Science popularity stakes

Popularity of arXiv.org within Computer Science

Research depends on rapid dissemination of results, and computer science researchers have been naturally attracted to the idea of placing their papers on the Web. Indeed, in 1998 the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) was established as a partnership between the ACM, arXiv.org, and others as an online repository for research papers in computer science [Halpern, 2000]. However, CoRR seems to h...

Science and Facebook: The same popularity law!

The distribution of scientific citations for publications selected with different rules (author, topic, institution, country, journal, etc…) collapse on a single curve if one plots the citations relative to their mean value. We find that the distribution of "shares" for the Facebook posts rescale in the same manner to the very same curve with scientific citations. This finding suggests that cit...

High-Stakes Interpretation

High-Stakes Testing

I review the literature on the impact on student achievement of high-stakes testing. Its popularity as a mechanism for holding educators accountable has triggered studies to examine whether its promise to increase student learning has been fulfilled. The review concludes there is no consistent evidence to suggest high-stakes testing leads to increases in student learning. Some evidence suggests...

Knowledge, Stakes, and Mistakes

To illustrate, Folk stakes sensitivity says that all else equal, people are less likely to say that Sarah knows that her health insurance is current, if she is about to get hit by a bus and incur huge medical bills. Folk stakes sensitivity holds intrinsic interest to anyone interested in the psychological basis of knowledge ascription. It holds further interest to epistemologists by featuring a...