Ramblings on Psychokinesis and ESP

2000-12-29 Thread Ron Blue
In the thirty years of teaching psychology I have only met one student who claimed they could move objects. She reported the ability to decoher space, time and bend it. Unfortunately, the student reports they lost the ability after a car accident. She now is a physics major hoping to understand

Re: Teaching stats

2000-12-29 Thread John W. Kulig
Stephen Black wrote: > 2) Multiple comparisons > > We should be warning students of the error of uncorrected > multiple comparisons, and instructing them how to mend their > ways. I recommend the Bonferroni, an intuitively easy-to-grasp, > easy to do, and universally applicable method. Its

Quine's death

2000-12-29 Thread Paul Smith
List members will be interested to know that Harvard philosopher W. V. Quine died on Monday. For our purposes, his most interesting work was his 1951 article "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", which argued against Kant's analytic-synthetic distinction and the notion of theory-free statements. At th