Dilating and contracting arbitrarily

Standard accuracy-based approaches to imprecise credences have the consequence that it is rational to move between precise and imprecise credences arbitrarily, without gaining any new evidence. Building on the Educated Guessing Framework of Horowitz (2019), we develop an alternative accuracy-based approach to imprecise credences that does not have this shortcoming. We argue that it is always irrational to move from a precise state to an imprecise state arbitrarily, however it can be rational to move from an imprecise state to a precise state arbitrarily

Interviewing and Counseling Clients in a Legal Setting

The purpose of this article is to point out some of the factors that, in the experience of the authors, contribute to the success, or lack of success, of an interview and to help the attorney discover the source of any difficulties which s/he may have so that the impact of factors leading to unsatisfactory encounters with clients may be reduced or eliminated

Children\u27s Attitudes Toward Their Communication Abilities

The purpose of the current study was to learn more about the social, emotional, and behavioral profiles of children with communication disorders, specifically focusing on children who stutter, children who present with language impairments (LI), and children with speech sound disorders (SSD) through the administration of three questionnaires, the Communication Attitude Test (CAT), Student Language Scale (SLS), and Speech Participation and Activities for Children (SPAA-C). In the end, only children with the latter two diagnoses participated. They included eight children ranging from 62-109 months old. Two children presented with LI, four children presented with SSD, and two children presented with both LI and SSD. The CAT included 35 items that require a “true” or “false” response from a child, the SLS included eight items with a Likert rating scale and then three open-ended questions, and the SPAA-C included 17 open-ended questions and then ten items with a Likert rating scale. Results showed that children in general did not present with a negative social, emotional, and behavioral profile as measured by the three questionnaires. The children’s ratings on the questionnaires were also not highly correlated to each other or to the children’s ages, although for the CAT and SPAA-C, there was a trend showing a relationship between the children’s ages and their negative ratings. Future studies with more participants and participants who stutter are recommended. Until then, clinicians should consider administering all three questionnaires in clinical practice to learn more about children’s a social, emotional, and behavioral profiles

Bridging Rationality and Accuracy

This paper is about the connection between rationality and accuracy. I show that one natural picture about how rationality and accuracy are connected emerges if we assume that rational agents are rationally omniscient. I then develop an alternative picture that allows us to relax this assumption, in order to accommodate certain views about higher order evidenc

Deciding football sequences

An open problem posed by the first author is the complexity to decide whether a sequence of nonnegative integer numbers can be the final score of a football tournament. In this paper we propose polynomial time approximate and exponential time exact algorithms which solve the problem