Stravinsky's Serial "Mistakes"

Stravinsky's Serial "Mistakes"

Serial Correlation Coefficient

In this paper, we investigate the relation between two variables where the one is measured with the ratio or interval scale and the other with the nominal. In this cases, we use from serial correlation coefficient. Computation of some serial coefficient such as biserial and point-biserial coefficient is carried out with some examples and R program.

Teaching by Intervention: Working Backwards, Undoing Mistakes, or Correcting Mistakes?

When teaching, people often intentionally intervene on a learner while it is acting. For instance, a dog owner might move the dog so it eats out of the right bowl, or a coach might intervene while a tennis player is practicing to teach a skill. How do people teach by intervention? And how do these strategies interact with learning mechanisms? Here, we examine one global and two local strategies...

Learning from Others' Mistakes

One often hears the lament that medical care in India lags behind that of developed countries. At times, however, one cannot help but feel that in some ways this is a blessing in disguise, because by the time a particular method of treatment gets accepted and adopted in India, we also have knowledge of its various short-comings. If such information is appropriately made use of, it should enable...

Misunderstandings, misperceptions, and mistakes.

iscussions about evidence-based medicine (EBM) have engendered both positive and negative reactions from clini-cians, researchers, and policymakers since the term was first coined in the early 1990s (1, 2). These discussions were brought to the forefront again in a recent commentary by Dr. Bernadine Healy, former Director of National Institutes of Health (NIH), in US News and World Report(3). S...