Psychometrics and their use

"G. Marc Turner" wrote: Was this based on the beliefs of the psychometricians, or was it based on how non-psychometricians interpreted the differences? As a psychometrician, one of the greatest problems I see is the misuse of tests in situations similar to this. No matter how many times I try

Pedophilia is okay? (Long)

Fellow Tipsters, The following is a short article that a colleague sent me recently which I find quite disturbing. It is not related to teaching, but it is related to our field. I have not been able to verify the information in the article, and wanted to know if any of you could verify the

Re: Psychometrics and their use

Thanks to Linda for an informative post! -- ** * Mike Scoles *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* * Department of Psychology *voice: (501) 450-5418* * University of Central Arkansas *fax:

Re: Pedophilia is okay? (Long)

Luke: Since this is the first that I (APA member) have heard of "Academic Pedophile Advocates", I would be hesistant to deem them a "significant group". I really doubt that this philosophy represents the mainstream of APA thought on the effects of child sexual abuse. I know that some people

Re: Psychometrics and their use

Thanks Linda for a nice summary of the darker side of psychometrics. I must admit that I have tended to overlook some of this... self-protection possibly? Don't want to see how racist some of the "leaders" in my field can be... At 11:29 PM 3/27/99 -0500, you wrote: My assumption (without any

Urban Legend Web Site

Can someone tell me the URL for a web site that lists various urban legends. especially of the e-mail variety? ~~ Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Office (610)436-2945 Professor and ChairpersonHome (610)363-1939 Department of

Reisman's crusade

Colleagues, the recent post of Reisman's pedophilia opinion piece (and Sue's great dissection of Reisman) prompted me to surf Reisman's web page (referenced in an earlier post). She is definitely NOT practicing any careful empirical research to back up her moralistic agenda..as another

Re: another racism question

At 11:41 PM -0800 3/27/99, Mike Scoles wrote: Michael Sylvester wrote: U.S immigration policy was once based on the ideas of the psychometricians who believed in the intellectual inferiority of non-WASP people including Italians and Kosovo -Albanians. What psychometricians are you

Re: Urban Legend Web Site

First one that comes to mind for me is: http://www.urbanlegends.com/ They cover a variety of different topics. Hope this helps... - Marc At 01:43 PM 3/28/99 PST, you wrote: Can someone tell me the URL for a web site that lists various urban legends. especially of the e-mail variety?

Macro Virus Warning... really

Apparently there is new MS-Word Macro Virus running around that effects email... The email message that is received has a subject line about information concerning username (or something to that effect where username tends to be valid usernames). There is a MS-Word document attached to the

Re: Pedophilia is okay? (A little shorter)

Jessica Le and Luke Dalfiume wrote: I have not been able to verify the information in the article, and wanted to know if any of you could verify the truth of what is said in this article. Are the "Academic Pedophile Advocates" a significant group? By Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D. ? 1999

Too nice in Frostburg

TIPSters, Christian Science Monitor (3/17/99) writes about Unitel Corp.'s decision to "(pack) up its phone and customer lists and head...to Florida" because the 100 Frostburg residents it employed for telemarketing were "too nice." Unitel Corp. is looking for "more aggressive salespeople." I

Pedophilia is ok?

I forwarded this post to a list which has some of the leading researchers in the field of sex research as subscribers. Here are their responses. The one from Paul Okami was sent directly back to TIPS but probably didn't make it. If it did, I aopologize for the repeat. -Stephen