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On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Marte Fallshore wrote:
> I teach an introductory statistics class where homework is meant to be a
> learning experience, so is graded very lightly (especially the
> computations). Meanwhile, on tests, students can compute 'till the cows
> come home but do not understand the
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think that the Raw Score formula easier to use with any
> sample larger than 4 or 5 scores
I'm not sure what this had to do with GRE (unless it referred to
GRE question), but definitional (deviation) formula can be easier
for a much larger numbe
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Hetzel, Rod wrote:
> I'm looking for some resources for teaching students how to
> write psychological reports. I'm not neccesarily looking for
> a text for a class, but even some online material would be
> appropriate. I have a student in my tests and measurement
> class
Hi again
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, jim clark wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Hetzel, Rod wrote:
> > I'm looking for some resources for teaching students how to
> > write psychological reports. I'm not neccesarily looking for
> > a text for a class, but even some online ma
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Rick Froman wrote:
> I teach at an interdenominational Christian college and
> students take Bible classes here as part of the Core
> curriculum. They are not graded on their agreement with the
> teacher's doctrinal beliefs but by their ability to show
> evidence of their un
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On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Al Shealy wrote:
> If the letter of rec. is supposed to be our estimate of a student's
> ability to perform in graduate school or as a professional, religious
> beliefs should ONLY be relevant if they are indeed correlated with
> graduate school performance or professional p
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Rick Froman wrote:
> I think my points still stand which are: 1) scientists don't
> "believe" in theories. They find them to be useful constructs
> for explaining empirical observations and suggesting new
> hypotheses. As you point out, Einstein's relativity theory
> did n
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Chuck Huff wrote:
> Jim Clark says:
> >
> >Even if we were to grant Rick these points, they do NOT resolve
> >the current issue. Here is Lewontin on the question of the
> >status of evolution ... clearly he thinks that evolution is a
> &g
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Paul Brandon wrote:
> At 9:03 AM -0600 2/10/03, Rick Froman wrote:
> >3) No amount of evidence moves something from a theory to a fact.
> >They are two different categories. Some theories are certainly more
> >well-supported by the existing evidence than others are. Theo
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Charlotte Manly wrote:
> My own opinion: I do not think you can teach theory-building.
Probably depends on one's definition of "teach." Perhaps not all
teaching needs to be explicit. I think your own example from
graduate school (i.e., exposure to theory-making in diff
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Wallace E. Dixon, Jr. wrote:
> Speaking of z-score woes, does anyone know how psychology ended up
> with standard deviations rather than mean absolute differences from
> the mean. Is it just because of ease of calculation?
It is because of the statistical properties as
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There is a family of disorders referred to as acalculia, which
can involve quite specific dysfunctions. I think it would take a
neuropsychologist or clinician with specific training in this
area to be very specific about what is going on. McCloskey and
his colleagues have done much work on th
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On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Hatcher, Joe wrote:
> I would argue that random assignment is only a means to
> an end, the end being having at least two groups that are
> assumed to be roughly equal on all variables. Seen that way,
> a within-subjects design is simply another means of achieving
>
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On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Jack Rowe wrote:
> ACEP is looking for someone to coordinate their research program. A
> small stipend and some funding may be available. Energy Psychology is
> based on the principles of acupuncture and is growing in popularity
> among clinicians.
Who said that Travis ove
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> a) standardized scores are no good solution since
> it will make it impossible to tell the direction of pre-post
> change, if there was any (recall that both set of scores will
> have a mean of zero).
>
> b) puting the two set of scores on the sam
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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote:
In reply to someone else who wrote:
> > PS- I also have to add that some reviewers on our IRB have
> decided that > even minimal risk research must demonstrate
> benefits. If a study does not > look like it will lead to a
> contribution to gen
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, sylvestm wrote:
> I have a very negatively reactive student in one of my classes.
> And I have to conduct course evaluation within a month.
> I can predict that she will be writing down some nasties.
