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"No Good Reason to Remove Features" - Expert Users Value Useful Apps over Secure Ones

Application sandboxes are an essential security mechanism to contain malware. Yet, they are seldom used on Desktops. We hypothesise this is because sandboxes are incompatible with plugins, and with APIs used to implement a wide variety of Desktop features. To verify this, we interviewed 13 expert users about their app appropriation decisions, and illustrate how they recruit values like usefulne...

When No Reason For Is A Reason Against

We provide a Bayesian justification of the idea that, under certain conditions, the absence of an argument in favour of the truth of a hypothesis H constitutes a good argument against the truth of H.

Prediction of Stroke After Cardiac Catheterization: No Reason, No Stroke

The elderly patient: no reason to worry!?

In December 2013, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has placed Switzerland for the first time at the top of the list of countries’ general population life ex- pectancy. The augmenting life expectancy and demographic changes are leading to an increase in the number of older people who are dependent on care (Höpflinger & Hugentobler 2003, Höpflinger et al. 2011). M...

Implicit partisanship: taking sides for no reason.

After spending 45 s studying the names of 4 members of a hypothetical group, subjects showed both implicit liking and implicit identification with the group. These effects of studying names were much larger than the mere exposure (R. B. Zajonc, 1968) effects of either 6 (Experiment 2) or 10 (Experiment 3) extra exposures to each name. This implicit partisanship effect differs from the minimal g...