On 25 February 2008 Paul Okami wrote on the Kirsch et al article on
anti-depressants:
>For those who want to read the paper and not a news report, your can read
>it at PloS:
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html&issn=1549-167
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> It's by Irving Kirsch who has been blowing
One of my major complaints about textbooks if that they have too many
cute little boxes, pictures which provide no useful content, silly
pedagogical gimmicks, etc. all of which jack up the price and IMO make
the text more difficult to follow for a student.
The book reps are fond of pointing out th
Allen,
Seriously. These two articles are ancient history now. With the recent
revelations that the published body of articles is itself a highly
biased sample of the research that has actually been conducted
(essentially, if you didn't get a positive effect, you didn't get
published), there is
This was from a Wired story this morning:
Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo will look at why people become
evil by discussing his famous 1971 Stanford prison experiment, in
which students playing "prison guards" in a simulation quickly became
abusive toward their "prisoners." Zimbardo will
Stephen
But it seems that suicide rates would be exactly the wrong measure. People who
have committed suicide are presumably not answering questions about how happy
they are. It is also worth noting that an international comparison of suicide
rates is tricky business because the amount of stig
Some one recently posted a link to an article talking about the need for
caution in automatically accepting findings of studies based on newer
neuroimaging technologies.
I thought it was an excellent article, And of course, now I can't find the link.
Does someone still have that link and can y
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> We have kept in touch for almost 20 years,
> Wasn't existential philosopher Karl Jaspers from Denmark.
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Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Edgar Rubin (famous for the vase/faces illusion -- see below) was Danish.
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Christopher D. Green
Department of P
On 25 Feb 2008 at 9:06, Don Allen conjectured:
> Didn't David Meyers give APS a gift of 1 million dollars?
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> Did he win it in the lottery or was some of that money from textbook
> sales?
The url that Don gave:
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1546
does work,
More bad news from the land of liberal arts education.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/education/27history.html?ref=education
Chris
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Are there surveys on Canadian teens re Canadian history and other civic
affairs?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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On 26 Feb 2008 at 20:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Are there surveys on Canadian teens re Canadian history and other civic
> affairs?
I suspect that Canadian teens know more about history than American teens
do. Unfortunately, it's American history that they know.
Stephen
Probably. But let's at least find out something about the actual surveys before
jumping on the "American's dumbest" bandwagon. Everyone I saw being interviewed
today (limited- busy day) was trying to sell something. I kept wanting to ask
the CNN guy, "So when was the civil war". He kept harping
How many provinces are there in Canada?
When do Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving?
Have you heard of the RCMP?
What is the capital of Canada?
When did Canada become an Independent Country?
Who was Stephen Black?
When the slaves in Canada freed?
What tree leaf is on the Canadian flag?
Who is Bruce
Stephen!?! I didn't even know you had been ill? ;)
Tim
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Professor and Chair Department of Psychology
The College of Idaho
Caldwell, ID 83605
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history an
To answer your earlier question, there are lots of survey of Canadian
teens. They don't do very well on Canadian history. Slightly better on
American history though.
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> How many provinces are there in Canada?
10, plus 3 territories. (We nearly got Martinique after WWI, bu
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