Re: [tips] It's that plagiarism time of year again...

2009-12-17 Thread John Kulig
Yes, that time of year again! I have never used Turnitin.com but I want to introduce another problem I just encountered ... Two students in stats both turned in an exam with the exact same multiple choice answers(35 out of 39 correct, and both the correct AND incorrect choices were

Re: [tips] It's that plagiarism time of year again...

2009-12-17 Thread John Kulig
a hard time believing the solid student didn't facilitate the poorer student's work, and therefore might be considered to blame, too. -- Paul Bernhardt Frostburg State University Frostburg, MD, USA On 12/17/09 4:00 PM, John Kulig ku...@mail.plymouth.edu wrote: Yes, that time of year again! I

Re: [tips] Birth order effects for cooperation?

2009-12-07 Thread John Kulig
I distinguish between a context of discovery, where one SHOULD massage data to discover things (serendipity), and a context of justification (publication) in which we try to convince others of our conclusions. If a researcher (using more than just p = such and such) really believes they have

[tips] meta analysis

2009-11-20 Thread John Kulig
Forgot who requested it, but believe someone asked about a brief but real article that used meta-analysis a few days ago. Just off the press in Perspectives on psychological science vol 4 (6), p. 578 - 586 is Lac Crano's Monitoring Matters that looked at 17 studies, all on parental

[tips] teachable moment

2009-11-17 Thread John Kulig
What a coincidence, I have to share this. I had a test scheduled today in Measurement on Utility, making decisions about test use after cost/benefit analysis. On CNN this morning was the news that US Preventive Services Task Force is NOT recommending routine mammogram testing for women under

Re: [tips] Fechner Day! -- that darn date

2009-10-23 Thread John Kulig
I still do Fechner. I used to briefly do the DL and JND concepts when I taught intro (I believe Gleitman's text still covers him). When I taught History of Psych I did more, starting with Herbart and Leibnitz' concepts on petite perceptions, a few staged DL demos, then Weber Fechner. I used

Re: [tips] Reclaiming TIPS

2009-10-21 Thread John Kulig
Claudia .. thanks, you inspired me to throw in $.02 I'm only an amateur when it comes to social psychology, but I am pretty sure scapegoating always happens in groups sooner or later. When you study scapegoating (e.g. the French anthropologist Rene Girard) you realize scapegoats usually bring

Re: [tips] Correlation example

2009-10-01 Thread John Kulig
Just read the blurb and there are two problems .. one is comparing retrospective % with prospective (see below) and the other is inferring causation. But it's probably the reporters who blotched this; they probably cherry picked % from a lengthy interview and the result makes no sense. I

Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread John Kulig
Michael - there is alot out there. Do you have a new direction for the research or are you looking for already established lines? My next big project will be in the areas of food/religion/culture. Just a few random thoughts. Food intake weight are not kept within homeostatic limits (unlike

Re: [tips] Affinity fraud vs. kinship selection

2009-09-10 Thread John Kulig
Hello Beth Yes, social psychology in the real world! I hope some people with more experience with kinship selection replies to this. It's my understanding that kinship selection works with fairly close relatives, whose genetics are more similar than randomly chosen individuals. In s nutshell,

Re: [tips] Student's question.

2009-08-26 Thread John Kulig
I'm waiting for laundry to finish, so will bite on this. In addition to what Marc already said sbout quality of study, I mention QUANTITY of time - 2 to 3 hours per hour lecture. I stress re-writing lecture notes to create their own study guides. I'll give examples on how to do this, but

[tips] grade worse than F?

2009-08-19 Thread John Kulig
I have served on academic dishonesty panels before, and have alot of questions about how the FD (failure with dishonesty, for cheating) would be implemented, esp since the chairperson assigns the grade, but for now wanted to pass this on to tips ...

Re: [tips] Eurocentric?

2009-08-13 Thread John Kulig
And to cover the other european intelligence test, Wechsler defines it as the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment (1939) -- John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth

Re: [tips] word confusions/language evolution?

