Making the (Hinkley) Point about Compatibility Control

the relationship between locus of control and iranian efl university students’ beliefs about language learning

this exploratory study aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners’ beliefs about language learning and one of their personality traits; that is,locus of control (loc). both variables, beliefs and locus of control, are assumed to influence the language learning process. the internal control index (ici) and the beliefs about language learning inventory (balli) were administered...

Mawlawi’s Point of View About The Process of Psychological Sublimation

One of Mawlawi’s psychological approaches is the process of Sublimation or Catharsis which is used to change and turn the inner desires of mankind to suitable desires that are acceptable and favourable to society and social constitutions. Since the nature of human-being is the best cradle for conflicts or oppositions of The Upper and Lower Desires (i.e. the former known as spiritual desires and...

Two Results about Fixed Point of Multifunctions

Making Inferences about Parameters

One must know the sampling distribution of the estimator (the statistic used to estimate  I shall use   to stand for the statistic used to estimate  ) to make full use of the estimator. The sampling distribution of a statistic is the distribution that would be obtained if you repeatedly drew samples of a specified size from a specified population and computed   on each sample. In other wo...

Making good Decisions about Decision Making

Can you see that justice is supposed to be blind? Abstract Decision aids are becoming more popular and more accessible thanks to the internet and hand held computers. The question remains, however, if decision aids can be used beyond just aiding the human decision process. Can we use computers to make decisions without loosing out on some of the aspects of decision making that are important to ...