THE EFFECTS OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY AND AWARENESS OF TIME LIMIT IN ANIMATED VS. TEXT-BASED SITUATIONAL JUDGMENT TESTS

The effects of language proficiency and awareness of time limit in animated vs. text-based situational judgment tests

Abstract Background Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) are commonly used in medical school admissions.However, it has been consistently found that native speakers tend to score higher on SJTs than non-native speakers, which can be particularly problematic in the admission context due to the potential risk of limited fairness.Besides type of SJT, awa

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A Layered Control Architecture of Sleep and Arousal

Sleep and wakefulness are Collections promoted not by a single neural pathway but via wake or sleep-promoting nodes distributed across layers of the brain.We equate each layer with a brain region in proposing a layered subsumption model for arousal based on a computational architecture.Beyond the brainstem the layers include the diencephalon (hypot

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Halting operations for algorithmic alignment

Departing from the discourse on whether a specific (social, ethical) responsibility is attached to the creation and manipulation of algorithms, this article questions the prerequisite of having an identity of algorithms to which that responsibility could be attached.After showing that such identity is partly fictional due to the fact that algorithm

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