Don't Shoot the Relative

Don't shoot the messenger.

A Closer Look at Iterative Foot Optimization and the Case against Parallelism

" How does she shoot? If you're examining a rifle to see if it killed a man, don't you have to have some idea how it shoots? " " I can assure you, sir, it has all the hallmarks of a rifle customized for maximum accuracy. " " Yes, but how does it shoot? "-Stephen Hunter, Point of Impact

The police officer's dilemma: using ethnicity to disambiguate potentially threatening individuals.

Using a simple videogame, the effect of ethnicity on shoot/don't shoot decisions was examined. African American or White targets, holding guns or other objects, appeared in complex backgrounds. Participants were told to "shoot" armed targets and to "not shoot" unarmed targets. In Study 1, White participants made the correct decision to shoot an armed target more quickly if the target was Africa...

Relative shoot height and irradiance and the shoot and leaf properties of Quercus serrata saplings.

Effects of relative shoot height and irradiance on shoot and leaf properties of Quercus serrata Thunb. saplings growing in the understory and in gaps were investigated. Photosynthetic photon flux (PPF) at the location of the shoot relative to that in the open (relative PPF; rPPF) and the height of the shoot base relative to tree height (relative height; rHeight) were measured for all current-ye...

Don't Shoot the Messenger: Still No Evidence That Video-Game Experience Is Related to Cognitive Abilities-A Reply to Green et al. (2017).

Green et al. (2017) raise two broad concerns with our two studies (Unsworth et al., 2015) showing little association between self-reported video-game experience and cognitive abilities: (a) Our analyses assumed linear gaming-cognition relationships and ignored possible confounding associations among different video-game genres, and (b) the video-game experience questionnaires were problematic a...