Dear Tipsters,
I have read the paper alluded to and would agree that the method is
ex post facto: poets were classified after the fact as suicidal or
not and the samples were classifed as from early, middle or late
stages of the career.. There other variables too, but the two I
mention would
Dear Tipsters,
We have had a number of informative responses to the question
concerning culture/bystander/FAE, particularly the detailed one
from Paul Smith.
May I humbly suggest that if people have a question about an issue,
they do their own homework then inform us in the context of
Dear Tipsters,
I do not have many complaints about knowing and not showing, and I
use some MC and essay and more short answer questions on my exams. I
like MC for an efficient test of fairly large amounts of knowledge
(especially in introductory psychology). I like short answers, where
they
Dear Tipsters,
Search the TIPS archives for this one! There was a long discussion
of this very point some (two?) years ago.
Stuart
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Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D.,Phone: (819)822-9600
Department of Psychology,
Dear Tipsters,
I know that there are some problems withcumulative final exams
(e.g., large amount to remember, stress, studying for the exam. does
not mean you remember aftrerwards), but I believe in them for the
following reasons:
1. It permits an assessment of the degree to which people
Dear Tipsters,
Steve Black wrote:
This new journal (http://najp.8m.com/#OEP) was recently brought to
our attention on that other list. It seems entirely reasonable, even
promising, but I did notice one rather peculiar thing. At the bottom
of one of its web pages, the following quotation
Dear Tipsters,
I cannot answer Jim's question, but I have been gathering
information on capital punishment for a project on which I am
working.
Here is part of a description that I wrote about capital
punishment::
Capital Punishment
Method 1: Electric Chair
The safety switch is
Dear Diana,
We have used David Myers' textbook for 2 years after using Atkinson
et al. and Zimbardo ( Gerrig).
Overall, it has been a good choice. Students like the text and we
are happy with it. We like the mixture of science, illustrations
(examples) and the international perspective.
Dear Tipsters,
Comments on 3 points that have arisen:
1. I think Marx has been attributed for saying that religion is the
opiate of the masses.
2. WRT the possible conflicts in values between Christian therapists
and clients, what about the Biblical exhortation to render unto
Ceasar things
Dear Tipsters,
For 2 good papers on WWI testing in the U.S.A., see:
Gelb, S. A. (1986). Henry Goddard and the immigrants, 1910-1917: The
studies and their social context. Journal of the History of the
Behavioral Sciences, 22, 324-332.
Samuelson, F. (1977). World War I
intelligence testing
To set the record straight:
Could Michael please tell us his source for the opening sentence?
Others have chimed in with possible answers, but only he knows where
he found this idea.
Taking a marriage sabbatical is been viewed as an important aspect
of the growth and strengthening process in
Dear Colleagues,
I send as attachments the course readings (text is Myers) for the 2
intro. courses that I teach with Andrea Drumheller.
Sincerely,
Stuart
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Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D.,Phone: (819)822-9600
Department of
Dear Tipsters,
I find the voting thread very relevant to psychology and the case
can serve in the classroom. I refer to the issue of standardization
in testing - i.e., the requirement that when people answer a
questionnaire, they should do so under conditions that are as
uniform as possible.
Dear Tipsters,
Steve is right. Funnily enough, I was going to allude to this event
in my earllier post, but decided to stick the the issue of
uniformity of content, particularly since I was speaking about
elections at the Federal level. Steve's post refers to a vote in
Quebec only.
Dear Colleagues,
I endorse the comments of my colleague Stephen when he cites Don
Norman's work. Systems should be designed to be as easy as possible
to follow, to minimize error.
I heard on a news bulletin this morning that there is a rule (law?)
in Florida that responses are always
Dear Tipsters,
Here is a recent paper on post hoc tests in one kind of chi square.
I have only written for it so cannot comment.
MacDonald, P. L. (2000). Type 1 error rate comparisons of post hoc
procedures for 1XJ chi-square tables. Educational and Psychological
Measurement, 60, 5, 735-754.
Dear Tipsters,
Michael wrote:
What is wrong with "confidence level"? If we can reject the null hypothesis
at the .05 level, we are 95% confident that a real difference exists.
Strictly speaking, if alpha is set at .05 and p alpha, then we
reject Ho. We mean that in repeated sampling
Dear Tipsters,
John Kulig's post is excellent in distinguishing between different
kinds of significance. I would add that we could distingish three
kinds: statistical in the traditional sense, effect size (e.g., as
revealed by meta-analysis, where Cohens guidelines for d =( M1-M2)/s
are .2
Deat Tipsters,
A number of people, particularly Karl and John have pointed out that
s is not an unbiased estimator of sigma. My post claiming such was
hasty - I was thinking of variances, where sSqu is an unbiased
estimator of sigmasqu if n-1 is used. The expectation algebra shows
this.
