[tips] Multiculturalism in the U.S.: Gender, Sports Opportunity, and the City-Suburban Division

2009-06-14 Thread Mike Palij
Issues regarding multiculturalism turn up in the most unexpected places, like whether girls in grade school have opportunities to participate in school sports programs. People in the suburbs may read the previous statement and wonder what the hell I am writing about. But that would be just anoth

Re: [tips] The outstanding Michaels

2009-06-14 Thread taylor
I can't believe you don't know about Psychteach, but it could be because you are a canuck and it is a list run by the APA. I don't have the sign on info but I bet if you surf the apa education directorate or division 2 website you'll find it. The problem for some of us is that it is monitored a

Re: [tips] The outstanding Michaels

2009-06-14 Thread Michael Smith
Moderated! Shivers. Tooo scary for me. Besides a one-eyed view of education isn't that great of an idea. Yes Canajun, and I may actually have come across it a long time ago, but if it was moderated I wouldn't have bothered with --Mike --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill South

Re: [tips] Gigerenzer alert: an exercise/high false positives for various diseases!

2009-06-14 Thread Joan Warmbold
As per Stephen's point about the high positive test rate for both AIDES and breast cancer, I was amazed at the high positive rate for AIDES as discussed by Stanovich. "Casscells, et. al. (1978) gave a variant of the following problem to 20 medical students, 20 attending physicians and 20 hou

RE: [tips] The outstanding Michaels

2009-06-14 Thread Shearon, Tim
Annette And heaven forbid you forget to delete most of the original post or, gasp, forget to include your email address!! (I'm a member of PSYCHTEACH but I do find the rules irritating!!) Guess the old 60s stuff comes out still- I hate rules. Most of the people on lists behave quite well withou

Re: [tips] Gigerenzer alert: an exercise/high false positives for various diseases!

2009-06-14 Thread Jim Clark
Hi Another thought ... if one took such a test and received a "medical report" as positive, would one have to report it as a pre-existing condition for health insurance, life insurance, or other enterprises that screen out risky characters? I'm not sure how health insurance works in the States

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2009-06-14 Thread michael sylvester
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Re: [tips] Gigerenzer alert: an exercise/high false positives for various diseases!

2009-06-14 Thread Christopher D. Green
The issue here, once again, has nothing to do, really, with the inherent difficulties of detecting AIDS or breast cancer or Alzheimer's or schizophrenia or any other condition. It is a *statistical* problem that everyone (though perhaps especially physicians and psychologists) should be as awar

Re: [tips] GO ORLANDO MAGIC

2009-06-14 Thread Paul Brandon
Gone Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato paul.bran...@mnsu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)