Well, I knew it couldn't have been George Carlin, but as far as I
knew,
it could have been Ted Nugent.
At 11:15 PM 2/12/02 -0500, Beth Benoit
wrote:
Nope, wasn't Ted Nugent, nor was it George Carlin, who was given
credit earlier. So maybe Rip Pisacreta can start taking
credit.
See either the
Title: Re: scary, isn't it?
Nope, wasn't Ted Nugent, nor was it George Carlin, who was given credit earlier. So maybe Rip Pisacreta can start taking credit.
See either the Urban Legends website (snopes.com) or www.truthorfiction.com
Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire
Here is a c
You may be able to predict what your children will say and/or do, but you
making a probabalistic prediction, based on your knowledge of them in
similar situations. Sometimes children do unexpected (to you)things. If you
were successful in predicting with perfect accuracy everything they did fro
At 05:40 PM 2/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >The paradox is tied to having both omniscience and being the creator. If
>you create an organism and know exactly what that organism will do, you
>have in fact predestined that organism. For the organism to be truly free,
>it would have to be able to b
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> Just when I thought we might actually be
somewhat out of the cave.
Although
perhaps Ted might think that you were just proving his
point...
Excuse me,
I've just got a bad case of cat-scratch fever...
__
Roderick D. Hetzel,
Ph.D
Just when I thought we might actually be somewhat out of the cave.
Here is a copy of the essay called "Am I a Bad American". "I'm A Bad American" was written by Ted Nugent, the rock singer and hunter/naturalist, upon hearing that California Senators B. Boxer and D. Feinstein denounced him for be
Thank you ALL for responding to my 'maybe not so embarrassing statistical
question'. I'm pretty sure that I have seen the method used in
Lehman's text in another Statistics textbook and remember it, based on
John's description, to be much easier and pretty straight forward.
I may very well use t
>The paradox is tied to having both omniscience and being the creator. If you create an organism and know exactly what that organism will do, you have in fact predestined that organism. For the organism to be truly free, it would have to be able to break out and do something unknown to the creat
Our current contract expires in July, oh joy. We are about to begin negotiations. Can some of you folks please answer the following questions and send the data to my university email address below. Thanks.
What % raises have you had in each of the last four years?
What % of your faculty are not t
A twist on this assignment would be to have them research the scientific
literature on a topic and then develop a webpage to present their work.
That is a different style in form and function than term papers but
could still serve to help them learn about psychology and to present
what they have
The paradox is tied to having both omniscience and being the creator. If
you create an organism and know exactly what that organism will do, you
have in fact predestined that organism. For the organism to be truly free,
it would have to be able to break out and do something unknown to the
cr
>Aquinas was dealing with the free will paradox - that >is, how can all >omnipotent and omniscient God create a being with free >will if a willful >act by definition would have to be something the >omniscient God could not >predict. But, Aquinas came down firmly on the side of >free will.
Why ca
Craig,
The major difference between this assignment and a typical term paper is the
kind of writing. The students write these news articles for a different
audience (not me) and they can write in a style that is a little more
comfortable for them. (Some of them do present a term paper with a catc
Colleagues,
I am looking for data on trends in enrollment in undergraduate
psychology. I have been to research.apa.org and not found what I
wanted. I would like a graph/table of national enrollment/#
graduating majors in psych over the last 10 year with data as recent
as possible.
Any sugge
Kenneth M. Steele wrote:
> In an important sense, all data is grouped-data. We specify
> some boundary conditions of inclusion/exclusion in a unit and
> those conditions typically cover a range of variations which we
> *might* attend to under other circumstances.
>
> To continue with and (likely
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:27:08 -0600 "Paul C. Smith"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But I assume that also means
> that they're not likely to encounter much in the way of grouped data. Sure,
> I can think of some situations in which they might (secondary analyses of
> previously grouped data), but
Because there have been exchanges on the topics of evolution and creative
design, I thought you might be interested in the following piece which
appeared in yesterday's New York Times:
In Ohio School Hearing, a New Theory Will Seek a Place Alongside
Evolution
The latest challenge to evolution's pr
I could swear that I read somewhere back in the 1960s that most volunteers for
Psychology lab experiments were Jewish.It might have been
in a work titled Artifacts in Behavioral Research.One of feedback that came out of
this was that since the authors were on the faculty of Jewish Institutions,
Miguel,
I asked a similar question with regard to this issue about two weeks
ago. The formula that you are referencing is used to calculate
percentiles from grouped data. You can find a reference to this on
page 26, formula 3.3 or 3.4. Glass & Hopkins, Statistical
methods in psychology and educ
I would like to add my, "Me Too!" to Tim and John's posts. Rather than
torture students with the percentile formula, I use Tukey hinges for
quartiles.
