Article: Does the social security story have to be soporific?

Article: The role of age and prior beliefs in contingency ...
Memory & Cognition;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...This experiment investigated how prior beliefs affect young and older adults' ability ... are often shifted in the direction of prior beliefs even though the objective contingency ... the presence than in the absence of prior beliefs. However, studies that have compared ...

Article: Phased capacity expansion - using continuous distributions to ...
Engineering Economist;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... making methodology is presented as follows with annotations (*) where our model innovations are inserted: (*)1. Develop prior beliefs from 3-point performance estimates, using beta distributions. (*)2. Use qualitative assessments to adjust the prior ...

Article: Phased capacity expansion-using continuous distributions to model ...
The Engineering Economist;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... making methodology is presented as follows with annotations (*) where our model innovations are inserted: *1. Develop prior beliefs from 3-point performance estimates, using beta distributions. *2. Use qualitative assessments to adjust the prior distribution ...

Article: Empirical evaluation of prior beliefs about ...
Journal of the American Statistical Association;  June 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...1. INTRODUCTION The quality of subjective probability assessments has generally been considered in the context of predictions made about unique events, such as the probability of rain on a specified day (Murphy and Winkler 1977, 1984). Recent developments in expert systems, however, call for the

Article: Broader look at autism: Overturning prior beliefs, ...
Newsday (Melville, NY);  August 16, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Jamie Talan Aug. 16--Autism involves widespread brain changes affecting many aspects of behavior and thinking, beyond the characteristic language and social deficits, scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have found. "This is a big change in the way most people have thought about

Article: SOCIAL SECURITY Q&A
The Boston Globe;  August 27, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... need to work to become vested for Social Security disability benefits? A. The amount ... future every time your employer takes Social Security taxes out of your pay. When you retire ... eligible for retirement benefits from Social Security and you'll want to have additional ...

Article: Social Security Q &A
The Boston Globe;  August 27, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... need to work to become vested for Social Security disability benefits? A. The amount ... future every time your employer takes Social Security taxes out of your pay. When you retire ... eligible for retirement benefits from Social Security and you'll want to have additional ...