Random and Not So Random Thoughts on Becoming and Being a Statistic: Professional and Personal Musings

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Mildred M. Seltzer
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Subject Pool ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Age And Sex

This article contains personal and professional musings on becoming and being an old woman. Becoming and being an old woman (I had no choice) and being a “gerontologist” (I had a choice), results in experiencing at least two realities, that of subject and that of researcher (an interesting word in itself). We daily face the leap across the chasm between science and personal experiences; between swimming in the subject pool and being a life guard or researcher into the life of guarded subjects. How permeable are the boundaries between subject and objectivity? Do gerontological data inform our experiences of becoming old? Are they providing us with norms for aging? Dear Virginia, there are age and sex norms and Enforcers enforce them. And, dear Virginia, there is more to life than research.

scholarly journals Axiomatization and Measurement of Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting *

2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 1449-1499 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Montiel Olea ◽  
Tomasz Strzalecki
Keyword(s):  
Hyperbolic Discounting ◽  
Partial Identification ◽  
Axiomatic Characterization ◽  
Discount Factors ◽  
Elasticity Of Intertemporal Substitution ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Subject Pool ◽  
Identification Approach ◽  
The Subject

Abstract This article provides an axiomatic characterization of quasi-hyperbolic discounting and a more general class of semi-hyperbolic preferences. We impose consistency restrictions directly on the intertemporal trade-offs by relying on what we call “annuity compensations.” Our axiomatization leads naturally to an experimental design that disentangles discounting from the elasticity of intertemporal substitution. In a pilot experiment we use the partial identification approach to estimate bounds for the distributions of discount factors in the subject pool. Consistent with previous studies, we find evidence for both present and future bias.

The Diagnostic Assessment of Suspected Pulmonary Embolism on the Acute Medical Take: An Evidence Based Guide

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Alastair Proudfoot ◽  
◽  
Derek Bell ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Pulmonary Embolism ◽  
Venous Thromboembolism ◽  
Clinical Presentation ◽  
Diagnostic Assessment ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Suspected Pulmonary Embolism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Adjusted Incidence ◽  
Age And Sex

Pulmonary Embolism is a common cardiopulmonary illness with an age and sex adjusted incidence of around 117 cases per 100 000 person years. The clinical presentation is extremely heterogeneous and non specific. Risk factors for venous thromboembolism are well established. When combined with presenting features and investigations. a multimodality algorithm has led to significant changes in the diagnostic approach of suspected PE. While the best combination of tests for any individual patient remains the subject of controversy this article aims to rationalise the acute physician’s approach to diagnosis and use of available investigations.

The Organization of Life before Death in Two Québec Cultural Configurations

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Luce Des Aulniers
Keyword(s):  
Basic Concept ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Fatal Illness ◽  
Data Gathering And Analysis

This article is based on data from a doctoral thesis about the “anthropology of life-threatening, death and time.” [1] The interpretation is made from twelve life reviews set at homes of people who suffered a serious, but not necessarily fatal illness. Two-cultural configurations are chosen along the axis of rural-urban polarity. It focuses on three types of solidarity, facing the awareness of death: 1) the ethnographic position, in data gathering and analysis. Specific propositions are given concerning the subject and intersubjectivity, cultural generalization of personal experiences, and scientific criteria; 2) what helps cope with illness. Pre-death practices are structured on the basic concept of resistance to illness and preparation for death practices rely on a coherence “test.” The genealogy of practices emerge in six situational and seven historical factors; 3) the conditions of a new type of rite before death and its functions, beside the institutionalization of illness and death.

scholarly journals An Explanation About Canonical Forms and Real Molecule in Resonance Theory, Through Instructors Own Sketches Analogy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
faiz ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Canonical Forms ◽  
Canonical Structure ◽  
Resonance Theory ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference

<p>In elementary chemistry courses students often demonstrate difficulty with real understanding of Resonance Theory i.e. canonical structure vs. real molecule difference, so unanswered puerile questions during lecture made the subject boring. Particularly students unable to understand the difference between a real microscopic moiety and it’s proposed sketch or model at early stages of their learning. In such situations use of suitable analogy other than the subject area make the teaching more effective. Using an analogy from the daily life act as a powerful tool to explain curious questions efficiently to develop the interest of the students in subject. Sharing of personal experiences and analogies among scientific community is an effective way to spread scientific knowledge magnificently.<br></p>

The subject pool.

1970 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 1179-1181 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. King
Keyword(s):  
Subject Pool ◽  
The Subject

scholarly journals Children in Situation of Intra-Family Violence: Concepts, Personal Experiences and Feelings of Undergraduate Medical Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilma Lazara de Almeida Cruz Santos ◽  
Isabel Maria Sampaio Oliveira Lima ◽  
Rosely Cabral de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The State ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Medical Undergraduate ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Different Dimensions

