Not to mention the risks of being killed by an infected cheeseburger.
We cheerfully tolerate many higher but less dramatic risks than
'terrorism'.
On Dec 29, 2009, at 12:03 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> Here are some statistics on the probability of being the
> (attempted) victim of terro
Here are some statistics on the probability of being the (attempted)
victim of terrorism on a commercial flight that may make for interesting
discussion in your courses:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/12/odds-of-airborne-terror.html
Here's the best bit: "the odds of being on given departur
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Are there some do's and don'ts while on sabbatical? Maybe Bill or anyone else
contemplating a sabbatical can heed some advice from our cohesive Tipsville
community.I heard about the prof who landed in the wrong country on a trip.
He apparently intended to go to the Dominican Republic but told th
Professor Lilienfeld has a new book out called "50 Myths of Popular
Psychology", Both students and teachers would really enjoy the book
and also find lots of ideas for class discussion. I interviewed Scott
on the most recent episode of my podcast which you can find here:
http://bit.ly/li
California wine has been terminally Parkerized ('jammy') and French
wine is moving that way.
Personally, I like: Pacific Northwest; New Zealand (Oz is going the
way of California) and Spain.
There are still very good French and Italian wines, but they are
getting priced beyond my reach.
On
The topic of wine ratings also reminds me of the famous battles
over whether better wines come from California or France.
Wikipedia provides a good entry into the story, along with the
individual ratings by the judges and the good question of whether
differences in these ratings are meaningf
Hi
Inside Higher Ed had a brief blurb on lack of relationship between use of
social media (e.g., facebook) and grades. See:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/28/qt#216242
Here is link to summary of study (a student project):
http://www.unh.edu/news/docs/UNHsocialmedia.pdf
I though
Thanks too Martin, for getting me thinking about this and keeping this relevant
to teaching Psych! No mean feat on TIPS sometimes ha. I agree about the
over-reach from this one study, but do feel the rat model COULD possibly be
relevant to the issue. I would (in addition to what's been ment
Since I'm the one who mentioned the relevance to research methods courses, I'll
put my two cents in. For me, it's a great example of generalizing and
speculating way beyond the data (to go from rat behavior and physiology to
depression and anxiety in teenagers is a bit of a reach), and from Step
Thanks for the response Stephen! I was beginning to think I should have added
something about eurocentric biases to get some TIPS response ;-) I agree as
to the problematic news report about the study, but just was unsure about the
relevance to my students in a research methods class. I thi
sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote:
>> There's nothing surprisingly
>> egregious about this particular article, is there?
>>
>
> Yes. I've never seen a university press release, which should
> have been vetted by the authors and presumably ran with their
> approval, hide the fact that the research was i
���On the subject of the reporting of scientific news in the media, Chris
Green wrote [snip]:
>The "news" is a commercial product. Commercial products
>are routinely adjusted to ensure that they sell to the greatest
>number of people at the highest price (or rather, those that are
>not so adjusted
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