Character Is Not Transferable

Improvement of working memory performance by training is not transferable

Working memory (WM) usually refers to a cognitive system devoted to the simultaneous maintenance and processing of information which plays a crucial role in high-level cognition. Recently, Barrouillet and collaborators showed the importance of controlling the time course of cognitive activities to assess WM capacities. Therefore, they developed a new paradigm to systematically explore the funct...

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

How Transferable is German Apprenticeship Training?

Both the effectiveness of German Apprenticeship Training (GAT) and the reasons why firms voluntarily subsidise it hinge on how transferable it is. Describing the regulations surrounding GAT and examining the effects of post-apprenticeship mobility on wages and skill use using German panel data, we show that GAT is transferable within a broad vocational field (e.g. a 1-digit occupational group)....

Is utility transferable? A revealed preference analysis

The transferable utility hypothesis underlies important theoretical results in household economics. We provide a revealed preference framework for bringing this (theoretically appealing) hypothesis to observational data. We establish revealed preference conditions that must be satisfied for observed household consumption behavior to be consistent with transferable utility. We also show that the...

health communication what it is and what is not