Interesting bit of trivia

1999-11-21 Thread John W. Nichols, M.A.
This past Saturday (11/19/1999) had ALL odd numbers in the date. Don't hold your breath waiting for the next such date. This is the LAST date in our life where every digit is odd :-) We'll hit the next odd-date-only on 1/1/3111. Pop Quiz: When will the next even-date-only occur? --

RE: Interesting bit of trivia

1999-11-21 Thread Rick Adams
John wrote: Pop Quiz: When will the next even-date-only occur? 2/2/2000, of course. Rick -- Rick Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Social Sciences Jackson Community College, Jackson, MI "... and the only measure of your worth and your deeds will

RE: Teaching uncertainty

1999-11-21 Thread Al Cone
-Original Message- From: Paul C. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 8:20 AM To: 'TIPS' Subject: RE: Teaching uncertainty Al Cone wrote: Jim Clark wrote: Perry studied student development in Universities and found that students (on average, of course)

Birdseed

1999-11-21 Thread Al Cone
Folks, Someone else may have rained on the MIT student birdseed parade which was interesting if often misinformed about conditioning mechanisms, but here is the URL from which it comes. http://www.snopes.com/college/pranks/birdseed.htm Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interesting bit of trivia

1999-11-21 Thread Peter Kepros
2/2/2000 will be the first time since 8/28/888 that all the digits in the date are even. That is a span of years + 127 days. Peter Kepros Psychology University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B., Canada At 12:09 PM 21/11/1999 -0600, John Nickols wrote: This past Saturday (11/19/1999)

RE: Teaching uncertainty

1999-11-21 Thread Al Cone
-Original Message- From: Jim Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 12:42 AM Cc: TIPS Subject: Re: Teaching uncertainty HI On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Jeff Ricker wrote: It seems to me that a particular motivation--the need for certainty--is a primary determinant

RE: Teaching uncertainty

1999-11-21 Thread Paul C. Smith
Al Cone wrote: (snip - descriptions of Kuhn's Absolutist and Multiplist stages) Paul, Up to here, she sounds a lot like Perry. Yes, clearly. She doesn't claim to have been original about any of this. Evaluativism - (snip again) And this second one sort of appears in the crack

RE: Teaching uncertainty

1999-11-21 Thread Jim Clark
Hi On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Al Cone wrote: in to dualistic/absolutistic thinking. An, in progress, student project which described professors whose behaviors typify each of Perry's three levels, strongly suggests than students would prefer to be taught by relativist as opposed to dualistic