The drive to measure—in advance!—success gets a whack in the computational knee, in this study about an Ig Nobel Prize (and also Nobel Prize) winner’s career: “Web of Science: Showing a Bug Today That Can Mislead Scientific Research Output’s Prediction,” Pablo Diniz Batista, Igor Marques-Carneiro, Leduc Hermeto de Almeida Fauth, and Marcia de Oliveira Reis […]
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Assessment tools: Rate-a-date
John Ptak discusses a set of assessment tools that he calls “a series of social engineering pamphlets published by the Ladies’ Home Journal in the early 1940’s.” Here are small images of the cover and one page of a booklet called How to Rate Another Date. [Details and enlarged images are on the Ptak site.]