Howard Wainer
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Visual Revelations
To function in modern society complex data must be absorbed and understood at a breakneck pace. The most efficient way to do this is through data-based graphics.
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Medical Illuminations
Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there's no chance for a second opinion, do you agree?
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Picturing the Uncertain World – How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display
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Eric T. Bradlow
Eric T. (University of Pennsylvania) Bradlow
Xiaohui Wang
Xiaohui (University of Virginia) Wang
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications
The measurement models employed to score tests have been evolving over the past century from those that focus on the entire test (true score theory) to models that focus on individual test items (item response theory) to models that use small groups of items (testlets) as the fungible unit from which tests are constructed and scored (testlet response theory, or TRT).
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Daniel H. (University of Texas, Arlington) Robinson
Testing and the Paradoxes of Fairness
Tests are better than other metrics like high school GPA or letters of recommendation at predicting individual performance, but they can also exhibit racial, class, and sex disparities.
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