English law and wider common jurisprudence have endorsed the condition that an appellate court should reject a trial judge's finding of fact which it believes is ‘plainly wrong’. Courts not explained what makes plainly wrong, however. Scholars largely ignored issue. This article draws on recent work in epistemology to provide new analysis wrong standard. Rationally, believe both (1) judge bette...

SIR In a scholarly and thought-provoking paper, Clarke sets out to debunk the concept of " rational suicide " as nonsensical. 1 His motivation in this is to undermine any support that the notion of rational suicide might give to a " categorical right to suicide ". If his enterprise were successful, however, it would go far beyond the " rights issue " and would have a profound impact on all argu...

Unaided human decision making appears to systematically violate consistency constraints imposed by normative theories; these biases in turn appear to justify the application of for­ mal decision-analytic models. It is argued that both claims are wrong. In particular, we will argue that the "confirmation bias" is premised on an overly narrow view of how conflicting evidence is and ought to be ha...

tourism plays a very important role in the communities’ economic system development and therefore different countries compete to attract the international tourists, so marketing and specifically the issue of selecting target market are important. this study aims to identify the most important factors affecting iran's tourism industry target markets and prioritize these target markets. in t...

This paper studies procedures for identifying the true answer to a binary question using the opinions of potentially-biased individuals. It’s common and natural to side with the majority opinion, but the majority may make the wrong choice when the agents are biased. Taking majority rule as a baseline, I study peer-prediction decision rules, which ask agents to predict the opinions of others in ...