>
> I am waiting on the opportunity for her to be absent from class
>
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Hetzel, Rod wrote:
> I was under the impression that the Marlowe-Crowne Social
> Desirability Scale was a good scale to use in research
> studies to assess response bias, but I came across this
> article earlier today suggesting a lack of empirical support
> for this measur
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Cheri Budzynski wrote:
> A few students in my experimental class are conducting a study that
> examines taxonomic and thematic structural organization in preschoolers
> and college students. The essence of the study is that they are
> presenting eight objects to ten prescho
Hi
As others have noted, a professional in the area is probably
required. The people might also want to look for articles on
aversive stimuli (e.g., those used for self-mutilation behaviour
with autistic children). I think, for example, that a whiff of
ammonia has been found effective in some st
Hi
You might want to look at inhibition models that posit increasing
strength of inhibitory functioning during childhood (and often
reverse during aging). It can be nicely related to performance
on variety of tasks (e.g., stroop, Simon Says, ...), as well as
to more physiological measures (e.g.,
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, David L Gent wrote:
> Please reassure your student that she should not fear the
> honest investigation of ideas and that it does not mean that
> she will automatically have to stop being a Bible believing
> Christian. This does not mean that she will necessarily find
> sh
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Cheri Budzynski wrote:
> Does anyone have the list of Murray's social motives from his 1938
> article?
Doug Jackson's Personality Research Form (PRF) was based on
Murray's needs. Below are the names for 20 of the social
motives, along with 2 validity scales. This comes
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Steven Specht wrote:
> My understanding of the point-biserial correlational
> procedures is that it is used when one of the variables is
> dichotomous (e.g. female vs. male; psych majors vs. non-psych
> majors). I have a colleague who had a data set in which she
> has a "t
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> Assuming they are at least ordinal, you could code them 1, 2,
> 3 (or -56, 7, 1006, if you wanted to).
Although true that coding is arbitrary with 2 groups, this does
not generalize to 3 groups. Depends on the hypothesized
underlying "distan
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> Gerry palmer wrote:
>
> > Hi Annette: There are some books about this stuff called "Inner Golf"
> > and "Inner Tennis". They both involve a lot of visualizations. I
> > know they work because the golf coach where I used to work swore by
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> jim clark wrote:
> >One mainstream psychologist who has had an interest in
> >sports imagery is Allan Paivio, now emeritus at University of
> >Western Ontario. Below is one relevant link.
> >Sport Imagery Quest
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Cheri Budzynski wrote:
> We had a discussion on our Human Subjects Review Board about the ethics
> of obtaining information on a survey that is not pertinent to the study.
> One person argued that it was a design issue and we should not be asking
> people to remove question
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An alternative approach is to take advantage of a parameter
available with many functions that allows you to specify the
minimum number of items that must be present for the computation
to occur. Something like the following
compute mean = mean.35(v1 to v40)
This would calculate a mean as l
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On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Paul Smith wrote:
> Michael Caruso wrote:
>
> > Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I just looked at the only three behavioral
> > analysis texts I have (2 from 1979 and 1 from 1993) and all three define a
> > "negative reinforcer" as an aversive stimulus - one's whose remova
the
> X canonical variate. I abandoned SPSS for canonical analysis years ago,
> switching to SAS.
>
> If there is an easy way to do it in SPSS, I expect Jim Clark will let us
> know. SPSS for windows will accept syntax, of course.
>
> Karl W.
>
> -Original Mess
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Stephen Black wrote:
> On 5 Nov 2003, Jeffrey Nagelbush wrote:
>
> > The following quote, from Mirror, Mirror: A History of the Human Love
> > Affair with Reflection by Mark Pendergrast, was sent to me by a
> > colleague:
> > Many schizophrenics rfeact oddly t
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Paul Brandon wrote:
> At 10:28 AM -0600 11/11/03, Rick Froman wrote:
> >On a related point, is there a name for the type of stimulus you add
> >to the situation that leads to positive reinforcement other than an
> >stimulus? Whereas, "aversive" works well in naming stimu
Hi
I recently received an e-mail, probably from some list, about a
recent (I believe) book critical of the idea that daycare does no
harm to kids. Apparently talked about problems with research or
inferences that appear to support the idea that putting kids in
daycare does not harm. I think Scar
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Stephen Black wrote:
> Jim Clark asked about a book which apparently questioned research
> showing that daycare didn't cause harm to children.
