Why blame the obstetrician?

Why Do We Always Blame The Storage Stack?

Much research effort has been devoted to improving the performance of the I/O stack in mobile devices, but limited time has been spent evaluating mobile application performance from the user’s perspective. In this paper, we try to understand how applications running on the newest devices behave with respect to this metric. We develop a methodology for quantifying user-perceived latency and use ...

Why blame Bob? Probabilistic generative models, counterfactual reasoning, and blame attribution

We consider an approach to blame attribution based on counterfactual reasoning in probabilistic generative models. In this view, people intervene on each variable within their model and assign blame in proportion to how much a change to a variable would have improved the outcome. This approach raises two questions: First, what structure do people use to represent a given situation? Second, how ...

Why do People Blame Victims of Abuse? The Role of Stereotypes of Women on Perceptions of Blame

Stereotyping research suggests that traditional women (e.g., housewives) are seen as warm and weak, whereas nontraditional women (e.g., career women) are seen as lacking warmth but competent. We expected a nontraditional female abuse victim to be perceived as less warm than a traditional victim, and thus be blamed more in an abuse scenario. In an experiment, 118 Midwestern United States college...

The obstetrician and hypnosis.

Shifting the Blame - A Blame Calculus with Delimited Control

We study integration of static and dynamic typing in the presence of delimited-control operators. In a program where typed and untyped parts coexist, the run-time system has to monitor the flow of values between these parts and abort program execution if invalid values are passed. However, control operators, which enable us to implement useful control effects, make such monitoring tricky; in fa...