2009-08-11 Thread John Kulig
Stuart et al I was influenced quite a bit by Pinker's books on language (Language Instinct, How Language Works ..) and his negative critique of 'langauge mavens', so I tend to be tolerant of language evolution so long as there is precision in sentences i.e. having language match thought -

Re: [tips] Maine and Freud

2009-08-10 Thread John Kulig
As to what residents of Maine are called .. here in neighboring NH we call them Mainiacs. But it is said in a friendly way - it's my favorite place to visit. As to the fast-driving tourists who come from the south (Massachusetts) and flout (flount?) the rules of driving, we have different

[tips] NYTimes article on textbooks

2009-08-09 Thread John Kulig
Article in the NYTimes today about whether textbooks are headed for obsolescence. A quick read reveals alot of quotes by administrators, but nothing from teachers ... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/education/09textbook.html?_r=1ref=todayspaper -- John W. Kulig

Re: [tips] NYTimes article on textbooks

2009-08-09 Thread John Kulig
p.s. sorry I was too slow to realize the article already hit TIPS ... -- John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 -- - Original Message - From: John Kulig ku...@mail.plymouth.edu To: Teaching

Re: [tips] PLEASE NOTE : NEW FEATURE

2009-08-07 Thread John Kulig
Embarassing moment: first day of classes, first real job right after a 2 year post doc. Had syllabi run off and found the room, walked in, and discovered I had no idea what to say. A deer-in-the-headlights moment, the mind was totally blank. So I excused myself non-verbally, went to the

Re: [tips] Was: NEW FEATURE

2009-08-07 Thread John Kulig
@acsun.frostburg.edu Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 1:40:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [tips] Was: NEW FEATURE John Kulig said: Speaking of which, just read Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How randomness rules our lives, in which he cites repeated failures of people

Re: [tips] Psychology irrelevant to African-Americans

2009-08-06 Thread John Kulig
-05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE:[tips] Psychology irrelevant to African-Americans John Kulig wrote: It is true that some European music is refined (WESTERN europe? sorry sorry lol). But like language, the differences are tied mostly to social class. Even with the caveat mostly, I think

Re: [tips] Classical music/culture (was Psychology irrelevant...)

2009-08-06 Thread John Kulig
Eastern Subject: [tips] Classical music/culture (was Psychology irrelevant...) John Kulig wrote: It is amazing how many great virtuousos are being trained in the east, and how culture flows cross borders ... though the pinko in me notices how it seems to flow from one upper class to another

Re: [tips] Psychology irrelevant to African-Americans

2009-08-05 Thread John Kulig
Mike et al No apologies for lack of political correctness ... openness is good. My tangent: I think it is an interesting challenge to compare the differences between cultures, esp. in light of evolutionary concerns. One the one hand, we look out and see differences between cultures, as you

Re: [tips] Flipping Out | The Big Money

2009-08-04 Thread John Kulig
A different and low-tech coin demo, which can be used to introduce null hypothesis testing, viz p(heads) = .50. Have students balance 10 or 20 pennies on their sides on a sturdy, flat table in front of the room. Then have someone sharply tap the side of the table (or bang on it), with just

Re: [tips] He won't open up

2009-08-03 Thread John Kulig
Obviously psychobabble .. it's by an MD who is probably very well versed in his/her field of specialty but this is not one of them! Interesting how the fork was described - culture pushing a boy away from the mother, given that there is a classic Freudian interpretation for the distancing

Re: [tips] IBM To Buy SPSS, er, PAWS, I Mean PASW

2009-07-28 Thread John Kulig
Mike Thanks for the heads up ... perhaps predictive analytics translates to inferential statistics. By the way, let me put my usual plug in for MINITAB .. it is economical (it used to be, anyway), the output is succinct and crisp, very powerful, and many stat books use their output as

Re: [tips] What is behavior?

2009-07-22 Thread John Kulig
My .02 as well ... it may seem weird talking about the behavior of trees, but, the tropisms of plants played a role in the development of behavioral thinking (J. Loeb I believe, positive heliotropisms or turning toward light, and then the tropism-type reflexive behavior of paramecium: helio

Re: [tips] What is behavior?