>
> As a long-shot, I wonder if he might be referring to the massive and
> on-going National Institute
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Once again google to the rescue. Have a look at:
http://www.perceptionmapping.com/
There you will learn that:
"Perception Mapping is a cultural CAT Scan and an accurate, low
cost roadmap for successful strategic intervention."
There is some other information there and at other business
sit
Hi
Found it. Following book was released in September 2003, I
think.
Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isnt
Telling Us, by Brian C. Robertson (Encounter, 280 pp., $25.95)
Lots of write-ups on the www, especially in conservative sites.
Best wishes
Jim
=
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Donald McBurney wrote:
> It is incredible to me that reading the book doesn't correlate with
> grades [in my classes, at least--(how is that for a disclaimer?)], and I
> am unanimous in that! (with apologies to Hyacinth Bucket, I think)
> don
> Donald McBurne
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, David Campbell wrote:
> Jim, if you have the reference handy to the May study, I would be
> interested.
May, M. A. (1923) Predicting academic success. _Journal of
Educational Psychology, 14_, 429-440.
Best wishes
Jim
===
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Louis_Schmier wrote:
> Got a question about all this "getting." Why are you bothering
> with all this getting students to prepare?
Although I don't actually agree with many of the suggestions to
"require" students to do things to prepare for class (they're
adults and can
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Carol Stonecipher wrote:
> Two minutes until class, but...(taking an opportunity to brag)...
> Hot Springs is a fantastic place to work...beautiful mountains
> to hike, lakes to play on...and being a transplant from the north...
> the weather here is quite pleasant!
> Oh,
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
> But then, a site that touts "a new paradigm" is going
> to raise suspicions. Worse, take a look at this comment
> (under FAQ) on the site:
> --
> Q. Who have been the detractors and opponents of Brain
> Fingerprinting technolo
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Wallace Dixon wrote:
> Can anyone direct me to a source of data that describes
> the most popular undergraduate majors nationally? I'm trying
> IPEDS, but I'm having a hard time navigating this site and
> figured that someone else may have traveled these grounds
> bef
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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Jean-Marc Perreault wrote:
> I've highlighted the passage that makes me wonder: Am I mistaken in
> wondering how a Pearson Correlation lead the researchers to conclude
> about a causal effect? Even browsing through the article itself, there
> is no mention (that I caught
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Herb Coleman wrote:
> >Subject: Re: "poor test-takers?"
> >From: David Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 11:21:26 -0800
from David I think ...
> > Years ago, I administered a questionnaire on study habits to a
> >large class of intro psyc studen
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On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote:
> I measured time spent reading the text, time on embedded
> quizzes, time on chapter reviews, time on online quizzes and
> time on all the other pedagogical activities in my intro
> psych text (e.g., critical thinking boxes, online crossword
>
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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote:
> Paivio's dual code theory would support this. You might try a
> SSCI search using one of the core paivio references.
> Quoting Kathleen Kleissler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Does anyone have a reference for the concept that the more
> senses we
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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote:
> I seem to recall that APA or APS had an article some time ago
> called "Tips on talking to the media" but I can not find any
> such thing using the usual sources (Google, APA, etc.). All I
> need is a relatively brief article/overview of the majo
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On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> characterize it as an "operationalization." "Operational definitions"
> were badly misunderstood and badly distorted by the behavioral
> psychologists who picked them up from physics in the first place, and
> the "operational attitude" turne
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On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> jim clark wrote:
> > Scientific psychologists should take philosophy and history of
> > science with a real heavy dose of salt (i.e., skepticism). Our
> > scientific practices should be based on a science of science,
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Michael's comments would be funnier still if they weren't so
similar to some of the more "serious" writings by critics of
science. Here is Sandra Harding:
--
The radical feminist position holds that epistemologies,
metaphysics, ethics, an
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On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Gerald Peterson wrote:
> Jonj, I have toyed with his kind of stuff in examining
> differences between skeptics and believers in the paranormal.
