653 Search Results for The Problem of Fallacies
Leadership
Phase 1 Discussion Board
Sustainability science is the study of sustainability. This starts with defining sustainability, and then figuring out how to apply this concept to different types of human activity. My research falls into sustai Continue Reading...
Grammar Error Correction
Grammar Correction Best Practices
The art and science of grammar correction has seismic implications on native and new speakers to English alike. The ability to communicate in a clear and cohesive fashion, both verbally and Continue Reading...
Managerial Decision Making
Understanding bias is crucial to good decision-making because of the problems that are inherent in emotional human beings making intellectual decisions. That is not to suggest that people cannot engage in logical and ratio Continue Reading...
Nicaragua
The Civil War in Nicaragua was one of the defining events from the 1980s, and it also happened to be a defining event in my personal life and that of my family. The argument in question was over the nature of the revolution in Nicaragua, a Continue Reading...
Genetic Engineering
Genetically Modified Food
Genetic engineering is one of the breakthroughs in the agricultural sector introduced in the last four decades. Traditionally, agricultural production relied on natural methods such as crossbreeding to Continue Reading...
Judgment in Managerial Decision Making:
Availability, representativeness, and affect heuristics
The availability heuristic can best be summed up 'if it is not worth being remembered, it is not important.' In short, if a problem is available (i.e., Continue Reading...
Human Memory
Psychology
This literature review upon human memory will cover a fairly wide spectrum of ideas regarding the subject. While there will be a number of connections among the divisions or categories of this literature review, there will Continue Reading...
policy memorandum is always a rewarding experience for all, because it encourages teamwork and helps team members practice their analytical, creative, and critical thinking skills. We also learn how to communicate our ideas in fresh but succinct way Continue Reading...
Organization Change - Leveraging Power & Influence in Change Management
Leveraging Power & Influence in Change Management
Change is the only inevitable factor within any organization in the contemporary society. The changes that take place Continue Reading...
reasonable for comparison and how you would avoid the ecological and individualistic fallacies.
• Determine two researchable hypotheses based on your research problem. For each hypothesis, identify the independent, dependent, and control varia Continue Reading...
Dollarocracy
Nichols and McChesney (2013) write about election spending and the negative effect that it has on democracy and governance in America in their book Dollarocracy: How the money-and-election complex is destroying America.. They have divid Continue Reading...
Economics
If I was in Congress, I would not vote for such a tax. From an ethical perspective, such a tax is simply punitive. The oil companies are not strictly to blame if the price elasticity of demand for oil is low and they take advantage of that Continue Reading...
Flex Work Literature Review
Gone are the days of single-income households being the norm. The costs and other economics of today basically mandate that many families have both parents working and this leads to the need for day care, school transport Continue Reading...
With the appropriate controls of variables, the research showed that the recidivism rate of those offenders who got deterrent sentences like 30 months and above, recorded a 29% recidivism rate as compared to those who had relatively shorter terms wh Continue Reading...
When ordinary 'beat cops' act unethically, it immediately garners negative media attention because it affects the public in such a visceral and immediate fashion. Police officers are the average citizen's main source of contact with the justice syst Continue Reading...
It is important that I am honest to anyone who I choose to be my mentor. Communication must be frank and honest, as learning is the key to research.
Requirements for IRB Approval
Institutional Review Boards (IRB) are the governing bodies that dete Continue Reading...
The way that it uses John Alpert, a therapist who consulted a great deal of important Wall Street figures, with the purpose of showing how these people were basically no different from ordinary criminals (seeing prostitutes and using cocaine) when c Continue Reading...
For example, the 1984 British government committee report suggested that "it is inconsistent with human dignity that a woman should use her uterus for financial profit and treat it as an incubator for someone else's child," in part because this thr Continue Reading...
Criminology
Inaccurate and selective observations are common problems in all realms of research. In fact, they are basic perceptual fallacies that can lead to problems like stereotyping. Selective observation and inaccurate observations often occur Continue Reading...
Cesar Vallejo's Poetry
"The Eternal Die" is a meditation and conversation about many grave subjects. The narrator of the poem seems to be shouting aloud in some kind monologue or rant, but at the same time, seems to be engaged with a debate with th Continue Reading...
Authority and Leadership in Germany
"This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face-to-face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men w Continue Reading...
Terrorism
The Schwartz, Dunkel & Waterman (2009) identity theory model of terrorism has merits. However, it also presents problems that can hinder understanding of the terrorism phenomenon. The primary problem with Schwartz, Dunkel & Waterma Continue Reading...
Early childhood education, from preschool to kindergarten, is a critical time. Of this fact, the research is almost completely conclusive. Ample evidence supports preschool as being one of the predicating factors of a child's later academic success. Continue Reading...
Nature by Hobbe and Locke
Thomas Hobbes, in Leviathan, bases his argument of an all-powerful and unlimited government on a scientifically modeled reasoning. He asserts that it is only a sovereign and an all-powerful government that has the authorit Continue Reading...
Thus, it becomes necessary for society to compel this individual to act in accordance to the general will in order to stall a descent into arbitrary standards and meaningless identifications, and because acting in accordance with the general will me Continue Reading...
Gender Inequality in Hong Kong
Wage discrimination is the discrepancy of wages between two groups due to a bias towards or against a specific trait with all other characteristics of both groups being equivalent. In the case of gender inequality, wag Continue Reading...
Therefore, the argument is concerning the burdening of the MDMP through linear processes, which do not replicate a natural cognitive procedure consequently a proposal should be on an alternative model with a foundation on six elements with concurren Continue Reading...
Leading Change
There are a number of diverse aspects of John Kotter's seminal treatise on leadership, Leading Change. Subsequently, much of the publicity and academic scholarship involving this work of literature have revolved around the eight stage Continue Reading...
With this in mind communications strategy has to be developed and implemented. The central debate remains that of degree of uniformity. The pros and cons are obvious, i.e. economies of scale, consistent message across markets, centralized control, d Continue Reading...
Economics
There is a belief, common to economists, that government intervention is necessary to assist economic growth. The current belief that the reason that the economy is faltering is that job growth has faltered, has not altered this perception Continue Reading...
This was due to death of one of its greatest leaders, Aurangzeb early 1709. Leadership was seemingly absent as the last of the old and experienced leaders passed on and the new leaders took over. One of the new leaders, referred to as the nawab of B Continue Reading...
Global warming is due to human actions.
Since the Industrial Revolution, there is an increase in the greenhouse gases all over the world. This, consequently, has turned out to be the cause of a slow but sure increase of the temperature of the earth' Continue Reading...
Concealed Carry on College Campuses
Support for Concealed Carry on College Campuses
Many individuals believe that completely removing guns from society will best serve to protect the public however the truth is that criminals will still access guns Continue Reading...
Guns
The recent school shooting in Oakland, California draws attention to the importance of the issue of guns on college campuses. A ban on carrying concealed weapons on college campuses is problematic for several reasons. One, it violates state law Continue Reading...
Eradicating Ecocide
Wanton destruction of the planet is criminal, and Polly Higgins shows readers how, why, and what to do about it. Using varied but tight arguments the author advocates swift and rapid legal action, policy change, and legislation. Continue Reading...
Shirley Chisholm
An Analysis of the Life and Work of Shirley Chisholm
In light of the fact that black feminism has gained more of a voice in the last few decades it is important to remember the people who first brought the plight of the black woman Continue Reading...
Ethnicity in Stafford, Virginia
Living in the commonwealth of Virginia in the year 2012 is a mostly enjoyable existence for myself and the fellow members of my community. Stafford, Virginia is a relatively small place. We have about 100,000 people l Continue Reading...