I feel that there is a problem some people have fully understanding the ingredients listing on their food products. Recent regulation requiring nutrition information to be displayed prominently and ingredients lists to be accurate combined with truth-in-advertising laws have gone a long way in mitigating fear of foods; yet, a comprehensive ingredients list is a [...]
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I have found that modern scientists have a certain arrogance that was not as evident in the past–a sense that “science has arrived,” and “we didn’t know better back then, but we got it right, now.” And it is this feeling that science cannot do wrong now, I believe, more than anything else, that is dangerous.
It is that elegance, beauty, and simplicity, the complexity, that I have come to appreciate from cubing. And the process of abstracting generalizations that apply to all (n-layer) cubes that I learned by developing strategies for solving (n-1)-, (n-2)-, and (n-3)-layer cubes, for example.
It is interesting that Dr. Winsten-Bartlett mentioned the Academy of Management as a potential audience. I recently completed reviewing two papers for presentation at the Academy of Management annual meeting this August in Montréal in the Business Policy & Strategy category. Both papers were highly theoretical and quantitative and nature. From reviewing these papers I [...]
Powell (2006) outline numerous goals of evaluation research, including accounting for use of limited resources, increasing visibility of organizations, and to provide feedback to staff. With these goals in mind, organizations can employ one of the three methods previously discussed in the course: quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. In terms of quantitative evaluation research, while [...]