Thesis: Truth in advertising

Variable accuracy of home pregnancy tests: truth in advertising?

Pregnancy testing dates back to the 14th century BC when Egyptians described a process for identifying a woman who might be pregnant: she could urinate on seeds of wheat and barley over several days. If the barley grew she was pregnant with a male child while the growth of the wheat indicated a female gestation. Growth of neither was interpreted as the absence of pregnancy [1]. Over the last 33...

Truth in Advertising and The Great Dollarization Scam

On the Truth of the Chur h-Turing Thesis

Domain-Independent Quality Measures for Crowd Truth Disagreement Master’s Thesis

Using crowdsourcing platforms such as CrowdFlower and Amazon Mechanical Turk for gathering human annotation data has become now a mainstream process. Such crowd involvement can reduce the time needed for solving an annotation task and with the large number of annotators can be a valuable source of annotation diversity. In order to harness this across domains it is critical to establish a common...

Truth in Mutual Fund Advertising : Evidence on Future Performance and Fund Flows

participants at the workshops at Tulane University and the annual Financial Management Association meetings, two anonymous referees and many of our colleagues for helpful comments at various stages of this research. We also thank Lipper Analytical Services, Inc. for providing data on monthly total net assets and returns, and thank Mark Carhart for data on factor returns to estimate four-factor ...