If automation can cause skill degradation among an elite group of professionals who train for years, imagine what it may do to drivers, who are tested only once (when they get their driver's license) and have a much broader range of driving abilities.
Of course, employers may have concerns that longer durations of unemployment actually cause workers' skills to atrophy, regardless of what their skills were before they were laid off.
The problem is that children from low-income families are less likely to read Harry Potter or much else during the summer, which causes their skills to atrophy when school is out of session.
Additionally, they might show differences in identifying individual medication-related issues and patient needs, the intensity of the pharmacist-patient contact as well as in education and communication skills causing variances in outcomes.
Simulated/real patients stimulated students to practise of physical examination skills, initially causing confusion and anxiety about skill performance but leading to increased feelings of competence.
Yet the government has largely bought the Treasury argument that more immigration is a good thing for the economy, plugging the gaps caused by skill shortages and offsetting some of the burden of an ageing population.
Lost in Showbiz has, and it can tell you for a fact that one thing that would have alleviated the unending ghastliness of the experience is a hefty slug of some opiate-based substance reputed to cause motor-skill impairment, lethargy, drowsiness and a dissociative feeling from all other parts of the body.
Even if the data highlight strong trends, it may still not be clear which are caused by skill and which by luck, says Jay Kadane, a statistics professor at Carnegie Mellon University who studies games.Perhaps a better way to win over judges and lawmakers would be to highlight poker's place in the American psyche.
Only a prospective panel design can provide insights into the effects of basic skills for example on (a) participation and opportunities or risks in the labor market, e.g. income or unemployment, (b) participation in continuing education as outlined above, and (c) causes for skill maintenance and development.
