Do You Know that I Know that You Know…? Higher-Order Beliefs in Survey Data

Do I know that you know what you know? Modeling testimony in causal inference

We rely on both our own observations and on others’ testimony when making causal inferences. To integrate these sources of information we must consider an informant’s statements about the world, her expressed level of certainty, her previous accuracy, and perhaps her apparent self-knowledge – how accurately she conveys her own certainty. It can be difficult to tease apart the contributions of a...

I Think You Know That I Know That You Think : Epistemology and Interactive Digital Art

Contents 1 Abstract 2 Introduction 3 Discovery 9 Reflection 13 Synthesis 18 Conclusion 20 Appendix 21 Glossary 22 Bibliography 1 Abstract I create computer simulations that illustrate some aspect of meta-knowledge (ie. knowledge about knowledge.) Building from my earlier art and a discussion about epistemology (the scholarly discipline of meta-knowledge,) my thesis artwork is based on the princ...

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The process of erythrocyte invasion by merozoites of Plasmodium falciparum involves multiple steps, including the formation of a moving junction between parasite and host cell, and it is characterised by the redundancy of many of the receptor–ligand interactions involved. Several parasite proteins that interact with erythrocyte receptors or participate in other steps of invasion are encoded by ...

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“I Know that You Know that I Know”: Neural Substrates Associated with Social Cognition Deficits in DM1 Patients

Myotonic dystrophy type-1 (DM1) is a genetic multi-systemic disorder involving several organs including the brain. Despite the heterogeneity of this condition, some patients with non-congenital DM1 can present with minimal cognitive impairment on formal testing but with severe difficulties in daily-living activities including social interactions. One explanation for this paradoxical mismatch ca...