Not exact matches
Scientists and educators have long noted that kids who have a positive attitude towards math
do better in the
subject, but is that just because acing
tests naturally makes you enjoy something, or
does the arrow of causation point the other way?
Outlining classic research from the 1970s and 80s
done by a team out of Yale on the
subject, Konnikova explains that after months of interviews and a barrage of psychological
tests, the researchers «found, unsurprisingly, that blocked writers were unhappy.»
Despite the fact that websites see an average lift in responses of 13.2 % from A / B split
testing, 61 % of marketers
do not
test subject lines.
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to
do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally
do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to
do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a
test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll
God
did make a mistake and tried to cover it up by drowning all the
test subjects... if that's the best god can
do I'm not impressed..
Any strong intuitive conviction must be
subjected to two
tests: First,
does it square with what we know of God through Jesus?
At first I am not primarily concerned about the marital status of the parents and I
do not
subject them to any sort of
test to ascertain their degree of practising or not practising of the faith.
In case Abraham is not a nullity, a phantom, a show one employs for a pastime, then the fault can never consist in the fact that the sinner wants to
do likewise, but the point is to see how great a thing it was that Abraham
did, in order that man may judge for himself whether he has the call and the courage to be
subjected to such a
test.
Andrew Sullivan, a commentator who is gay and among the first to publicly defend same - sex marriage, summed up the decision poignantly: «When people's lives and careers are
subject to litmus
tests, and fired if they
do not publicly renounce what may well be their sincere conviction, we have crossed a line.
so often they just look at potential markers — but those don't always equate to diseases)- what was the health of the those being studied - I'm assuming the
test subjects were people, but other studies
done on animal
subjects might not be as reliable as those
done on humans.
That said if it
does turn out he has title aspirations then he should be
subject to the same rigorous
testing.
Jimmy the Greek says Commissioner Foreman approached him on the
subject, and The Greek replied that he'd be willing to
test the waters and put out a line, but it would cost the league $ 400 a week for him to pay his assistants to
do R & D on what would, in effect, be a new gambling product.
Even if your child doesn't have daily homework, reviewing notes and preparing for
tests and quizzes is really the only way students can truly understand and learn a
subject.
«The litmus
test is,
does your child have an absolute love of the
subject?
It tends to imply excellence at certain academic
subjects (particularly sciences, maths and English), or perhaps the kind of person who can
do well in IQ
tests.
Seems like there is a lot to know — how to
do lesson plans, how much homework to give, how to
test the child's knowledge of the material, how to really help them if they are struggling with a
subject and the list goes on and on.
The most important experiment is the one you
do on your own
test subject: your baby.
Of the 53 enrolled in the intervention group, 5
did not receive the allocated intervention; 3
subjects changed their mind after enrollment but before receiving the intervention, 1 mother had positive postpartum drug
test results and was therefore not eligible to breastfeed, and 1 infant died, leaving a total of 48 women in the intervention group.
The estimates for the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding were more homogeneous (χ2 = 8, P = 0.23) than were the estimates from all 17 studies; the overall mean difference in total cholesterol from the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding was stronger (mean difference: − 0.15 mmol / L; 95 % CI: 0.23, − 0.06 mmol / L; Figure 3) than that in the remaining 10 studies (14 388
subjects) that
did not report exclusive feeding (mean difference: − 0.01 mmol / L; 95 % CI: − 0.06, 0.03 mmol / L; χ2 = 14, P = 0.12;
test for difference between groups, P = 0.005).
The Obama 2012 campaign used the latter tactic extensively: at times, they tried dozens of message variants on
test recipient universes, often finding that the
subject lines they THOUGHT would
do well, didn't.
Pisa
tests from the OECD reveal that for the first time, the UK
does not make the top 20 in any
subject, in international
tests taken by 15 year olds in maths, reading and science.
«We
did extensive A-B
testing not just on the
subject lines and the amount of money we would ask people for,» says Amelia Showalter, director of digital analytics, «but on the messages themselves and even the formatting.»
Other campaigns had cumbersome sign - up processes, weak
subject lines and overly long messages that buried the ask, problems that user -
testing and statistical analysis should be able to correct (i.e., segment your list, run several different
subject lines and see which ones work best, something that nonprofit fundraisers and advocacy experts have been
doing for years).
