Supplemental Material for Inability to Improve Performance With Control Shows Limited Access to Inner States

A recent series of experiments suggests that fostering superstitions can substantially improve performance on a variety of motor and cognitive tasks ( Damisch, Stoberock, & Mussweiler, 2010 ). We conducted two high-powered and precise replications of one of these experiments, examining if telling participants they had a lucky golf ball could improve their performance on a 10-shot golf task relative to controls. We found that the effect of superstition on performance is elusive: Participants told they had a lucky ball performed almost identically to controls. Our failure to replicate the target study was not due to lack of impact, lack of statistical power, differences in task difficulty, nor differences in participant belief in luck. A meta-analysis indicates significant heterogeneity in the effect of superstition on performance. This could be due to an unknown moderator, but no effect was observed among the studies with the strongest research designs (e.g., high power, a priori sampling plan).

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Value Orientation and Awareness of Limited Access to Oppurtunity Scales

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t00405-000 ◽

1964 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Judson R. Landis ◽

Simon Dinitz ◽

Walter C. Reckless

Keyword(s):

Value Orientation ◽

Limited Access

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Comparison of Rheumatological Diagnoses by a Bayesian Program and by Physicians

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1634834 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 30 (03) ◽

pp. 187-193 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

H. J. Moens ◽

J. K. van der Korst

Keyword(s):

Receiver Operating Characteristics ◽

Bayesian Decision ◽

Operating Characteristics ◽

Likelihood Ratios ◽

Improve Performance ◽

Mathematical Basis ◽

Human Expert ◽

Test Population ◽

Sensitivity Specificity ◽

Diagnostic Outcome

AbstractA Bayesian decision support system was developed for the diagnosis of rheumatic disorders. Knowledge in this system is represented as evidential weights of findings. Simple weights were calculated as the logarithm of likelihood ratios on the basis of 1,000 consecutive patients from a rheumatological clinic. The effect of various methods to improve performance of the system by modification of the weights was studied. Three methods had a mathematical basis; a fourth consisted of weights adapted by a human expert, which allowed inclusion of diagnostic rules such as defined in widely accepted criteria sets. The system’s performance was measured in a test population of 570 different cases from the same clinic and compared with predictions of diagnostic outcome made by rheumatologists. The weights from a human expert gave optimal results (sensitivity 65% and specificity 96%), that were close to the physicians’ predictions (sensitivity 64% and specificity 98%). The methods to measure the performance of the various models used in this study emphasize sensitivity, specificity and the use of receiver operating characteristics.

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Right to contestation, patron-client networks, and corruption

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2012-11-101-117 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 101-117 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

P. Orekhovsky

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Political Life ◽

Limited Access ◽

The Right ◽

Main Factor

In the paper the nature of Russian corruption is considered along the lines proposed by D. North, J. Wallis, and B. Weingast. The author considers patron-client networks as basic political and economic actors of the limited access order. The redistributive rent allocated within patron-client networks is not a corruption phenomenon. The main factor that is able to destroy patron-client networks and autonomous centers of power is the right to contestation (liberalization) according to R. Dahl. Realization of that right together with the right to participate in political life enables transition to the open access society.

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In the Shadow of Violence: Lessons for Limited Access Societies

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2012-3-4-31 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 4-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

D. North ◽

J. Wallis ◽

S. Webb ◽

B. Weingast

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Economic Development ◽

Open Access ◽

Political Stability ◽

Gradual Transition ◽

Major Conclusion ◽

Economic Competition ◽

Limited Access ◽

Forthcoming Book ◽

Personal Connections

The paper presents a summary of the forthcoming book by the authors and discusses the sample study of the 9 developing countries. While admitting the non-linearity of economic development they claim that the developing countries make a transition from the limited access orders (where the coalition of powerful elite groups plays a major role, that is based on personal connections and hampers free political and economic competition) to the open access orders with democratic government and efficient decentralized economic system. The major conclusion of this article is that what the limited access societies should do is not simply introducing open access institutions, but reorganizing the incentives of the elites so that to limit violence, provide economic and political stability and make a gradual transition to the open access order beneficial for the elites.

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Pemodelan Enterprise Arsitektur Sistem Informasi Pemesanan Jasa Percetakan Menggunakan Kerangka TOGAF

REMIK (Riset dan E-Jurnal Manajemen Informatika Komputer) ◽

10.33395/remik.v4i2.10534 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 18

Author(s):

Bibit - Sudarsono ◽

Umi - Faddillah

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Business Process ◽

Business Processes ◽

Enterprise Modeling ◽

Improve Performance ◽

Business Opportunity ◽

Service Information ◽

Process Architecture ◽

System Architecture Design ◽

A Company

Printing service order information systems sometimes experience problems in completing running business processes including, frequent loss and inaccuracy in registering orders from customers, often also losing order data from customers, recording orders often experience errors, resulting inaccurate reporting of order data. A computerized ordering service information system will greatly help improve performance and accuracy in making reports on business processes running at a company. The existence of enterprise modeling of information systems ordering printing services with the TOGAF framework will be a method that greatly helps management make a decision that will synergize with the business process activities at the company. So that the objectives of the system can be achieved properly. The TOGAF framework can be a solution and will help to produce a system architecture design, a business process architecture, a technology architecture, a number of proposed business opportunity strategy proposals and an ongoing system change proposal.

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