Anything He Can Do, She Can Do Better: Children’s Attitudes About Gender and Occupations

Anything you can do I can do better.

Newly introduced drugs or treatments may not be substantively more effective than current therapies, but these drugs or treatments may have distinct advantages in terms of lower costs or fewer or less severe side effects. Demonstrating the utility of a novel treatment is thus unlike usual hypothesis testing, in which researchers seek to prove that treatments differ (i.e., that one treatment is ...

Anything You Can Do, You Can Do Better: Neural Substrates of Incentive-Based Performance Enhancement

Performance-based pay schemes in many organizations share the fundamental assumption that the performance level for a given task will increase as a function of the amount of incentive provided. Consistent with this notion, psychological studies have demonstrated that expectations of reward can improve performance on a plethora of different cognitive and physical tasks, ranging from problem solv...

Anything you can do, I can do better (No you can't)

Many of the comments in this paper apply to any scientific domain and are not unique to computer vision, but some other research domains have well-defined methods for evaluating research (e.g., in medical research, does it help the patient?). I make several assumptions about the nature of computer vision research: it has a lot of small pieces; by itself each piece is meaningless (by itself comp...

Extractive email thread summarization: Can we do better than He Said She Said?

Human-written, good quality extractive summaries pay great attention to the text intermixing the extracts. In this work, we focused on the lexical choice for verbs introducing quoted text. We analyzed 4000+ high quality summaries for a high traffic mailing list and manually assembled 39 quotation-introducing verb classes that cover the majority of the verb occurrences. A significant amount of t...

We must--and we can--do better.