Methods for discovering which language is the hardest to learn
Languages differ in how hard they are to learn, they are not just 'different' or some other relativistic nonsense. Aside from intuitve estimates, is there some systematic way to measure…
Proposed method for estimating how much a person has read using an electronic library
Introduction Many studies show that self-assessment is hard and often biased in a positive direction, i.e., people tend to overestimate themselves. Therefore, if one wants a correct self-assessment one needs…
The web of belief approach: The case with Newton’s physics and relativity
This will not involve many science facts as the discussion is wholly philosophical in nature. This is an epistemological, not scientific essay, it just happens to use some facts of…