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, 2013 On being promoted to a personal chair in 1993 I chose the title of Professor of Informatics, specifically acknowledging Donna Haraway’s definition of the term as the “technologies of information [and communication] as well as the biological, social ...
Bryant, A
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, 2011 {Excerpt} Blaise Pascal felt that “Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.” A contemporary of René Descartes, Pascal is however best remembered for resisting rationalism,
Serrat, Olivier
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Statistical model selection with “Big Data”
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2015 Big Data offer potential benefits for statistical modelling, but confront problems including an excess of false positives, mistaking correlations for causes, ignoring sampling biases and selecting by inappropriate methods.
Jurgen A. Doornik, David F. Hendry
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Problem solving stages in the five square problem
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 According to the restructuring hypothesis, insight problem solving typically progresses through consecutive stages of search, impasse, insight and search again for someone, who solves the task.
Anna eFedor +5 more
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Public risk perception and emotion on Twitter during the Covid-19 pandemic
Applied Network Science, 2020 Successful navigation of the Covid-19 pandemic is predicated on public cooperation with safety measures and appropriate perception of risk, in which emotion and attention play important roles.
Joel Dyer, Blas Kolic
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Thinking Fast, Thinking Badly [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 We test for the construct validity of the cognitive reflection test (CRT) by eliciting response times. We find that incorrect answers to the CRT are quicker than correct answers. At the individual level, we classify subjects into impulsive and reflective, depending on whether they choose the incorrect intuitive answer or the correct answer the majority
Jimenez, Natalia +3 more
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Systems thinking: critical thinking skills for the 1990s and beyond [PDF]
, 1993 This pdf article discusses the need for teaching systems thinking and critical thinking skills. Systems thinking and systems dynamics are important for developing effective strategies to close the gap between the interdependent nature of our problems and
Diehl E. W., Roberts N.
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Thinking territory historically. [PDF]
, 2010 BACKGROUND: While the randomised controlled trial (RCT) is generally regarded as the design of choice for assessing the effects of health care, within the social sciences there is considerable debate about the relative suitability of RCTs and non ...
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Using systems thinking to design actionable futures: a nuclear weapons example
European Journal of Futures Research, 2018 It is a general observation that foresight is analogised with forecast. Yet foresight, or futures thinking, is not predictive or deterministic. The misperception appears to be based on the belief that foresight does not often result in tangible results ...
Leon D. Young
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