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Tim Hortons soon will be officially domiciled in Canada. For tax purposes!
No, not Luxembourg, Grand Cay or Delaware.
Tim Hortons Inc. is relocating its incorporation from the U.S. to Canada to exploit the Great White North's lower corporate tax burden.
Let me repeat that. Canada's corporate tax burden is lower than America's.
(This follows by a few years the sale of Hortons by Ohio-based Wendy's International.)
Remember that the next time the whiners of the Globe and Post op-ed pages and BNN scold policymakers about this high-tax, business-hostile regime of ours.
Breaking news
* GM gets cold feet about Magna-Opel, cozies up to initially spurned bidder RHJ International. Background on Belgian private-equity firm RHJ here.
Must reads
* Gregg Easterbrook, NYT: Yes Virginia, there is a way to reduce coal-fired power-plant CO2 emissions by two-thirds - if purist environmentalists will get out of the way. Which would be good, since coal isn't going away: the U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of coal (Alberta's not far behind), and America derives half its electric power from coal-fired plants that are a leading culprit in global warming.
* David Segal, NYT: How a luxe innkeeper copes with hard times. Detailed profile of Four Seasons Hotels. In confronting irate hotel owners who want the Toronto hotel-management firm to trim expenses during the downturn, much is revealed about how a defiant Issy Sharp's all-weather adherence to high standards made FS the world's leading luxury hotelier. (How globally renowned is FS, among well-heeled business travelers and best-practices management gurus? This story remained one of the NYT's top five most e-mailed articles two days after publication.)
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We arrived at 8.30 after an overnight bus from Cordoba and was greeted by Barby when we arrived. She said our rooms could be ready for us at 9.30. When we said we'd go and get some breakfast and coffee and come back, she told us to help ourselves to the breakfast and coffee there for free. We wanted to... More
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There hasnt been this much lovin from the oven since the Holsum Bakery blanketed South Florida with eau de carb.
Holsum ended 71 years of baking in the sun in 2005, but its aromas are forever entwined with memories of the Coppertone Girl baring her buns over Biscayne Boulevard and Flipper jumping in his end-zone tank at the Orange Bowl every time the Miami Dolphins scored.
Today, a new crop of bakers is harkening back to those seemingly simpler times. With homey interiors and an emphasis on local sourcing, independently owned bakery-cafés are proliferating faster than yeast cells feeding on sugar.
Their growing presence has brought bread back in a big way, reminding us that no matter how big our city gets, we can still enjoy smelling like a small town. Here are four worth checking out:
Acme Bakery & Coffee
If Dick, Jane and Spot were hungry, this is where theyd go.
Big windows let the afternoon sun stream in over the white farm table that dominates one side of the tiny Midtown eatery with an old timey vibe. Visitors are greeted at the door by baskets of baguettes, flute round loaves and cottage loaves along with crooner tunes by Nat King Cole, Etta James and The Ronettes.
Head here for sweet Sally Lunn buns, open-face Reuben sandwiches with homemade sauerkraut on thick slabs of rye, perfect apple pies and bottles of Sun Drop, Moxie and other vintage sodas. Tops on the lunch menu is the BLT, with juicy tomatoes, bacon, lettuce, avocado and pesto mayo on buttery Miami country bread.
Be sure to grab one of the days fresh-baked loaves to take home. (Apricot, fig and walnut sourdough was the hot item on our visit.)
Next to The Cheese Course in the base of an apartment building, 2-month-old Acme is the product of Alejandro Ortiz and his partners, Aniece Meinhold and Cesar Zapata, the same group that created Phuc Yea! and The Federal.
Using his own pre-ferments and Miami-based starters, Ortiz handcrafts the loaves with ingredients, including eggs and milk, from Florida farms. His wife, Alysia Ortiz, helps with the front of house and the line of jams, peppery pickles and ketchup made in-house.
Bread is the main event, but lunch offerings, such as heirloom tomato salad and spicy corn chowder, compliment the carbs. Theres also all-day breakfast biscuits and gravy, cinnamon toast, farmer-cheese pancakes alongside Miamis own Panther Coffee.
Acme Bakery & Coffee, 3451 NE First Ave., Miami (Midtown); 7:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.- 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; 786-507-5799, myacmebakery.com.
Lee & Maries Cakery
This is what real bake sales once were made of: Meyer lemon bars, snicker doodles, pecan sandies and Bundt cakes.
Even that Southern favorite, the hummingbird cake with layers of pecans, mashed bananas, crushed pineapple and cream cheese frosting has been revived in this cozy yet sophisticated bakery at the base of the sleek Continuum building on the southern tip of South Beach.
