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Un mondo di plastica: p.k. dick e la critica dell’informazione spuria
Rivista di Estetica, 2017 The circumstantial method presents the detective with an exemplary case. Once solved, this case enables him to reinterpret reality by formulating heuristic hypotheses that broaden our knowledge.
Gianluca Cuozzo
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Convergence of Password Guessing to Optimal Success Rates
Entropy, 2020 Password guessing is one of the most common methods an attacker will use forcompromising end users. We often hear that passwords belonging to website users have beenleaked and revealed to the public.
Hazel Murray, David Malone
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Estimation of Person Ability under Rapid and Effortful Responding
Journal of Intelligence, 2022 The goal of the present study was to extend earlier work on the estimation of person theta using maximum likelihood estimation in R by accounting for rapid guessing.
Georgios Sideridis, Maisa Alahmadi
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Does correction for guessing reduce students' performance on multiple-choice examinations? Yes? No? Sometimes? [PDF]
, 2008 Multiple-choice (MC) examinations are becoming increasingly popular in higher education because they can be used effectively to assess breadth of knowledge in large cohorts of students.
Betts, LR +3 more
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Encoding of Numerical Information in Memory: Magnitude or Nominal?
Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2017 In studies of long-term memory of multi-digit numbers the leading digit tends to be recalled correctly more often than less significant digits, which has been interpreted as evidence for an analog magnitude encoding of the numbers.
Kimmo Eriksson, Marcus Lindskog
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Are Guessing, Source Coding and Tasks Partitioning Birds of A Feather?
Entropy, 2022 This paper establishes a close relationship among the four information theoretic problems, namely Campbell source coding, Arikan guessing, Huleihel et al.
M. Ashok Kumar +4 more
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An equality between entanglement and uncertainty [PDF]
, 2014 Heisenberg's uncertainty principle implies that if one party (Alice) prepares a system and randomly measures one of two incompatible observables, then another party (Bob) cannot perfectly predict the measurement outcomes.
Berta, Mario +2 more
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Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2016 This paper offers a response to Hutchinson’s comments on ourpreliminary report of ”I don’t know” use and guessing on the bilingualJapanese Vocabulary Size Test (VST), which was published in VocabularyLearning and Instruction.
Kurtis McDonald, Mayumi Asaba
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Four-Parameter Guessing Model and Related Item Response Models
Mathematical and Computational Applications, 2022 Guessing effects frequently occur in testing data in educational or psychological applications. Different item response models have been proposed to handle guessing effects in dichotomous test items.
Alexander Robitzsch
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An empirical examination of the effect of guessing on vocabulary size test scores
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2015 The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) was created to provide a reliable estimate of a second language learner’s written receptive vocabulary size, measuring from the most frequent fourteen 1,000 word families of the spoken subsection of the British National ...
Stuart McLean +2 more
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