minority report

(noun)

A committee report written by at least two committee members to officially state their position on an issue, when those members are in the minority on that issue (not necessarily in the political minority party).

Examples of minority report in the following topics:

  • The Even/Odd Strategy

    • Some projects use the parity of the minor number component to indicate the stability of the software: even means stable, odd means unstable.
    • This applies only to the minor number, not the major and micro numbers.
    • The development team handles the bug reports that come in from the unstable (odd-minor-numbered) series, and when things start to settle down after some number of micro releases in that series, they increment the minor number (thus making it even), reset the micro number back to "0", and release a presumably stable package.
    • It simply overloads the minor number with some extra information.
    • This forces the minor number to be incremented about twice as often as would otherwise be necessary, but there's no great harm in that.

  • Health Disparities

    • Minorities also have higher rates of cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, and infant mortality than whites, which suggests the lack of preventative services and education in predominantly racial minority neighborhoods and schools may play an important role.
    • In terms of sexualities, for example, researchers have documented the systematic exclusion of non-heterosexual healthcare needs, priorities, and concerns throughout medical history, training programs, and certification processes, and sexual minorities regularly report primarily negative interactions with healthcare providers in the United States.
    • 3) From the quality of health care different minority groups receive.
    • Minority groups in the United States lack insurance coverage at higher rates than members of dominant groups.
    • Black men describe their visits to doctors as stressful and report that physicians do not provide them with adequate information to implement the recommendations they are given, similar to gender and sexual minorities.

  • Reporting Contingencies

    • Contingencies are reported as liabilities if it is probable they will incur a loss, and their amounts can be reasonably estimated.
    • Gain contingencies are reported on the income statement when they are realized (earned).
    • For example, to accrue a provision for product warranty costs, assume that minor repairs cost 5% of the total product sales and an estimated 5% of products may require minor repairs within 1 year of sale.
    • The provision is calculated by multiplying 5% of total product cost by 5% of products needing minor repair and then adding 20% of cost for major repair, multiplied by 1% of products needing major repair.
    • Conservative accounting principles state that companies should report loss contingencies as they occur.

  • Sexual Behavior Since Kinsey

    • The Kinsey Report helped spark the sexual revolution, in which social regulations regarding sexual activity were loosened.
    • The publication of the Kinsey Report, the findings of norms in American sexuality by Dr.
    • The social and political climate of the 1960s was a unique one in which traditional values were often challenged loudly by a very vocal minority.
    • The Kinsey Report was one step towards non-heterosexual orientations and behaviors becoming accepted by society as normal.
    • Summarize the impact of the Kinsey Report and the sexual revolution of the 1960s on American sexuality

  • Release Number Components

    • For example, release "2.10.17" is the seventeenth micro release in the tenth minor release line within the second major release series.
    • A major series is simply all the releases that share the same major number, and a minor series (or minor line) consists of all the releases that share the same minor and major number.
    • That is, "2.4.0" and "3.4.1" are not in the same minor series, even though they both have "4" for their minor number; on the other hand, "2.4.0" and "2.4.2" are in the same minor line, though they are not adjacent if "2.4.1" was released between them.
    • The meanings of these numbers are exactly what you'd expect: an increment of the major number indicates that major changes happened; an increment of the minor number indicates minor changes; and an increment of the micro number indicates really trivial changes.
    • This helps the project link every bug report with a specific build, and is probably most useful when binary packages are the default method of distribution.

  • Relative Minor and Major Keys

    • Each minor key shares a key signature with a major key.
    • A minor key is called the relative minor of the major key that has the same key signature.
    • These useful accidentals are featured in the melodic minor and harmonic minor scales.
    • For example, C minor has the same key signature as E flat major, since E flat is a minor third higher than C.
    • C minor is the relative minor of E flat major.

  • Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales

    • All of the scales above are natural minor scales.
    • They contain only the notes in the minor key signature.
    • Melodies in minor keys often use this particular pattern of accidentals, so instrumentalists find it useful to practice melodic minor scales.
    • Listen to the differences between the natural minor (http://cnx.org/content/m10856/latest/tonminnatural.mp3), harmonic minor (http://cnx.org/content/m10856/latest/tonminharmonic.mp3), and melodic minor (http://cnx.org/content/m10856/latest/tonminmelodic.mp3) scales.
    • Rewrite each scale from Figure 4.23 as an ascending harmonic minor scale.

  • Tax Loopholes and Lowered Taxes

    • Thus, 18-19% of total reportable income is not properly reported to the IRS.
    • Tax evasion is an activity commonly associated with the underground economy, and one measure of the extent of tax evasion is the amount of unreported income, namely the difference between the amount of income that should legally be reported to the tax authorities and the actual amount reported, which is also sometimes referred to as the "tax gap. "
    • When tips, side-jobs, cash receipts, and barter income is not reported it is illegal cheating, because no tax is paid by individuals.
    • An IRS report indicates that, in 2009, 1,470 individuals earning more than $1,000,000 annually faced a net tax liability of zero or less.
    • Thus, 18-19 percent of total reportable income is not properly reported to the IRS.

  • Jazz and "Dorian Minor"

    • One of the most useful of these is the scale based on the dorian mode, which is often called the dorian minor, since it has a basically minor sound.
    • Like any minor scale, dorian minor may start on any note, but like dorian mode, it is often illustrated as natural notes beginning on d.
    • Comparing this scale to the natural minor scale makes it easy to see why the dorian mode sounds minor; only one note is different.
    • The "dorian minor" can be written as a scale of natural notes starting on d.
    • Any scale with this interval pattern can be called a "dorian minor scale".

  • Minorities, Women, and Children

    • Minorities, women, and children are often the target of specific social policies.
    • Minorities, women, and children are often the target of specific social policies.
    • One major, particularly controversial policy targeting minority groups is affirmative action.
    • The Civil Rights Movement attempted to increase rights for minorities within the U.S.
    • Discuss government social policy toward minorities, women and children in the United States