A Case for Real-World Thinking

Real-World Phishing Experiments: A Case Study

We describe a means for constructing phishing experiments which achieve the mutually competitive goals of being ethical and accurate. We present an implementation of these experiments based on the user interface of a popular online auction site, and the results gained from performing these experiments on several hundred subjects. In particular, we find that cousin domains (such as ebay.secure-n...

Neural basis of thinking: laboratory problems versus real-world problems.

Cognitive psychologists have long argued about the reality and significance of the distinction between well-structured and ill-structured problems. Laboratory problems are usually well-structured, whereas real-world problems have both well-structured and ill-structured components. This article shows how the neuropsychological data reinforce this distinction and suggests how this distinction may...

A Real-World ERP Pre-Implementation Case for the Classroom

Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment Predicts Real-World Outcomes of Critical Thinking

Although educators and employers agree that it is important to assess the critical thinking skills of students and prospective employees, few assessments have been externally validated with real-world outcomes of critical thinking. The Halpern Critical Thinking Assessment (HCTA) is a reliable measure of critical thinking skills and has been validated with multiple populations and measures of ac...

A Case for Utility: Study on Real-Time Scheduling a Real-World Problem

Within the real-time community, research on scheduling algorithms is often motivated from a theoretical perspective. The practitioners on the other hand are repeatedly unaware of the results obtained from such research and thus revert to ad-hoc and application-specific solutions. This gap impedes progress for both groups, so to help bridge it, this work intends to provide a study of an interest...