Exemplary versus statistical evidence? Response to Berg-Schlosser

Exemplary versus statistical evidence? Response to Berg-Schlosser

We appreciate Dirk Berg-Schlosser’s discussion of our article. He makes a number of positive comments and also expresses some doubts, raising important issues that should be clarified. In this limited space, we will not address all of the diverse matters he discusses, but will concentrate on his major points. Berg-Schlosser expresses concerns about our measurements, arguing that the indicators ...

Scientific evidence versus outdated beliefs: A response to Brewin (2016).

We find Brewin's (2016) critiques of the narratives, power, and coherence measures in Rubin et al. (2016) without merit; his suggestions for a "revised formulation" (p. 1015) of coherence are contradicted by data readily available in the target article but ignored. We place Brewin's commentary in a historical context and show that it reiterates views of trauma memory fragmentation that are unsu...

What Is an “exemplary Workplace”? Evidence from Cuba

Fiscal versus Monetary Dominance: Evidence from Iran

In this paper, we dealt with fiscal dominance, which is a situation in which the fiscal authority sets its expenditure and taxes without regard to any requirement of intertemporal budget balance. Therefore, the monetary authority must adjust its policies to ensure that the government budget is in balance. The existence of oil revenues for the government on the one hand and its lack of access to...

Howard Berg

to test whether termites of the Cryptotermes domesticus species might be able to discriminate between different sizes of wood. The team constructed experiments that presented termites with blocks of wood with a standard crosssectional diameter of 20x20 mm but of either 20 mm or 160 mm length. The insects were placed in a gap between the two faces of the timber blocks so that they were not able ...