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From: Stephen Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 4:53 PM
To: TIPS
Subject: Re: the failure to replicate
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From: Michael Sylvester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what can be the various explanations why some studies have not
been
At 02:07 PM 10/22/1999 -0400, you wrote:
I'm trying to decide between The Psychologist as Detective (Smith Davis)
and Research Design Methods: A Process Approach (Bordens Abbott) for
the course I teach in Experimental Psychology (Clinical Research). Any
opinions on the two texts?
I'm
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 20:34:49 -0500 Al Cone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In science we build by replicating (with extensions) on the method side in
order to confirm or disconfirm the earlier findings of others. To say that
someone "failed to replicate" means that researcher number two didn't
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 17:53:08 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Black
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A possible new example is the recent paper by Maurer et al (1999).
They reported the startling finding that as little as one hour of
patterned visual stimulation after the birth of a baby with cataracts
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From: Stephen Black [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: TIPS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: the failure to replicate
Date: Fri, Oct 22, 1999, 5:53 PM
One reason I haven't seen anyone advance is that a study may not
replicate because it's not replicable. Because of the pressure to
report
I looked around the web for pictures of the Hampton Court maze
this morning, and found one fairly good one, but none that show
the entire layout. My trusty, dusty old copy of Munn on The Rat
does have a plan of the W. S. Small (1901), J. B. Watson (1907)
modification for rats, and a drew a sketch
Ken,
My reference is McGuigan's text on Experimental Psychology, Editions 2
through 7. He makes a big point of this distinction and cites references for
his distinction. Taken with his other excellent treatment of the logic of
science, I'm inclined to go along with him.
Al
Al L. Cone
Jamestown
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, David Likely wrote:
It's not really relevant -- just
wanted to cheer up whoever it is who was whinging about old
age -- it's all true -- give up on 'students-as-pals' immediately
and prepare for a Shakespearean end: "sans taste, sans taste,
sans eyes, sans every
I was covering action potentials in class the other day. I was
explaining what happens when your arm muscle flexes. A student asks what
happens if you clench your fist and squeeze...do a lot of action
potentials occur for each time you squeeze? Is more than one neuron
involved?
This message was obviously intended for the list (see the attribution
line at the beginning), so I am forwarding it as a courtesy to the author:
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Rick Adams wrote:
I really don't need a
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