Levitation is a Lie or the Truth

Truth Is a Lie: Crowd Truth and the Seven Myths of Human Annotation

SPRING 2015 15 Iamar prestar aen ... “The world is changed.” In the past decade the amount of data and the scale of computation available has increased by a previously inconceivable amount. Computer science, and AI along with it, has moved solidly out of the realm of thought problems and into an empirical science. However, many of the methods we use predate this fundamental shift, including the...

Truth or lie--some ethical dilemmas in the communication of a severe diagnosis.

UNLABELLED Informing the patient about his disease is a very important issue in the medical practice, thus communication becomes imperative in healthcare services. Communicating the diagnosis of a pathology that doesn't bear any imminent risk for life is a common procedure for physicians. However, the situation changes drastically in the case of a severe diagnosis or a hopeless prognosis, with ...

Lie, truth, lie: the role of task switching in a deception context.

A cornerstone of the task switching literature is the finding that task performance is typically slower and more error-prone when the task switches than when it repeats. So far, deception research has largely ignored that such cognitive switch costs should also emerge when switching between truth telling and lying, and may affect the cognitive cost of lying as reflected in higher prefrontal bra...

Truth-bearers or Truth-makers?

Fluids' Safety in Children: Less Water or More Salt? Where does the truth lie?