Re: [tips] Re:We are no.12 (Depending Upon How Count Things)

2010-08-11 Thread Michael Smith 
"American students are pre-occupied with media and technological crap
and tacky inventions. Let us bring back the slide rule."

I'd love to have a slide rule...but failing that you can use a virtual one :)

(http://www.taswegian.com/TwoHeaded/UniVirtual/UniVirtual.html)

--Mike

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:47 AM, michael sylvester
 wrote:
>
>
> Yeah! what is past is past.More people may be going to college today
> but the reality is that only 40% are graduating.We were once numero uno but
> now we are number 12.I agree that the U.S may have the highest number of
> people going to college but tey are not graduating.
> There could be many reasons for this: some people should never go to
> college,high schools are the culprits for poor preparations.profs are not
> doing a good job in motivating students to stay and graduate from
> college,American students are pre-occupied with media and technological crap
> and tacky inventions.Let us bring back the slide rule.
>
> Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
> Daytona Beach,Florida
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[tips] Re:We are no.12 (Depending Upon How Count Things)

2010-08-11 Thread michael sylvester 
Yeah! what is past is past.More people may be going to college today
but the reality is that only 40% are graduating.We were once numero uno but now 
we are number 12.I agree that the U.S may have the highest number of people 
going to college but tey are not graduating.
There could be many reasons for this: some people should never go to 
college,high schools are the culprits for poor preparations.profs are not doing 
a good job in motivating students to stay and graduate from college,American 
students are pre-occupied with media and technological crap and tacky 
inventions.Let us bring back the slide rule.

Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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[tips] If You Want More Sexual Partners, Get An iPhone

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Palij 
For the correlation-causation file:  an article on the Apple Insider website
reports the results of a "study" that shows that, compared to other cell
phones, owners of iPhones have more sexual partners.  Here's a link to
the article:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20359698 

The original "study" that the Apple Insider article is based on is described
in more detail in this blog which buries the sex partners angle in the middle
of the article; see:
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/ 

Look for the following:

|oh, also—iPhone users have more sex.
|File this under "icebreakers, MacWorld '11". Finally, statistical 
|proof that iPhone users aren't just getting f**ked by Apple:

Asterisks added. ;-)

-Mike Palij
New York University
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[tips] The Johnny Paycheck Stress Reduction Model

2010-08-11 Thread michael sylvester 
"Take this job and shove it.I ain't working here no more."
The Jet Blue flight attendant and his escape paradigm.
What stage of Hans Selye's model is involved here?

Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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RE: [tips] San Diego conversation

2010-08-11 Thread Jim Matiya 

Annette,
 One good thing about the football game. The Chargers are playing the Chicago 
Bears!
 
 
Jim


Jim Matiya 
Florida Gulf Coast University
jmat...@fgcu.edu 



From: tay...@sandiego.edu
To: tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:26:29 -0700
Subject: RE: [tips] San Diego conversation







 


Don't forget:
We are a military town. It is easy to forget that there is a HUGE military 
presence here. That brings in a conservative tone. Who'd a thunk the Pads would 
be in 1st place? They were predicted to mop up the cellar this season! Chargers 
preseason game on Sat; I live spitting distance to the stadium so I will not 
enjoy coming and going from home to the convention on Sat. Tailgaters will be 
about by 10 am for a 6 pm game. 
 
I think people are complaining about the weather because there is little else 
to complain about here. Economy is bad; but a little tiny tad better than in 
most places. It's cleaner and safer than most big cities. There is plenty to 
do--both costly and free. Cheaper for locals; we hit the zoo and museums in the 
off-season when they have free days or great specials. But, it is a near-record 
breaking cool summer. Yes, it is warm :) And if you come back in January, if 
it's not the one week that we get rain all year round (sorry Mike, everyone 
else was probably rejoicing that one week you came for rainy weather), it will 
be exactly the same weather. Warm and dry. But no one will be complaining 
then--well, maybe about the drought. Because it seems that people often find 
something to complain about.
 
Annette
 

Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Professor, Psychological Sciences
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
tay...@sandiego.edu
 


From: Christopher D. Green [chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:14 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] San Diego conversation




 
Overheard at the San Diego Padres game last night.

Man1: "My daughter has become... (long pause) very liberal."
Man2: "Really. What does she do?"
Man1: "She's become a teacher."
Man2: "Well, you know, they brainwash them in the academy."

The Padres beat the Pirates 4-1.

Chris

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RE: [tips] San Diego conversation

2010-08-11 Thread Annette Taylor 
Don't forget:
We are a military town. It is easy to forget that there is a HUGE military 
presence here. That brings in a conservative tone. Who'd a thunk the Pads would 
be in 1st place? They were predicted to mop up the cellar this season! Chargers 
preseason game on Sat; I live spitting distance to the stadium so I will not 
enjoy coming and going from home to the convention on Sat. Tailgaters will be 
about by 10 am for a 6 pm game.