With its whitewashed wood tables, antique cupboards and marzipan cakes in the windows, Lee & Maries is as pretty as a girl in a pinafore. Light jazz hums inside, while wood tables with umbrellas and wicker chairs spill out onto the sidewalk.
The bakery-café, open since early September, serves fancy sandwiches, salads and other savories (chicken curry salad on ciabatta with apples and golden raisins, Caesar salad with brioche croutons and a smoky chorizo manchego cheese quiche, among others), but its the sweets that scream for attention.


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NEW YORK (MainStreet) Bored with bonds? Sick of stocks? Ready to allocate a portion of your portfolio into something you and George Jetson can really appreciate? Well now you can invest in that flying car you've always wanted.
Thanks to the Securities and Exchange Commission's recent new general solicitation ruling that recently went into effect, accredited investors can buy in to private startups and venture capital projects that were previously not allowed. That means if you have a liquid net worth of $1 million or more, you can invest in a burgeoning digital music platform, a new social network, "next generation" hearing aids or, yes, that flying car.
New online platforms for these startups seeking public funding are springing up daily and include wefunder and Angel List as well as dozens of individual sites directly pitching their own ideas to investors.
The flying car is touted by a company called Terrafugia. Slated for delivery in 2015, the vertical takeoff two-seater vehicle claims a top speed of 200 miles per hour and end-to-end autopilot. Plus, it's street-legal and yours for only $279,000 -- excluding tax, title and license.
With foldable wings, the "Transition" converts from skyway to highway in "less than a minute" and fits in your garage. Wait until your neighbors see you drive up and park this thing. Fueled with standard premium unleaded gasoline, it has a range of 400 flying miles at a cruising speed of 100 miles per hour. The Transition claims 35 MPG on the highway, when loping at a ground-bound 65 miles per hour.
Terrafugia says you can be licensed to fly the machine in as little as 20 hours.
For those of you concerned about safety, the Transition does include airbags, though of course they would be of limited use during an air bound emergency. No worries. The Transition offers a full vehicle parachute.
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O splendor gloriae is in many ways the finest of Taverners large-scale antiphons. Particularly noteworthy are its clarity of texture and extensive use of imitation. So pervasive and systematic is the imitation in some passages that it led one late sixteenth-century copyist to ascribe the work jointly to Taverner and Tye, a view rejected by modern scholars on the grounds of its stylistic consistency. Another progressive feature is the occasional repetition of text in the latter part of the piece, reflecting the gradual trend away from an abstract melismatic style towards a more directly expressive Renaissance manner. The sectional structure, contrasting reduced soloistic combinations with full five-part sections which exploit the high treble compass, is characteristically English in conception, and the work stands as testimony to the vocal and musical accomplishments of pre-reformation choral foundations.
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http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_m...nth.jpg?195096He's a future astrophysicist, a martial artist, a College Degree holder at the age of 11, and he doesn't like video games. Child prodigy Moshe Kai Cavalin graduated with honors from East Los Angeles Community College just last week, and made it known to the world that he thinks video games are "a waste of time."
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Virtual wall builds invisible barrier and could stop spread of oil spills
December 4, 2013 12:23 pm | CommentsThe outer shell of a droplet of oil on a surface has a thin skin which allows it to hold its shape like a small dome. Researchers at the Univ. of Missouri have developed a technique to form a virtual wall for oily liquids that will help confine them to a certain area, aiding researchers who are studying these complex molecules. The finding could also help halt industrial oil spills.
Study: Ocean crust lavas could store many centuries of industrial carbon dioxide
December 4, 2013 10:54 am | CommentsAt high pressures and low temperatures, such as those in the deep oceans, carbon dioxide occurs as a liquid that is denser than seawater. Researchers in England have identified regions beneath the oceans where the igneous rocks of the upper ocean crust could safely store very large volumes of carbon dioxide.
The engineering behind additive manufacturing and the 3-D printing revolution
December 4, 2013 10:46 am | by Cecile J. Gonzalez, National Science Foundation | CommentsWhile 3-D pens and printers are enjoyed by students, artists and makers, innovative American companies are using similar equipment to manufacture aerospace, automotive and medical technologies. Many of the foundational techniques for additive manufacturing, such as selective laser sintering, sheet lamination and 3-D printing, have their roots in discoveries and patents from the 1980s.