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The objective of the study was to learn about the concepts of violence among medical undergraduate students in the state of Bahia, their personal experiences with the phenomenon and advice regarding case referral. Method: a qualitative research was carried out with 20 undergraduate medical students from public institutions in the state of Bahia. The data were collected via the web through an electronic file made available by Google Forms. The students were informed about the page address through an e-mail. Results: Most of the students said that the topic of “Violence against Children” was addressed during their undergraduate years. Shared conceptions by most of the students on the subject are related to the definitions of violence as physical injuries inflicted on the victims, but broader definitions of social and subjective perception, encompassing different dimensions of the phenomenon were also identified. The most frequently cited feelings experienced in situations of violence were the following: helplessness, fear, sadness, unpreparedness, compassion, empathy, anger and rage. The difficulties that the students encountered in approaching the victims of violence stem from the lack of preparation in the training and from the positions related to the physicians themselves, such as fear of involvement and accountability. The inherent characteristics of children and distrust in protective services were also mentioned. Conclusion: Although the students reported having contact with the topic during graduation, most of them evaluated the training as insufficient. The lack of professional preparation to approach the medical-social issues, such as violence, has been partially attributed to the biologicist bias of the medical training. In this sense, we highlight the understanding of violence as an essentially social and historical phenomenon, to the detriment of the different dimensions of the illness that imply in the health-disease process. From this perspective, this bias obscure the recognition of the different manifestations of violence as objects of healthcare work, suggesting a need for a broader approach in medical education, which can help to contemplate the complexity of the subject.

scholarly journals An Explanation About Canonical Forms and Real Molecule in Resonance Theory, Through Instructors Own Sketches Analogy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
faiz ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Canonical Forms ◽  
Canonical Structure ◽  
Resonance Theory ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Subject

<p>In elementary chemistry courses students often demonstrate difficulty with real understanding of Resonance Theory i.e. canonical structure vs. real molecule difference, so unanswered puerile questions during lecture made the subject boring. In such situations use of suitable analogy other than the subject area make the teaching more effective. Using an analogy from the daily life act as a powerful tool to explain curious questions efficiently to develop the interest of the students in subject. Sharing of personal experiences and analogies among scientific community is an effective way to spread scientific knowledge magnificently.</p>

scholarly journals Doświadczenia kryzysu rozwojowego w biegu życia u XX-wiecznych pisarzy. Sándor Márai i Maria Kuncewiczowa

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Manek
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insight Into

Experiences of a Developmental Crisis in the Course of Life in Twentieth-Century Writers. Sándor Márai and Maria Kuncewiczowa The subject of this study is the psychological analysis which uses a biographical method to analyze the last stages of a long life and the crisis “between life and death”of the two outstanding writers of the twentieth century: Maria Kuncewiczowa and Sándor Márai. The analyzed data giving insight into the life events and the personal experiences of the last few years of their lives was sourced from the last texts published by the writers. In the case of Maria Kuncewiczowa, these are: Notatki włoskie: Przezrocza (Italian Notes: Transparencies, 2010) and Listy do Jerzego (Letters to Jerzy, 1988). In the case of the Hungarian writer Sándor Márai, it will be the final part of the 5th Volume of the Diary 1977–1989, pp. 345–387 (Márai, 2020). The tasks and challenges at this stage of life, which is one immediately preceding the inevitable death, are as follows: functioning at the late old age in a changed life situation after the death of the spouse and the manner of responding to one’s own death. The analysis of experiences related to the life situation, mainly carried out with use of the conceptual apparatus of the psychology of the course of life (Bühler, 1999), allows us to observe the coherence of life events and subjective experiences in the examined period of life, which is an expression of the creative activity and the spirituality of these outstanding writers, as well as constitutes their life experience in preparation for the death.

Field Experiments

2004 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 1009-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn W Harrison ◽  
John A List
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Trading Rules ◽  
Subject Pool ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Do So

Experimental economists are leaving the reservation. They are recruiting subjects in the field rather than in the classroom, using field goods rather than induced valuations, and using field context rather than abstract terminology in instructions. We argue that there is something methodologically fundamental behind this trend. Field experiments differ from laboratory experiments in many ways. Although it is tempting to view field experiments as simply less controlled variants of laboratory experiments, we argue that to do so would be to seriously mischaracterize them. What passes for “control” in laboratory experiments might in fact be precisely the opposite if it is artificial to the subject or context of the task. We propose six factors that can be used to determine the field context of an experiment: the nature of the subject pool, the nature of the information that the subjects bring to the task, the nature of the commodity, the nature of the task or trading rules applied, the nature of the stakes, and the environment that subjects operate in.

Five Constraints on Predicting Behavior

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Kagan
Keyword(s):  
Brain Activity ◽  
Behavioral Outcomes ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Experimental Setting ◽  
Psychological Data ◽  
Predicting Behavior ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Brain Data ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Age And Sex

Scientists were unable to study the relation of brain to mind until the invention of technologies that measured the brain activity accompanying psychological processes. Yet even with these new tools, conclusions are tentative or simply wrong. This book describes five conditions that place serious constraints on the ability to predict mental or behavioral outcomes based on brain data: the setting in which evidence is gathered, the expectations of the subject, the source of the evidence that supports the conclusion, the absence of studies that examine patterns of causes with patterns of measures, and the habit of borrowing terms from psychology. The book describes the importance of context, and how the experimental setting—including the room, the procedure, and the species, age, and sex of both subject and examiner—can influence the conclusions. It explains how subject expectations affect all brain measures; considers why brain and psychological data often yield different conclusions; argues for relations between patterns of causes and outcomes rather than correlating single variables; and criticizes the borrowing of psychological terms to describe brain evidence. Brain sites cannot be in a state of “fear.” A deeper understanding of the brain's contributions to behavior, the book argues, requires investigators to acknowledge these five constraints in the design or interpretation of an experiment.

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