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Value is Subjective and Other Fallacies in Economics
Get PDF“Before I hand back your exams, let’s review the overall performance of the class. Listed here are the median and mean scores. You can also see the grades of five highest scores on exam…”
I sat anxiously in my chair as my economics professor shared class statistics before finally handing back our tests.
After he distributed them to a number of students, they mingled at the front the room, speculating who earned the top scores.
“Dude, who do you think got the 101?”
“I bet it was *David?”
“Or maybe Mike? He’s always answering questions correctly.”
“Could be. But I think one of them is definitely Seth – that guy is totally on the ball.”
Always attuned to the behavior of the men in this class, I listened closely.
When the professor finally handed back my exam, I was shocked. Not only had I done much better than anticipated, I earned the second highest grade. [excerpt
Three-Dimensional Time-Resolved Trajectories from Laboratory Insect Swarms
Get PDFAggregations of animals display complex and dynamic behaviour, both at the individual level and on the level of the group as a whole. Often, this behaviour is collective, so that the group exhibits properties that are distinct from those of the individuals. In insect swarms, the motion of individuals is typically convoluted, and swarms display neither net polarization nor correlation. The swarms themselves, however, remain nearly stationary and maintain their cohesion even in noisy natural environments. This behaviour stands in contrast with other forms of collective animal behaviour, such as flocking, schooling, or herding, where the motion of individuals is more coordinated, and thus swarms provide a powerful way to study the underpinnings of collective behaviour as distinct from global order. Here, we provide a data set of three-dimensional, time-resolved trajectories, including positions, velocities, and accelerations, of individual insects in laboratory insect swarms. The data can be used to study the collective as a whole as well as the dynamics and behaviour of individuals within the swarm
Casting Students in the Leading Role: Peer Learning in Academic Libraries
Get PDFPeer learning services are an emerging trend in academic libraries of various sizes. These models allow students to engage and support the research needs of other students. These interactions may build off their classroom experiences and library training, while further developing their own research skills. This handout provides the context and questions for the roundtable discussion, “Casting Students in the Leading Role: Peer Learning in Academic Libraries,” at the ACRL 2019 conference. There are also resources for additional reading on the topic
APPC Minutes - March 19, 2019
No full textMinutes of the Academic Policy and Program Committee Meeting, March 19th, 2019
The Black Bruins: Reviewed by Jack Ryan, Gettysburg College
Get PDFSergio Leone\u27s Once Upon a Time in the West opens with a nearly wordless fifteen-minute sequence in which three gunmen do nothing more than wait for the arrival of a train at a remote frontier station. Leone, Dario Argento, and Bernardo Bertolucci constructed the film\u27s screenplay out of portions of their favorite classic westerns, and the opening is a homage to High Noon; however, Leone\u27s three gunmen look nothing like the actors in High Noon. Jack Elam and Al Mulock look like they emerged directly from the desiccated landscape surrounding them, and Woody Strode emits a dusty elegance. Elam tracks a fly buzzing over his face, and Mulock cracks his knuckles with vengeance. Strode stands beneath a water tank dripping water on his hat. Each actor is captured in vivid close-ups. Strode, though, stands out. His face is chiseled to perfection, and when he is featured in a full-shot, his body bulges with athletic strength. While his partners look like ragged malcontents, Stode appears like a model from a Ralph Lauren photoshoot. Strode made more than fifty films, three made-for-television movies, and thirteen extended television productions. He acted in films directed by Cecil B. DeMille, John Ford, Richard Brooks, Budd Boetticher, and Stanley Kubrick. In fact, Strode stayed at Ford\u27s home at Ford\u27s request while the director was recovering from a life-threatening illness. Strode starred opposite Kirk Douglas in Kubrick\u27s Spartacus, earning a Golden Globe nomination in 1960 for his portrayal of Draba, a gladiator who chooses not to kill Spartacus after a magnificent fight; rather, Draba scales a twelve-foot-high wall and confronts the Roman emperor, played by Laurence Oliver. Peter Ustinov, who won an Academy Award for Spartacus, called Strode frightfully athletic because of his strength and physical grace (178). Strode was forty-five years old at the time, and he did not use a stunt double. [excerpt
Ghosts of the Revolution: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Legacy of the Founding Generation
Get PDFFor the wartime generation, the Civil War in many ways represented a recapitulation of the American Revolution. Both the Union and Confederate civilian populations viewed themselves as the true successors of the Founding Generation. Throughout the Antebellum years and the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis frequently invoked the Founders and their legacy. The two future executives did so in order to both justify their own political ideologies as well as inspire their respective civilian populations. Their sense of ownership over the legacy of the Founders reflected one of the uniquely American conflicts of the Civil War Era
Political Identification: How Parental Values Are Influenced
Get PDFPolitics is an ever-growing part of American culture and, as a result, party identification has become an integral part of many Americans’ identity. Party affiliation largely impacts the values of different individuals. Using the 2012 National Election Survey, I evaluate the influence of party identification on what is seen as more valuable traits in children. Specifically, I focus on the preference of obedience over self-reliance and independence over respect. I find that in a comparison of individuals, when controlled for race, the opinions across non-white respondents of different political identifications are indistinguishable. Additionally, I find that among white respondents, those that identify as republicans favor obedience and independence at higher rates than respondents that identify as democrats. Future research should address the impact of race on political polarization
The Effects of First-Generation Status on Student Engagement and Outcomes at Liberal Arts Colleges
Get PDFUsing data from the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS) Senior Survey, I compared first-generation students’ self-reported levels of engagement and outcomes with those of continuing-generation students at 16 private liberal arts colleges (N=7,611). Membership in the first-generation group demonstrated significant, positive main effects on interactions with diversity, satisfaction with career services, and institutional preparation for career path. On a few variables, significant factor interactions were found between first-generation status and gender and first-generation status and race/ethnicity; no particular first-generation subgroup by gender or race/ethnicity appears to be systematically disadvantaged or advantaged relative to the continuing-generation peer subgroup
Lexical Derivation of the PINT Taxonomy of Goals: Prominence, Inclusiveness, Negativity Prevention, and Tradition
Get PDFWhat do people want? Few questions are more fundamental to psychological science than this. Yet, existing taxonomies disagree on both the number and content of goals. We thus adopted a lexical approach and investigated the structure of goal-relevant words from the natural English lexicon. Through an intensive rating process, 1,060 goal-relevant English words were first located. In Studies 1-2, two relatively large and diverse samples (total n = 1,026) rated their commitment to approaching or avoiding these goals. Principal component analyses yielded 4 replicable components: Prominence, Inclusiveness, Negativity prevention, and Tradition (the PINT Taxonomy). Study 3-7 (total n = 1,396) supported the 4-factor structure of an abbreviated scale and found systematic differences in their relationships with past goal-content measures, the Big 5 traits, affect, and need satisfaction. This investigation thus provides a data-driven taxonomy of higher-order goal-content and opens up a wide variety of fascinating lines for future research