Researchers demonstrate new way to sustain high-performance fusion plasmas
December 4, 2013 10:42 am | CommentsA multinational team led by Chinese researchers in collaboration with U.S. and European partners has successfully demonstrated a novel technique for suppressing instabilities that can cut short the life of controlled fusion reactions. The team combined the new technique with a method that Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has developed for protecting the walls that surround the hot, charged plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions.
New tool profiles critical regulatory structures of RNA molecules
December 4, 2013 10:34 am | CommentsScientists at Penn State Univ. have developed a method that enables a more accurate prediction of how ribonucleic acid molecules (RNAs) fold within living cells, shedding new light on how plants, as well as other living organisms, respond to environmental conditions. The advance was made possible by the ability to analyze more than 10,000 RNA molecules in a single cell.
Researchers to map step-by-step mechanism of photosynthesis
December 4, 2013 8:32 am | CommentsWith support from the Photosynthetic Systems Div. at the U.S. Dept. of Energy, researchers in the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are expanding a successful research program to uncover the minute workings of the photosynthetic protein, Photosystem II. The high-impact research, led by prof. K.V. Lakshmi, seeks to adapt photosynthesis for artificial use as an abundant source of renewable energy.
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December 4, 2013 8:28 am | by Ann Ju, Cornell Univ. | CommentsA collaboration of physicists and engineers has found a new way to control electron spins not with a magnetic field but with a mechanical oscillator. This demonstration of electron spin resonance that's "shaken, not stirred" showed that an oscillator can drive the transitions of electron spins within defects commonly found in the crystal lattice of a diamond.
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December 4, 2013 8:19 am | CommentsA team working at the SACLA x-ray Free-Electron Laser in Japan has, for the first time, succeeded in generating ultra-bright, two-color x-ray laser pulses in the hard x-ray region. These light pulses have different wavelengths whose time separation can be adjusted with attosecond accuracy. They could be powerful tools for investigating the structure of matter and the dynamics of ultrafast physical processes and chemical reactions.
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A leap forward in x-ray technology
December 4, 2013 7:47 am | by David Chandler, MIT News Office | CommentsX-rays transformed medicine a century ago by providing a noninvasive way to detect internal structures in the body. Still, they have limitations: X-rays cannot image the body's soft tissues, except with the use of contrast-enhancing agents that must be swallowed or injected, and their resolution is limited. But a newly developed approach could dramatically change that.
Updated healthcare.gov gets mixed reviews
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Federal study warns of sudden climate change woes
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NIST announces new center to enable "materials by design"
December 3, 2013 2:30 pm | CommentsA consortium led by Northwestern Univ. will establish a new NIST-sponsored center of excellence for advanced materials research. The Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD) will be funded in part by a $25 million award from NIST over five years and will focus on computational tools, databases and experimental techniques to allow "materials by design", a major goal of the Materials Genome Initiative.
Hubble Telescope best shot at learning comet fate
December 3, 2013 2:10 pm | by Marcia Dunn, AP Aerospace Writer | CommentsNASA said Monday that the Hubble Space Telescope is the best bet for figuring out whether Comet ISON disintegrated during its brush with the sun last week. A pair of solar observatories saw something emerge from around the sun following ISON's close approach on Thanksgiving Day. But scientists don't yet know whether the spot of light was merely the comet's shattered remains or what's left of its icy nucleus.


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Hypothesis Testing (Encyclopedia of Psychology)
The method psychologists employ to prove or disprove the validity of their hypotheses.
When psychologists engage in research, they generate specific questions called hypotheses. Research hypotheses are informed speculations about the likely results
You conclude that the two groups differ so you reject the Null Hypothesis. | You conclude that the two groups do not differ so you fail to reject the Null Hypothesis. | |
Two groups really do differ | You correctly rejected the Null Hypothesis. You made a good decision. | You made a Type II error. You should have said there is a difference, but you made a mistake and said there wasn't. |
Two groups really do not differ | You made a Type I error. You said that the groups are different, but you made a mistake. | You correctly failed to reject the Null Hypothesis. You said that the groups are not different, and... |
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Hypothesis Testing (Encyclopedia of Management)
Social science research, and by extension business research, uses a number of different approaches to study a variety of issues. This research may be a very informal, simple process or it may be a formal, somewhat sophisticated process. Regardless of the type of process, all research begins with a generalized idea in the form of a research question or a hypothesis. A research question usually is posed in the beginning of a research effort or in a specific area of study that has had little formal research. A research question may take the form of a basic question about some issue or phenomena or a question about the relationship between two or more variables. For example, a research question might be: "Do flexible work hours improve employee productivity?" Another question might be: "How do flexible hours influence employees' work?"
