Decision theory

1. Why is the selection of controls important? What methods of control selection do you know? What principles should we follow when selecting controls? The selection of controls in a case-control study is important because you need to compare individuals with the disease to individuals without the disease (control group). You want the individuals in the control group to come from the same source population as the individuals that make up your cases. They would have been selected as cases if…

To become independent I will start to make decisions on my own. Whether it’s choosing my clothes without asking for somebody’s opinion or needing someone to help and make a decision for me, I will begin making choices on my own. I will also begin to raise my hand in class if I have a question instead of relying for somebody else to ask the same question I have…

In the book “the Signal and the noise”, author Nate Silver talks about prediction from many different angles. Silver explains how prediction is a part of our everyday life and how it affects us. From math to history, inside of a class room or on a court/field, prediction is something we deal with on a day to day basis unconsciously. Silver talks about the benefits of failure and how failure is helpful in the long run with making predictions. Throughout the years we have made progress with…

In identifying whether an organization is a Zero-Based Organization or a World-Class Organization, in relation to its’ homeland security profile, an assessment team would review and assign a score to each area of an organization’s strategic and business needs. It is especially important for the assessment team members to consider the Baldrige Scoring Guidelines and validate their score against the Homeland Security Scoring Profile to ensure that together both, the Baldrige Scoring Guidelines and…

Counsellors are obliged to respect the integrity and promote the welfare of the counselees with whom they are working through the development and implementation of the Individual Pathways Plan, in other words, a school counsellor must respect the student’s decision so long as it is in the best interest of the child’s well-being. A counsellor must not implement a plan for reason without the student’s consent. Finally, a counsellor’s primary responsibility for ensuring that their counselling…

The field of financial matters can concentrate more than the workings of economies; it can likewise investigate human conduct by they way it responds to motivating forces. Financial expert Steven D. Levitt and writer Stephen J. Dubner host a collection of documentaries that looks at how individuals respond to opportunities to gain, wittingly or something else. “Sunlight is said to be the best disinfectant," says the Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis. Like sunlight, data empowers people to…

Why would someone willing give away secrets or their own information to an unknown person? The human decision making process plays a large role in how people react with the world. AL-Msloum and AL-Johani explain that most people have a preconceived cognitive bias for most scenarios that they experience (2013). Cognitive bias is how the human brain looks…

Through the poems If and The Road Not Taken, composed by Rudyard Kipling and Robert Frost respectively, both contemplate the future of one’s identity. Kipling utilises the title of his poem, personification and repetition of similar dialogue to “If you can dream -and not make dreams your master,” to look into the future of the described man. Kipling is describing characteristics of a man and basically saying, ‘if you do… you will be a man in the future.’ Similarly, Frost uses the metaphor to…

between the two professional entities was a five-year contract - a base year of three-million dollars, with four option years at 1.5 million dollars each (FAR, 2017); however, after the base year, option year-one was not exercised. The customer’s decision not to activate option year-one of the agreement poses a major problem for TLS. Based on workforce experience, it is very rare that an organization is not awarded the first option year of a multi-year contract, indicative of an unsatisfied…

a) The risk treatment methodology that entails the removal of Windows compatibility is risk avoidance. According to Pritchard (2014, p.49), risk avoidance involves manipulating the plan to circumvent the occurrence of a particular risk. As seen in this case, instead of getting extra resources who have more experience with Windows mobile operating systems which could potentially increase the cost and effect the timeline, they have decided to circumvent the risk all together by removing the…