How Do Practitioners Interpret Conditionals in Requirements?

How people interpret conditionals: shifts toward the conditional event.

We investigated how people interpret conditionals and how stable their interpretation is over a long series of trials. Participants were shown the colored patterns on each side of a 6-sided die and were asked how sure they were that a conditional holds of the side landing upward when the die is randomly thrown. Participants were presented with 71 trials consisting of all combinations of binary ...

How well do general practitioners manage dyspepsia?

This paper reports the incidence of dyspepsia in general practice, the characteristics of patients, the types of complaints presented and the management of the dyspeptic patient by general practitioners. Fourteen general practitioners in the Maastricht region of the Netherlands studied 318 consecutive patients presenting with dyspepsia. Two questionnaires were used: one filled in by the patient...

How hard do general practitioners work?

assessment of the so called "avoidable factors" as in the Confidential Inquiry into Maternal Deaths.'4 This raises two problems. Firstly, the concept of avoidability, like that of causality, is highly subjective. Secondly, no one can know whether the absence of the "avoidable" factor would have prevented the death; indeed, the Northern region working party abandoned its search for "avoidable" f...

How do parents of babies interpret qualitative expressions of probability?

One hundred mothers and 50 medical students and doctors were interviewed to examine their understanding of eight common probability expressions as they are used in statements of the kind that doctors regularly make to mothers of babies. Respondents were asked to translate each term into a number on a scale from 0 to 10. There was a wide range of interpretation of the expressions, and significan...

How Do Corporate Bond Holders Interpret Idiosyncratic Risk?