I also have difficulty with the (High - Low) + 1 formula for the range
that is presented in some texts. It assumes that the units of measure
are
Please describe the nature of the
true scores for which the putatively interval data are a positive linear
function. I'm not familiar with
the metrics of judging skating performances.
-Original
Message-
From: Rick Froman
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Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2
I agree with Tim and John. I covered those grouped distributions
half-heartedly the first time I taught stats, in 1988, and haven't touched
'em since. It seems pretty shady (the implication that you're finding some
nice specific number despite the unreasonable assumptions), and it's VERY
low on th
Title: Re: embarrassing statistical
question
I wholeheartedly agree with John Kulig. I don't even bother
covering
that formula in stat. It makes very questionable
assumptions in an
effort to achieve what looks like great precision in finding
a
percentile. For example, it assumes that the score
Michael Sylvester wrote:
> is there any room in the history of Psychology to include the influences
> and ideas of Thomas Aquinas? If my memory is correct,there was some
determinism in his philosophy
> and some reductionistic tendencies.
> Send me something.
Nope, no room for him. The an
I always use Aquinas in my history systems class, and students read the
section from Summa Theologica covering free will. It is a great example of
the rational/theistic approach of the middle ages.
Aquinas was dealing with the free will paradox - that is, how can all
omnipotent and omniscient
I also second (or third) the recommendation of this movie but want to point
out that it's an especially good movie for academics. Emma Thompson's
portrayal of an English professor was flawless. Rent it just for that -
it's out on video.
Sherry
Sherry Ferguson, Ph.D
Research Psychologist
Nation
Dennis Goff wrote:
I have students write a news article about any topic in Developmental that
they would like. The longer pieces in Science News or the news magazines
like Time serve as the model. I require that they use five sources for the
news article and require that those sources are from the
Title: Message
Although not a
theatrical movie, the HBO movie "Wit" (based on the play by the same name) with
Emma Thompson provides a look at a woman's battle with terminal cancer and how
medicine can run the risk of losing sight of the individual while attempting to
treat the disease.
Si
Dear Colleagues,
I received the following note from Bill Hill on Psychteacher and wanted
to forward it to you as some of you may not subscribe to that list. I
also want to second his recommendation!
"Many of you who are members of the American Psychological Association
(APA) recently received t
Resources for Black Psychology
Chains of Psychological Slavery by N'aim Akbar
Black Psychology edited by Reginald Jones
Journal of Black Psychology
Association of Black Psychologist
Roots of Soul by Ed Tolson
Black and White :Styles in conflict
The rise and fall of Eurocentric Psychology (
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Rick Froman wrote:
> The Canadian pair lost because the
> scoring system calls for Ordinal data to supercede Interval data. Sometimes
> millions of dollars in endorsements may actually be riding on which scale of
> measurement you choose.
Not to mention national pride for a
Another possibility is to adapt the "concept maps" described in the
latest ToPs issue (Winter 2002).
Elizabeth Mazur, Ph.D.
Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Michigan-Flint
Flint, MI 48502-1950
(810) 237-6620; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -Original Message-
> From: Dav
If you took the time to look in any H & S textbook you will likely find a
considerable discussion of his contributions.
Gary J. Klatsky, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oswego State University (SUNY) http://www.oswego.edu/~klatsky
7060 State Hwy 104W
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> is there any room in the history of Psychology to include the influences
> and ideas of Thomas Aquinas?
Yes, see:
Watson, R. I. (1963). The great psychologists: From Aristotle to Freud.
The hierarchical description of faculties as they exist from the inanimate to
h
I recently noted that the Olympic pairs skating outcome was due to the use
of Ordinal instead of Interval data to which Paul Brandom astutely replied:
>And of course there's no problem with the data itself ;-)
That can't matter because, as we all know, the statistical procedures don't
know or ca
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Cheri Budzynski wrote:
>
>
> > Today we celebrate the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.
I'm gonna go ape celebratin' :-))
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
Louis Schmier www.therandomthoughts.