> I don't have the reference handy, but I believe Bruner in the
> early 60s did a study examining mental set and images that
>
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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Hetzel, Rod wrote:
> I want to conduct a one-way ANOVA where the levels in the
> independent variable have unequal n's. For a post-hoc test, I
> can't use a Tukey because of the unequal cell sizes. Which
> post-hoc test would be appropriate to use? LSD? Bonferonni?
I'm sur
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Kathleen Kleissler wrote:
> A colleague and I have volunteered to do Psychology
> demonstrations for a Science Fair, which will be open to the
> public. Does anyone have some ideas for demos that would be
> interesting to the general public, and not too difficult to
> set u
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On Thu, 6 May 2004, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote:
> We will have to disagree here completely. It is the job of
> the IRB to decide on the quality of research if the quality
> shifts the balance of cost/benefit to cost.
IRB members are not in a position to make this kind of judgment,
or at leas
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On Thu, 6 May 2004, Jeff Bartel wrote:
> On 6 May 2004 at 8:23, Annette Taylor wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 6 May 2004, jim clark wrote:
>
> > > With respect
> > > to the last point, it would be interesting to see if
> > > participating in bad studies harms
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Rick Adams wrote:
> We all know that our approach to a research project is as important as the
> manner in which we conduct it. Financial considerations can play a part in
> that approach--and thus in the overall results we obtain. I doubt there is
> anyone on this list who
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Laura Valvatne wrote:
> A 60-year-old male who works for the U.S. Department of Agriculture
> sent me the following letter. I would appreciate any thoughts you have
> before I reply.
>
>
> "Would you be able to recommend to me some reading material about a
> couple o
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, James Guinee wrote:
> I heard the APA wants to retire the term "subjects"
>
> Is this a good move, or are they just being silly?
They are being silly. Subjects is listed in at least one
dictionary I found on-line as meaning humans or animals in
scientific experiments, a
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Paul Brandon wrote:
> Literally true, but the etymology has nothing to do with the
> "N-word". That is the sort of thing that they have in mind --
> very sinister (so lefties can now object too).
Don't denigrate and negro both derive from the Latin root for
black?
Best wi
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I got into a lengthy debate about this study on another list.
The suggestion that fraud might have been involved was deemed to
be an ad hominum argument. In looking into the study, I found
that at least some of the authors have been affiliated with
Alternative Medicine in general (Kwang Yul
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, James Guinee wrote:
> I just love the anti-religious bias that is so prevalent in
> psychology!
There are many things that scientific psychologists are against:
sloppy designs, inappropriate statistics, faulty conclusions,
careless reasoning, promoting theories that are fa
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, James Guinee wrote:
> Just as science cannot teach much about morality, religion cannot teach
> much about science. It doesn't mean they can't have some partnership, but
> not much of one.
The complication for those of us who teach and do science about
human beings is
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I'll take Louis's questions in a somewhat different order, and
then ask some of my own.
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Louis_Schmier wrote:
> Second, what is learning?
Learning is a relatively permanent change in behaviour (including
thinking behaviour) due to experience and not other causes (e.g.,
Hi
I wonder if departments without clinical faculty have developed
any guidelines, procedures, etc. to deal with undergraduate
students with clinical interests (e.g., special arrangements for
thesis supervisors or projects, ...)? Or if no special
considerations are deemed necessary, has a ration
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Hatcher, Joe wrote:
> challenges us as scientists. We often tell our students not
> to respond to data differentially based on whether it fits
> their belief systems, etc., but I wonder if we are
> necessarily any better about that than they are. I gave my
> Senior Resea
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The following definitely will have a self-righteous tone to it
... no apologies given!
