Bruteforce creation of a map for the GAR

So this article will be in english since it could interest people just for the code. Little summary : I have my little game : a Game About Rectangles, I wanted to measure how people are going to solve each game.  My goal was to find a strategy that is not necessarily correlated with the performance (i.e. defined as the time to solve the level).  The first insight was that a player can either think and play (therefore a little amount of moves, but rather slowly) or play more impulsively (there..

The Promises of Cognitive Styles A Methodological and Theoretical Approach Toward their Fulfilment

A cognitive style represents one’s preferred way of processing information. This concept received a lot of attention since its introduction. We reason that this attention is based on the promises cognitive styles offer. They promise a better understanding of individual-situation fit and, by doing so, to transcend hierarchical assumptions of intelligence. However, it seems that cognitive styles became victims of their promises. The field of research quickly scattered leaving methodological challenges unanswered. Through the analysis of literature and the reproduction of literature results, the first part of this thesis raises again these methodological challenges. In addition, it gives directions and propositions to develop new measurements that could fulfill the promises of cognitive styles. The last chapter sees these new measurements applied to a homogeneous group of professionals that operate on very different tasks. Results indicate that cognitive styles do bring knowledge in how people work. Finally, we propose a model describing how cognitive styles interact with intelligence and personality. This model yields an ambitious research agenda. The conclusion is that cognitive styles play an important role for the understanding of human behavior and, thus, they should not be abandoned. Résumé : Un style cognitif représente la manière préférée de traiter l’information. Ce concept a reçu un franc succès dès son apparition. Nous postulons que cette attention est basée sur les promesses offertes par les styles cognitifs. Ils garantissent une meilleure compréhension de l’adéquation entre l’individu et une situation et, ce faisant, transcendent les postulats hiérarchiques de l’intelligence. Cependant, il semble que les styles cognitifs soient devenus victimes de leurs promesses. Le domaine de la recherche s'est rapidement dispersé, laissant sans réponse les défis méthodologiques. À travers l'analyse de la littérature et la reproduction de résultats, la première partie de cette thèse relève ces défis méthodologiques. De plus, elle donne des directives et des propositions pour développer de nouvelles mesures pouvant réaliser les promesses des styles cognitifs. Dans le dernier chapitre, ces nouvelles mesures sont proposées à un groupe homogène de professionnels qui exercent des tâches très différentes. Les résultats indiquent que les styles cognitifs apportent des connaissances sur la façon dont les gens travaillent. Enfin, nous proposons un modèle décrivant comment les styles cognitifs interagissent avec l'intelligence et la personnalité. Ce modèle donne naissance à un programme de recherche ambitieux. La conclusion est que les styles cognitifs ne doivent pas être abandonnés car ils jouent un rôle important pour la compréhension du comportement humain

Jeu comme outil psychométrique

Les styles cognitifs décrivent la manière dont un individu va recevoir et traiter l’information ou encore comment il résoudra un problème dans sa vie quotidienne. Il s'agit d'un processus. Les tests existants (questionnaires ou performances maximales) sont loin de mesurer un processus. C'est dans cette optique que je propose d’utiliser le jeu (vidéo) comme nouvelle approche des styles cognitifs. En effet, la performance de jeu peut être utilisée comme indicateur des aptitudes cognitives. Para..

Cognitive Styles Measurements

Data sets used for my study (Unkept promises of cognitive styles). You can try to predict CSI scores with personality inventor

Unkept promises of cognitive styles: A new look at old measurements.

Cognitive style is thought to be a stable marker of one's way to approach mental operations. While of wide interest over the last decades, its operationalization remains a challenge. The literature indicates that cognitive styles assessed via i) questionnaires are predicted by personality and ii) performance tests (e.g., Group Embedded Figures Test; GEFT) are related to general intelligence. In the first study, we tested the psychometric relationship between the Cognitive Style Index questionnaire (CSI) and personality inventories (NEO Five Factor Inventory; NEO-FFI, HEXACO Personality Inventory Revised; HEXACO-PI-R). In the second study, we assessed the CSI, NEO-FFI, GEFT and a general intelligence test (Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices Test; RSMT). We found that CSI scores were largely predicted by personality and that CSI was uncorrelated with GEFT performance. Instead, better performance on the GEFT was associated with better performance on the RSMT. We conclude that i) cognitive style questionnaires overlap with personality inventories, ii) cognitive style performance tests do not measure cognitive styles and should not be used as such and iii) the cognitive style concept needs to be assessed with alternative measurement types. We discuss possible future directions

36-month clinical outcomes of patients with venous thromboembolism: GARFIELD-VTE

Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE), encompassing both deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.Methods: GARFIELD-VTE is a prospective, non-interventional observational study of real-world treatment practices. We aimed to capture the 36-month clinical outcomes of 10,679 patients with objectively confirmed VTE enrolled between May 2014 and January 2017 from 415 sites in 28 countries.Findings: A total of 6582 (61.6 %) patients had DVT alone, 4097 (38.4 %) had PE +/- DVT. At baseline, 98.1 % of patients received anticoagulation (AC) with or without other modalities of therapy. The proportion of patients on AC therapy decreased over time: 87.6 % at 3 months, 73.0 % at 6 months, 54.2 % at 12 months and 42.0 % at 36 months. At 12-months follow-up, the incidences (95 % confidence interval [CI]) of all-cause mortality, recurrent VTE and major bleeding were 6.5 (7.0-8.1), 5.4 (4.9-5.9) and 2.7 (2.4-3.0) per 100 person-years, respectively. At 36-months, these decreased to 4.4 (4.2-4.7), 3.5 (3.2-2.7) and 1.4 (1.3-1.6) per 100 person-years, respectively. Over 36-months, the rate of all-cause mortality and major bleeds were highest in patients treated with parenteral therapy (PAR) versus oral anti-coagulants (OAC) and no OAC, and the rate of recurrent VTE was highest in patients on no OAC versus those on PAR and OAC. The most frequent cause of death after 36-month follow-up was cancer (n = 565, 48.6 %), followed by cardiac (n = 94, 8.1 %), and VTE (n = 38, 3.2 %). Most recurrent VTE events were DVT alone (n = 564, 63.3 %), with the remainder PE, (n = 236, 27.3 %), or PE in combination with DVT (n = 63, 7.3 %).Interpretation: GARFIELD-VTE provides a global perspective of anticoagulation patterns and highlights the accumulation of events within the first 12 months after diagnosis. These findings may help identify treatment gaps for subsequent interventions to improve patient outcomes in this patient population