It's a classic example of how a product that
tests well in the artificial environment of a survey or taste
test doesn't necessarily perform the same way «in the wild», when
subject to the full chaotic system of public opinion.
«For every kid that opts out, it's making a statement that we don't like the direction when everything becomes focused on a
test or just the
tested subjects as opposed to a well - rounded education,» he said.
«Most teachers
do not teach
tested subjects and the state must now spend many millions of dollars to
test teachers of the arts, early elementary grades, physical education, and high school
subjects,» she said.
Butterworth and his colleagues also
tested 31 eight - and nine - year - old children who were near the bottom of their class in mathematics but
did well enough in other
subjects.
It can precede the classic motor signs of the disease by several years, and olfactory
tests have been shown to
do a better job than motor function
tests when it comes to distinguishing Parkinson's patients from healthy control
subjects.
They
did, correctly identifying 92 percent of the facial expressions
tested compared with the 81 percent identified by control
subjects.
They
did the
tests on healthy
subjects and on patients with depression.
The findings could mean that many otherwise healthy pregnant women are
subjected to
tests and procedures that they don't need.
In the in - car information system study, the researchers
did an initial
test on the
subjects, then let them take the cars home for five days to practice using the systems.
So what I
did was I recruited 28
test subjects and had them complete three laps on the game Gran Turismo 3 for PlayStation 2; and they had a steering wheel, an acceleration [and] brake pad to simulate a real driving experience, and I counted the number of crashes they made during each lap, which was the number of times they hit the wall and also the number of times that they deviated from the course.
«We've conducted tracking
tests in laboratories in which
subjects follow moving images across computer screens,» says psychologist McBeath, «and we've found that until the velocity of the target changes by as much as 60 to 70 percent, people don't notice that it's speeding up or slowing down at all.»
In
testing done with 30
subjects, the humans were able to respond to the challenges in one second or less.
What the
test subjects did not know — they were looking at concepts which are seen as positive or negative, such as love and friendship on the one hand, torture and death on the other.
With the left or right parietal cortex numbed, the
test subjects were less able to detect objects placed in the visual field controlled by the numb side of their brain and
did even worse still if there was also an object in the functioning half of the field.
With this setup, the experimenters could then
test how hungry the
subjects were some time later, and tease apart the purely physiological aspects of hunger (having to
do with the volume consumed) from the cognitive aspects of hunger (having to
do with impressions and judgments about what was consumed).
What
do specialized U.S. math and science schools
do differently that allows them to churn out graduates who ace national and international
tests on those
subjects?
Meyer - Lindenberg tells ScienceNOW that the team
does have unpublished data correlating activation of some brain regions with impulsivity, as revealed by personality
tests that some of the
subjects have taken.
Doing tests on human
subjects for the purpose of circumventing legislation or enhancing profits doesn't pass muster, he says.
It's likely that such immune suppression would make the frogs more vulnerable to disease, but Cary said the researchers
did not have funding to
subject them to infectious agents to
test that theory.
On a later trip I reviewed results from different body scanners and noticed that the
test subjects didn't look like everyday passengers.
The team also
tested the students» understanding of genetics and found that the genetics - first effect either increased genetics understanding as well or made no difference, meaning that teaching genetics first doesn't harm students» appreciation of this
subject.
To his surprise, his
test subjects didn't prove to be noteworthy, but the species he compared them with — the soil - loving Chaerilus telnovi — apparently doesn't glow under UV light (seen above, right).
On average, both groups
did slightly better on these
tests than control
subjects who read either a nonfiction article or nothing at all.
It is early days — so far we have been
testing this on healthy
subjects — but we think it
does have potential to improve the health of the heart and might even become part of the treatment for heart failure.»
Chamie said the study
did find a small but statistically significant increase in follow - up intensity with time, meaning that the more time passed, the more likely
subjects were to receive the recommended
tests.
Disagreement
did not diminish, however, as the study
subjects» climate - literacy
test scores increased.
Iran and the United States don't see eye - to - eye on many issues, but both have viewed monkeys as good astronaut
test subjects over the years.