Troubles with assessments in gifting occasions

Gifting technologies

File-sharing has become very popular in recent years, but for many this has become synonymous with file-acquisition. However, there is strong evidence that people have strong giving (or gifting) desires. This suggests an opportunity for the development of gifting technologies – and it also suggests an important research challenge: what needs and concerns do gifters have and what technologies ca...

The troubles with pinkies.

I n my personal series of 3006 children with congenital hand abnormalities, the most common defect was extra digits (528 cases), next was webbed fingers (429 cases), and third was abnormalities of the little finger (354 cases). Any of the digits of a newborn may show deviations in alignment to the palm. However, it is the ulnar side of the hand, and usually the little finger, that most commonly...

Troubles with bubbles

The bubbles method is a recently developed variant of reverse correlation methods that have been used in psychophysics and physiology. We show mathematically that for the broad and important class of noisy linear observers, the bubbles method recovers much less information about how observers process stimuli than reverse correlation does. We also show experimentally that the unusual type of noi...

Troubles with biocitizenship?

Genetic and other biotechnologies are starting to impact significantly upon society and individuals within it. Rose and Novas draw on an analysis of many patient groups to sketch out the broad notion of biocitizenship as a device for describing how the empowered and informed individual, group or network can engage with bioscience. In this paper, we examine critically the notion of biocitizenshi...

Troubles with Bayesianism for cognition