Perspectives on Psychometrics Interviews with 20 Past Psychometric Society Presidents

Psychometric perspectives on diagnostic systems.

The author identifies four conceptualizations of the relation between symptoms and disorders as utilized in diagnostic systems such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994): A constructivist perspective, which holds that disorders are conveniently grouped sets of symptoms; a diagnostic perspective, which holds ...

The Osteological Paradox 20 Years Later: Past Perspectives, Future Directions

More than 20 years ago, Wood et al. (Curr Anthropol 33:343–370, 1992) published ‘‘The Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples,’’ in which they challenged bioarchaeologists to consider the effects of heterogeneous frailty and selective mortality on health inferences in past populations. Here, we review the paper’s impact on bioarchaeology and paleopat...

Perspectives on Contemporary Society

Imagine a town where wealthy residents live in strong, well-built homes in the center of town, and poorer residents live in rather shabby shacks around the edge of the town. Every few nights, without warning, some sort of monster or group of terrorists from the surrounding countryside carries off one of the residents from the homes around the edge of town. The hapless resident is never heard fr...

Psychometrics of Embodiment RUNNING HEAD: Psychometrics of Embodiment What is Embodiment? A Psychometric Approach

Past - Presidents ’ Award Peak Period Occupancy — A Parking Management TOOI

The conventional approach to assessing parking demands and regulating parking usage involves surveys of parker destinations, trip purposes, walking distances, arrivalkfeparture times, enforcement intensities, parking fees, etc. Parker destinations and characteristics are compared with the parking available on a block-by-block basis to identify locations of parking surpluses/deficiencies. Models...