Following Snyderman and Rothman (1987, 1988), we surveyed expert opinions on the current state of intelligence research. This report examines expert opinions on causes of international differences in student assessment and psychometric IQ test results. Experts were surveyed about the importance of culture, genes, education (quantity and quality), wealth, health, geography, climate, politics, mo...

Recent Supreme Court decisions emphasize the need to regulate the admissibility of expert testimony by means of standards that require opinions to go beyond ipse dixit--that is, that are based on more than the fact that the expert said it. The authors discuss subtextual themes underlying this issue and suggest approaches to attaining expert clinical opinions that reduce the likelihood of being ...

Today World Wide Web is an brilliant source for gathering consumer, customer opinions there is an tremendous growth in user generated contents in the form of customer reviews on the Web containing precious information useful for both customers and manufacturers. Today there are various Web sites containing such opinions, e.g., consumer reviews of products, forums and blogs. However, lots of stu...

In this paper we propose an adaptive multi-modal verification system comprised of a modified Minimum Cost Bayesian Classifier (MCBC) and a method to find the reliability of the speech expert for various noisy conditions. The modified MCBC takes into account the reliability of each modality expert, allowing the de-emphasis of the contribution of opinions from the expert affected by noise. Reliab...

In this paper, we provide the first empirical evidence of fairness opinions in Europe. Legal requirements concerning the use of fairness opinions in mergers and acquisitions are significantly different in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. We examine the determinants of target fairness opinions in these various regulatory settings and, moreover, investigate the impact of such opinions on abnorm...

A 3-week-old infant awoke with a fever. He was taken to the doctor who noted that the child was irritable. The doctor took him to the hospital where a resident performed a spinal tap, started an intravenous (IV) line, and ordered antibiotics. The entire drama, from entering the doctor's office to infusion of ampicillin, took 2 hours. The doctor was sued for malpractice. Expert witnesses for the...

In this paper, we derive a method to refine a Bayes network diagnostic model by exploiting constraints implied by expert decisions on test ordering. At each step, the expert executes an evidence gathering test, which suggests the test’s relative diagnostic value. We demonstrate that consistency with an expert’s test selection leads to non-convex constraints on the model parameters. We incorpora...