2009-07-22 Thread John Kulig
. If you haven't seen it, you might be interested in my article (now 17 years old-- ack!) on the bizarre history of the operational definition in psychology: http://www.yorku.ca/christo/papers/operat.htm Regards, Chris Green York U. Toronto === John Kulig wrote: My .02 as well

Re: [tips] Chest/chest

2009-07-18 Thread John Kulig
- Original Message - From: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu snip .. (2) Just a personal peeve: I'm not a modesty fascist but what is it with women who wear tops that show off their breasts or cleavege at a FUNERAL or a wake? Yes, Lori only had a yadda-yadda-yadda. Please. At the Michael

Re: [tips] The Connecticut 20

2009-06-29 Thread John Kulig
Oh gosh, there are many issues here (besides the legal ones which were complex based on what I heard on NPR). The first is whether the test - as used - is valid in predicting a criterion such as job performance. I assume it is. Second is whether applicants are judged against the larger

Re: [tips] The Connecticut 20

2009-06-29 Thread John Kulig
Yeah, predictive validity would be key. Maybe someone can find the tests used ... just talked to an old friend who comes from a fire-fighting family (father, uncle, spouse, son ..) and asked about tests used. Apparently they vary from locale to locale, but at least in one Vermont department,

Re: [tips] Mid-week academic humor

2009-06-17 Thread John Kulig
An old one ... A female student was about to graduate and needed a gen ed class and decided to take a freshman ornithology class, thinking she'd breeze through a large lecture class filled with freshmen. After 3 weeks of lectures and studying every aspect of birds - anatomy physiology,

RE: [tips] info: brain birthday calendar

2008-07-31 Thread John Kulig
It is my understanding, based on hallway conversations form someone who DOES know this area, that it is a 24 hour clock with a margin of error, and the margin of error allows the clock to drift, which permits adjustments and resettings. As to why, in a cave, it drifts to 25 and not 23, I may ask

Re: [tips] allowing infants to cry

2008-06-17 Thread John Kulig
out of the answer. But this is not to disrespect the question, I do believe it is a classic in terms of watching the theoretical frameworks struggle with it. John Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: José

[tips] RE: Origin of Thorndike quote

2007-04-03 Thread John Kulig
Miguel Roig wrote: I love the following quote: If a thing exists, it exists in some amount; and if it exists in some amount, it can be measured John Kulig [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded: I only have one tid-bit to add, which may not even be true, but I recall HALF that quote was from

[tips] RE: Origin of Thorndike quote

2007-04-03 Thread John Kulig
Message- From: Stephen Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 9:37 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] RE: Origin of Thorndike quote [to you alone] On 3 Apr 2007 at 1:03, Charles Harris wrote: I'd say John Kulig deserves the major part

[tips] Re: ANOVA interpretation

2007-04-03 Thread John Kulig
I'm just curious if you WANT to increase chances of getting some contrasts significant at the .05 level. If you are doing just a few select comparisons, I believe the Fisher's LSD test has more power. It's simply a t test but uses Mean Square Error in place of the pooled variance estimate, and

[tips] RE: Origin of Thorndike quote

2007-04-02 Thread John Kulig
I only have one tid-bit to add, which may not even be true, but I recall HALF that quote was from Thorndike, and the other half from W.A. McCall (1939)? But I can't remember which half goes with which person .. I remember this tid-bit came from a measurement text, I will try to find that text

[tips] RE: Student's question

2007-03-09 Thread John Kulig
Yes! It is an art, or, a science. The British are coming! The British are coming! By land or by sea? Yes!! - John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Director, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 - -Original

[tips] RE: A (curmudgeonly) question

2007-03-07 Thread John Kulig
Yes! I just adopted a hard copy only policy (that I bend at my discetion). However, in the case of some statistics things I now require they email their minitab project which contains their spreadsheet of data, as well as running summary of what they did, when (date and time), and the output.

[tips] Technology news for tipsters

2007-02-26 Thread John Kulig
http://www.devilducky.com/media/57946 - John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Director, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 - --- To make changes to your subscription go to:

[tips] Re: Beer, meanings of words, etc (was BBC NEWS | Education | Whose classroom curriculum is it?

2007-02-12 Thread John Kulig
] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 9:57 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: Beer, meanings of words, etc (was BBC NEWS | Education | Whose classroom curriculum is it? On Feb 11, 2007, at 8:08 PM, John Kulig wrote: Peter: Is this beer at room temperature? I

[tips] RE: BBC NEWS | Education | Whose classroom curriculum is it?

2007-02-11 Thread John Kulig
I'd wager a bet that the % of people who ignore evolution and global warming is reasonably comparable between the UK and the US (my ego is not involved in such a bet, btw). The right-wingers in the US, in recent years, have exterted far more political influence than you'd expect based on the

[tips] RE: BBC NEWS | Education | Whose classroom curriculum is it?

