There's a saying that nobody likes a bully, but I think the more likely statement is that nobody likes the person being bullied.
By contrast, significantly fewer participants in the instructed group endorsed these beliefs (chi square ps < .001), instead they predominately endorsed the ' equally likely' statement in each stimulus.
On closer examination of the instructed group, it was found that two participants endorsed the hierarchical 'more likely' statement in the beer stimulus, two endorsed this belief in the chocolate stimulus, and one endorsed this belief in both stimuli.
These participants were labelled as a non-compliant sub-group, and as Fig. 5B indicates, they showed a PIT effect whereas the compliant sub-group (who endorsed the 'equally likely' statement in both stimuli) did not.
Most likely, activity statements will be captured passively or require one-click approval from the user before xAPI statements are added to the experience graph.
In later work (1989), Williams proposes, more temperately, that they may be 'optimistic internal reasons claims': likely false statements made in the hope that they may become true through the intended audience's contemplation of them.
I have written pages of intense, loathing-filled, most likely unforgivable statements.
An important question regarding such networks is how to assess the degree of confidence in each statement, that is, how likely the statement is to be correct.
"Most likely, their statement will reflect both sides of the risk spectrum.
"A downgrade is likely," a statement said, "if the government fails to secure needed market financing, the political commitment to the fiscal adjustment program falters, or the economic environment weakens".
