What Do We Learn about Voter Preferences from Conjoint Experiments?

WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM (e,e ′ p) EXPERIMENTS

What do we learn about development from baby robots?

Understanding infant development is one of the great scientific challenges of contemporary science. In addressing this challenge, robots have proven useful as they allow experimenters to model the developing brain and body and understand the processes by which new patterns emerge in sensorimotor, cognitive, and social domains. Robotics also complements traditional experimental methods in psycho...

What Do We Learn from Experimental Algorithmics?

Experimental Algorithmics is concerned with the design, implementation , tuning, debugging and performance analysis of computer programs for solving algorithmic problems. It provides methodologies and tools for designing, developing and experimentally analyzing eecient algorithmic codes and aims at integrating and reinforcing traditional theoretical approaches for the design and analysis of alg...

What do we learn from rating metaphors?

What makes some metaphors easier to understand than others? Theoretical accounts of metaphor processing appeal to dimensions like conventionality and aptness to explain variability in metaphor comprehensibility. In a typical experiment, one group of naive participants rates a set of metaphoric sentences along these dimensions, while another is timed reading the same sentences. Then, the ratings...

What we can learn from Helios 522 about how we learn about aviation safety

Abstrac t . The August 2005 Helios 522 accident may end up demonstrating that the reductionist model we apply to understanding safety and risk in aviation (taking systems apart and checking whether individual components meet prespecified criteria) no longer works well. Through a concurrence of functions and events, of which a language barrier was a product as well as constitutive, Helios 522 ma...