Misplaced priorities

Arguments from Fairness and Misplaced Priorities in Political Argumentation

Argumentation schemes are formal structures that are used to represent types of arguments that are prominent in natural language discourse. Recent research in argumentation studies has identified and investigated many of these schemes. The two types of arguments studied in this paper, found to be used during a pilot study of kinds of arguments used by the candidates in a recent Ontario provinci...

Research priorities in bariatric surgery: misplaced emphasis on innovation?

Misplaced Trust ?

Introduction Driverless cars are on the way. Most major motor manufacturers are developing them, and all expect them to be on our roads sooner, rather than later [1]. When we drive, we believe we are in control. Yet, technologies such as cruise control, lane control and, soon, "platooning" or "vehicle convoying" are beginning to take away our direct control of vehicle speed/direction. While we ...

Splicing Misplaced

Newly synthesized transcripts are usually spliced during transcription or immediately thereafter. So pre-mRNA splicing has been presumed to occur exclusively in the cell nucleus. In this issue of Cell, Denis et al. (2005) now report the presence of functional spliceosomes and signal-dependent pre-mRNA splicing in the cytoplasm of platelets.

Rationally Misplaced Confidence∗

I show that persistent underconfidence and overconfidence each arise from rational learning about one’s own abilities. If an agent chooses to exert more effort when more confident and believes that greater effort reliably improves outcomes, then the agent learns away overconfidence faster than he learns away underconfidence. The agent ends up underconfident on average. In contrast, the agent en...