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Who Is a Bilingual?

The question of who is and who is not a bilingual is more difficult to answer than it first appears. Bilingualism was long regarded as the equal mastery of two languages, a definition that still prevails in certain glossaries of linguistics. However, today's complex world requires a more exact definition and analysis of the competencies that community members require to interact with speakers o...

ACGME core competencies: Who knows what and does it matter?

Ambient Awareness and Knowledge Acquisition: Using Social Media to Learn "Who Knows What" and "Who Knows Whom"

The argument proffered in this paper is that use of enterprise social networking technologies can increase the accuracy of people’s metaknowledge (knowledge of “who knows what” and “who knows whom”) at work. The results of a quasinatural field experiment in which only one of two matched-sample groups within a large financial services firm was given access to the enterprise social networking tec...

Dietmar Fehr Steffen Huck Who knows it is a game ?

Who knows it is a game? On strategic awareness and cognitive ability* We introduce the notion of strategic awareness in experimental games which captures the idea that subjects realize they are playing a game and thus have to form beliefs about others’ actions. The concept differs from both, rule understanding and rationality. We then turn to experimental evidence from a beauty contest game whe...

How George Soros Knows What He Knows

In its traditional formulation as an explanatory principle, reflexivity means that any object of thought contains in itself the thinking activity that generates it. Applying the concept of reflexivity to the question of financial markets valuation, Soros concludes that economic reality is actively shaped by the perceptions of market participants. This leads him to a theory of investment radical...