Stuart McKelvie:
I wonder if he or someone else can enlighten us if physics
has a special meaning for law?
Chris Green:
Darwin's and Einstein's theories are far broader and scope
and far more firmly established than *anything* in psychology,
and yet they are not called laws. More than anything
I made a slip in the last sentence of my previous posting. It should have
read:
But from a teaching perspective it would seem a bit odd (to me at least) to
present the above relationship as Boyle's theory, which has a connotation
of some uncertainty which is not warranted (as a generalisation
Jim Dougan wrote:
At 10:03 PM 8/12/2008, Michale Smith wrote:
Surely there are laws in other fields; e.g.
Boyle's law for gasses; the laws of
thermodynamics; the law of gravity; the inverse
square law of light.
There may well be. That is a distinct issue from whether the term has
On Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:03:57 -0700 (PDT), Michael Smith wrote:
Surely there are laws in other fields; e.g. Boyle's law for
gasses; the laws of thermodynamics; the law of gravity; the inverse square
law
of light. It would seem that a law should be able to be defined and not at
the
whim of
First, I want to express my gratitude to all who have contributed to
this fascinating discussion as it has made me more attentive to how I
teach some of these concepts. One of my pet teaching quirks is to insist
that students in all of my courses have an appropriate grasp of basic
concepts, such
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I'm thinking about converting my journal assignment to a blog assignment
this semester in my social psychology course, and I was hoping that some
of you with experience might offer some advice. Some issues I'm
especially interested in are (a) what program/website to use, (b)
whether to make
Two websites that offer free blogs are blogger.com and wordpress.com. There are
other sites as well, including blog options in MySpace, Facebook, etc., but I
think either of the two I mentioned would work well (and probably better than
those integrated into social networking sites). I'm pretty
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TIPSfolks,
Does anyone have a good resource for what to do with old(ish) textbooks? As
many of you know, publishers have many texts that turn around every two years
and won't send older versions to bookstores. So, I am purging my shelves of
textbooks and wonder
if there are better uses than
I sent a lot of textbooks to Kimberly Patterson, a high school teacher in
Florida who’s on TIPS. I’m digging to try to find her address though, and so
far no luck. Are you still a TIPSmember, Kimberly??
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Thought some might be interested in this one from MSNBC today. Our tax dollars
at work- if this comes across as scary maybe we weren't thinking ahead. But it
surely merits as a discussion starter (assuming you are free to discuss it,
of course).
The opposite of sex? Adults, teens beg to
Folks interested in a little more detail, the abstract from the
journal article is available on the Alan Guttmacher Institute
website as well as a link to an electronic version of the
article through Wiley InterScience (assuming your institution
has a subscription to the journal or the service):
I'd like to see the actual survey. Looks like a response bias might
account for these results.
Bill Scott
Shearon, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/13/08 5:50 PM
Thought some might be interested in this one from MSNBC today. Our tax
dollars at work- if this comes across as scary maybe we weren't
Yes - the fact that those who design abstinence programs want to believe
that their programs are effective and are motivated more directly by ideology
AND respondents want to give answers than make them sound good. This could
be
another variant of social desirability or fake good (so to
Mike- Thanks! :) In reading what I have of the article so far it doesn't appear
to be so much response bias per se as a host of complications. The main one
being, I think, that the interpretations presented on MSNBC (you better sit
down now) are (I'm warning you, this may be shocking) somewhat
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