I think people are complaining about the weather because there is little else 
to complain about here. Economy is bad; but a little tiny tad better than in 
most places. It's cleaner and safer than most big cities. There is plenty to 
do--both costly and free. Cheaper for locals; we hit the zoo and museums in the 
off-season when they have free days or great specials. But, it is a near-record 
breaking cool summer. Yes, it is warm :) And if you come back in January, if 
it's not the one week that we get rain all year round (sorry Mike, everyone 
else was probably rejoicing that one week you came for rainy weather), it will 
be exactly the same weather. Warm and dry. But no one will be complaining 
then--well, maybe about the drought. Because it seems that people often find 
something to complain about.

Annette

Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Professor, Psychological Sciences
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
tay...@sandiego.edu


From: Christopher D. Green [chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 12:14 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] San Diego conversation




Overheard at the San Diego Padres game last night.

Man1: "My daughter has become... (long pause) very liberal."
Man2: "Really. What does she do?"
Man1: "She's become a teacher."
Man2: "Well, you know, they brainwash them in the academy."

The Padres beat the Pirates 4-1.

Chris
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Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada



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[tips] A Vision of Depression

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Palij 
A research article in the journal Biological Psychiatry is making the rounds
of the media and here is a newspaper article that appeared in the Washington
Post; see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/09/AR2010080904128.html?referrer=emailarticle
 

The key point is that the vision of people with depression appears to
systematically differ from that of nondepressed people.  Here is the
abstract from the journal article:

|Seeing Gray When Feeling Blue? Depression Can Be Measured in 
|the Eye of the Diseased
|
|Emanuel Bubl, Elena Kern, Dieter Ebert, Michael Bach, and Ludger Tebartz van 
Elst
|
|Biological Psychiatry, Volume 68, Issue 2, 15 July 2010, Pages 205-208 
|doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.02.009 
|
|Background: Everyday language relates depressed mood to visual phenomena. 
|Previous studies point to a reduced sensitivity of subjective contrast 
perception 
|in depressed patients. One way to assess visual contrast perception in an 
|objective way at the level of the retina is to measure the pattern 
electroretinogram 
|(PERG). To find an objective correlate of reduced contrast perception, we 
|measured the PERG in healthy control subjects and unmedicated and medicated 
|patients with depression.
|
|Methods: Forty patients with a diagnosis of major depression (20 with and 20 
|without medication) and 40 matched healthy subjects were studied. Visual PERGs 
|were recorded from both eyes.
|
|Results: Unmedicated and medicated depressed patients displayed dramatically 
|lower retinal contrast gain. We found a strong and significant correlation 
between 
|contrast gain and severity of depression. This marker distinguishes most 
patients 
|on a single-case basis from control subjects. A receiver operating 
characteristic 
|analysis revealed a specificity of 92.5% and a sensitivity of 77.5% for 
classifying 
|the participants correctly.
|
|Conclusions: Because PERG recording does not depend on subjective ratings, 
|this marker may be an objective correlate of depression in human beings. If 
|replicated, PERG may be helpful in further animal and human research in 
depression.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20359698

I believe that there is anecdotal evidence of differences in visual perception
such as when an antidepressant seems to start working, the world appears
clearer and no longer seen as through a veil.  Perhaps this will be a promising
area of research in the future.

-Mike Palij
New York University
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Re:[tips] APA weather update--not teaching related

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Palij 
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:29:29 -0400, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> APA doesn't begin until Thursday Mike. So I can't answer these questions 
> yet.

Just shows you how closely I'm following the conference/convention.
But I've received a bunch of emails from different divisions (even some
that I'm no longer a member of) about updates on the meeting that led
me to think that it had already started.  I guess that I should read them
instead saying "What the hell?" and putting the email in my APA folder.

> Today was my day to go to the zoo: 
> http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=191515&id=503448130&l=5b174e2263

It's been a little over a decade since I've been in San Diego and the last
time I also went to the zoo.  I think the most memorable thing was the
pink flamingos.

> Another gorgeous day in San Diego. You can tell San Diego is gorgeous 
> because the weather is almost exactly the same every day (warm and dry) 
> but everyone here complains about it.

One January long ago I went to visit friends in SD and because I thought
"Hey, its southern California!  It should be sunny and mild!".  It rained
and was cold the entire time.  I thought that I could have stayed in NYC
if I wanted to experience lousy weather.

> Chris Green
> (not currently in hot, muggy Toronto)

-Mike Palij (currently in hot, muggy NYC)
New York University
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[tips] San Diego conversation

2010-08-11 Thread Christopher D. Green 
Overheard at the San Diego Padres game last night.

Man1: "My daughter has become... (long pause) very liberal."
Man2: "Really. What does she do?"
Man1: "She's become a teacher."
Man2: "Well, you know, they brainwash them in the academy."

The Padres beat the Pirates 4-1.

Chris
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Department of Psychology
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