U0603C The Use and Misuse of Statistics For a complete list of Harvard Business School Publishing newsletters: http://newsletters.harvardbusinessonline.org For reprint and subscription information for Harvard Management Update: Call 800-988-0866 or 617-783-7500 http://hmu.harvardbusinessonline.org For customized and quantity orders of reprints: Call 617-783-7626 Fax 617-783-7658 For permission to copy or republish: Call 617-783-7587 The Use and Misuse of Statistics How good
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Totalitarian Government’s Misuse of Technology Will Lim A totalitarian government seeks to control not only all economic and political matters‚ but the attitudes‚ values‚ and beliefs of its population‚ erasing the distinction between state and society. The theme of technology has been a significant subject throughout the whole history of totalitarianism. In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ the totalitarian government abuses technology for its own ends instead of exploiting its knowledge
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Running head: PRIMING AND OVERCONFIDENCE Misuse of Priming Effects Overconfidence Abstract This experiment was designed to test whether priming participants through testing can lead to overconfidence on further testing when the information changes. 36 Participants were selected from the ------- to participate in this experiment. The participants were given reading comprehension tests that were amended from Pearson-Longman Education testing materials. 18 participants were given Test 1 followed
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Misuse and Abuse of Welfare in America Welfare misuse in the United States is more common than the average person may think. Welfare is a government program that provides financial aid or services to individuals who cannot support themselves. The program takes money from working individuals in the form of taxes and distributes it to assist the disadvantaged and less fortunate. Though this effort is incredible in many ways‚ it is misused and abused by many receiving it. This misuse encourages
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A free man or woman is one who can dispose of his or her person without let or hindrance‚ without reference to any master. If you‚ being a woman‚ resolved to be free in this social sense‚ to go out into the world as a woman in freedom‚ how would it fare with you? For a time you might wander unhindered‚ elated by thoughts of liberty‚ but very soon you would find that you cannot dwell forever on the heights. Let us suppose that you feel tired and that you enter a tea-shop in default of a better place
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PLEA BARGAINING The former Chairman‚ Local Government Election Petition Tribunal in Oyo State‚ Justice Waheed Olaifa (rtd)‚ has described plea-bargaining as a bad compromise which is eroding the integrity of the judiciary and deepening the culture of corruption in the country. Olaifa who spoke with journalists shortly after he bowed out of the bench‚ noted that plea-bargaining was a strange element in the Nigerian legal system. He said: “Plea bargaining is not in our own law. Instead of allowing
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Misuse in the Justice system. Many people are convicted of wrongful crimes that they never committed. This is due to bias‚ racism‚ and of course corruption. A total of 20‚000 people are wrongfully accused of a crime they never committed. This is a number that should not be ignored. We need to explore the effects of this justice system and what influences the outcome of the cases. One of the causes that influence the outcome of the case is bias. Bias is a prejudice in favor of an object or person
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Recognise indications of substance misuse and refer to specialists 1.1 – Substance abuse covers misuse of a range of mind altering substances. It can have a severe impact on your functioning as well as your physical health. Substance abuse or misuse is defined as the continued misuse of any mind-altering substance that severely affects person’s physical and mental health‚ social situation and responsibilities. Alcohol dependence is the most common form of substance misuse‚ but any drug‚ including heroin
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prescription drug misuse has become a wide spread occurrence in the United States. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration states‚ “Prescription Drug Misuse is defined as intentional or unintentional use of medication without prescription in a way other than prescribed‚ or the experience or feeling it causes”. (The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration‚ 2015). Whether is intentional due to a medical condition or for other reasons prescription drug misuse can lead to
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Pragmatic Failure Pragmatic failure is the inability to understand what is meant by what is said. It refers to the errors in our speech communication because of failing to accomplish a perfect communicative effect. In 1983‚ a British linguist Thomas came up with the pragmatic failure. In his opinion‚ pragmatic failure is not simply the wrong use of language‚ namely‚ grammatical mistakes‚ occurred in common usage‚ using words or making sentences but it refers to inappropriate speaking‚ improper
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