THE ROAD MAY BE LONG, BUT YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY

The life you save may be your own.

1953 Like much of Flannery O’Connor’s short fiction, ‘‘The Life You Save May Be Your Own’’ is set in the American South and contains characters whose most notable feature seems to be their ordinariness. Through imagery, dialogue, and moments of revelation, O’Connor explores the themes of morality and religion, both frequent concerns in her work. The story evoked critical praise upon its publica...

Theory of mind may be contagious, but you don't catch it from your twin.

The theory-of-mind abilities of twins, children with nontwin siblings, and only children were compared to investigate further the link between number and type of siblings and theory-of-mind abilities. Three- to 5-year-old children with nontwin siblings outperformed both only children and twins with no other siblings, twins who also had other siblings outperformed twins who did not, and children...

Doing It Again and Again May Be Difficult, But It Depends on What You Are Doing

Sentence interpretation is integrating the information of incoming lexical items into a coherent whole. But often the pieces of information do not fit together and have to be shifted in meaning to confirm with the rest of the sentence. These shifts are called coercion (Moens & Steedman, 1988; Pustejovsky, 1995). There is a growing body of experimental work that investigates the processing conse...

Warning: the imported food you are about to consume may (or may not) be harmful to your health.

You May Believe You Are a Bayesian But You Are Probably Wrong

An elementary sketch of some issues in statistical inference and in particular of the central role of likelihood is given. This is followed by brief outlines of what George Barnard considered were the four great systems of statistical inferences. These can be thought of terms of the four combinations of two factors at two levels. The first is fundamental purpose (decision or inference) and the ...