ADAURA: a definitive answer to the wrong question

Incentivising sustainable living: the wrong answer to the right question?

Tenotomy and congenital nystagmus: a failure to answer the wrong question

Two companion papers used wavelet and dynamical systems analyses in an attempt to show that the new four-muscle tenotomy surgical procedure had little or no effect on either the ‘‘waveform structure’’ or the ‘‘underlying mechanism’’ of congenital nystagmus (CN). (Miura, Hertle, FitzGibbon, & Optican, 2003a; Miura, Hertle, FitzGibbon, & Optican, 2003b) We believe these papers (Parts I and II) as...

The Right Answer to the Wrong Question: Identifying Superior Active Portfolio Management

The debate over the value of active portfolio management has often centered on whether the average active manager is capable of producing returns that exceed expectations. We argue that a more useful way to frame this issue is to focus on identifying those managers who are the most likely to generate superior risk-adjusted returns (i.e., alpha) in the future. Using a style-classified sample of ...

Commentary: BCG has no beneficial non-specific effects on Greenland. An answer to the wrong question?

Our group has spearheaded research into the ‘non-specific effects’ of vaccines in West Africa. Many observational studies and lately randomized trials have shown that BCG lowers all-cause mortality, particularly from septicaemia and respiratory infections. These beneficial non-specific effects are seen as long as BCG is the most recent vaccine. For this reason, a WHO-commissioned review of the ...

A Simple Answer to Gelfand's Question

Using elementary techniques, a question named after the famous Russian mathematician I. M. Gelfand is answered. This concerns the leading (i.e., most significant) digit in the decimal expansion of integers 2n, 3n, . . . , 9n . The history of this question, some of which is very recent, is reviewed.