?To Err Is Human. And How! And Why.
By Dwight Garner
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/books/11book.html?hpw
"Thinkers have toyed with theories of error since Plato’s time, many of
them generally agreeing with Albert Einstein, who said, 'If we knew
what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called rese
Awhile back, I recall that someone posted a reference to a study looking at
predictors of researchers falsifying data. As I recall, two of the best
predictors were researchers not directly overseeing data collection and
researchers putting much pressure on their students to confirm their
hypoth
" Whatever will go wrong will go wrong" so states Murphy's law.I guess Skinner
would probably imply that whatever goes wrong snould be studied.It is my
understanding that Skinner developed some informal principles of learning.It
is also my understanding that he formalized the ratio schedules of
Rather, Skinner was a firm believer in serendipity.
The actual story (as related by BFS in the BofO) was that it was Friday, he was
running out of food reinforcer pellets (which he hand made with a pharmacist's
pill roller) and decided to see if he could stretch out his pellet supply by
skipping
Murphy's Law is "anything that CAN go wrong, will go wrong." It is a
statistical truism: no matter how small the likelihood of a given event,
given enough time, the event will occur.
Chris
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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
416-736-2
And then there is British Petroleum's Law: Things that could not possibly go
wrong do go wrong.
Cheers,
Karl W.
From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 4:41 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject:
Michael Munford has done work in this area and this article discusses factors
related to the ones you mention:
Michael D. Mumford , Stephen T. Murphy , Shane Connelly , Jason H. Hill ,
Alison L. Antes , Ryan P. Brown & Lynn D. Devenport (2007). Environmental
Influences on Ethical Decision
You gotta love it. The Texas school board attempts to deny established
science and succeeds in changing the historical record that is taught
to high school students, and the Texas government yawns. But circulate a
rumor that Texas colleges might change football divisions, and the Texas
House H
Is there any situation where two wrongs can make a right?
Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Flortda
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Bob Hare has threatened a lawsuit to prevent the APA from publishing a
scholarly article that is critical of (the impact of) his psychopathy
scale.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/health/12psych.html?hpw
Chris
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Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1
Hi
Speaking as a relative novice on psychopathy (some reading on it because of my
interest in inhibition and my wife being a psychologist with Correctional
Service of Canada), it appears from the actual papers (Skeem & Cook original,
Hare response, and rebuttal) that the debate about the nature
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