Understanding Implicit Bias: Putting the Criticism into Perspective

Putting ALLHAT into Perspective

Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (the ALLHAT study), reported in late 2002,1 drew the interest of media journalists as well as the attention of the medical community and the health care industry. The nation’s leading newspapers and television networks scrambled to provide coverage of the significant findings. Although the abbreviated versions that made...

Putting medical risks into perspective.

Putting co-sleeping into perspective.

Co-sleepingbegins in infancy andoften continues through to childhood as part of early nurturing practices. In evolutionary terms the human infant is the most neurologically immature primate at birth and develops the most slowly, thus intense and prolonged mother-infant contact acts as a protectivemechanismagainst physiological difficulties and environmental assaults. Proposed benefits of close ...

Putting Concordance into the Proper Perspective

Although it was initially introduced more than 20 years ago and has acquired a loyal user base, Concordance is still sometimes erroneously compared with traditional database management software. However, the simple fact is that Concordance cannot be compared in any respect to a typical, general purpose database management program. On the contrary, Concordance is a highly focused program that fe...

The Cynefin framework: putting complexity into perspective

Cynefin (pronounced cun-ev-in) 'is a Welsh word with no direct equivalent in English. As a noun it is translated as habitat, as an adjective acquainted or familiar. More poetically, it describes "that relationship: the place of your birth and of your upbringing, the environment in which you live and to which you are naturally acclimatised.' Cognitive Edge 2006).