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Rod Hetzel wrote:
> and not likely to have any relevance for teaching psychology. A more
> significant topic, and perhaps a topic more appropriate for this
> listserve, concerns the is
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Although I do not apologize for being "self-righteous" about
> > science's achievements and well-founded validity, I definitely
> > regret that it is even necessary to say these kinds of things at
> > the start of the 21st Century.
>
> I'm not
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Richard Pisacreta wrote:
> The ones that make me angry are the psych claims- all mental problems are
> the result of brain chemistry problems. There are genes for criminality,
> homosexuality, schizophrenia, etc. It's amazing how many non-psych
> faculty teach psych issues
Hi
I thought it helpful to respond to this earlier message of Rod's
before taking up his later comment.
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Rod Hetzel wrote:
> I am suggesting that both theist academicians and naturalist
> academicians can use the scientific method to study the particular
> phenomenology of th
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Rod Hetzel wrote:
> When we study the central nervous system I cover the same material that
> all introductory texts cover as well as providing some additional
> empirical articles for students to read and critique. One of the
> discussions that we are likely to have in m
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Although the debate is officially over, just one short comment:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > To my way of thinking, the professor was the most courageous
> > person in that room.
>
> The professor was courageous? That's very interesting. I don't consider it
> courage
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rick Froman wrote:
> Of course, the reason she is lonely and not able to get away with those
> statements is due to her choice of profession and audience. She would feel
> much less lonely in academe (particularly the social sciences according to
> some surveys).
Being ir
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Rod Hetzel wrote:
> Thanks for the tip, Stephen. This is very serendipitous as we're
> currently talking about motivation for sexual behavior in my Intro
> classes. We're just getting ready to discuss gender identity, gender
> roles, and sexual orientation. As you might
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Payam Heidary wrote:
> Yes I know about supply and demand and I know
> full-time faculty are poorly paid also. But the
> question is why are the SAME faculty who teach the
> SAME CLASSES in the SAME DEPARTMENT making 4-5 times
> more for the same work of part-timers. This
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Payam Heidary wrote:
> There are people who hold Ph.D.'s who are not
> qualified to be college professors just like there are
> people with Master's degree who are not qualified.
> What makes you qualified and what should determine
> your pay is NOT which TYPE of degree yo
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Oops!
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, jim clark wrote:
> education. As a final comment on this point, many institutions,
> my own included, will _not_ be considering people without PhDs
> for regular, full-time positions, which considerably reduces
> potential positions for people wit
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Payam Heidary wrote:
> Please read more carefully what I said. I am talking
> about quality of degree. Levels of educational
> achievement are up to the individual in what they
> accomplish while they are attending school.
I did read what you said. I was very careful to
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Payam Heidary wrote:
> Let me ask you a question. Do you teach or have you
> taught any class where you have to teach students to
> write APA style papers? My assumption is that you have
> not based on your response.
This is extremely presumptious. Payam, if you want to
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On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Payam Heidary wrote:
> My experiences have not been similar to yours. You say
> that you give very clear and specific instructions and
> that you find students following them. This is NOT the
> case with my students. You may have upper division or
> graduate students who ha
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Charles M. Huffman wrote:
> Very astute Mike. I suggest that the troll gather their thesis data
> elsewhere, or practice adolescent chicanery (perhaps an oxymoron) with a
> more appropriate peer group.
I'm going to sound like Michael S. here, but another hypothesis I
had
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First, I am not completely against the idea that student apathy
might be greater than it once was. But there are other
hypotheses, including global ones like students today do not have
academic values inculcated in them at lower levels. As to
Payam's specific points, here are a couple of alt
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, tasha howe wrote:
> In my research methods course students have collected data so that they
> can compute one simple correlation (n=180). Both questions are on
> 5-point scales. I want them to plot the data to see if it looks like
> there is a correlation. However, a simpl
Hi
Type "balkwill" and "music" into www.google.com and you will get
lots of hits. Laura Balkwill was an undergraduate here and went
on to do graduate studies in music and psychology at York
University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (aside ... By my reading
of the new APA guide, Toronto is not a maj
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On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, James Guinee wrote:
> This study sounds like a reminder that many things in life
> may be a matter of neither too much nor too little.
