variance

“The other story here is that there’s been so much variance in Texas election results in the past decade and it’s not clear what sort of election it’s going to be.”

But Clark said students should be aware of the great variance among majors — the transfer admission rate for computer science is 5%, for instance, compared with 60%-plus for history, linguistics and philosophy.

But Leib said he and some other regents became increasingly concerned by the variance in campus approaches.

“If you had permanent charters, then you could create a revenue stream, either with new investors or different types of sponsorships that would subsidize that type of variance between ownership and the league,” Jordan said.

Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace each started in variance culture but also thought in terms of general principles.