Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Drugs, usually depressants, that increase the likelihood that a person will talk without inhibition. Used in psychotherapy or interrogation. One of several hypnotic drugs supposedly having the effect of causing a person on questioning to talk freely and without inhibition. In actual practice, serum is not given, but a short acting barbiturate or benzodiazepine is…

A movement to require publishers of standardized tests to permit examination of scoring keys and answer sheets.  

A distribution that covers less than the complete range of scores.  

In epidemiology, related to tests of validity, labeling cases, or characteristics correctly, ct: true negatives.  

In epidemiology, related to tests of validity labeling noncases or the absence of characteristics correctly, true positives.  

Persons born with the gonads of both sexes pseudohermaphrodism.  

That part of the atmosphere located between the earth’s surface and the stratosphere. In this stratum, convective disturbances occur, clouds form, and the temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.  

Having to do with a turning or change.  

That which is tranquil, restorative, or nurturing, ergotropic.  

A layer of cells that develop over the surface of the blastocyst and help in the ovum’s adherence to the uterine wall plus other cells eventually form the placenta trophoblastic cells. Tissue which forms the wall of a blastocyst. The tissue that forms the wall of the blastocyst. At implantation it forms two layers, an…