When DNA alone just is not enough

When Work Alone is Not Enough

The author is John Bascom Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The very helpful comments of Isabel Sawhill and David Ellwood are gratefully acknowledged, as is the discussion of an early draft of the paper by the members of the Brookings Roundtable on Children. A version of this article will be published in 2003 in a volume edited by Isabel Sawhill a...

When Just One Is Enough

Information retrieval systems today scan large data spaces in response to the user's information need, returning lists of retrievables ordered by relevance 11]. In the general case, the tendency is to return as many relevant items as the system can locate. However, in situations where the retrievables are highly similar to one another, one just may be enough. In this extended abstract, we descr...

On Foot Navigation: When GPS alone is not enough

When Enough Is Not Enough

People are often exposed to more information than they can actually remember. Despite this frequent form of information overload, little is known about how much information people choose to remember. Using a novel “stop” paradigm, the current research examined whether and how people choose to stop receiving new—possibly overwhelming—information with the intent to maximize memory performance. Pa...

One Shift, Two Groups: When Fronting Alone Is Not Enough