If memory serves, there isn't much speech information conveyed at
higher frequencies, so hearing aids put all their capacity at the lower
(important) frequencies. It isn't about high fidelity, but high
comprehension.
don
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Peterson, Douglas (USD) wrote:
I c
How about the "fact" that the Great Wall of China is the only manmade
object visible from space? When you hear that one, just ask why then an
interstate highway (which is several times wider) cannot be seen. Stops
them cold.
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Paul Smith wrote:
I rec
say 2%--don't start a big maggilla (sp?)about what the rate
is!!). Only when a man has about 10 older brothers does the probability
approach 50% of being gay. (Even so, that is quite an interesting
finding.)
don
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 15 Mar 2006 at 13:12, michael
I will yield to Scott's judgement on the deficiencies in the study. My
comment had only to do with the possible value of the experience,
including its use in research.
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Scott Lilienfeld wrote:
Just curious
Am I the only TIPs member who finds it rather
althy one.
Best regards
don
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Scott Lilienfeld wrote:
I thought that some of you might be interested in this recent
remarkable dissertation from a student in a major Psy.D. program (I
have deleted the student's name) which a colleague brought to my
atten
A quick (and incomplete) response. When numbers are manipulated in
similar ways there are only certain outcomes possible.
don
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James K. Denson wrote:
Since we are asking about things that puzzle us, can anyone help me
explain this one?
http://trunks.secondfoundation.org/files
I
can look them up when they ask for a letter of reference years later.
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jim guinee wrote:
Do any of you use facebook to learn more about your students?
I was considering using it next semester to try and more quickly
memorize names, yet somehow I feel like I'm
Sounds like: Irving Goffman, Relations in public. New York:Basic Books, 1971.
He described this ritual.
don
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University of Pittsburgh
Chuck Huff wrote:
> Folks,
>
> As we were doing expression of emotion in my Social class today, I
> ran on of my my favorite de
Scott:
May be urban legend, but it is old (at least '60s) and I heard it in
a colloquium by an Indiana cognitive type whose name I don't recall.
(Wasn't the math modeller.)
don
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Scott Lilienfeld wrote:
Dear TIPS: I'm always reluctant to
Donald McBurney
Also, if you pretend you can't identify one, you put it aside until
last, and they really think you are reading their minds, or faces, or
whatever.
Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote:
This is another version of this trick that does not require a
confederate. Here you can tell who
doing some digging.
The conclusion drawn from it was that children self-selected a
balanced diet over days, but were pretty unbalanced over the short
term--if memory serves(!!!).
don
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Deb Briihl wrote:
Most of what I have read about this study suggests other problems
1.
rads to come up with a question, a
theoretical approach, and a methodology. This leads them through the process
don
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Traci Giuliano wrote:
my research methods project requires students (in groups of 2-4,
depending on my class size) to conduct an original 2 x 2 experiment
s anecdotal, but one
study of vandalism found that modern art was vanalized far more than
traditional. (Ulrich, 1993, in Kellert and Wilson, Eds, The biophilia
hypothesis.)
don
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Christopher D. Green wrote:
Donald McBurney wrote:
Chuck Huff came close when he invoked the sa
Bovill (1996), Fractal geometry in
architecture and design. Boston: Birkhauser. This is also discussed in
Gaulin and McBurney (2004) Evolutionary Psychology. Prentice Hall.
don
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University of Pittsburgh (whose Posvar Hall is a wonderful, horrible
example of modern architecture
m out, or
finally embarassed them into realizing their incompetence.)
Karl Wuesch's case could involve the same problem if there are two
conditions, and there is differential attrition.
don
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University of Pittsburgh
Karl L. Wuensch wrote:
One of m
at
instead of buying the book (as I did as a student, even though I still
have a text I bought for $2.35).
best
don
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University of Pittsburgh
Shearon, Tim wrote:
Annette- I agree with you. I pick three or four texts for a course (and I must say that I seldom cho
.
best
don
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University of Pittsburgh
Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote:
To the extent that it covers the societal phenomenon and how our eating habits
have become intertwined with a faster life style brought about by widespread
transportation, Fast food nation is a good read
Brown is dark yellow, which can be illustrated with an overhead, a
yellow filter, and a bright surround versus a dark surround. A magic
marker might work. I would guess that explains how blonde hair becomes
brown with age in many people.
don
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Rick Stevens wrote
I have heard of the spiritual development but not the astral sex or
infections. Could you supply a reference for someting on this, Don?
