Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi all
I promise to let you know what Iacono replied if he did. Here it is verbatim, I
copied it and insert his reply. (Aren't you proud of me Kathy). Happy
reading!!
jackief
William G. Iacono wrote:
> Thanks for sending me the info on Honts criticisms of our work. The
> criticisms are without merit and hardly deserve acknowledgement, and I don't
> have time to point out why all of them are off base. But consider the
> following...
>
> In the published account of the survey (Journal of Applied Psychology,
> 1997), we point out that because the survey was prepared for a book chapter
> that Raskin, Honts and Kircher as well as Iacono and Lykken were
> contributing to, we eliminated ourselves as well as them from the survey
> pool (presumably our opinions were well represented in our contributions to
> this book). Since there were almost 200 hundred respondents to the survey,
> it is not possible for the elimination of ourselves or them to have had any
> significant effect on the outcome.
>
> Second, we agreed to share the data with Honts and Amato provided certain
> conditions were met, such as there having their request reviewed by their
> university IRB (the Board that approves research with humans as meeting
> ethical standards). Apparently they didn't like the conditions.
>
> Third, when we examined the results of our survey for just well informed
> respondents, the results were not significantly different from those of less
> well informed respondents for almost all of the questions, including the one
> about which of the 4 statements "best describes your own opinion of
> polygraph test interpretations" that was asked on all three surveys. In the
> Gallup survey, comparing more informed to less informed respondents also
> produced no significant differences as a result of how informed respondents
> were. Only the Amato and Honts survey, to which only a third of those polled
> responded, found a difference between more and less informed respondents.
> This response anomaly is most likely due to their having a sample that is
> not comparable to those in the other two surveys because it is not
> representative.
>
> I hope this information is useful to you.
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