At 10:48 AM -0600 2/12/02, Rick Froman wrote:
>To those of you on the list who have ridiculed the importance of
>making a distinction between scales of measurement (I say, unwisely
>kicking the drowsy canine), the recent unpleasantness in the pairs
>skating at the Olympics might make you r
> Today we celebrate the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.
>
> Please see http://www.darwinday.org/ for more about the Darwin Day
> celebrations, and the importance of our support for including
> evolution in the biology education of our young people (for more
> about the sorry state of
is there any room in the history of Psychology to include the influences
and ideas of Thomas Aquinas?
If my memory is correct,there was some determinism in his philosophy
and some reductionistic tendencies.
Send me something.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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those of you on the list who have ridiculed the importance of making a
distinction between scales of measurement (I say, unwisely kicking the drowsy
canine), the recent unpleasantness in the pairs skating at the Olympics might
make you reconsider. The Canadian pair lost because the scorin
Miguel. Just a random or two.
(1) i should be 1 for ungrouped (if the numbers are integers) but i
= interval width if grouped. So if you group into categories 4 to 6, 7
to 9, 10 to 12, i = 3 (but I'm sure you already know that).
(2) IF ungrouped, but your interval contains a bunch of identical
Very similar to the way I respond to questions like this.
Gary J. Klatsky, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oswego State University (SUNY) http://www.oswego.edu/~klatsky
7060 State Hwy 104W Voice: (315) 312-3474
Oswego, NY 13126
And lest (one of my favorite words) I forget, how about "Wit" with Emma
Thompson.
Bob Wildblood
IUK
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The Williams film is Awakenings and there is one recently with Meryl Streep
called"One true thing" that is also very good.
Kirsten Rewey wrote:
Hi
everyone:
I am
offering my health psychology class an opportunity to write an analysis
of how various health-related themes are presented in the
> >
> > I jokingly tell my students that some of their writings are so terrible
> > that I have to take some prozac to help me overcome their writing induced
>depression.
> > Keeping in mind that these are college students,how do you react to answers like
>these?
By woefully shaking my head...
Figures. Women DO form hierarchies jez like us boys do.
They just take longer to make sure they get it right ;)
JPG
FW:
Study: "Women Take Longer To Form Hierarchies"
ABCNews.com - February 06, 2002 Put three strangers in a room, and if they're
all male, within minutes one of those guys is go
> Louis_Schmier wrote
> "You know, I wish I had a dollar each time I heard those
> long-running, self-pitying periodic professorial moanings and groanings.
> When students are excited, enthused, turned on, perform as we want and
> expect, we don't hesitate to lay claim to the reward and pro
Title: Message
I've
used "And the Band Played On" in both health psychology and in a psychology of
social issues course - it is a docu-drama based on the U.S. and French
researchers attempts to understand what was happening and intervene in the
early stages of the AIDS epidemic. It is based
In a message dated 2/12/2002 6:32:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
some of their writings are so terrible
> that I have to take some prozac to help me overcome their writing induced depression.
"that some of their writing is so terrible that I have to take prozac to help m
> Subject: Grading and depression
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I jokingly tell my students that some of their writings are so terrible
> that I have to take some prozac to help me overcome their writing induced depression.
> Keeping in mind that these are college students,how do you react to ans
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I thought
about stepmom, but seem to recall it was more about general family issues, and
then the cancer stuff was really just at the end. I think the Robin
Williams movie was Awakenings maybe?
__
Roderick D. Hetzel,
Ph.D.
Assis
Title: Re: health psychology movies
Hi
everyone:
I am
offering my health psychology class an opportunity to write an
analysis of how various health-related themes are presented in the
movies. I'm calling the assignment, "Health Psychology Goes
to the Movies." Some of the movies I'm recommendi
I think I'm going senile. The other day I could not get sound out
of my computer (I rarely use the speakers) and spent a couple of hours
connecting and reconnecting them, reinstalling the Sound Blaster
software, etc. I was in the process of opening up my computer to
check the sound card when a f
On 11 Feb 2002 at 12:59, Mark A. Casteel wrote:
> Tipsters: I've grown tired of the "Lot in Life" assignment (see Hamill, S. B., &
>Hale,
> C. (1996), Teaching of Psychology) I have used the past four years in my
>developmental
> psych course, and am looking for new ideas. The ideal assignmen
Title: Message
Hi
everyone:
I am
offering my health psychology class an opportunity to write an analysis of how
various health-related themes are presented in the movies. I'm calling the
assignment, "Health Psychology Goes to the Movies." Some of the movies I'm
recommending for students
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