2007-02-11 Thread John Kulig
, 2007 5:47 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] RE: BBC NEWS | Education | Whose classroom curriculum is it? On Feb 11, 2007, at 4:02 PM, John Kulig wrote: I'd wager a bet that the % of people who ignore evolution and global warming is reasonably comparable between

[tips] RE: Steven Pinker vs Stephen Colbert tonight, Feb. 7

2007-02-08 Thread John Kulig
Colbert's interviews, in my opinion, are weak, since he can't make up his mind to stay in character (jab at the guests) or draw out the guest's talents. I thought it was a wonderful opportunity missed. If you didn't know Pinker's work, you'd wonder why he was the guest! Colbert is pretty bright,

[tips] Just for fun .... Psych related

2007-02-06 Thread John Kulig
Slow day on tips - I couldn't resist http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/ - John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Director, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 - --- To make changes to your subscription

[tips] RE: Those progressive Canadians

2007-02-01 Thread John Kulig
If I am reading this correctly, the rule applies to immigrants. So non-immigrants can still stone, burn, etcetera? ? Curious minds want to know! - John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Director, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264

[tips] RE: Those progressive Canadians

2007-02-01 Thread John Kulig
- _ From: John Kulig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:18 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] RE: Those progressive Canadians If I am reading this correctly, the rule applies to immigrants. So non

[tips] Re: Why I pull my hair out grading statistics assignments

2007-01-27 Thread John Kulig
Yes, thanks for the video from me, too. We're going through this with my second grade son. He was pulling his hair out (ours too) when he had to do subtraction of two digit numbers using the book's method: a 10 by 10 matrix of numbers 1 - 100, and subtraction of, say, 57 - 30 involved finding 57

[tips] Re: Intro Psych Course Reader

2007-01-03 Thread John Kulig
Two that I like are Shaffer Merrens' Research Stories for Introductory Psychology (2nd, Allyn Bacon) and Roger Hock's Forty Studies that Changed Psychology (Prentice Hall, 5th ed). Also, there is Kassin Briggs' Current Directions in Introductory Psychology (readings from the journal) (Prentice

[tips] Re: European customs (was Haven't seen an obese Danish person.)

2007-01-02 Thread John Kulig
So, we're on to warm beer again? :) The last time I ate at a authentic German family inn/restaurant, I ordered a Guinness at warm temperature and they couldn't get one because ALL the beer/ale was on ice. I asked if they had any in a back room (at room temperature) and they said no (politely). I

[tips] Re: { SPAM 2 }:Re: European customs (was Haven't seen an obese Danish person.)

2007-01-02 Thread John Kulig
AM, John Kulig wrote: So, we're on to warm beer again? :) This is such an old chestnut that so far I stayed out of it, but cannot resist the temptation any longer. In the last 3 or so years I have traveled in Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Holland. On no occasion was I

[tips] RE: info:British/European approaches

2006-12-06 Thread John Kulig
OK, I'm having a slow day here :) Well, Galton predates modern psychology, but I suspect you can make a case that he was heavily responsible for the genetic view of IQ variability. And Eysenck pushed for a biological view of personality, and Lorenz and Tinbergen paved the way for biologically

[tips] RE: Was twins- now a waste (Sic) of time

2006-11-15 Thread John Kulig
Tim et al My opinion (also sans hard evidence) is that I can distinguish grain from potato (with brand as a confound), and (in agreement) I can distinguish Grey Goose from most others, but after that I have no confidence I can distinguish. I have vague memories of doing a Scotch taste

[tips] RE: Those amazing identical twins

2006-11-14 Thread John Kulig
So long as you have a control comparison, such as di-zygotic twins similarly separated. IF beer choice is more similar for MZ than DZ, we'd have evidence of genetics. The MZ - DZ comprisons assume both groups of twins are treated the same (equal-environment assumption). When twins are

[tips] RE: Those amazing identical twins

2006-11-14 Thread John Kulig
What is it about beer-brand loyalty? Every time I do my routine on the Jim twins and we get to the beer they selected (Miller?) I ask my class if brand of beer matters. In unison they all say Yess Is there really a difference between these types of beers? IF there is a difference, what

