RE: Brain fingerprinting

2004-02-18 Thread Dennis Goff
Maybe he works for the BBC? They are reporting some concern about brain fingerprinting this morning. the title of the piece is "Brain Fingerprinting under Scrutiny{" reported by Becky McCall. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3495433.stm Dennis -Original Message- From: Paul Smith [mai

Re: Dreamweaver? GoLive? FrontPage?

2004-02-18 Thread David Epstein
Thanks to all of you for your advice. I'd been leaning toward Dreamweaver or possibly GoLive, and now I'm more confident that my leanings are sound. > Go Live has too many darn palettes (the Adobe motif, I know) I know what you mean, Kathy. I love Photoshop, but most of the Adobe apps irritate

RE: Dreamweaver? GoLive? FrontPage?

2004-02-18 Thread Gary Klatsky
I had set up all of my department and course websites using frontpage. I can't remember why I originally selelected it, likely it was free. I found it very cumbersome and if you use the templates there was considerable baggage that had to be installed. I switched to dreamweaver about a year ago an

Run/Walk in the Rain

2004-02-18 Thread David Campbell
Here's one for the research methods class (though it lacks direct psyc'l relevance). Imagine you are headed to your car in a campus parking lot. It is raining and you don't have your rain gear. What would make you wetter--running or walking? How could you empirically test your reasoned an

Most Popular Undergraduate Majors

2004-02-18 Thread Wallace Dixon
Dear Colleagues, Can anyone direct me to a source of data that describes the most popular undergraduate majors nationally? I'm trying IPEDS, but I'm having a hard time navigating this site and figured that someone else may have traveled these grounds before me. A google search of "most pop

Re: Brain fingerprinting

2004-02-18 Thread Hite, Lesley A
If we side-step the idea of quackery for a moment, is anyone else wondering where false memories might appear in "brain fingerprinting?" Lesley A. Hite, Ph.D. Gannon University Erie, PA --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Run/Walk in the Rain

2004-02-18 Thread Rick Stevens
I believe that long ago I saw some net anecdote about engineering students holding rolls of paper towels on their heads and either running or walking through the rain.  They then weighed the towels. David Campbell wrote: Here's one for the research methods class (though it lacks direct psy

Re: Most Popular Undergraduate Majors

2004-02-18 Thread jim clark
Hi On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Wallace Dixon wrote: > Can anyone direct me to a source of data that describes > the most popular undergraduate majors nationally? I'm trying > IPEDS, but I'm having a hard time navigating this site and > figured that someone else may have traveled these grounds > bef

Re: Dreamweaver? GoLive? FrontPage?

2004-02-18 Thread David Campbell
As a result of this thread, I'm going to investigate the capabilities of Dreamweaver (I hear we have a campus site license). Repeatedly, I get useful ideas and tips from TIPS. Just wanted to express my gratitude. -- ___ David E. C

statistics

2004-02-18 Thread Hetzel, Rod
Does anyone know the percentage of undergraduate students who suffer from clinical depression? Eating disorders? Alcohol problems? __ Roderick D. Hetzel, Ph.D. Department of Psychology LeTourneau University Post Office Box 7001 2100 South Mobberly Aven

RE: Dreamweaver? GoLive? FrontPage?

2004-02-18 Thread Charles M. Huffman
I have used DreamWeaver for about 4 years and been very satisfied. There is a bit of a learning curve, but the time invested pays great dividends in the long run. In essence, it offers total flexibility once you master a few functions. I started out using Adobe PageMill, have never used GoLive!, b

Re: Run/Walk in the Rain

2004-02-18 Thread Jonathan Mueller
This was tested on the TV show Mythbusters (I believe it is on A&E).  You can watch for reruns of it.  I believe they found that they got slightly wetter running than walking.  Their test was very elaborate.   Jon   ===Jon MuellerProfessor of PsychologyNorth Central College30 N. Brain

Re: Run/Walk in the Rain

2004-02-18 Thread Christopher D. Green
Jonathan Mueller wrote: This was tested on the TV show Mythbusters (I believe it is on A&E).  You can watch for reruns of it.  I believe they found that they got slightly wetter running than walking.  Their test was very elaborate. I was told by Denis Krebs of Simon Fraser Univeristy

Position Announcement - University of Louisiana at Monroe

2004-02-18 Thread Rick Stevens
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Assistant Professor (tenure track) position in Psychology  DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The successful candidate will hold teaching, research, and program development responsibilities in a psychology department offering masters and specialist degrees that emphasize applie

stastical anomalies

2004-02-18 Thread Beth Benoit
One of my students forwarded this to me: > and speaking of statistical anomalies, here's a tiny chunk from a message that appeared today on the National Association of School >Psychologists list, offered for your amusement. I think this one genuinely >defies rational explanation: >Reply-To: [EMA

Re: stastical anomalies

2004-02-18 Thread Beth Benoit
And we thought it was only possible in Lake Wobegon ("Where all the men are strong, all the women are good-looking, and all the children are above average.") Beth Benoit University System of New Hampshire on 2/18/04 6:32 PM, Beth Benoit at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One of my students forwarded

RE: stastical anomalies

2004-02-18 Thread Martin J. Bourgeois
Title: Re: stastical anomalies i suppose they could have meant at or above the 50th percentile nationally, but i doubt it.   marty bourgeois university of wyoming -Original Message- From: Beth Benoit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 2/18/2004 5:04 PM To: Teaching in the Ps

Re: stastical anomalies

2004-02-18 Thread John W. Nichols, M.A.
Get the feeling that somebody slept through math (or stat) classes a bit too often? > >> > >> I'm hearing from others that they're being told that the normal curve is our > >> enemy and if they believe in the normal curve they don't care about > >> children. > > > > Beth Benoit > > University Sys

Re: stastical anomalies

2004-02-18 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
Clearly the school psychologists in Memphis are equalitarians, since the only way to be sure that every child is at or above the 50th percentile on reading performance is to have every child score exactly the same on the test of reading performance. Of course, this means that the true enemy of

Re: stastical anomalies

2004-02-18 Thread Beth Benoit
I feel that I should add (and should have stated before! mea culpa) that, as my student reported, "this fragment was literally lifted out of context and that no inferences can fairly be drawn about the writers of the original messages" Beth Benoit University System of New Hampshire on 2/18/0

Re: statistical anomalies

2004-02-18 Thread Jacquelyn Mercer
Just to clarify - The quote that was forwarded to Beth was part of one message that was embedded in an extensive discussion (that BTW included consideration of potential differences in an individual's performance according to local versus national norms). The original statement was attributed

Re: statistical anomalies, Memphis, and North Carolina

2004-02-18 Thread Karl L. Wuensch
The great State of North Carolina is doing its best to help Memphis achieve its goal of having all of its students at or above the 50th percentile, on national norms, on reading ability. Our local news recently reported that only 50% of adult North Carolinians can read at or above the national nor