RE: the failure to replicate

1999-10-23 Thread Al Cone
-Original Message- From: Stephen Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 4:53 PM To: TIPS Subject: Re: the failure to replicate -- From: Michael Sylvester [EMAIL PROTECTED] what can be the various explanations why some studies have not been

Re: Research Methods Text

1999-10-23 Thread G. Marc Turner
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

Re: RE: the failure to replicate

1999-10-23 Thread Kenneth M. Steele
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

Re: the failure to replicate

1999-10-23 Thread Kenneth M. Steele
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

Re: the failure to replicate

1999-10-23 Thread John Serafin
-- 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

Hampton Court, Watson and Small

1999-10-23 Thread David Likely
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

RE: RE: the failure to replicate

1999-10-23 Thread Al Cone
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

What awaits us all

1999-10-23 Thread Stephen Black
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

action potetial question

1999-10-23 Thread Nina Tarner
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?

RE: An argument in favor of changing the reply function

1999-10-23 Thread Rick Adams
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