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Others Sometimes Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves

Most people believe that they know themselves better than anyone else knows them. However, a complete picture of what a person is like requires both the person’s own perspective and the perspective of others who know him or her well. People’s perceptions of their own personalities, while largely accurate, contain important omissions. Some of these blind spots are likely due to a simple lack of ...

How do we know that we know what we know?

How Science Works’ is now the focus of the national science specifications in English schools. This article is a brief introduction to the philosophy of science from the Greeks to the present day that underpins this notion. From September 2006, the emphasis for teaching science at GCSE is on ‘How Science Works’. This focus will also shape the revisions of the AS and A2 specifications from Septe...

Knowing What We Know : Children , Teachers , Researchers

grams of vouchers, school choice, charter schools, reduced class size, rapid routes to certification, and bilingual education are all topics to which research is relevant. Yet in decisions about these matters educational research has been relatively invisible, and the voices of educational researchers largely muted. The second clause of the theme, how we know it, alludes to the ambiguous episte...

Introduction: The Importance of Knowing What We Don't Know | Uncertainty in Deep Learning

Evidence-based practice: challenging what we think we know.

I see women with breast cancer every week. I try to keep up on the breast cancer literature to stay informed and revise my practice accordingly. I am lucky enough to have a health sciences librarian conduct a monthly search and send links to articles on breast cancer, but about 500 articles are published each month! So, she includes only those most relevant to my area of interest—survivorship c...