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...Jackson Pollock and the international art community took notice. Even more exceptional, however, was the method used to authenticate it.While art scholars argued over the aesthetic aspects of the painting, a forensic art expert named Peter Paul Biro found a more material way to answer the question of authorship. Instead of looking for a vague artistic “fingerprint” of Pollock’s style, he found a literal fingerprint on the back of the canvas that matched one on a blue paint can in Pollock’s studio.Years later, in 2002, a man named Alex...
...authorship of voluntary actions can also be an illusion, the result of noticing a correlation between what we decide and how our bodies move. The psychologist Dan Wegner studied the party game in which a subject is seated in front of a mirror while someone behind him extends his arms under the subject's armpits and moves his arms around, making it look as if the subject is moving his own arms. If the subject hears a tape telling the person behind him how to move (wave, touch the subject's nose and so on), he feels...
...will then work on a new book on the designs and leadership of teams in the intelligence community and enroll in a workshop on the dynamics of dissent. Steven Pinker, Johnstone family professor of psychology, said that this, his fourth professional sabbatical, has had a familiar focus on authorship. His first two sabbaticals were devoted to the writing of books, but, he wrote, “With the last two I couldn’t get the timing to coincide with book-writing, so I had to struggle writing the books during the semesters and summers...
...academic paper on baseball statistics. A stronger team on paper would often lose to a weaker team, he proved, simply because of chance. Other problems he tackled: in warfare, how strings of bombs would fall; why pollsters erred in calling the 1948 election for Dewey over Truman; and the authorship of the Federalist papers, by analyzing word frequency. A droll defender of his field, he once wrote, "It is easy to lie with statistics, but easier to lie without them...
...academic paper on baseball statistics. A stronger team on paper would often lose to a weaker team, he proved, simply because of chance. Other problems he tackled: in warfare, how strings of bombs would fall; why pollsters erred in calling the 1948 election for Dewey over Truman; and the authorship of the Federalist papers, by analyzing word frequency. A droll defender of his field, he once wrote, "It is easy to lie with statistics, but easier to lie without them...