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What some concepts might not be.

A discussion of the difficulties of prototype theories for describing compositional meaning motivates three experiments that inquire how well-defined concepts fare under paradigms that are commonly interpreted to support the prototype view. The stimulus materials include exemplars of prototype categories (sport, vehicle, fruit, vegetable) previously studied by others, and also exemplars of supp...

Husbands Might Really Be That Cheap ∗ Matthew

This paper explores the life insurance holdings from a general equilibrium perspective. Drawing on the data explored in Chambers, Schlagenhauf, and Young (2003), we calibrate an overlapping generations lifecycle economy with incomplete asset markets to match facts regarding the uncertainty of income and demographics. We then explore the implications for life insurance demand. We find that the a...

Things that can be made into themselves

One says that a property P of sets of natural numbers can be made into itself iff there is a numbering α0, α1, . . . of all left-r.e. sets such that the index set {e : αe satisfies P} has the property P as well. For example, the property of being Martin-Löf random can be made into itself. Herein we characterize those singleton properties which can be made into themselves. A second direction of ...

Some Facts That You Might Be Unaware of About the P-Value

Recently, some articles on the P-value published in biomedical journals caught my eye. These articles included the words 'mis-use, ' 'misconception, ' or 'misinterpretation' of the P-value in their titles or abstracts. Nuzzo [1] stated that P-values, the 'gold stan-dard' of statistical validity, are not as reliable as many scientists assume and added that 'the P-value was never meant to be used...

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