Economics and Happiness: Why More is Sometimes not Better

Sometimes, more is better.

(See the article by El Sahly et al, on pages 703–12.) Influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality with an estimated 36 000 attributable deaths in the United States annually [1]. Human immunodefi-ciency virus (HIV) infection, specifically , advanced disease (CD4 count ,200 cells/lL), has been associated with excess morbidity and mortality [2]. With the use of combination antiretroviral ...

Stress training and simulator complexity: why sometimes more is less

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Sometimes More Is Better, and Sometimes Less Is Better: Task Complexity Moderates the Response Time Accuracy Correlation

This study addresses the relationship between item response time and item accuracy (i.e., the response time accuracy correlation, RTAC) in figural matrices tests. The dual processing account of response time effects predicts negative RTACs in tasks that allow for relatively automatic processing and positive RTACs in tasks that require controlled processing. Contrary to these predictions, severa...

Why the past is sometimes perceived, and not only remembered

When Is More Not Better?

It is often assumed that when sensing in autonomous robot navigation, the more measurements taken, the better. In many cases, this is indeed true. However, we have found that in an outdoor, unstructured environment where the number of possible measurements one can take is limited and error is not normally distributed, additional measurements may cause more harm than good. These “rogue” measurem...