Why Me? Why Not Me?

Why don't people like me?

Why are the British public so suspicious of science and scientists? These days many might point to ‘mad cow’ disease and genetically modified foods as primary causes, but the public’s mistrust of science goes back much further and runs much deeper than these recent scares. As a child in Britain, most of my classmates seemed instinctively to know that science was difficult and boring, and that o...

' Why me , God ? ' Understanding Suffering

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Why do I like people like me?

In many dimensions the ability to assess knowledge depends critically on the observer's own knowledge of that dimension. Building on this feature, this paper offers both theoretical and empirical evidence showing that, in those tasks where multidisciplinary knowledge is required, evaluations exhibit a similar-to-me effect: candidates who excel in the same dimensions as the evaluator tend to be ...

Remind me again: why are we here?

Why Do Children Say "Me do it"?

A common feature of early speech is that children use case marking incorrectly. Several researchers have proposed that the child's mistakes are limited to the misuse of nominative case, and are corrected once the child acquires verbal morphology. In this paper I will show that this characterization of the problem is incorrect: children misuse all case forms, not just nominative case. In additio...