The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

The “banzhaf Fallacy” Fallacy

IDENTIFICATION AND WHOLE EXTRACTION OF HOMOLADISCA COAGULATA-VIRUS01 (HoCV-01 FROM TEXAS GLASSY-WINGED SHARPSHOOTER POPULATIONS

The glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) is an invasive pest and important vector of Xylella fastidiosa (Xf), a xylem-limiting bacteria that causes Pierce’s disease (PD) in grapes as well as other agricultural diseases. The primary method of managing the spread of Xf is controlling its insect vector populations. Methods such as chemical control are not target specific and lead to problems such as ...

Detection and Analysis of the Bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, in Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripennis, Populations in Texas

The glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca vitripeninis Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), is a xylophagous insect that is an endemic pest of several economically important plants in Texas. H. vitripennis is the main vector of Xylella fastidiosa Wells (Xanthomonadales: Xanthomonadaceae), the bacterium that causes Pierce's disease of grapevine and can travel long distances putting much of Texas ...

The Risk-return Fallacy

We assume that in the world of business, higher risks are only taken when rewarded with higher expected returns. This supposition has been confirmed empirically using capital market data. However, accounting measures have yielded puzzling results: using the mean and variance of ROE as measures of return and risk, respectively, Bowman (1980) and other researchers find a negative relationship bet...

The Abstract Meaning Fallacy

rights provisions are valuable even if their contours are not fully determined in advance. They shape the way that political actors understand and articulate the values inherent in the political system; they shape the beliefs of political actors about what they can and cannot do, what they are fighting for and what they are fighting against. But rights are less valuable, indeed not really valua...