a naive gene-counting approach designed to include three cell lines with the greatest representation of unique genes that are also easy to grow and yield high quantities of RNA.
One naive approach is to use the observed count 7 d ago in a zip-code area as the expected count for that same area today, and then apply the regular Poisson-based space–time scan statistic.
Editorialists applauded his candor but dismissed him as timid and naive.
In fact, the Christian right is politically naive, and its intractability dooms its own goals.