Using Mediation To Defuse Potential Title VII Situations

Commentary: Using Potential Outcomes to Understand Causal Mediation Analysis

We begin our discussion by congratulating Maxwell, Cole, and Mitchell (2011; hereafter MCM) for providing a thought-provoking article that tackles the challenging problem of conducting mediation analysis in longitudinal settings. As MCM clearly demonstrated, although mediation analysis plays an essential role in psychological research, conducting such an analysis requires researchers to underst...

Using Dynami Mediation to Integrate

Using Contexts to Prove and Share Situations

The context paradigm emerges from different areas of Artificial Intelligence. However, while significative formalizations have been proposed, contexts are either mapped on independent micro-theories or considered as different concurrent viewpoints with mappings between contexts to export/import knowledge. These logical formalisms focus on the semantic level and do not take into account dynamic ...

Resolving Goodman’s Paradox How to Defuse Inductive Skepticism

Subjective Bayesian inference is unsuitable as an ideal for learning strategies to approximate, as the arbitrariness in prior probabilities makes claims to Bayesian learning too easily vulnerable to inductive skepticism. An objective Bayesian approach, which determines priors by maximizing information entropy, runs into insurmountable difficulties in conditions where no definite background theo...

EEOC Using Mediation to Reduce Case Backlog

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has experienced dramatic backlogs of pending charges over the years. In 1977, the backlog reached an all-time high of 130,000 cases pending. Recently, the EEOC announced that the backlog had been reduced to 29,890 cases. A significant portion of this reduction is attributab le to an increased use of mediation. During FY 2001, 7,800 of the 94,59...