Trump: voters show importance of SDGs

Pathways to Trump: Republican Primary Voters in 2016

The candidacy of Donald Trump has drawn considerable social science interest as a way to understand the interplay between attitudinal explanations, covariates, and momentum. In particular, arguments about the working class, personality, race, populism and Trump’s domination of the media serve as competing (but not mutually exclusive) explanations for Trump’s electoral success. In this paper we ...

Does Security Trump Reliability?

D oes security trump reliability, or vice versa? In 2013, the Seventh International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, hosted a panel discussion with representation from industry, academia, and government to answer this question. Neither the panelists nor anyone in the audience took a firm stance. Rather, the discussion meandered from the original ...

Making the SDGs useful: a Herculean task

www.thelancet.com Vol 388 October 8, 2016 1453 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been called “senseless, dreamy, garbled”, given that they include 17 goals, 169 targets, and 230 indicators, in contrast to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that focused on eight goals, 18 targets, and 48 indicators. Among the earliest sceptics of the SDGs was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,...

Why confessions trump innocence.

As illustrated by the story of Amanda Knox and many others wrongfully convicted, false confessions often trump factual innocence. Focusing on consequences, recent research suggests that confessions are powerfully persuasive as a matter of logic and common sense; that many false confessions contain richly detailed narratives and accurate crime facts that appear to betray guilty knowledge; and th...

Understanding and mapping important interactions among SDGs