ICPSR Trivia
The first ICPSR Summer Program was held in this year
What is 1963?
The study of human social relationships and institutions
What is sociology?
The selection of a subset of individuals from within a population to estimate characteristics of the whole population
What is sampling?
BJS
This Germanic pagan holiday/festival has contributed to Christmas via traditions such as the eponymously named log
What is Yule?
This person was ICPSR's longest-serving director
Who is Jerry Clubb?
The study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
What is economics?
The process of extracting information from and discovering patterns in large datasets
What is data mining?
What is Project Management and User Support?
This holiday was celebrated by ancient Romans to honor the god of the harvest
What is Saturnalia?
Excluding UM, this was the number of original consortium members
What is 22?
The study of human behaviors, cultures, and societies of the past and present
What is anthropology?
A set of steps followed in order to solve a mathematical problem or to complete a computer process
What is an algorithm?
SDA
What is Survey Documentation and Analysis?
This holiday for "the rest of us" includes such traditions as an airing of grievances and erecting a pole made out of cans
What is Festivus?
Created in 2018, this is the most recently established Special Topic Archive
What is the U.S. Census Data Repository?
The statistical study of populations
What is demography?
The process of systematically calculating, acquiring, and recording information about the members of a given population
What is a census?
NACDA
What is the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging?
Each day of this celebration of African-American culture is dedicated to one of seven principles
What is Kwanzaa?
Prior to being acquired by UM and eventually becoming ICPSR's home, the Perry Building was originally this
What is an elementary school?
The interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes
What is cognitive science?
The mistaken rejection of an actually true null hypothesis
What is a Type I Error?
XML
What is eXtensible Markup Language?
This holiday commemorates a rebellion and is celebrated in part by eating fried foods.
What is Chanukah?