Dear Tipsters,
One reason we use the standard deviation is that it comes from the
family of functions called moments about the origin of the
distribution:
Moment (r) = E[(X - mean) to power r]
(sorry that the program does not give proper symbols)
So the first moment = E[X - mean] = E(x) -
Dear Tipsters,
One reason we use the standard deviation is that it comes from the
family of functions called moments about the origin of the
distribution:
Moment (r) = E[(X - mean) to power r]
(sorry that the program does not give proper symbols)
So the first moment = E[X - mean] = E(x) -
Dear Tipsters,
A reminder that the Zimbardo interview was, I think originally,
published in:
North American Journal of Psychology, 1999, 1, 1, 1-17
Sincerely,
Stuart
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Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D.,Phone: (819)822-9600
Department
Advice:
Practice hop(p)ing.
Hoping you hop,
Stuart
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Levitation
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:45:43 +
I saw a program where David Blaine (Street Magic) was able
Dear Tipsters,
Following up on Jim's post, here is a more recent survey:
Watkins, C. E., et al. (1995). Contemporary practice of psychological
assessment by clinical psychologists. Professional Psychology:
Research and Practice, 26, 54-60.
If we stick to the scientific evidence of
Dear Tipsters,
Following a recent discussion of UK degrees, some may find this of
interest. It was forwarded to me by fellow Glasgow and MA graduate
Sandy Craig.
Sincerely,
Stuart
BBC Scotland's
Colin Wight
"Graduates find
that employers
do not fully
understand the
significance of
Dear Tipsters,
My colleague Steve Black points to an article that suggests that
money is not positively related to happiness. You may or may not be
aware of fellow-tipster Dave Myers work in this area (see his
introductory text, book on the psychology of happiness and recent
contribution to
Dear Tipsters,
Further to my mention of the Scottish MS degree, here is a quotation
from the latest issue of Avenue (magazine for University of Glasgow
graduates and friends):
Report of General Council
Principal's Address
"The University had reacted vigorously against a proposal of the
Dear Tipsters,
My colleague Stephen Black wrote:
Canuck first. Here, education is a provincial responsibility, and
nowhere guarded more jealously than in my own province of Quebec,
a province more unique (sic) than the others. In the current
Quebec system, there are 11 grades after
Dear Tipsters,
Skeptical Inquirer readers and tipsters will be pleased to know the
the Fox network's "Powers of the Paranormal" began by stating a
disclaimer that all the demonstrations were open to other
interpretations, a message that was repeated during the show.
However, the show's
Dear Steve,
Placebo tranlslates from Latin into English as "I shall please."
Jospe (1978, pp. xii-xiii)) points out that the term described
vespers for the dead and gradually changed in its everyday use to the
current definition: "any therapeutic procedure.which is
deliberately given to
Dear Tipsters,
In reply to Jeff, here is our sequence:
Major
Stats 1 (up to t-test, including chi-square), followed by Methods I
Stats 2 (correlation, anova) taken with Methods 1
Honours
Stats 1 followed by Methods 1
Stats 2 taken with Methods 1
Then Methods 2
Stats 3 (multivariate) for
Dear Colleagues,
As Paul Brandon points out, the term "IQ" applies to a test score. In
principle, any person or animal can be given a test and compared to
others via norms, so a derived score (percentile, standard score)
could be computed.
To my knowledge, this has not been done
Dear Tipsters,
Don McBurney wrote:
Yes, I think we did discuss deja vu a while ago. One way to demonstrate deja
vu is to read a list of words all having to do with a topic, such as sleep:
tired, bed, rest... but leave out sleep. Later students will recall having
heard sleep. I forget the
Dear Tipsters,
Buddy Grah wrote:
Now my question is: To what _extent_ are introspective techniques being
used in mainstream cognition and is if fair to characterize mainstream
cognition as a movement that relies on introspection as _its method_?
While we might find good examples of
Dear Tipsters,
Buddy Grah wonders about introspection in modern cognitive
psychology. Paul Smith has drawn attention to Nisbett and Wislon's
seminal work. I would like to add the following.
Classical introspection as practiced by Wundt and Titchener is not
used today. However, if
Milton wrote:
"both sides of the issue.."
May I suggest that there are four sides?
1. Inferential statistic (r, T, F, chi square etc): depends on the
kind of data we have
2. p: tells us whether we can reject H0 (there is a relationship not
due to sampling error)
3. ES: reflects the
Two "independent" variables: gender of person in need of help and
gender of participant.
The first independent variable is probably experimental, assuming
that participants were randomly assigned.
This makes the study a field experiment.
The second "independent" variable is a subject
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From: Self smckelvi.faculty.users.main.Bishops
To: Michael Sylvester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How I perceive psychometrics?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:32:02 -0500 (EST)
Dear Tipsters,
Michael wrote:
Subject: How I perceive psychometrics?
It is the
Dear Michael,
TIPS members often mention one of their own works if it pertains to a
discussion point. Certainly I have done so, without meaning to
advertize myself. Indeed, in Don's post, his "ahem", could be
taken as a mild apology for his self citation. I would urge care
before making
Dear Tipsters,
I reviewed the literature on individiual differences in vividness of
visual imagery as measured by Marks' Vividness of Visual Imagery
Questionnaire, which he recommends be completed with eyes open then
eyes closed.
I found (McKelvie, 1995, pp. 20-210 that there was no
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