Is it possible that, in a few cases at least, one's name influences
one's career choice? (This could loosely be said to be a psychological
question. :-) ) I'm led to this rather frivolous suggestion by the
names of two of the leading judges of England and Wales:
Igor Judge is the Lord Chief Jus
It is my understanding that the dinosaurs(sp) would not have become extinct if
there
were chiropractors around. But honestly moving to a more serious issue(a
trademark of my intellectual flexibility)
more whites see chiropractors than blacks.Noted evidence is that anatomical
and functional b
I had always thought the national ave. was around 15% of undergrads go on to
psych grad programs...or at least try. We have about 19%. Maybe there are more
due to economy? I would like to know if this has changed. Many more do go on to
some grad/prof. program but not psych.
Gerald L. (Gar
Systat provides a free version of its program for student use
called Mystat. You can see a list of analyses provided in Mystat
and download it at http://www.systat.com.
Systat was a competitor to SPSS for many years and then SPSS
acquired the company. A lot of the SPSS user interface was t
It's true (well, I may have exaggerated a little). We've graduated 18 people
in the last two years, and all but three are in (or are accepted to start) grad
school. Most are counseling, many clinical, a couple sports psych, and a few
experimental (social, cognitive and psychopharmacology). O
90%?? go on to grad school? WOW
Even at our private liberal arts college it's only about 20% and we think we
are WAY higher than the average, which seems to be about 5-10%.
How do you do it?
Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Professor, Psychological Sciences
Universit
Regarding cheaper alternatives to SPSS, has anyone had much experience
or has much knowledge about PSPP?
PSPP is free statistical software designed to look and feel like SPSS,
and as such, may be more user friendly than "R".
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I agree with you that SPSS expensive. However, we are not considering looking
for other packages because we feel it is essential to what we do (in our own
research, in our classes, and in preparing students for grad school) and
because sociology and anthropology also use SPSS (in their classes a
To start with, this is what I use in my course:
Research Methods: Bordens & Abbott's Research Design
and Methods (soon to be in 8th edition). It is it broad in its
coverage of methods, design, as well as having a three
chapters on statistics (one on descriptive, one on inferential,
and one on mul
I believe exposing students to some sophisticated statistical package prepares
them to encounter it in graduate school. I expect that any student admitted to
a thesis-oriented Masters or doctoral program will have the ability to learn
some other statistical package, and this exposure helps them
We fight to keep SPSS because upwards of 90% of our graduates continue on with
a grad program, and even if it's not a PhD program, they are almost always
required to do an empirical thesis of some sort, they are all required to take
a grad stats class, and SPSS is nearly universal (at least fro
Several comments, because I'm very interested in this subject and know it will
be easy to burn my 3 posts today.
Our department has recently ended its longstanding two-semester Research
Methods (integrated stats) I and II sequence which followed the student taking
a Math Stats course. We are g
I'm just asking, does the teaching of statistics with a package other than SPSS
mean that we don't believe our graduate students (or undergraduate students who
are good enough to get the kind of positions that will require them to crunch
numbers) are not capable of using another package? Believ
Hi
I haven't used minitab for teaching (or any other purpose) for many years. One
of the things I liked about it for teaching was the ease of implementing
formula because it allowed you to create constants from your computations and
use those in other operations. Some operators and functions
The Cozby text used to be put out by Mayfield Publishing; one of those family
owned publishing houses; but they were swallowed up by the big boys.
I like the Cozby text because when I first starting teaching RM there were very
few "ancillaries" available with any text. This was the first text I
Marie
Great question, I don't know. I will try to find out . but I KNOW SPSS will
be at the top of the list ...
John K
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John W. Kulig
Professor of Psychology
Plymouth State University
Plymouth NH 03264
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John et al
Do any of you know how widely MINITAB is used in graduate school? It seems
important to teach students software packages that they will use/encounter/be
expected to know in graduate school. I've only ever encountered SAS and SPSS in
grad programs.
Marie
PS. This is what it says (amon
Marie et al
Not that I want to pitch MINITAB commercially, but I am always amazed at
preconceptions. MINITAB has cronbach's alpha & factor analysis under
Multivariate stats, multiple R, binary ordinal & logistic regressions under
Regression, all anova options, etc. I would find it amazing if t
Hi Bob, I have also raised this question in our case and have often wondered
whether our students would be better served by learning stats using, for
example, Excel, a program that they are more likely to come across in the work
place. The use of SPSS in our stats lab (1 credit course to acc
Yes - Is the Cozby text Paul C. Cozby's "Methods in Behavioral
Research" - McGraw Hill
Actually, that's a good question as to what is the best way to teach
research methods (and how many sections, etc.). I know that when I was
looking up this information for a presentation, I couldn't find a lo
We require SPSS to be taught in our psychology stats course for several reasons
(in no particular order):
-the basic stats class is a prerequisite for the 2 required advanced research
methods courses in which they will use SPSS
-it is the program that faculty use in their own research and student
Hello All,
I use Aron, Aron et al. for the textbook. It is extremely thorough and takes
everything step by step. It includes a study guide/workbook that includes
PASW/SPSS. However, I noticed that statistics requires some interactive models
that demonstrate concepts and animates the calculat
I was the rogue in our department who stopped using SPSS, not just for classes
but for my own data as well. With students I use MINITAB which more common in
statistics texts written by statisticians. It's output is crisper and more
succinct, more affordable, and while its interface has the same
?A follow-up to my previous posting. This is an article published
*before* the recent appeal court judgement in favour of the science
writer Simon Singh:
Furious backlash from Simon Singh libel case puts chiropractors on ropes
One in four chiropractors in Britain are under investigation as a
r
?>Can you say chiropractic is bunk?
>In Britain, I mean. As a result of a decision recently handed
>down, it's again ok to say it is. But you'd better have $300,000
>and at least two years to defend yourself against libel, just in
>case.
No you won't. Once a precedent is set no one would bring su
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