How we see the forest and the trees

How we see ourselves and how we see others.

People see themselves differently from how they see others. They are immersed in their own sensations, emotions, and cognitions at the same time that their experience of others is dominated by what can be observed externally. This basic asymmetry has broad consequences. It leads people to judge themselves and their own behavior differently from how they judge others and those others' behavior. ...

Rethinking Replication in Software Engineering: Can We See the Forest for the Trees?

In this paper, we argue that the concept of replication of empirical studies in software engineering should be understood more broadly than it currently is. In particular, the replication of case studies and surveys as a way of validating and extending theories should be incorporated in the mainstream view of replication, which at present is mostly focused on controlled experiments. A small-sam...

Forest plots: trying to see the wood and the trees.

Can We See the Forest for the Trees?: a Case Study of Marketing Non-timber Forest Products

Over the past five decades, the importance of rain forests has reached beyond their boundaries to play a critical role in national and international trade, economic development, and politics. This increased dependency on rain forests by national governments has to led to extensive deforestation throughout the world. The destruction of rain forests has caused concern among forest dwellers, envir...

How the brain decides what we see.

Until recently it was thought that vision shows us what is actually ‘out there’ at any moment. It was supposed that all the images printed on the retina are coded and transmitted to the cortex; thus every detail of our visual experience would mirror faithfully the ongoing events in the stimulus field. The first clues that things are not that simple came from clinical investigations by Ramachand...