National Social Studies Convention

2000-11-07 Thread Steve Rambach
Would anyone want to share a room at the National Social Studies Convention in San Antonio. I have booked a room across from the Alamo. Steve Steve Rambach Lanphier High School 1300 N 11th Street 62702

Simulated Data

2000-11-07 Thread jim clark
Hi If anyone would like to have a closer look at the techniques I use to generate sample data for class exercises, I have started a collection at www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark/sim. Comments would be appreciated. I have quite a few of these from over the years and will slowly pick away at posting them

Re: another student question

2000-11-07 Thread Ron Blue
light destroys melatonin. Ron Blue - Original Message - From: "Salvatore Cullari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:33 PM Subject: another student question > Hi everyone. Does anyone have any leads or suggestions for this > question? Why do w

Re: Simulating data/spelling correction

2000-11-07 Thread Kenneth M. Steele
On Tue, 07 Nov 2000 17:21:11 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) "Kenneth M. Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There is a technique called "boostraping" for resampling from > That is "bootstrap" (as in lift yourself up by your own ...) Ken -- Kenneth M. Steele

Re: Simulating data

2000-11-07 Thread Kenneth M. Steele
Natalie: There is a technique called "boostraping" for resampling from your data set to get a more stable estimate of values. You may want to check your local stat package to see if that is available. For class assignments I use "lo-tech" techniques like Jim and create pseudosubject scores

RE: Simulating data

2000-11-07 Thread Wuensch, Karl L.
Here is an example of how do simulate data for a simple bivariate linear model using SAS. I use this macro to generate a different random sample for each student in the class, with data posted on the web for them and with solutions to me. If you want a less hands-on approach, I recommend Drake B

Re: Simulating data

2000-11-07 Thread jim clark
Hi Sorry for this going out with the "mailing list" subject header. An oversight on my part. On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Nathalie Cote wrote: > Suppose you were in a Methods or Statistics class in which you had to design > a study, create the materials, collect some of the data, and then use the > data

Mailing list or file server error (fwd)

2000-11-07 Thread jim clark
Hi On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Nathalie Cote wrote: > Suppose you were in a Methods or Statistics class in which you had to design > a study, create the materials, collect some of the data, and then use the > data from this partial sample to simulate or fill in fictitious data for the > rest of the sampl

Assist Prof Position at Rhode Island College

2000-11-07 Thread Sugarman, David
Listservers, For anyone who may be interested, here is an ad that will be coming out soon in the APA Monitor. Dave Sugarman > ASSISTANT PROFESSOR > PSYCHOLOGY > > Rhode Island College invites applications for the above anticip

another student question

2000-11-07 Thread Salvatore Cullari
Hi everyone. Does anyone have any leads or suggestions for this question? Why do we sleep with our eyes closed? In other words, aside from the obvious, what biological factors are responsible for sleeping with our eyes closed. Thanks! Salvatore Cullari, Ph.D.E-mail: [

Simulating data

2000-11-07 Thread Nathalie Cote
Suppose you were in a Methods or Statistics class in which you had to design a study, create the materials, collect some of the data, and then use the data from this partial sample to simulate or fill in fictitious data for the rest of the sample. Let's say, for example, that you've collected sc

RE: Graduate admissions: Honors versus major?

2000-11-07 Thread Nathalie Cote
Leo, I earned my degree at Vanderbilt in the Psychology and Human Development program. They didn't even require graduate students to have an undergrad degree in psychology. My peers in the PhD program were coming from a variety of undergrad backgrounds, including physics and religion, although mos

Re: Graduate admissions: Honors versus major?

2000-11-07 Thread Esther Yoder Strahan
Leo and Tipsters, I know that many USA grad programs do not require an honors degree. Many of our students here at Heidelberg have gotten into grad school (in the US) without being honors students. My own experience bears this out, as well. I was admitted to the clinical psychology Ph.D. prog

making the BA distinctive

2000-11-07 Thread Steven Davis
At North Central College, we offer both the BA and BS in psychology. The main difference is that the BS requires more courses in science and math. We are interested in doing something to make the BA more distinctive, rather than being just the easier option (e.g., requiring a philosophy of scienc

Graduate admissions: Honors versus major?

2000-11-07 Thread Leo Standing
Greetings: In Canada, an honors psychology BA or BSc degree is usually seen as essential to entering almost any graduate program in psychology. (Our honors degree requires a dissertation and various courses that are not needed for the major, as well as a specified average grade). Can our frie

Re: Adjunct Positions?

2000-11-07 Thread Harry Avis
Since were are always hiring for adjunct positions (even if I am referring to California) I can give you a few ideas. First of all, experience is a great advantage. Even before you start applying for the job, try to get some teaching experience at the graduate level. Being an undergraduate TA d

No Subject

2000-11-07 Thread Deborah Briihl
The results are in - and the answer is - there really doesn't seem to be much out there! The two that someone gave me here are "Descriptive Tests of Language Skills in Critical Reasoning" (1989, ETS - a multiple choice test) and "The Ennis-Weir Critical Thinking Essay Test" (an essay test based

Night blindness

2000-11-07 Thread Stephen Black
As a bit of Canadian content, a team of researchers at the University of Calgary apparently just announced that they've discovered a gene for it. A news item on it appeared in Canadian newspapers on October 31, 2000. See http://www.canoe.ca/Health0010/31_blindness-cp.html I say "apparently" beca

Re: Guessing on the GRE: the grand synthesis

2000-11-07 Thread G. Marc Turner
At 12:20 AM 11/7/2000 -0500, Stephen Black wrote: >Concerning my objection to Marc Turner's post on being a "good >guesser" on the grounds that there's no such thing, I see now I admit it... bad choice of phrasing on my part with that one. >than what would be expected on average. I suggest "luck

Re: What is guessing?

2000-11-07 Thread Drnanjo
In a message dated 11/6/2000 7:59:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For example, there are a number of strategies that examinees can use to get better than chance performance even when they have no knowlege of the tested material -- for example, always choosing the longest an