A hypothesis differs from a research question; it is more specific and makes a prediction. It is a tentative statement about the relationship between two or more variables. The major difference between a research question and a hypothesis is that a hypothesis predicts an experimental outcome. For example, a hypothesis might state: "There is a positive relationship between the availability of flexible work hours and employee productivity."
Hypotheses provide the following benefits:
- They determine the focus and direction for a research effort.
- Their development forces the researcher to clearly state the purpose of the research activity.
- They determine what variables will not be considered in a study, as well as those that will be considered.
- They require the researcher to have an operational definition of the variables of interest.
The worth of a hypothesis often depends on the researcher's skills. Since the hypothesis is the basis of a research study, it is necessary for the hypothesis be developed with a great deal of thought and contemplation. There are basic criteria to consider when developing a hypothesis, in order to ensure that it meets the needs of the study and the researcher. A good hypothesis should:
- Have logical consistency. Based on the current research literature and knowledge base, does this hypothesis make sense?
- Be in step with the current literature and/or provide a good basis for any differences. Though it does not have to support the current body of literature, it is necessary to provide a good rationale for stepping away from the mainstream.
- Be testable. If one cannot design the means to conduct the research, the hypothesis means nothing.
- Be stated in clear and simple terms in order to reduce confusion.
Hypothesis testing is a systematic method used to evaluate data and aid the decision-making process. Following is a typical series of steps involved in hypothesis testing:
- State the hypotheses of interest
- Determine the appropriate test statistic
- Specify the level of statistical significance
- Determine the decision rule for rejecting or not rejecting the null hypothesis
- Collect the data and perform the needed calculations
- Decide to reject or not reject the null hypothesis
Each step in the process will be discussed in detail, and an example will follow the discussion of the steps.
A research study includes at least two hypotheseshe null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. The hypothesis being tested is referred to as the null hypothesis and it is designated as H It also is referred to as the hypothesis of no difference and should include a statement of equality (=, or £). The alternative hypothesis presents the alternative to the null and includes a statement of inequality (. The null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis are complementary.
The null hypothesis is the statement that is believed to be correct throughout the analysis, and it is the null hypothesis upon which the analysis is based. For example, the null hypothesis might state that the average age of entering college freshmen is 21 years.
H0 The average age of entering college freshman = 21 years
If the data one collects and analyzes indicates that the average age of entering college freshmen is greater than or less than 21 years, the null hypothesis is rejected. In this case the alternative hypothesis could be stated in the following three ways: (1) the average age of entering college freshman is not 21 years (the average age of entering college freshmen 21); (2) the average age of entering college freshman is less than 21 years (the average age of entering college freshmen < 21); or (3) the average age of entering college freshman is greater than 21 years (the average age of entering college freshmen > 21 years).
The choice of which alternative hypothesis to use is generally determined by the study's objective. The preceding second and third examples of alternative hypotheses involve the use of a "one-tailed" statistical test. This is referred to as "one-tailed" because a direction (greater than [>] or less than [<]) is implied in the statement. The first example represents a "two-tailed" test. There is inequality expressed (age 21 years), but the inequality does not imply direction. One-tailed tests are used more often in management and marketing research because there usually is a need to imply a specific direction in the outcome. For example, it is more likely that a researcher would want to know if Product A performed better than Product B (Product A performance > Product B performance), or vice versa (Product A performance < Product B performance), rather than whether Product A performed differently than Product B (Product A performance Product B performance). Additionally, more useful information is gained by knowing that employees who work from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. are more productive than those who work from 3:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. (early shift employee production > late shift employee production), rather than simply knowing that these employees have different levels of productivity (early shift employee production late shift employee production).
Both the alternative and the null hypotheses must be determined and stated prior to the collection of data. Before the alternative and null hypotheses can be formulated it is necessary to decide on the desired or expected conclusion of the research. Generally, the desired conclusion of the study is stated in the alternative hypothesis. This is true as long as the null hypothesis can include a statement of equality. For example, suppose that a researcher is interested in exploring the effects of amount of study time on tests scores. The researcher believes that students who study longer perform better on tests. Specifically, the research suggests that students who spend four hours studying for an exam will get a better score than those who study two hours. In this case the hypotheses might be:
H0 The average test scores of students who study 4 hours for the test = the average test scores of those who study 2 hours.
H1 The average test score of students who study 4 hours for the test < the average test scores of those who study 2 hours.