Stuart
Date sent: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:57:01 -0400
From: Donald McBurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: We've lost anohte
infections. So, there is bacterial life after death, at least.
Can't make this stuff up
don
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Paul Okami wrote:
Dear Herb
I don't know much about Kubler-Ross, but I recall hearing that at some point
she repudiated her earlier writings that set the standard f
Well put.
don
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Rick Froman wrote:
OK, for what it's worth, here is my take on the
whole statisticians vs. psychologists dichotomy. It seems that
most people assume that since statisticians are, by definition, the
experts in the use of statistic
go there.)
don
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Universits of Pittsburgh
That's no way to run a church!
I accept the rebuke, and hereby repent. :-) (Although the last time I
repented on this list we didn't hear the end of it for some time).
But I do find it hard to believe that the notio
drawn considerably more information from the data than any
author on the subject.¨ (The paper is now in press in an excellent
journal.)
¨ ¨ Don
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¨
Marty Bourgeois
University of Wyoming
b.\??? ?&?v?-???g???¨˜???nN?r??z¨§u??jy ?^j?9?i?
should be limited to interval data.
(Statisticians don't believe in that restriction, as we have discussed
at least once before on this list, so please let's not go there.)
don
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Universits of Pittsburgh
Don Allen wrote:
I quite agree, and I wish it were the onl
I do many things to pique students' interest in research methods,
especially having them solve problems in class such as items in the news
that involve regression to the mean (the Sports Illustrated Jinx). Many
examples are given in (ahem) my research methods book with Wadsworth.
Perhaps t
nystagmus (and a Google search turned up tons of
stuff), but it runs in my mind that there is a normal torsional
nystagmus that would tend to keep a rotating object (such as a wheel)
stable on the retina (analogous to vestibular nystagmus in the
horizontal plane).
don
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As usual
o the front of a jet engine, and sometimes at propellers. I
have wondered, but not enough to look it up.
don
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Dennis Goff wrote:
Tom,
Take a look at http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen01/gen01404.htm. Be sure to read both answers. The first answers indicates tha
wins. Bush/Gore predicts a tie. Ooops...
3) My wife had an obstetrician named Dr. Diddle. (No kidding!)
Enough, already. Let's get back to something serious, like
discussing what to do with M.S.
don
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University of Pittsburgh
Stephen Black
the Human Behavior and Evolution
Society; see Putz, 2003 , Human sexuality. Dubuque, Iowa:Kendall
Hunt.)
Still a puzzle, but in my moderately informed opinion, probably not
having any evolutionary advantage.
don
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Rick Adams wrote:
Rick Froman wrote:
To which I ask
In Jim's defense, Hergenhahn is, I believe, the most widely used book on
H&S (certainly among the leading books), and gives rather short shrift
to Piaget. So anyone who uses Hergenhahn probably does also. (I don't
even assign the chapter in which he appears.)
Don
D
Signal Detection Theory is the way to go. See any standard treatment,
such as T. D. Wickens, Elementary Signal Detection Theory, Oxford, 2002.
don
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Peterson, Douglas wrote:
Not knowing
exactly what judgment the participants
made but assuming
_relatively_ insensitive to red, so a certain amount of
dark adaptation can begin under weak red light, because then you are
stimulating the cones _more than_ the rods.
Help!
This is just a quick response while preparing as S&P test for this
afternoon.
don
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Sorry, I just couldn't resist nit picking Annette's message. :-)
The _expression_ is "nit picking," not "nick picking." (Nits are
lice eggs; hence to pick lice eggs from another's hair.)
don
Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote:
Each year we have to fill out a 'brag' sheet for merit pay. I
such nonesense--this is from fading memory), had them do some
eye tracking exercises, etc., etc.. I remember this because one of our
grad students at the time worked on the eye tracking fiasco. The book
is a hoot.
don
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BTW, a football coach of the Pitt Panthers whose name
This would be interesting, if true. Any evidence? (Tell it to Mikey;
he'll believe anything.)
don
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sylvestm wrote:
WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD YOU IN PSYCHOLGY CLASS:
It was African hunters and village dwellers who first dixcovered
the laws of of so called Ge
t all these philosophers. Then it came together at the
end. And he thanked me. Imagine that. It reminded me why I chose
this occupation.
back to work
don
Louis_Schmier wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Donald McBurney wrote:
As long as I am using up bandwidth, I sometimes tell my st
Right you are. If your PBS station does as many reruns as our WQED
does, my error suggests that listening isn't correlated with learning,
either. ;-)
duly chastened
don
As long as I am using up bandwidth, I sometimes tell my students to take
the advice of the Book of Common Prayer,
I hereby publicly repent of breaking my rule of never replying to any
thread that has "Random Thought" in its subject line.