[tips] RE: Those amazing identical twins

2006-11-14 Thread John Kulig
to play some role in musical ability- particularly for those talented outliers we all have on our stereo- now as to rock. . . Besides, have you actually tasted Miller? :) BLEAAACCCHHH!!! Right up there with Coors, imho. Tim -Original Message- From: John Kulig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

[tips] Re: A question about twins from a student

2006-11-10 Thread John Kulig
This is an interesting observation. In high school I dated a MZ, and I noticed that they tried very hard to be different, perhaps to establish a unique identity. Both, btw, played the same instrument in the HS band, took the same classes, had the same grades, but, my girlfriend remained somewhat

[tips] RE: A question about twins from a student

2006-11-09 Thread John Kulig
I'm not an expert, but, a certain % of twins are misclassified. It's my understanding that, short of DNA markers, you can ask a series of simple questions, such as do they have the same hair color, texture, eye color, etc. and be more than 90% correct. Also, a key question is to rate the

[tips] Re: Today in the news ...

2006-11-01 Thread John Kulig
I bet the learning curve is faster for higher apes than pigeons (ontogeny at least). - John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Director, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 - -Original Message- From: Bryan

[tips] Today in the news ...

2006-10-31 Thread John Kulig
Two items of potential interest to tipsters, from the daily newspapers: Gordon Gallup's mirror test (when an animal sees a red dot .. Or here, an X .. On their head in the mirror - do they touch the mirror or their own heads .. Indicating awareness of self as mirror object) applied to Asian

[tips] RE: ACAT vs. MFT

2006-10-10 Thread John Kulig
Margie: We have used the MFT sporadically over the last few years. Currently, you get (for each student and, for the group) scores on (1) LearningCognition, (2) Perception/Sens/Physio/Comp/Ethology, (3) Clinical, Abnormal, Personality amd (4) Develeop Social. You also get 'assessment

[tips] Re: E.O. Wilson's new book

2006-09-21 Thread John Kulig
Don't know - but I believe he still is active with the ants at Harvard. - John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Director, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 - -Original Message- From: Michael Sylvester

[tips] E.O. Wilson's new book

2006-09-20 Thread John Kulig
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901 664.html I've always thought religion is best understood by looking outward - to behavior and culture - rather than introspectively. Based on the summary here, his reason for lessening the gap between religion and

[tips] RE: number of applications

2006-09-19 Thread John Kulig
We just did one, and our numbers were very low as well. We attributed it to the lateness of the search. We interviewed for a 1 year replacement in spring/summer. - John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Director, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth

[tips] RE: More mythbusting: Type A and heart disease

2006-09-03 Thread John Kulig
As with all studies of complex things, it would be good to see the details. Questions good to ask would include whether the range of type A personality seen in these 4 villages in the Mediterranean is as great as the range we in North America are accustomed to. It would also be good to determine

[tips] RE: Marriage as a cure for domestic violence

2006-08-25 Thread John Kulig
Send you something? OK :) I am choosing not to read the csmonitor piece because I am not interested in the legal/political/ aspects of this problem. But there are aspects of this issue that interest me greatly. There are other examples that involve step-parents and child abuse. The now classic

[tips] RE: Good news

2006-08-22 Thread John Kulig
I've probably told this story - but - when I moved to Plymouth in 1987 (?) we had just made it to #8 on the national ranking party list. Not that the "sampling" was in any sense scientific. But we got alot of mileage out of the ranking. At the graduation address, our current presidentwas

[tips] RE: Social psych in-class exercises?

2006-08-20 Thread John Kulig
Robin: False consensus effect (FCE) is quick and easy. On the front sheet of a piece of paper ask a class to estimate the % of other college students who smoke/ski/drive recklessly/ etecetea. Then have them turn the paper over and indicate whether THEY smoke/ski/drive reecklessly/

[tips] Evolution in the news

2006-07-24 Thread John Kulig
Even among those who champion evolutionary thinking, I suspect it is a conscious-raising experience to shake the idea of evolution as a linear process, with us at the top, and the wheels of evolution taking a rest . Neat video, too.

