Measuring Agreement, More Complicated Than It Seems

"Elevator Music": More Than It Seems

"The musically aware hostess no longer allows the butler, or her husband, to sling records on to the turntable in a haphazard way. She no longer risks the dangers of the soup being spilled by Haydn's 'Surprise' Symphony, or Mrs. Alias-Jones choking over the fish because an ill-timed bit of jazz trumpet has frightened her. She now supplies a ready-made background of elegant and suitable music to...

Stereotype Threat Spillover: Why Stereotype Threat Is More Useful for Organizations Than It Seems

Reply to: "Dendritic cell subset composition in the human liver is more complex than it seems".

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Using Critiquing for Improving Medical Protocols: Harder than It Seems

Medical protocols are widely recognised to provide clinicians with high-quality and up-to-date recommendations. A critical condition for this is of course that the protocols themselves are of high quality. In this paper we investigate the use of critiquing for improving the quality of medical protocols. We constructed a detailed formal model of the jaundice protocol of the American Association ...

Measuring hearing aid outcomes--not as easy as it seems.

Outcomes measurement in audiology has received much attention because of the need to demonstrate efficacy of treatment, provide evidence for third-party payment, carry out cost-benefit analyses, and justify resource allocation. Outcomes measurement shows the benefits obtained from a hearing aid and determines the costs of obtaining those benefits. In this article, we discuss why the seemingly s...