Is There a Generation Gap in Science? AAAS Symposium * December 1970 * Chicago

AAAS Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois 26-31 December 1970.

Preview of the 114th Meeting, AAAS: Chicago, December 26-31, 1947.

Where there is no overlap, there is a gap.

Is There a Development Gap in Rationality?∗

We compare the rationality of choice under risk – utility maximization, stochastic dominance, and expected-utility maximization – of students from one of the best universities in the US and one of the best universities in Africa. The US subjects came nearer to consistency with utility maximization and the dominance principle, but there are no differences between the two samples in consistency w...

Is There a Digital Generation

The title of this book reflects a kind of generational rhetoric that often characterises discussions of the use and impact of so-called ‘new’ media. Young people are frequently described as a ‘digital generation’, a generation defined in and through its experience of digital computer technology. This rhetoric can be found in popular commentary in fields as diverse as commerce, government, educa...