[tips] Re: Deities R Us

2006-07-18 Thread John Kulig
-Original Message- From: Jim Guinee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 1:50 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: Deities R Us Then of course there are the so-called 330 million gods in Hinduism which are supposedly not separate

[tips] Job posting at Plymouth

2006-05-04 Thread John Kulig
We have a one-year replacement position, and the ad appears on the web site: http://www.plymouth.edu/hr/jobs/psych.html The ad(copied from the web site) appears below: -- The Department of

[tips] Lie detection in the news

2006-05-01 Thread John Kulig
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/30/AR2006043001 006.html You may need to register for NYTimes to access the article. According to a quick read, this is the federal govt take on the validity: In a sample of 10,000 which contains 10 'spies' 2 spies would be missed and

[tips] More on lie detection

2006-05-01 Thread John Kulig
Check out http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/30/AR2006043001 006.html According to the government, in a populoation of 10,000 with 10 'spies' lie detection will miss 2/10 spies, and incorrectly nab 1600 innocent people. ASSUMING these numbers, this is what I get:

[tips] RE: Has Polygraph Testing Suddenly Become Valid?

2006-04-24 Thread John Kulig
I'm not the expert on the current validity of the polygraph, though I do use some old data for teaching purposes: An old American Psych article (Kleinmunta Szucko, 1984) has the polygtaph correctly identifying a (known) guilty person 76% of the time, and incorrectly labeling an innocent person

RE: New England/SAT scores

2006-03-30 Thread John Kulig
first.Regards,Chris Green==John Kulig wrote: Actually. New England is NOT at the top. Mississippi is quite high, however. Really? Yes, SAT scores vary as a function of the 'participation rate' - what % of HS students take the test. New York has the highest participation

RE: Inside Higher Ed :: Affirmative Action for Men

2006-03-27 Thread John Kulig
'One size fits all' affirmative action is not a good idea, imo. Actually, I'm a 'states rights' person on these matters, and I trust that institutions know their own issues than the government. I have always been swayed by the argument that a colegiate experience benfeits from exposure to diverse

RE: tests and measurements

2006-03-26 Thread John Kulig
Yes, also, consistent with current usages of the word, 'validity' is not a property residing within a test. Validity is assessed vis-a-vis the uses to be made of the measurements. SAT scores can be used in a 'valid' fashion - helping to select students, or an invalid fashion - helping select

RE: What I teach/what I think

2006-03-26 Thread John Kulig
(I haven't bitten in a long time). Michael, since when is science rigid? It seems to me that dogma, appeal to authority, are far more rigid. The only thing science really demands is that phenomena be replicable, to ensure they are not unique to one observer - though thoughtout our history even

RE: Low Fat does not prevent

2006-02-08 Thread John Kulig
It will be worth reading the details. The Mediterranean diet, as far as I know, has never received a test as thorough as this 'low fat' study. It is possible (as I have suspected for a long time) that a neglected variable is amount we eat (acts of omission rather than comission) (green tea,

RE: Intro to Theory of Evolution Article

2005-12-27 Thread John Kulig
A nice introduction of Darwinian theory vis-a-vis psychololgy is Ch 2 of Gaulin and McBurney's "Evolutionary Psychology", second edition, Prentice Hall (2004). I suspect one of the more challenging concepts to swallow in Darwinian thinking is the lack of "intelligent design"- then and

RE: Course on Intelligence

2005-09-15 Thread John Kulig
Michael Consider assigning the Bell Curve (Herrnstein Murray). Its 1994, but still quite a read. The book has 3 layers. First are the brief summaries for each chapter. Then the main narrative which summarizes data graphs, and then there are the regression results at the end of the

RE: remembering students' names

2005-09-07 Thread John Kulig
Carol et al: Harkening back to my discrimination learning days, the standard line back then was that the students must first become perceptually distinct. Then you can attach responses (names) to the separate percepts. That is, don't try to attach responses until the stimuli were

RE: Things you can do with a psychology degree

2005-08-26 Thread John Kulig
: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:32 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Re: Things you can do with a psychology degree John Kulig wrote: Freud, yes, was an M.D. According to Hilgard's Psychology in America William James first

RE: Things you can do with a psychology degree

2005-08-25 Thread John Kulig
Freud, yes, was an M.D. According to Hilgard's Psychology in America William James first studied art, them Chemistry, then entered medical school at age 22 (in 1864 probably), took a field trip to Brazil with naturalist Louis Agassiz, returned to Harvard and finally got the PhD in 1869. Then

RE: Things you can do with a psychology degree

2005-08-23 Thread John Kulig
OK, it's a slow day! Monica Lewinsky: Graduated May 1995, Lewis and Clark College. Major: Psychology. John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State College Plymouth NH 03264 Push not the river;

RE: seductive details in lecture

2005-05-13 Thread John Kulig
Christopher: I had the exact same reaction to the article! In the case of Watson and Baldwin, the incident had some significance because it propelled Watson into the chair at Hopkins and also editor of Psych Review. Did it speed up the flow of behaviorism into the mainstream? Perhaps.