As a result of the statistical analysis, the null hypothesis can be rejected or not rejected. As a principle of rigorous scientific method, this subtle but important point means that the null hypothesis cannot be accepted. If the null is rejected, the alternative hypothesis can be accepted; however, if the null is not rejected, we can't conclude that the null hypothesis is true. The rationale is that evidence that supports a hypothesis is not conclusive, but evidence that negates a hypothesis is ample to discredit a hypothesis. The analysis of study time and test scores provides an example. If the results of one study indicate that the test scores of students who study 4 hours are significantly better than the test scores of students who study two hours, the null hypothesis can be rejected because the researcher has found one case when the null is not true. However, if the results of the study indicate that the test scores of those who study 4 hours are not significantly better than those who study 2 hours, the null hypothesis cannot be rejected. One also cannot conclude that the null hypothesis is accepted because these results are only one set of score comparisons. Just because the null hypothesis is true in one situation does not mean it is always true.
The appropriate test statistic (the statistic to be used in statistical hypothesis testing) is based on various characteristics of the sample population of interest, including sample size and distribution. The test statistic can assume many numerical values. Since the value of the test statistic has a significant effect on the decision, one must use the appropriate statistic in order to obtain meaningful results. Most test statistics follow this general pattern:
For example, the appropriate statistic to use when testing a hypothesis about a population means is:
In this formula Z = test statistic, X= mean of the sample, μ = mean of the population, = standard deviation of the sample, and η = number in the sample.
As previously noted, one can reject a null hypothesis or fail to reject a null hypothesis. A null hypothesis that is rejected may, in reality, be true or false. Additionally, a null hypothesis that fails to be rejected may, in reality, be true or false. The outcome that a researcher desires is to reject a false null hypothesis or to fail to reject a true null hypothesis. However, there always is the possibility of rejecting a true hypothesis or failing to reject a false hypothesis.
Rejecting a null hypothesis that is true is called a Type I error and failing to reject a false null hypothesis is called a Type II error. The probability of committing a Type I error is termed α and the probability of committing a Type II error is termed β. As the value of α increases, the probability of committing a Type I error increases. As the value of β increases, the probability of committing a Type II error increases. While one would like to decrease the probability of committing of both types of errors, the reduction of α results in the increase of β and vice versa. The best way to reduce the probability of decreasing both types of error is to increase sample size.
The probability of committing a Type I error, α, is called the level of significance. Before data is collected one must specify a level of significance, or the probability of committing a Type I error (rejecting a true null hypothesis). There is an inverse relationship between a researcher's desire to avoid making a Type I error and the selected value of α; if not making the error is particularly important, a low probability of making the error is sought. The greater the desire is to not reject a true null hypothesis, the lower the selected value of α. In theory, the value of α can be any value between 0 and 1. However, the most common values used in social science research are .05, .01, and .001, which respectively correspond to the levels of 95 percent, 99 percent, and 99.9 percent likelihood that a Type I error is not being made. The tradeoff for choosing a higher level of certainty (significance) is that it will take much stronger statistical evidence to ever reject the null hypothesis.
Before data are collected and analyzed it is necessary to determine under what circumstances the null hypothesis will be rejected or fail to be rejected. The decision rule can be stated in terms of the computed test statistic, or in probabilistic terms. The same decision will be reached regardless of which method is chosen.
The method of data collection is determined early in the research process. Once a research question is determined, one must make decisions regarding what type of data is needed and how the data will be collected. This decision establishes the bases for how the data will be analyzed. One should use only approved research methods for collecting and analyzing data.
This step involves the application of the decision rule. The decision rule allows one to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis. If one rejects the null hypothesis, the alternative hypothesis can be accepted. However, as discussed earlier, if one fails to reject the null he or she can only suggest that the null may be true.
XYZ Corporation is a company that is focused on a stable workforce that has very little turnover. XYZ has been in business for 50 years and has more than 10,000 employees. The company has always promoted the idea that its employees stay with them for a very long time, and it has used the following line in its recruitment brochures: "The average tenure of our employees is 20 years." Since XYZ isn't quite sure if that statement is still true, a random sample of 100 employees is taken and the average age turns out to be 19 years with a standard deviation of 2 years. Can XYZ continue to make its claim, or does it need to make a change?
- State the hypotheses.
H0 = 20 years
H1 20 years - Determine the test statistic. Since we are testing a population mean that is normally distributed, the appropriate test statistic is:
- Specify the significance level. Since the firm would like to keep its present message to new recruits, it selects a fairly weak significance level (α = .05). Since this is a two-tailed test, half of the alpha will be assigned to each tail of the distribution. In this situation the critical values of Z = +1.96 and .96.
