Re:[tips] Future shock
Putting together three TIPSters responses to Daryl Bem's precognition study, here's a potted guide to how one should approach claimed research findings: 1. Mike Palij: Even if no one can find problems with what Bem reports in his manuscript, the real test is replication of Bem's results by independent researchers. 2. Chris Green: This article has shaken, once again, the tree about psychologists' use of statistical analysis. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1018886/Bem6.pdf Maxim 2: Always look for informed critical responses to a claim about findings from an experiment or study before drawing any conclusions. (Then look for responses to the responses. How far you take this depends on how important the claimed findings are, or how much time you have on your hands. :-) ) 3. Don Allen: The old maxim Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence has always been a good guide. I would add that Maxim 2 should also apply more generally to how one judges the case made for an author's viewpoint on *any* subject, scientific or otherwise. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote: I can see the future. I see that a respected psychologist with excellent credentials and a position at a quality university will provide strong evidence in favour of precognition. I see that this will be published, not in any old parapsychology rag, but in the holy _Journal of Personality and Social Psychology_. I see that there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth over this one. News report: http://tinyurl.com/Bem-precognition Preprint: http://www.dbem.ws/FeelingFuture.pdf (My thanks to a colleague who pointed me to this). Stephen Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca - --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6522 or send a blank email to leave-6522-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] ESL for Don
- Original Message - From: don allen I used to teach in Vancouver Canada where fewer than 50% of the population spoke English at home. I would occasionally get requests similar to yours. My response was always in the negative for two reasons: 1. Once you start down that slippery slope where do you stop? Extra credit for ADHD learners? Bonus points if you can show that you have a low IQ? 2. If the students isn't going to learn how to successfully communicate in my class in whose class will they learn? Stay strong keep your standards high. They will (eventually) thank you for it. -Don. Vancouver Canada. Shouldn't this be Vancouver,Canada? If the students isn't going Shouldn't this be if the students are not going? Btw,slippery slope violates one of the guidelines for crtitical thinking. The ideas in this post appear to be more congruent with an All in the family episode and the common sense paradigm. Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6528 or send a blank email to leave-6528-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Canada's early intolerance
OK,I agree to Canada's positive spin on immigration.However in the late fifties and early sixties,a group of Caribbean students staged a demonstration at Sir George Williams University in Montreal protesting attitudes and discrimination against the established academic community.All of those who protested were deported back to the islands by Canadian authorities. Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6529 or send a blank email to leave-6529-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Future shock
WOW! This person is a writing fool. I wonder how many of the submissions actually get published? Based on the extensive publications I guess quite a few, but I wonder if all of them do. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.edumailto:tay...@sandiego.edu From: sbl...@ubishops.ca [sbl...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 9:37 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Future shock On Nov 15, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Annette Taylor tay...@sandiego.edumailto:tay...@sandiego.edu wrote: The link is interesting but gives no source--i.e., is this from a journal that is already published or a prepublication? What journal? Wagenmakers lists it on his webpage as manuscript submitted for publication. See http://www.ejwagenmakers.com/papers.html Stephen Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca - --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: tay...@sandiego.edumailto:tay...@sandiego.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0n=Tl=tipso=6519 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-6519-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:leave-6519-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6530 or send a blank email to leave-6530-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] parasites and behavior
Let me preface this with an apology-I've been having all kinds of computer problems at work and at home, so this may have actually first appeared on this list and I don't remember or didn't see it. I find it intriguing, so I thought I'd pass it on. If I'm reposting and rehashing old stuff, then just delete, with my apologies. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/sapolsky09/sapolsky09_index.html Carol Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: devoldercar...@sau.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6532 or send a blank email to leave-6532-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.eduimage001.gif
Re: [tips] Canada's early intolerance
michael sylvester wrote: OK,I agree to Canada's positive spin on immigration.However in the late fifties and early sixties,a group of Caribbean students staged a demonstration at Sir George Williams University in Montreal protesting attitudes and discrimination against the established academic community.All of those who protested were deported back to the islands by Canadian authorities. No one's perfect. Canada certainly isn't. Immigrants from the Caribbean have a tradition of not bothering to acquire Canadian citizenship (we're all in the Commonwealth, you know), and the Canadian gov't periodically takes advantage of this to ship those they regard as undesirable back to the countries of their birth. It still happens from time to time, though not so much with simple protesters as with gang leaders and drug dealers. This might seem reasonable to many of you (If they aren't Canadian, why should Canada put up with their bad behavior?), but the rub is that many of these deportees have lived in Canada since they were very small children, and simply dumping them on the mean streets of Jamaica, where they know no one, is often effectively a death sentence. Until the 1960s or so, Canada's immigration history more or less tracked that of the US. A huge wave of Irish and Germans in the late 1840 and early 1850s (actually, on a proportional basis, the Irish immigration to Canada's cities was much greater than it was to New York and Boston). Then Chinese, primarily on the west coast. in the 1860s and 1870s. Then and even huger immigration of Italians, Greeks, and East Europeans (many Jewish) starting in the 1880s and continuing on until the 1920s (when the first real immigration laws started to close the borders). In the 1960s, the first sizable immigration from the Caribbean came to Canada -- largely (though not entirely) Hatians to Montreal, Jamaicans to Toronto. As with previous large immigrations, things were not entirely smooth. There were culture clashes, misunderstandings, and simple