“If we’re here, it’s only because we have no money…” discrimination and violence in Mexican maternity wards

What if We Only Have Approximate Stochastic Dominance?

In many practical situations, we need to select one of the two alternatives, and we do not know the exact form of the user’s utility function – e.g., we only know that it is increasing. In this case, stochastic dominance result says that if the cumulative distribution function (cdf) corresponding to the first alternative is always smaller than or equal than the cdf corresponding to the second a...

If only we all cared.

Population strategies for prevention? If only it were that simple!

What if there were no psychometrics?: constructs, complexity, and measurement.

McGrath (2005/this issue) has published a very significant article; it is significant because it examines the substantive issue of construct validity in a simple and informative way, noting the confusions apparent in how constructs and their variables are defined, used, and interpreted within the domain of personality and individual differences. This is a careful, thoughtful, article that quiet...

If we have it, do we use it?