>
> JPG
>
> CHICAGO (Reuters) - Forget what mom said about keeping your hands in
> your lap while talking. Gesturing while speaking app
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Michael Sylvester wrote:
> Happy Thanksgiving to all participating tipsters!
> Btw,how do they spend Thanksgiving in Canada?
> Eat codfish and drink Molson?
Culturally-sensitive people will be aware that cod stocks have
been sorely depleted in recent years due to over-fis
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Hershberger, Tom wrote:
> "Target fixation" is the idea that you will walk, run, aim, or drive
> where you are looking. It is widely used in the military and racecar
> driving. It purported works something like this. I am driving down the road
> and discover an obs
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Louis_Schmier wrote:
> I have merged these two seemingly unrelated topic because I see a
> common thread. The question is whether we exchange with an exclamation
> point or a question mark? I may be wrong, but it seems to me, on at least
> these two seminal issues,
Morning
On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Louis_Schmier wrote:
> Jim, an early good morning. Can't sleep. What answer is so written in
> stone, so infallible, that it is not subject to questioning, to
> examination, to reconsideration by ourselves of ourselves and by others?
Things like: the earth is round,
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D. wrote:
> If one includes all of Jewish writings beyond the Torah, one will find
> almost every opinion represented from simply dead to afterlife to
> reincarnation to . . .However, when discussing Judaism grounded
> principally in the Torah, one do
Hi
In browsing around looking for material related to the discussion
of religion, I again came across religious writings that quite
explicitly take issue with secular psychology, something that I
had noticed several times in the past. Below are three examples.
Perhaps particularly interesting
Hi
Just one quick response, but the point is a general one.
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Louis_Schmier wrote:
> years old, On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, jim clark wrote:
> > Things like: the earth is round,
>
> Is it really round? Does it's shape change? Why? What's the impact on
&g
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Richard Pisacreta wrote:
> I also believe that evolution is a fact. Species are not
> static. Anyone who breeds animals knows that. Last time I
> looked, the literature still refers to it as "Darwin's
> theories of evolution", as did the recent PBS series. Few
> dispute evo
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Payam Heidary wrote:
> This week I lectured on various levels of measurement
> i.e., ordinal, nominal, interval, ratio, etc. in
> research and I found that some students have a hard
> time understanding these concepts. DO anyone of you
> have a good strategy or method for c
Hi
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Rick Froman wrote:
> A person who sees him/her-self as not being superior to others
> does NOT go into their communities and try to convert them to his/her
> belief system in an attempt to "improve" their beliefs. That kind of
> behavior is so offensive it justifies
Hi
I've responded here to Rick, but the same arguments would apply
to Charlotte's recommendations against the use of means with
ranks. I would also repeat Karl Wuensch's comment that
non-parametric procedures can often be conceptualized as simply
parametric tests carried out on ranks derived fro
Hi
My honours stats class is doing a research project this term on
Beliefs About Social Science (e.g., accept validity of scientific
research with humans, believe that such research has practical
value, ...). I'm curious what variables those "Teaching in the
Psychological Sciences" think would p
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I'm with Deb. It is also much more convenient for students to be
able to go somewhere at any time and place and find their marks.
In addition, past research showed that posting grades for courses
with student names (i.e., really public) actually led to better
performance than posting withou
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Michael LAVIN wrote:
> Positive Psychology represents a new and unique view of
> psychology, one that I think could have elements which could
> be judgmental and value-based and maybe value-biased. . Can
> anyone address their feelings about Positive Psychology? Mike
1.
Hi
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Stephen Black wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Shannon Gadbois wrote:
> > I remember this thinking something like this as a student. Of the 5 profs
> > who taught me (psychologists) 3 of them were lefties (all males)...
> And one of them still is.
Personally, this seems to me
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