Thank you, Jim. It is an Intro Stats class and those are exactly the kinds of
problems they would need to practice.
Rick
Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
John Brown University
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
rfro...@jbu.edu
Fro
Hi
You don't mention what tests you want students to practice, but I have some
small sets of review problems for intro stats (binomial / sign test, various
t-tests, ANOVA, regression, chi2) at:
http://ion.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark/teach/2101/
The reviews are zReview_#.pdf, where # is 1, 2, or 3. Th
Does anyone know of any sites on the web that would provide students with
scenarios on which they could practice their skills in selecting an appropriate
inferential test?
Rick
Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
John Brown University
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
rfro
Timely,eh?
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Dominance has been related to scent, and the response to scents, in
nonhuman animals, for decades. Accordingly, it is quite reasonable to suspect
that human scents might also signal dominance status. Many years ago I
demonstrated that wild mice respond differently to traps that are s
Hi
Just to confirm several of John's observations about teaching individual
differences (see JC: comments below).
James M. Clark
Professor of Psychology
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Stephen, thanks for your openness and insights ... so
Stephen, thanks for your openness and insights ... some people tell jokes,
personally I prefer the Freudian defense of intellectualization :-) ...
Seriously, this topic IS relevant to teaching, especially in measurement, which
I teach. So here goes: (1) the existence of group differences often n
What might make for an interesting critical-thinking activity for students
would be to have them read either the abstract or the summary of the study
available online
(http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-people-personality-body-odor.html) and
then ask the students what questions they might ha
Annette Taylor wrote, "..(the) mere exposure effect is the tendency to
like something better the more you've been exposed to it."
And thank goodness for that! Without the "mere exposure effect" I'd have no
friends at all!! ;-)
Ed
Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psyc
Very interesting. As I wrote the post is was in the back of my mind that
smelling testosterone is a possibility, so dominance could be a reasonable
trait to measure. Interesting info about the Big Five possibly becoming the
Big Six. I'll definitely have a read of the article Scott.
Michael
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In at least some observer ratings studies of non-human animal (e.g.,
chimpanzee) personality (plenty of controversy here; Sam Gosling at U of Texas
is the "to go" person to for this literature), dominance has emerged as a sixth
factor in addition to the Big Five. Its inclusion here along with t
Agreed that it has a lot of the indicators we use to question the validity of a
finding.
However, I think it is possible, even likely, that body odor could be connected
to dominance. Testosterone is related to dominance and it spreads to a lot of
body fluids. That some odor unique to testoster
Lately we've been talking about the need to inject new journal review
procedures
(http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2011/11/ep-165-video-psychological-research-under-fire-what-can-we-do-about-it/).
Well, this is a little "armchair review", but I saw this articled summarized
on a website yesterday a
Social facilitation and mere exposure are separate effects, both studied by
Zajonc.
Zajonc (1965) proposed a solution to the problems of presence of others on
performance, social facilitation. The 60+ years of previous research had been
somewhat confusing because sometimes improved performance
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