Tipsters:
This is interesting. MIT is creating as many web sites for their courses
as possible - and making them freely available to the publc. This
reminds me of the Napster debate. The record industry claimed giving
away music free cuts down on people buying CDs, though advocates of
napster
Yesterday, I wrote:
Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons. (I don't know what a Walloon is,
but I shrieked when I read the word.)
Both Joe Hatcher and Philippe Gervaix informed me that Walloons are French
Belgians. This makes sense to me since I also diagnosed myself with Dutchphobia
and,
Just call me the newsboy today! JPG
FW:
Short on Shrinks
Psychologists and Psychiatrists Debate Possible Remedies
By Laurie Barclay, MD WebMD Medical News
Reviewed by Dr. Jacqueline Brooks
March 29, 2001 -- Worrisome statistics from the state of Illinois are
pointing to a shortage of
Tipsters,
This is a little long, but a very interesting article from the recent issue of "US
News
and World Report."
Jim Guinee
Smart new degrees take center stage
Innovative master's programs drawn from a savvy mix of specialties can
give
I announce the discovery of a new law, which I have modestly
named "Black's Law". This fundamental discovery states:
"For every phobia there is a philia".
So, as there exists the condition of _phobophobia_ (fear of
phobias, see http://www.phobialist.com/reverse.html),
there must exist the
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Roig Miguel wrote:
When it comes to psi and skepticism, I like to distinguish between 'regular
skepticism' (for lack of a better term) and 'radical skepticism'. A
distinction analogous to behaviorism and radical behaviorism. According to
this distinction, psi is an
At 01:19 PM 4/3/01 -0500, Paul wrote:
For the scientist, nothing is impossible; just very improbable.
In this case, either there is no such phenomena as psi, or the existing
laws of physics and biology need a major overhaul.
As I have done in the past, I ask: What good evidence is there that
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:51:46 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Black
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I announce the discovery of a new law, which I have modestly
named "Black's Law". This fundamental discovery states:
"For every phobia there is a philia".
So, as there exists the condition of _phobophobia_
Hi
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Miguel Roig wrote:
At 01:19 PM 4/3/01 -0500, Paul wrote:
For the scientist, nothing is impossible; just very improbable.
In this case, either there is no such phenomena as psi, or the existing
laws of physics and biology need a major overhaul.
As I have done in the
Fear of eating something with hair in it that gets stuck in your maouth
Fear of other people's dirty hands
Fear of having dirty hands (like post washing them, touching bathroom doors
and such.
Fear of missing important things (class, tests, meetings)
Fear of bedbugs eating my mattress and my
At 12:18 PM 4/4/01 -0500, Jim Clark, in response to my reply, wrote:
You might want to look at some of Stenger's work (his book
Physics and Psychics, Quantum Quackery in Skeptical Inquirer).
snip.
Thanks for the edification.
Miguel Roig, Ph.D. Voice:
Hi
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Miguel Roig wrote:
Then Jim wrote:
Let's substitute the word "rationality" for skeptic. Does it
make sense to talk about radical "rationality" as opposed to
garden-variety rationality? Only if you believe that it is
possible to be too rational (about matters of
At 12:47 PM 4/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
Here is one that I think will overtake me pretty soon. Psilaliophobia: A fear
of discussing ESP related stuff.
;-)
Miguel Roig, Ph.D. Voice: (718) 390-4513
Assoc. Prof. of Psychology Fax: (718) 442-3612
Re: Clark and Jim
Concerning the "law" that psi would have to break were it real: if
precognition exists, it logically implies that the universe is completely
deterministic. For someone to know that something is going to happen before
it does happen, that event must be predetermined. If any
Joyce/Tipsters
Those were such great fears, two of which I think I occasionally manifest
around test-grading time like fear of missing important things! But I'd add
that it would be even better with a title like:
Fear of eating something with hair in it that gets stuck in your mouth:
I have some survey data (on experiences watching pornography in
social settings) that I a analyzing using a multivariate approach
called discriminate analysis.
We have several variable that have missing values, and get dropped
from analyses. We are thinking of taking those variables on which
At 2:10 PM -0400 4/4/01, Miguel Roig wrote:
At 12:18 PM 4/4/01 -0500, Jim Clark, in response to my reply, wrote:
You might want to look at some of Stenger's work (his book
Physics and Psychics, Quantum Quackery in Skeptical Inquirer).
or on the same topic...
Hi
Here are a couple of links on missing values. They and others
can be found by typing "missing values" into google
(www.google.com). Lots of good stuff out there.
http://www.vam.org.uk/terp/stats/misval/misval.htm
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/missing.htm
Okay, I've been enjoying this, so I'll give you all my list -- I teach stats
and research methods and actually give my students this list as a congenial
"warmup" of problems they might encounter in finding ideas for their
research papers. Alas, the phobias are not original -- I heisted them
Michael Sylvester wrote:
This semester I decided to have the timeline of my lecture
coverage based on chapter objectives instead of pages : for
example,instead of telling students to read pages 4-16 for
the next class period,I pass out the chapter objectives and
tell them that by
I don't know about stage performers but students have an inherent need to
believe in mind reading. If you don't believe me, ask a student who flunked
your last essay exam whether he/she believes that you should have been able
to tell that he/she knew the information even though it was
Jim Clark wrote:
I'm not a physicist, but I would speculate that the kinds of
things that violate basic physics would include: transmission
effects that do not vary as a function of distance, and
transmission effects that occur without any observable signal.
And Harry Avis
Harry Avis wrote:
"Concerning the "law" that psi would have to break were it real: if
precognition exists, it logically implies that the universe is completely
deterministic. For someone to know that something is going to happen before
it does happen, that event must be predetermined. If any
From: "Rick Adams" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: darwinian slip and a thought
In some cases, for the sake of brevity (and because I agree with you or
concede your point), I have snipped...
Not too long ago there was a "consensus" in our culture that
women were weaker and less capable
Hi
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Rick Adams wrote:
Jim Clark wrote:
I'm not a physicist, but I would speculate that the kinds of
things that violate basic physics would include: transmission
effects that do not vary as a function of distance, and
transmission effects that occur without any
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