Word: measuredness
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The results were less-than-surprising to the scientists. Those who concentrated on the meaning of the words had, on average, a greater memory of what they'd seen. Even more revealing: the MRI scans showed greater activity, as measured by blood oxygenation level, for single items that were remembered...
Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor of management at M.I.T. who has done extensive surveys of individual companies on this issue, asked senior executives what they hoped to get out of their investments in computer power. Their four top goals: to improve service to customers, target new customers, improve quality of products...
Robert Gordon, an economics professor at Northwestern University, argues that computer-driven productivity gains may be undermeasured, but so what? They are no more wrongly estimated, he says, than in precomputer decades. Besides, computers are not exactly brand-new: commercial mainframes date back more than 40 years; PCs, 15 or...
Russia's ruble devaluation and debt default were not especially damaging in broad economic terms; the Russian economy is no bigger, measured by gross domestic product, than that of the Netherlands. But the Russian default and devaluation were devastating financially and psychologically. They reinforced the impulse of global investors to...
T: Well, maybe they measured it.