don
Louis_Schmier wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Donald McBurney wrote:
It is incredible to me that reading the book doesn't correl
at least--(how is that for a disclaimer?)], and
I am unanimous in that! (with apologies to Hyacinth Bucket, I think)
don
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Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote:
Stay tuned--this semester as part of a different research project, I had
students keep a diary of how much time they sp
ne-sentence paragraph is acceptable when it makes a different
point than the paragraphs that surround it (as this one would, if it had
a next paragraph); but I agree they are overused. :-)
don
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-Original Message-
From: Mike Scoles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
S
ing a sentence with a
preposition.)
don
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-Original Message-
From: DeVolder Carol L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 3:34 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: RE: Writing Pet Peeves
One thing I find myself sayi
y?
How does the brain work?
What should we eat?
Are Men necessary? Women?
Can robots become conscious?
Why do we sleep?
How smart are animals?
Can drugs make us smart?
Does the paranormal exist?
I believe this is worth pointing out to our students, deans, and the
public.
Don
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scoop ice cream cone is
created.
don
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University of Pittsburgh
-Original Message-
From: Rob Hoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:16 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: Triune Brain
How valid is the
line. The best Powerpoint presentation
I have heard in years used simple black on green, with no bullets and no
animation or sound. And she left the slide up for five minutes so
we could absorb it.
don
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Oh, and it is very difficult to make a slide in APA format using Microsoft
pr
Stephen Black wrote:
> On 7 Oct 2003, Donald McBurney wrote:
>
> > I have been watching this thread, but I can't help noting that
> > sports teams are famous for following pseudoscientific fads.
>
> > I am sure this is the corner of the tip of a ver
was eventually fired).
I am sure this is the corner of the tip of a very large iceberg.
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Herb Coleman wrote:
> >Subject: Need Help
> >From: Annette Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 13:10:38 -0700 (PDT)
> >X-Messa
.
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University of Pittsburgh
Jim Matiya wrote:
Jim MatiyaCarl Sandburg High School
131st and LaGrange Road
Orland Park, IL 60462
Lewis University. Romeoville, IL
Moraine Valley Comm. College. Palos Hills, IL
Illinois Virtual High School. Cyberspace?
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mind the "fair use" concept. :-)
best
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"Colleen J. Burnham" wrote:
I have a .pdf handout that I keep on
the web:
http://www.colby.edu/psychology/POSTERS.pdf
cjb
At 07:37 AM 10/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I'm looking for a handout
to give to s
Anyone who has tried to solve the "Jumble" puzzles in the newspaper knows that letter
order counts a lot. As has been noted, the words in the example are scrambled in
highly specific (regular) ways, approximating transpositions in typing.
don
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Rick Froman wrot
ways realized that a control group was needed (and usually told my
students so), but never did it. Anybody?
don
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DeVolder Carol L wrote:
Actually, I think the phenomenon is that to
most of us, carrots are the quintessential vegetable. It doesn't mat
It seems to me that the correspondent revealed her ignorance of the topic by
referring to the bell curve as a measurement device. It is, of course, the
result of measurement. Should we take her opinion seriously?
Donald McBurney
University of Pittsburgh
Allen Esterson wrote
. I believe I once
did a more extensive search, finding all sorts of clues to pseudoscience in it.
don
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University of Pittsburgh
Philippe Gervaix wrote:
> Carol,
> it is a phenomenon commonly associated to autism. Actually, one of the
> hytothesis that tries to account for
, I also see considerable commercial impact on which books get
published, and how they are sold.
don
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University of Pittsburgh
"ROBERT [EMAIL PROTECTED]@MATHSCIENCE" wrote:
> Very interesting and certainly food for thought and topics for discussion on a
> num
their
90's, peacefully in their sleep. The thought that they could die today seemed
too much for them.
don
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"Renner, Michael" wrote:
> Paul -
> A long time ago, when I was on a temporary appointment at the start of my
> career, I taught death a
And thanks
to Stephen for his balanced discussion of the ethics of the situation.
don
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Stephen Black wrote:
> In reference to Don McBurney's suggestion (which I suspect was made
> more facetiously than seriously) that a parent bite a biting child
> b
For all the same legal and other reasons given for not using lemon juice,
etc, to discourage biting, the one treatment that has been used by
generations of mothers with great effectiveness cannot be given either: Bite
the kid back.
don
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