Overselling overall map accuracy misinforms about research reliability

Research on Quantitative Method about Driver Reliability

The influence factors of reliability for drivers in different running stage are analyzed in the paper, firstly, based on Behavior-causing Theory. Then a new quantification method on transience reliability for drivers is advanced by a new definition “reliability degree”, whose error rate is calculated by the response time of drivers, and the influence factors how to influent the transience relia...

Overselling hysteria

O n February 4, 2014, The New York Times published an editorial “Overselling testosterone, dangerously”, in which it alleged that the rise in testosterone prescriptions was medically unwarranted, and that scientific studies suggesting an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) provided “the most compelling evidence yet that many American men have embarked on a perilous course of overtrea...

Clinical Research in Ghana: Accuracy and Reliability of Laboratory Results

Introduction The rising cost of clinical research is driving the current trend of outsourcing to developing countries. Many developing countries, such as Ghana, conduct research but face many challenges in ensuring that the trial conduct and results conform to international standards. Such challenges include staff recruitment and retention and the reliability of laboratory results. Ethical aspe...

AccucheckInform II: About Its Accuracy and Precision

Lay intuitions about overall evaluations of experiences

Previous research has identified important determinants of overall evaluations for experiences lived across time. By means of a novel guessing task, I study what decision-makers themselves consider important. As Informants, some participants live and evaluate an experience. As Guessers, others have to infer its overall evaluation by asking Informants questions. I rewarded accurate inferences, a...