What does “clean” really mean? The implicit framing of decontextualized experiments - Rand, Engel - 2013Engel C, Rand DG. 2014 What does clean really mean? The implicit framing of decontextualized experiments. Econ. Lett. 122, 386-389....
we acknowledge and show gratitude for their past contributions, to guarantee that they are not marginalized or forgotten in their later years.In addition, recognizing
It may not be quite old enough to be the world’s oldest living organism—that “honor” goes to the bristlecone pine tree(aged 5,000 years)—but,at 4,000 years of age,Leiopathes glaberrima,a deep water coral species...
This does not, however, mean they will do anything productive with their intelligence. For most of his life,the smartest man in the world, Chris Langam, a man who tested off the charts of modern IQ tests, worked as a manual laborer and a bouncer at a bar. ...
It would be a mistake to conclude that physicalism must be false. Nothing is proved by the inadequacy of physicalist hypotheses that assume a faulty objective analysis of mind. It would be truer to say that physicalism is a position we cannot understand because we do not at present have any...
If you find vegetable-eaters have lower blood pressure, it may be tempting to conclude that vegetables reduce blood pressure. However, it may be that people who eat vegetables are more health-conscious and therefore exercise more. You can’t know for sure if...
What is the effect size, and what does this mean? A researcher is attempting to determine the effects of practice and gender on a timed task. Participants in an experiment are given a computerized search task. They search a computer screen of various cha ...
There are more references available in the full text version of this article. Cited by (1) Response to A. G. Helg's comments on the LEGS study 2014, Annals of the Rheumatic DiseasesCompeting interests AGH is employed by IBSA Institut Biochimique SA, a Swiss manufacturer and distributor of ...
but we cannot go outside the galaxy to see this spiral structure firsthand. However, withtelescopes, we can see other spiral galaxies from the outside and conclude that the Milky Way is like them. Where this analogy breaks down, however, is that we cannot step outside the universe because...
A single dot that moves in a particular direction does not create any local directional ambiguity. However when a stimulus consists of multiple moving dots, local motion direction mechanisms can be fooled such that cells tuned to incoherent (non-signal or noise) directions also become active (see...