- State the decision rule. If the computed value of Z is greater than or equal to +1.96 or less than or equal to .96, the null hypothesis is rejected.
- Calculations.
- Reject or fail to reject the null. Since 2.5 is greater than 1.96, the null is rejected. The mean tenure is not 20 years, therefore XYZ needs to change its statement.
Anderson, David R., Dennis J. Sweeney, and Thomas A. Williams. Statistics for Business and Economics. 9th ed. Mason, OH: South-Western College Publishing, 2004.
Kerlinger, Fred N., and Howard B. Lee. Foundations of Behavioral Research. 4th ed. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College Publishers, 2000.
Pedhazur, Elazar J., and Liora Pedhazur Schmelkin. Measurement, Design, and Analysis: An Integrated Approach. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991.
Schwab, Donald P. Research Methods for Organizational Studies. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.
Hypothesis Testing (Encyclopedia of Business)
Hypothesis testing, the backbone of the scientific method, is a methodology for evaluating a business or economic theory. A hypothesis is a proposition or statement about the worlderived from any source, from whim or fancy, from accumulated knowledge, from dominant or heretical ideas, from prejudices, or from guesseshat is capable of being confronted with facts and is thus capable of being refuted or confirmed by those facts. In any field of science, from physics and chemistry to economics and sociology, practitioners often pursue questions using this method, generally referred to as the scientific method. The overarching process involves the formulation of hypotheses (statements), testing them against the facts, and rejecting those statements that are refuted or reformulating them in accordance with information derived from the testing. Business and economic applications of hypothesis testing include researching consumer behavior, formulating economic models, and evaluating corporate strategies, among many others.
In many of the natural sciences, hypothesis testing takes place in the context of controlled laboratory experiments (so as to isolate a particular phenomenon or causal effect). For example, a medical researcher may wish to test the proposition that smoking causes lung cancer. In order to properly test the hypothesis, he or she might try to look at identical individuals in identical environments, with the only difference (assuming that all other factors could be controlled) being that one group smokes while the other group (the control group) does not. If the group that smoked eventually developed lung cancer, the researcher could conclude that his or her hypothesis was confirmed.
By contrast, in the social sciences, investigators often resort to secondary analysis; statistical methods are employed to analyze data because social phenomenon are rarely, if ever, amenable to laboratory-type experiments. Hypotheses are tested using statistical techniques in order to infer conclusions about a population from information obtained from a subset (or sample) of that population. Statistical inference (based on laws of probability) is then used to test whether a particular observed phenomenon is due to chance.
For example, we might wish to test whether the observation that men's wages on average are significantly higher than women's wages is not a random event characteristic of a particular sample of the men and women we surveyed. To test this we would formulate a null hypothesis that the true mean wages of men and women are equal. To err on the conservative side, null hypotheses generally assume there is no relationship between the factors being observed; the logic being that it is a lesser mistake to fail to find a relationship than to assert falsely that there is one. In our example, this would mean we assume there is no difference in pay attributable to sex. If the statistical evidence is strong enough, however, we reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternativehat the differences are not due to chance.
We could then discuss why this might be the case. This is where the controversy would arise. Hypothesis testing may allow the researcher to find a connection between observed phenomena, but a simple correlation does not necessarily identify or explain the causes or dynamics of that relationship. In other words, it would be premature to conclude that sex discrimination is the cause, even if we have concluded that wages are materially different. To test the discrimination theory, a new hypothesisnd a new means of testing itould have to be devised. Of course it is one thing to posit a hypothesis and quite another to devise a meaningful test of it. In this example, while it may be easy enough to prove a correlation between sex and pay, it would be much more complicated to demonstrate how the difference is put into effect; the project would likely involve a series of additional hypotheses relating to specific, measurable indicators of discrimination and other factors that could affect wages.
In econometrics, the branch of economic statistics that most often deals with hypothesis testing, an investigator might assume some relationship between variables for purposes of statistical testing. For example, a tax on corporate income might be posited to be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices. One way of testing this hypothesis would be to test the hypothesis that prices are correlated with the tax. Other common hypotheses tested are that the quantity of a good demanded depends on the price of the good. Another repeatedly confirmed hypothesis is that variation in the money supply in an economy is associated with variation in the price level of the economy. In all of these cases correlation is easily shownhat is to say, all of these hypotheses have been largely confirmed. Again, the drawback in this type of analysis is that while hypothesis tests can establish correlation between variables, they cannot explain how and why systems function as they do. For example, does a change in the money supply lead to a change in prices? Or, conversely, does a change in prices lead to a change in the money supply? Does some other variable, or variables, lead to a change in both the money supply and the price level? Differing reasonable explanations abound. Thus, while certain confirmed hypotheses might exhibit substantial predictive power, in order to gain a more complete understanding of any subject, empirical testing must be embedded in a larger context of historical and theoretical reasoning about the world.
