[tips] What Were You Doing On This Date 18 Years Ago?

2011-02-26 Thread Mike Palij
In the early 1990s I served as a part-time statistical consultant and program evaluator for the Board of Education in the city of Newark, NJ. The busiest period was during the summer after the spring "post-test" data was available (students were tested at the beginning of the fall and end of the s

Re: [tips] Oh, dear..."cutting" is on youtube

2011-02-26 Thread Dr. Bob Wildblood
> A fear that this may "glamorize" cutting. > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/health/research/22behavior.html > Beth Benoit Some of the clinical psychologists that I have worked with believe that this trend is increasing exponentially and that tattooing is another kind of "cutting behav

RE: [tips] labs

2011-02-26 Thread Annette Taylor
I believe this is a very common way of doing upper division labs. It was the basic format when I was a student back in the 1970's. It was the basic format when I was a grad student at USC in the 1980's, and it is the format we developed starting about 1990 where I am now. We have labs that are

Re: [tips] Oh, dear..."cutting" is on youtube

2011-02-26 Thread michael sylvester
Some of the clinical psychologists that I have worked with believe that this trend is increasing exponentially and that tattooing is another kind of "cutting behaviors". While not self-inflicted (although the person being tattooed voluntarily submits to the procedure) there is the same ki

[tips] Data use (again)

2011-02-26 Thread phil.gerv...@bluewin.ch
Dear (overseas) Tipsters, It seems indeed that your understanding of data as plural, (although etymologically correct if we go back to latin root datum/data) may be too rigid: British English (specialist on not) would tolerate data both as a singular c(ollective) and plural noun, and my British

[tips] Stetson U student stalked prof

2011-02-26 Thread michael sylvester
A Stetson U student has been charged with aggravated stalking of a History prof.The student had a romantic infatuation on the prof and sent e-mails to prof.One e-mail was perceived as a threat on the life of the prof.There is ,however, no evidence that the prof had any involvement with the stude

[tips] Two Canadian students almost drowned

2011-02-26 Thread michael sylvester
Two Canadian students on Spring Break in Daytona Beach almost downed in a hotel swimming pool.The fact that they both went under together is rare. They probably had double doses of Molson,eh? Amercan spring breakers, however, tend to jump from the 12th floor hotel balcony and miss the swimming po