This "digital divide" worries Mr Gore: "How," he asked in a recent speech, "do we make sure that everyone has the chance to compete and win in this new knowledge-based economy?" His answer is to extend Mr Clinton's commitment to reducing class size, and to give children a better start by making pre-school education universal.Restless mind, heavy handThus far, Mr Gore's scientism seems benign.
Supporting 21st century health care and the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM) requires ubiquitous access to clinical information and to knowledge-based resources to answer clinical questions.
In March, IT security journalist Brian Krebs warned that the IRS' process for verifying the identities of people requesting a tax transcript was vulnerable to exploitation, because it relied on knowledge-based questions whose answers could be found through public records, stolen credit reports or leaked personal information.
Overconfidence is commonly measured by asking participants to answer knowledge-based questions in a multiple choice format and to indicate their level of confidence in each answer.
Internet users seem to have high levels of mental health literacy and are well able to answer knowledge-based questions regarding psychological disorders [ 16].
Four participants used prior knowledge only to answer all knowledge acquisition questions, whereas eight participants used cut-and-paste or paraphrasing (from the content on the site) to answer knowledge-based questions.
For the web-based survey, descriptive statistics were used to estimate the proportion of respondents correctly answering the knowledge-based questions and those who had specific attitudes and behaviours regarding immunization and immunization education.
Binary logistic regression was used to assess the significance of each background variable (educational qualifications, age, sex, nationality, years of experience, current employment, working hours per day and previous advice or education on tooth avulsion) in explaining the likelihood of answering each knowledge-based question correctly.
An overall knowledge score was determined based on the sum of correct answers to the 16 knowledge-based questions.
The likelihood of answering most of the knowledge-based questions correctly was significantly greater among the respondents who had received previous advice or education on tooth avulsion.
For a knowledge-based system that fails to provide the correct answer, it is important to be able to tune the system while minimizing overall change in the knowledge-base.