Much of the research in the social sciences (and various business applications) relies on statistical methods that allow the researcher to make general statements about a population from information derived from a sample. These statistical methods then allow the researcher to separate the effects of systematic variation of a variable from mere chance effects. As mentioned, this technique is especially useful in the social sciences because many phenomena cannot be isolated or controlled in a laboratory-type setting, as in the physical sciences. Many tests of economic hypotheses, for example, take the form of testing parameters of linear regression models. To illustrate, suppose an economic relation is hypothesized to take the form
where Y is supposed to represent observations of the dependent variable and X is supposed to represent observations of explanatory (or causal) variables. The quantity B is a coefficient that expresses the relationship between the independent variables and the hypothesized dependent variables, while e is a vector of residual terms that are assumed to be independent of one another (or random). Hypothesis tests could then be formulated by placing restrictions on one or more of the coefficients and testing whether certain variables (alone or in concert) have an effect on Y. Thus, one might hypothesize that consumption expenditures are related to income, or wages, wealth, and certain other variables. We could then posit the null hypothesis that, for example, consumption is not a function of income, holding other variables constant (i.e., that the coefficient for B is zero) Then, if the null hypothesis is rejected, that would imply that a measurable portion of the variation in consumption expenditures (captured in the parameter B) is explained by the variation in income.
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Thus, one of the philosophical tenets of the method of positivist science puts forward a view of the scientific investigator as the neutral observer of historical and physical phenomena, one who assumes the role of selecting and testing facts. Of course, facts always require interpretation. Indeed, some would argue that we can't separate science from ideology, as everyone speaks from some point of view, but we can openly recognize perspectives for what they are. In this sense it may be inaccurate to view science as a strictly neutral observation of the world, particularly in fields where there are many competing interpretations of the facts; of course, this doesn't mean that basic and uncontested scientific ideas need to be scrutinized by every lay observer.
Within any particular natural or social science, hypotheses that have been confirmed (by replication and verification) and accepted are often elevated to the status of laws. Laws are valued because they have substantial predictive power and because they can account for certain regularities in nature or society. These laws, however, do not explain the regularities, the facts; they only describe them. In other words, to explain why a phenomena occurs we turn to a larger context, typically to abstract forces for which often no direct observational evidence exists but which may be discerned by the array of phenomena generated by these forces. For example, one cannot observe gravity directly but one can observe (measure, test etc.) the phenomena that the force of gravity generates in different contexts (e.g., a person jumping off a building will fall at a particular speed, the moon revolving around earth will travel a particular path at a particular speed). The strength of hypothesis testing lies in its ability to glean patterns in an apparently chaotic world, thereby directing the researcher towards which phenomena to look for and what questions to ask.
[John A. Sarich]
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Transform any drink into a slushy with the Slushy Magic Maker Kit! Just shake it up, and chill it down! No ice, No blender, No MESS!How it works:
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slushy awsomeness !!!!!!!!!!!
This is soooooo cool . The magic cubes freeze the drink in no time !!!!!!! Overall great and tastes really good when u put lemonade in it ! Going to buy another ...Read complete review
This is soooooo cool . The magic cubes freeze the drink in no time !!!!!!! Overall great and tastes really good when u put lemonade in it ! Going to buy another one soon !
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My little boys, 4 and 6, loved this commercial and I was surprised to find it and get it online at Toysrus.com. My oldest boy, 13, was upset I didn't get him one...Read complete review
My little boys, 4 and 6, loved this commercial and I was surprised to find it and get it online at Toysrus.com. My oldest boy, 13, was upset I didn't get him one. He uses it all the time.Really cool to use ANY juice or liquid. The "cubes" take up A LOT of the room in the cup leaving maybe half the cup full...
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does not work
By andrew
from Elkridge MD
About Me Casual Cook
Comments about Ontel Products Corp Slushy Magic Drink Maker Kit:
this product was horrable in many ways for Ex the cup leaked and we had to put a ton of paper towls down there was still juice everywhere, plus the worst thing about this product is that it does not work! what we saw was just a cold drink or soda also one of the magic freezer cubes bust and there was a hole in it we are very dissapointed with this product
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Piece of Wasted Plastic
By Idisklikeslushymagic
from Lakeside, CA
The lid leaksWon't turn into slush even after 15 minutes of shaking and 20 minutes of putting it in a freezer to make it colderWaste of Money, Time, and Juice
(0 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
All work and half slush
By Peeved Mom
from Michigan
We froze the cubes solid and attempted to make some slush. I shook that thing for 3 minutes and maybe 1/2 of it was slushy. Was not worth the money we paid for it.