RE: Justification of effort

2005-04-08 Thread John Kulig
Marc: Was the first ad for leptoprine (sp?)?? I remember seeing an ad with leptin represented in the brand name that said (in essence) - this is not for losing a few pounds, because this pill is _very_ powerful, only for those with serious for the industrial-strength variety. The ad

RE: History and Systems Text

2005-03-11 Thread John Kulig
Mark: I currently use Schultz Schultz' History of Modern Psych (8th ed, Thomson/Wadsworth). It's not the most comprehensive text, but it's a nice foundation. It includes brief passages of original writings (e.g. Fechner defining psychophysics, Locke defining empiricism, and so forth).

NEJM article on obesity and health

2004-12-23 Thread John Kulig
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/351/26/2683 This seems to be a recurring topic on tips, whether there is an obesity epidemic, what are the sequela of obesity, and so forth. The Hu article from New England Journal of Medicine indicates separate risk elevations for obesity and lack of

RE: books for senior sem

2004-12-17 Thread John Kulig
I haven't read it yet, but, I just ordered Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice - why more is less. I heard him discuss the book on the CBC this summer and it grabbed my interest. John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State College

RE: books for senior sem

2004-12-17 Thread John Kulig
of surrounding ourselves with stuff). Personally and after using it I found it to be a great choice. Tim Shearon -Original Message- From: John Kulig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 12:35 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: RE: books

RE: Psychology Religion [Was: Famous Atheist...]

2004-12-13 Thread John Kulig
John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State College Plymouth NH 03264 Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian

RE: Correcting for chance

2004-12-13 Thread John Kulig
Rick Herb: A simple way to correct for chance on true/false or MC is to use the formula R - [W/(n-1)] where R = # correct, W = # incorrect and (n-1) = # of alternatives to chose from. On a true/false (n-1) = 1 because there are two alternatives (true and false). On a true/false test,

nytimes article on everyday life and happiness

2004-12-03 Thread John Kulig
If you can link to this article, it's interesting http://nytimes.com/2004/12/03/health/03mood.html Bottom line: Sleep is good, TV is good. Deadlines are bad, child care is as difficult as housework. Income (past $6) doesn't matter. John W. Kulig

RE: Final Exam

2004-12-02 Thread John Kulig
OK - I think we're getting close (thanks, Stan Tim). There are four innocent outcomes - , , , and . But there are 256 total possibilities (4 four each of 4 places, 4*4*4*4 = 256), so the p innocence by chance = 4/256 = .0156. I agree a Bayesian approach would be useful, since

RE: Final Exam

2004-12-02 Thread John Kulig
Expressed this way, these are odds, so .9/.015 translates into a 60 to 1 ratio (.9 = 60* .015) favoring the top half (innocence). To switch to a probability format, its 60/(60 + 1) or .98. This odds ratio version of Bayes I get directly from Abelsons Statistics as Principled Argument. Im

RE: Final Exam

2004-12-01 Thread John Kulig
Of course, there is a non-trivial probability of choosing the same tire by chance. Nearly 16 times out of 1000 (from ¼ * ¼ * ¼) lying students would all agree on the same tire. Scenes wed like to see: The jury finds you INNOCENT, p = .016 J

RE: Questionnaire Reference

2004-12-01 Thread John Kulig
See Fink Kosecoff's How to Conduct Surveys Sage Publishers for the range of options available for surveys questionnaires. Summated scales (e.g. a series of Likert items that are summated) can get more complex. Sage publishes summated rating scale construction by Paul Spector (1992), in its

RE: Church Air Poses Risk

2004-11-23 Thread John Kulig
Is this Stanislaw LEM? John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State College Plymouth NH 03264 Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the

RE: Church Air Poses Risk

2004-11-22 Thread John Kulig
Then switch to beeswax candles! avoid paraffin or other cheaper alternatives. John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State College Plymouth NH 03264 -Original Message- From:

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