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2001-06-15 Thread Meyer, Glenn
List members, here's an opening if know of anyone. TRINITY UNIVERSITY, Department of Psychology, announces the availability of a one-semester, term appointment for Spring 2002. (The department anticipates additional position(s) for the following academic year, as well.) We seek applicants who are

dentists / Alzheimer's

2001-06-15 Thread Ronald C. Blue
Since the topic of suicide and dentist has been raised it was suggested that mercury poisoning from fillings was the major cause of Alzheimer's and Parkinson disease.  Since dentist are exposed to mercury they should have high frequency rates of these diseases.  Does anyone know if this is t

Re: Malnutrition

2001-06-15 Thread Jeff Ricker
I'm glad to be contributing to TIPS (haven't done so in a while). Probably someone else will send in the answer even before I finish typing this, but here goes anyways (I just won't read my mail until after I hit the "send" button). Jean Edwards wrote: > I was asked by a student why kids who are

checklist for research evaluation

2001-06-15 Thread Jessica Percodani
Please excuse the cross postings. Hello all, I'm trying to create a checklist of sorts listing important considerations in evaluating research articles. In other words, what specific things do you look for when reading an empirical article to determine if it is scientifically sound? Thanks, Jes

Re: Malnutrition

2001-06-15 Thread Jean Edwards
I was asked by a student why kids who are malnourished have large bellies. I couldn't really provide a good answer. I've done a tentative search but can't find anything addressing this. Anyone know? Thanks to any and all who reply. JL Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Was the bunny wabbit at Disneyland?

2001-06-15 Thread Jim Guinee
Interesting study, although I don't find it all that surprising or compelling. Pick something completely unrelated to Disney characters and then I'll be impressed. * About one-third of the people who were exposed to a fake print advertisement that described a visit to Disneyland and how the

Re: Suicide rates/availability heuristic

2001-06-15 Thread John W. Kulig
  Tipsters:     To me, questions like belie an assumption that if somebody or some group is "on top" they must be reliably (aka significantly) on top. The real question is whether the highest occupation is on top as an outlier - or by virtue of the fact that _somebody_ must be on top. In the firs