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A bit too much
By Peggy the
from Dearborn Heights, MI
I purchased two of the cups for the 7th birthday of twin boy/girl I nanny for. They were REALLY EXCITED! I like the product, but the two disappointments I have are: 1. It takes quite a bit of time to get the drinks to freeze, even w/extremely cold beverages. 2. It's much messier than I thought. The liquid seemed to leak out from the lid even w/your finger over the hole on the top. Bottom line is it's a fun product that DOES work, but it's not perfect if that's what you're expecting. I actually am about to purchase another one soon as a gift for yet another child I nanny for. Kids love fun things! :)
Magic? I don't think so!
By Kat the busy mother
from Copley, OH
My kids were thrilled when they saw the gift I got them, but when we went to use it, there were some problems! It was easy to clean, but it made hardly anything, and the only drink that it really "slushified" was apple cider! So really you are only getting a super cold drink, and nothing like the pictures on the box! My kids never used it again.
Good product!! Works well!
By MommaS
from NH
This item works as described. Some things turn to slush better than others. I think juice works the best. It's best if parents do the shaking as to not make a mess. Enjoyed this!
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Arms were tired but kids loved it
By Jenny from Tenny
from Nashville, TN
Kids loved the end result we finally achieved from Slushee Magic, but it required us to shake it up for at least twice as long as the instructions stated. We followed the directions exactly and made sure everything was very cold, but we still had to shake forever. In the end though, kids were happy and slushees were delicious. We will definitely use this product again!
(2 of 8 customers found this review helpful)
By momof2
from Loveland, co
don't buy it is waste of time and money: It does not work. My kids and I were shaking it for over 30 min.
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Love this product
By Lovethislifegal
from Foster City, CA
This is a great product! Works well. Fast and easy. I just froze the ice cubes beforehand and then used cold lemonade. After letting the drink sit in the cup for a minute with the ice cubes, I only had to shake it for 1-2 minutes before my lemonade became a lemon slushy. My kids LOVE it and we can't wait to try new flavors. Awesome product!
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Slushy Magic Works!
By value25
from Los Angeles, California
We have made slushys out of many different drinks and sluhsy magic works great. If you follow the instructions and use a cold drink, all 3 cubes and shake for about 1-2 minutes it is amazing. The kids love it and make them for themselves.
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Go AMD! Wow! This is not that great of a card! AMD all the way for the sub-$200 market! There's No Sli support!? And at the price range its at you can get a way faster HD 7850 1 gb or dual 7750's in Crossfire with comparative performance towards a HD 7870! Nvidia's Terrible in their lower end GPU's and always have been!
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Great review W1zz I like the new benches I just installed F1 2012 like 11 hours ago was sent all the way from UK. Looks like my 2x 4850's get the same FPS as the GTX 650 so if I went for this it would give me about 30% upgrade and cost the same as one of my 4850's lol. And save me big on power!
The sub 1280MB cards cannot handle Max Payne 3 in 1080p with 4X MSAA. http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/09/13/asus_geforce_gtx_660_directcu_ii_video_card_review/3
Dude, read the review the GTX 650 Ti is actually better on both power and heat.... the price is a bit high but apart from that, its a good card i think.
This card is butt ugly... Asus seems to have been recycling all their 670 DC2 type coolers and forced using them on shorter PCBs in turn making it look like crap... Oh well, just the looks anyhow, performance should still be excellent... p.s. They must have some kind of oversupply to this type of cooler or they just maybe don't want to re-tool from their manufacturing line...
. As long as the performance per dollar of the 7850 is better than the 650Ti , then I don't think it's a good deal. May as well get a 7850.
Although this card isent that fast,the low power consumption,low heat and low noise makes it ideal for some users,most people here are gamers that why they dont understand that.
Because even if it is the most efficient and quietest card ever, if it can't handle even 1080p resolution what's the point?
These cards look like deliberately made for below 1600X1200 gaming; i mean ~ not with such crippled memory bandwidth and pixel fillrate would you put these cards anywhere near GTX560 Ti or HD6950 levels, but for the price range the less chopped GTX 650 Ti looks very competitive. GTX 650, however, is piece of trash, if it can not beat HD5770, it surely has got nothing on HD7770 for the same price.


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