Re: Anti-Constructivists?

Hi Michelle, Do you happen to know if these articles are available online? Thanks, Mike Atherton Michelle McGinn wrote: > >Thom Baguley wrote: > >> For a critque of extreme versions of consatructivism by leading > >>researchers in > >> the cognitive sciences look up "Applications and Misappli

Re: y2k confound

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dennis roberts) wrote: >happy new year to everyone ... hope your y2k +1 year is great! > >now, the y2k scare provides us with an excellent example of confounds (more >or less) .. consider the following: > >Time One: lots of hype about "pote

Re: y2k confound

I suggest we wait until 2999 and then don't spend any money on updating software and computers. That should indicate if spending the money during the past few years was worth it. Oh, oh, maybe not. New computers have the Y2K bug fixed. I guess it will only be a true test on older 486, 386 m

y2k confound

happy new year to everyone ... hope your y2k +1 year is great! now, the y2k scare provides us with an excellent example of confounds (more or less) .. consider the following: Time One: lots of hype about "potential" disasters related to y2k ... (PRETEST) Time Two: billions of $$$ spent on

Best Region

Dear Statistics Professionals: I am recently working some data analysis and have great difficuly to find the approriate statistics method. The analysis is: I have one binary variably (y=1 or y=0) and one continuous variable, say 'X'. 'X' range from 0-100, with abou25% of them equal to 100 and 9

Re: Sampling

deboeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I'm looking for a standard text book on "Sampling". Do you have a : suggestion ? : Thanks, : Bart A fairly recent but standard text is "Sampling of Populations: Methods and Applications" by Paul S. Levy and Stanley Lemeshow, 1991, Wiley, New York. -

Re: Anti-Constructivists?

>Thom Baguley wrote: >> For a critque of extreme versions of consatructivism by leading >>researchers in >> the cognitive sciences look up "Applications and Misapplications of >>Cognitive >> Psychology to Mathematics Education 1" by John R. Anderson, Lynne M. Reder, >> Herbert A. Simon. It used to

Re: measure dependency

Mutual information (MI) between two variables is a natural measure for dependency. It is zero for independent variables, expresses not only 2nd order statistical relations, but all, and can be computed either through histograms or by first estimating the densities of the variables (using somethin

Re: transcript

- Forwarded message from J. Williams - Many businesses and institutions hiring key personnel ask applicants to instruct his/her university to send an official transcipt with seal directly to the employer. This is not so much to ponder over a "B" or an "A" in various courses, but to de

Re: Anti-Constructivists?

Thom Baguley wrote: > For a critque of extreme versions of consatructivism by leading researchers in > the cognitive sciences look up "Applications and Misapplications of Cognitive > Psychology to Mathematics Education 1" by John R. Anderson, Lynne M. Reder, > Herbert A. Simon. It used to be avail

Re: Anti-Constructivists?

Rinus Voeten wrote: > > Michael Atherton wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > > >I work in a university environment dominated > >by constructivists. I have been trying to find authors > >or researchers who are publishing views contrary to > >the NCTM standards...without much luck. C