T he last two articles published in the Medicolegal Sidebar addressed the complex interplay between the law and social values [1, 2]. Sometimes, court decisions may appear to be arbitrary and unfair to the medical profession, but a deeper examination of judicial rulings can show the practical tensions that courts sometimes face in adjudicating medical malpractice claims. We previously addressed...

We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness – as measured through an incentivized donation decision is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual beliefs about social norms, economic preferences such patience altruism, well universal moral values positively predict preferences. ...

This analysis introduces a generalization of the basic statistical concepts of expectation values and variance for non-Euclidean metrics induced by L-norms. The non-Euclidean L means are defined by exploiting the fundamental property of minimizing the L deviations that compose the L variance. These L expectation values embody a generic formal scheme of means characterization. Having the p-norm ...

This analysis introduces a generalization of the basic statistical concepts of expectation values and variance for non-Euclidean metrics induced by L-norms. The non-Euclidean L means are defined by exploiting the fundamental property of minimizing the L deviations that compose the L variance. These L expectation values embody a generic formal scheme of means characterization. Having the p-norm ...