Jim Clark wrote:
> […[ I would be very surprised if genes did not play some part
>in the radical sorting process that led some few to stardom and
>the rest to whatever miserable fate awaits them once their
>dreams of glory are shattered by reality.
Joan Warmbold replied:
>Daniel Coyle makes a conv
In reply to Jim Clark writing that he "would be very surprised if genes
did not play some part
in the radical sorting process that led some few to stardom",
Joan Warmbold wrote:
>Daniel Coyle makes a convincing case for otherwise. He noted
>over and over again the so-called hot beds had two cruci
Actually, I like this George Best goal even better, from later in his career
across the pond:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPGTpgMfW4s&feature=related
As a teenager, I got to see George Best (then playing for the Los Angeles
Aztecs) play against Pele (then playing for the New York Cosmos)
The NY Times has an article on Daryl Bem's paper which is to appear
in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. That paper is, of course,
on PSI and how future events can reach back from the future to influence
the past. The NYT article can be read here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06
Daryl Bem was my undergraduate mentor at Cornell (sigh), and a very bright
and creative fellow, so this stuff makes me deeply sad. In response to Mike
P's question, I honestly don't know the answer. All I do know is that Daryl
has been quite consistent in his beliefs in psi: Even back in t
Here is the BMJ article in question, by a Sunday Times journalist
Brian Deer:
How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full?sid=933c6210-aa31-42e0-bdcc-a3df0ca72c95
The seriousness of the allegation made against Wakefied here is evident
from the
My, this discussion is beginning to sound like the first week in a
developmental psych class where we talk about the nature-nurture argument and
we seem to be coming to a resolution with an estimate around the 60/40
compromise that a number of developmental psychologists seem to hover around.
It is puzzling and I guess until someone decides to do an in depth biography
on Bem we won't know where this set of beliefs come from or why he holds
them. One wonders if he is suffering from some sort of delusional disorder
but I hate to psychopathologize this kind of situation. J.J. Gibson had
On 6 Jan 2011 at 8:46, Mike Palij (yada, yada) wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone has conducted a case study on Bem to understand why
> he believes in PSI?
The simple answer would be because that's where he believes his
results take him. A good scientist has to accept what his data tells
him, regardl
Allen writes:
I suspect it is a mistake to treat all exceptional achievement in the
same way, e.g., athletic achievement and musical talent. For instance,
the soccer player David Beckham undoubtedly acquired his special talent
of extraordinary accuracy in long passes by hard work, i.e., repeated
p
In fact, Bem has a background in physics: a BA from Reed College, and he
started in the physics graduate program at MIT before switching to psychology.
I think that Bem's results are best interpreted in light of his approach to
hypothesis testing. His chapter on writing in The Compleat Academic
Some thoughts on Mike Palij's recent post about Bem's persistent belief, the
need for independent replication, and whether this is another reason for
Psychologists to call themselves/their field by different names. Mike P noted:
"In the meantime, I think that more science oriented psycholo
There was a time in the late 19th century when experimental results seemed to
indicate that the future was influencing the past and fortunately Dr. Pavlov
didn't just chalk it up to equipment failure and go on to study some other
feature of the dog's digestive system. His "psychic secretions" ev
I have also discussed his work in class with regard to clinical intuition and
associated problems with professional judgments. Comparing clinical judgments
with fire-fighting is fun. Experience can mean twenty years of repeating one
year twenty times, or variation, deliberate experimentation a
And, don't forget cold fusion!
Paul C Bernhardt
Frostburg State University
Frostburg, MD, USA
pcbernhardt[at]frostburg[d0t]edu
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:42 AM, wrote:
> On 6 Jan 2011 at 8:46, Mike Palij (yada, yada) wrote:
>
>>> I wonder if anyone has conducted a case study on Bem to understand
On 6 Jan 2011 at 11:12, Bourgeois, Dr. Martin wrote:
Bem also used one-tailed tests, which seems curious for a paper
testing extraordinary claims.
That's interesting, disturbing, in fact. I've long argued that one-
tailed tests are almost uniformly misused in psychology and should be
banned. Ma
Bourgeois, Dr. Martin wrote:
I think that Bem's results are best interpreted in light of
his approach to hypothesis testing. His chapter on writing in
The Compleat Academic advocates HARKing, or hypothesizing
after the results are known. Although many, such as Norb Kerr
at Michigan State, see HA
Hi
James M. Clark
Professor of Psychology
204-786-9757
204-774-4134 Fax
j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca
>>> Ken Steele 06-Jan-11 10:41:41 AM >>>
I read the in-press ms that was floating about. Bem's assertion
(in the in-press ms) that he didn't need to identify the
mechanism of action permitted him to d
On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:10:58 -0800, Jim Clark wrote in response to:
>>> Ken Steele 06-Jan-11 10:41:41 AM >>>
>>I read the in-press ms that was floating about. Bem's assertion
>>(in the in-press ms) that he didn't need to identify the
>>mechanism of action permitted him to dodge questions about
On 1/6/2011 11:00 AM, Claudia Stanny wrote:
There is practice and there is deliberate practice (see the work
of Ericsson, who is the source for the 10,000 hour estimate).
Mere repetition of exisitng moves and skills (Allen's example of
copying an existing piece over and over as "practice" in
comp
CAROL L DeVOLDER
Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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Yes, this exactly what Coyle describes in his book, The Talent Code,
though he refers to it as "deep" practice. What's interesting and so
logical is that practice will only be fruitful if the person who is
doing the practicing is highly motivated to become better. That's
apparently why a chil
Some in the American public seem to have a penchant for swallowing everything
that emanate from Europe.Remember Bruno Bettelheim blaming moms for their
autistic kids.Bruno really did a number on the American public by publishing
THe Empty Fortress.Now this British dude is a fraud and interestin
Scott, what comes across in Coyles book is the crucial role of the
coach/teacher in developing children with talent. That's why there are
"hot beds" in certain areas of the world--these kids don't have superior
genes then other children around the world but they have been provided
superior instruc
Hi
The link to Khan Academy prompts me to ask whether anyone uses graphics tablets
in their teaching? We have a few classrooms where projection screen covers
much of blackboard, complicating switching between computer display and
blackboard. I'm thinking primarily of teaching stats, where bot
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