racism. Canada was never immune to these things. (On the other hand, Montrealers are still proud of the fact that, when Branch Rickey decided to bring Jackie Robinson into the major leagues, he picked the Montreal Royals as a club where he could get ready with minimal harrassment from the general public.) Canada still has its share of these racial/ethnic kerfuffles. There are a few differences in the way these matters play out in Canada though. First, race does not hold quite the unique electrical status in Canada that it does in the US. It is *an* issue, but not *the* issue. No doubt this is because Canada does not have the same history of slavery as the US. There were slaves in early Canada, but not nearly as many and not nearly as late. Slavery was abolished in Upper Canada (present-day southern Ontario) in the 1790s; in Quebec somewhat later; and I'm not sure about the Maritimes (where the destruction of Halifax's historic Africville in the 1960s is still an issue of some sensitivity). In any case, slavery was abolished (at least officially) across the entire British Empire in the 1830s. The US held on for another generation-and-a-half. (Indeed, if you recall your American history class, you may remember that as long as the Civil War was officially about union, the British sided with the South (for the cotton). It was only when the British threatened to run Union blockades of Confederate ports that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Declaration, converting the war into one officially about slavery. The British would not take the side of slavers in a war over slavery. Second, Canada does not have a massive, impoverished country of potential immigrants on its southern border. Third, although Canada by no means has a perfect record on social equity issues, on balance it is much easier to live in Canada than it is in the US. Taxes are higher (though not as high as in Europe), but social services are much better. It is much less likely that you or your kids are going to starve and/or die of a preventable disease if you lose your job in Canada than in the US. (Which is why Canada has lower infant mortality, better education outcomes, and higher life expectancy than the US.) Less desperate times also call for less desperate measures. And so the violent crime rate in Canada is much lower than in the US as well. But, Canada is not the land of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness It is the land of Peace, Order, and Good Government (or, more recently, Life, Liberty, and Security of the Person). :-) Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:
Re:[tips] How can we make people fall in love with systems ideas?
Some subscribers to TIPS and TeachEdPsych might be interested in a post Re: How can we make people fall in love with systems ideas? [Hake (2010)]. The abstract reads: *** ABSTRACT: Bob Williams of the Eval-Sys list asked: How can we make people [concerned with evaluation] fall in love with systems ideas? More generally how can we make people in fields such as Ecology, Economics, Education, Engineering, and Physics fall in love with systems ideas? For a dilettante's attempt to introduce neophytes to Systems Thinking see Over Two-Hundred Annotated References on Systems Thinking [Hake (2010)] at http://bit.ly/9gZdXU. *** To access the complete 9 kB post please click on http://bit.ly/9xg49D . Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII) rrh...@earthlink.net http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake The global society, and particularly the US, is like a small boatload of people about to enter a long stretch of white water and rapids. For the foreseeable future we will be totally preoccupied with immediate problems and far too distracted to develop and implement a rational long term plan. Eventually, after climate change, fossil fuel depletion, and several other manifestations of the growth limits have produced some new sort of semi stable state, with a MUCH lower population and material standard of living, our species will hopefully be able to start identifying, choosing, and pursuing its longer term options. I do not expect to be alive when that time comes. Dennis Meadows, private communication of 17 November 2009 to R.R. Hake, quoted by permission. REFERENCES [URL shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 16 November 2010.] Hake, R.R. 2010. Re: How can we make people fall in love with systems ideas? online on the OPEN AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/9xg49D. Post of 16 Nov 2010 09:38:10-0800 to AERA-L, Eval-Sys, Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to various discussion lists and are online on my blog Hake'sEdStuff at http://bit.ly/du4MJL. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6536 or send a blank email to leave-6536-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Canada's early intolerance
Allen Esterson wrote: Chris Green writes: Indeed, if you recall your American history class, you may remember that as long as the Civil War was officially about union, the British sided with the South (for the cotton) That you may recall this doesn't make it true. Britain was neutral throughout the Civil War, and certainly didn't side with the South during any part of it. Sided with was indeed too strong. It is true that Britain was officially neutral, but they were, shall we say, sympathetic to the South (entirely on grounds of self-interest -- an independent Confederacy would be a very weak country, very much dependent on the British appetite for CSA cotton. The remaining USA would be weakened too, to the benefit of Britain). Britain was involved in a number of disputed actions during the war (running blockades, making warships, etc.), each of which just happened to favor the Confederacy. US diplomacy throughout the early part of the war was aimed at heading off official British recognition of the CSA, which the British gov't was ever alert for an opportunity to offer. The Emancipation Proclamation served, among other things, to take that option off the table for the duration. Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6543 or send a blank email to leave-6543-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Question on sleep
I distinctly remember reading that there are some (very few) people for whom it is normal to get an hour or less sleep per night. I remember one case cited in which the subjected needed only 15 minutes and reported resenting having that little slice of death intrude on his day. A colleague I asked also remembers reading that some rare people do quite well with less than 1 hour/night. I've tried a Goggle search and a Google scholar search with no success. The reports I remember may be too old for those data bases or perhaps it was in a secondary source text. My searches for minimum sleep, hyposomnia, asomnia and many other things bring up lots of studies on apnea, sleep deprivation studies, bipolar disorder, etc., but nothing that speaks to the point. Can anyone out there help with a reference? It's driving me nuts. Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Department of Psychology West Chester University of Pennsylvania http://home.comcast.net/~epollak/home.htm Office Hours: Mondays 12-2 3-4 p.m.; Tuesdays Thursdays 8-9 a.m. 12:30-2 p.m. Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist, bluegrass fiddler.. in approximate order of importance. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6549 or send a blank email to leave-6549-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
