Explanatory gap

Data on the topic of the achievement gap were collected such as political and societal factors. The political factors included such subsets as legislative decisions, voting, and getting the right representatives in place to make the students’ concerns known. The societal factors were advancements in technology, environment, and exposure to the wrong influences. However because content analysis was used, these topics were not discussed enough to emerge into a theme (Merriam, 2009). In laymen’s…

irreducible. Philosophers have argued for the truth of substance dualism in several ways. One type of argument claims that there is a gap between understanding the mind and the brain; these are called explanatory gap arguments. Explanatory gap arguments have three features. First, they start by identifying a property of mind that has yet to be…

The relationship would not be linear (there is a gap), the direction leans towards a positive direction, and the strength is weak because the dots on the plot are more concentrated in one area rather than spread out between age and reaction time. It would not be appropriate to find the correlation coefficient…

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Marissa Mayer is definitely related to the key points of chapter 2. Chapter two is about the labor force, economic roles between the sexes throughout time, educational attainment, white collar jobs, sex segregation and salary gaps between the sexes. Marissa is a great example for the educational attainment for women in the late 90’s. Research shows that the number of women holding a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree have doubled since the 1950’s and early 1900’s. Marissa has a bachelor’s…

enough to make them actually feel what pain is like? With our technology today, we still cannot find the answer to these questions. When you cannot explain that feeling to someone, which relate to the next argument called the explanatory gap argument. The term explanatory gap argument means the difficulty that theories of mind are hard to explain the way things feel when…

in research to reflect the intersection of the social determinants of health, gender and class as affecting mental health outcomes (McGibbon & McPherson, 2012). The two explanatory approaches have different origins and methods of assessing relationships between social location and mental health outcomes. The psychosocial explanatory approach developed from sociological and psychological paradigms of social processes (McCloud, 2004). It is viewed as a framework to explain individualistic…

The Gender Pay Gap Various gender movements all over the world have been trying to eliminate discrimination against women. However, the differences between salaries of male and female employees have persisted over time. This gender pay gap involves the disparity between the hourly wages of men and women under the assumptions of equal work and work value. The article “Defining Economic Success for Women: Closing the Gender Pay Gap” by Rotella Laura, Maniam Balasundram, and Subramaniam Geetha…

In this paper, I examine my interviewee Iris’s motive to visit her traditional Chinese doctor (zhongyi) and her preference for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to unravel her explanatory model, which centers around the concept of tiaoli, that is, a notion of health and well-being. It stands in contradistinction to biomedical scientific notions of health, since it does not perceive the body as a condition that needs to be cured and restored. Rather, tiaoli frames the body as a garden and the…

Kleinman has developed a list of these questions that doctors and patients should both consider. “We suggest the following set of questions to elicit the patient explanatory model. Patients often hesitate to disclose their models to doctors. Clinicians need to be persistent in order to show patients that their ideas are of genuine interest and importance for clinical management. [1] What do you think has caused your…