CONTEXT The relationship between the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Achievement Test (COMAT) series of subject examinations and the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination-USA Level 2-Cognitive Evaluation (COMLEX-USA Level 2-CE) has not been thoroughly examined. OBJECTIVE To investigate the factors associated with performance on COMAT subject examinations and how COMAT scor...

Evidence from the lab and the field shows that most people exhibit substantial risk aversion over stakes of hundreds of dollars. Expected utility cannot capture nonnegligible risk aversion over such small stakes without producing implausible risk aversion over large stakes, and under the reduction of compound lotteries axiom, neither can nonexpected utility preferences. Motivated by experimenta...

Theorists of language have argued that co-speech hand gestures are an intentional part of social communication. The present study provides evidence for these claims by showing that speakers adjust their gesture use according to their perceived relevance to the audience. Participants were asked to read about items that were and were not useful in a wilderness survival scenario, under the pretens...

equating test scores is an important issue in large scale testing. almost all standardized tests have several forms which vary in difficulty. new forms are written and added every year. when the items in different forms of a test vary in difficulty, direct comparison of test-takers who have taken different forms and are at the same ability level is not possible; hence, the issue of test fairnes...