- Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review
2025/07/14 by Carl T. Bergstrom, Bergstrom, Carl T., Kevin Gross +1 · 9 voices · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Decision Sciences · #Academic Writing and Publishing #Ask price #Competition (biology) #Incentive #Luck #Peer review #Private sector #Psychological intervention #Quality (philosophy) #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency-Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students
2025/03/19 by Marcel Preuß, Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes +7 · 17 voices
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Corruption and Economic Development #Earnings #Economic Growth and Development #Ethics in Business and Education #Inequality #Inequity aversion #League #Luck #Meritocracy #Order (exchange) #Redistribution (election) #econ.GN
- Perceptions of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation
2021/01/01 by Spencer Bastani, Daniel Waldenström · 7 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Biology #Demographic economics #Economics #Finance #Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis #Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics #Inequality #Inheritance (genetic algorithm) #Luck #National wealth #Psychology #Public economics #Retirement, Disability, and Employment #Salience (neuroscience)
- TALENT VERSUS LUCK: THE ROLE OF RANDOMNESS IN SUCCESS AND FAILURE
2018/02/20 by ALESSANDRO PLUCHINO, A. Pluchino. A. E. Biondo, A. Rapisarda +2 · 25 voices · 4 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #Counterintuitive #Distribution (mathematics) #Economic and Technological Innovation #Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems #Luck #Meritocracy #Proxy (statistics) #Randomness #Scale (ratio) #Work (physics)
- Cognitive distortions among older adult gamblers in an Asian context
2017/05/18 by Mythily Subramaniam, Siow Ann Chong, Colette Browning +1 · 1 citation
Psychology · Decision Sciences · Medicine · #Gambling Behavior and Treatments #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending #Snowball sampling #Psychology #Context (archaeology) #Thematic analysis #Illusion of control #Cognition #Luck #Perception #Developmental psychology #Qualitative research #Gerontology #Social psychology #Medicine #Psychiatry #Sociology
- Illusion of control by proxy: Placing one's fate in the hands of another
2008/01/23 by Michael J. A. Wohl, Michael E. Enzle · 1 citation
Decision Sciences · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Advertising #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Computer security #Control (management) #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies #Illusion #Illusion of control #Lottery #Luck #Perception #Psychology #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Roulette #Social psychology #Ticket
- Changes in the capacity of visual working memory in 5- to 10-year-olds
2006/05/07 by Kevin J. Riggs, James McTaggart, Andrew Simpson +2 · 2 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Child and Animal Learning Development #Cognition #Cognitive psychology #Developmental psychology #Luck #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies #Neuroscience #Perception #Psychology #Short-term memory #Task (project management) #Visual memory #Visual perception #Working memory
- The Argonauts of ’49: Class, Gender, and Partnership in Bret Harte’s West
2005/01/01 by Matthew A. Watson · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #American Literature and Humor Studies #American Sports and Literature #American and British Literature Analysis #Battle #Luck #History #Frontier #General partnership #Religious studies #Ancient history #Law #Theology #Philosophy #Political science #Archaeology
- Sacred Acquisition: Andrianampoinimerina at Ambohimanga, 1777–1790
1988/07/01 by Gerald M. Berg · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #Kinship #Optimal distinctiveness theory #Monarchy #Politics #Luck #State (computer science) #Genealogy #Lineage (genetic) #Sicilian #Inheritance (genetic algorithm) #Monopoly #History #Political economy #Sociology #Ethnology #Political science #Anthropology #Law #Economics #Market economy
- No game of luck : Allegiant Air president Andrew Levy's strategy to play for low stakes has been making big wins for the airline that is based in the gambling capital of the USA
1982/07/01 by Mark Anderson, Mark A. Anderson, William L. Newmeyer +2 · 25 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Engineering · Health Professions · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Advertising #Air travel #Aviation #Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends #Business #Economics #Engineering #Foreign Bodies #Foreign body #International Law and Aviation #Luck #Management #Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues #Medicine #Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation #Radiography #Retrospective cohort study #Surgery #Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
- Management training and the smaller company
1972/07/01 by NH STAIT · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · Engineering · Mathematics · #Management, Economics, and Public Policy #Leadership, Human Resources, Global Affairs #Boss #Luck #Business #Training (meteorology) #Marketing #Product (mathematics) #Management #Operations management #Economics #Engineering #Mathematics
- Adam Smith and Laissez Faire
1927/04/01 by Jacob Viner · 5 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Adam smith #Art #Classics #Economic and Social Issues #Economic history #Economics #Laissez-faire #Law #Luck #Neoclassical economics #Philosophical Ethics and Theory #Philosophy #Political Philosophy and Ethics #Political science #Politics #Sociology #Theology