HYPOTHESIS Using train conductors as representatives for all of human kind we can postulate with some accuracy the percent of the population of Earth that are complete and total assholes. If you have ever lived in a small town with train tracks running through it you will know that the conductor of the train is required to sound the whistle at every crossing. This is a 4-part whistle; 2 long‚ 1 short‚ 1 long. My hypothesis is that we can calculate what percentage of the population of planet Earth
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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is the idea that the difference in language limits and affects our thought process to only the language one speaks‚ therefore‚ not depicting the world and culture in ways others that different languages may perceive it. Sapir created this hypothesis while his student‚ Whorf‚ was the one who popularized it. This theory depicts the idea that language constricts one to only their way of life and would not be able see things in the same aspect that someone of a different language
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Lenneberg formed the Critical Period Hypothesis theory which contends that language is innate but has to be attained before the age of puberty or else the ability to learn language ebbs (as a result of the lateralization of the brain). 1 At present‚ the Critical Period Hypothesis theory is widely accepted by numerous linguists. Evidence has been presented that there is a limited time when the brain is malleable (in terms of language). Studies such as‚ linguistically isolated children (a.k.a. feral
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Galileo‚ Through a Clear Lens Many people remember Galileo Galilei as simply the inventor of the telescope‚ and an important figure in science. However‚ Galileo’s life and pioneer thinking challenged the old world beliefs of the Church at a time when their word was law; and demonstrated his great courage‚ his strong convictions‚ and his thirst for knowledge. Galileo began his studies as a young boy at a monastery near Florence‚ Italy. In 1581‚ he gave up the monastic life at the request of his
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Stock Market Prices Do Not Follow Random Walks: Evidence from a Simple Specification Test Andrew W. Lo A. Craig MacKinlay University of Pennsylvania In this article we test the random walk hypothesis for weekly stock market returns by comparing variance estimators derived from data sampled at different frequencies. The random walk model is strongly rejected for the entire sample period (19621985) and for all subperiod for a variety of aggregate returns indexes and size-sorted portofolios. Although
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Subject: Discuss and critically assess the Somatic Marker Hypothesis It is a well known fact that decision making has become an important interest in the recent years in psychology. There are a lot of theories to provide sufficient information to understand the process of decision making. Most of them come as genuine theories whereas several of them come from the previously stated theories as a criticism. One of the most important theories represented about the cognitive process of decision
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Hypothesis. Conditional on preferring the outcome from lying over the outcome from truth-telling‚ a person is sensitive to neither her own [monetary] gain from lying‚ nor how much [monetary] harm she causes the other side. Notice that aside from the preface of “preferring the outcome from lying”‚ the rest of the Hypothesis seems quite at odds with Gneezy’s Result. The reconciliation is that a significant fraction of Gneezy’s subjects prefer the outcome from lying to truth-telling in some experimental
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SECURITY ANALYSIS AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | EFFICIENT MARKET HYPOTHESIS | | MRIGANKA DAS‚ 13/09 | INTRODUCTION: The Efficient Market Hypothesis and Random Walks One of the early applications of computers in economics in the 1950s was to analyze economic time series. Business cycle theorists believed tracing the evolution of several economic variables over time would clarify and predict the progress of the economy through boom and bust periods. A natural candidate for analysis
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6.5‚ 7.0‚ 7.5‚ 8.0‚ 8.5‚ 9.0‚ and 9.5. How many wedding rings should I order for each of the ring size if I order 5000 rings altogether? (Note: It is natural to assume that if your ring size falls between two of the above standard manufacturing size‚ you will take the bigger of the two.) 2. (8 points) According to a study by my PseudoScientific Consulting‚ the time interval between Atlantic hurricane of category 4 has a mean of 456 days and a standard deviation of 123 days. Suppose that
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cases so they decided to focus on stock exchanges with the assumption that something that involves millions of people around the world participating in it every day should indicate any deviation from the norm. The researchers were looking at the hypothesis that depressed people affected by the moon will cause a drop in stock prices. Dichev and Janes looked to prove or disprove the theory of the moon affecting behavior‚ so they studied the daily median stock price profits of 25 stock exchanges over
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