So what else is new? A dude who refers to himself as a Psychoarchaeologist
(Julian Jaynes) wrote a work about the origin of consciousness in the breakdown
of the bicameral mind.Jaynes hypothesized that the origin of religion could
have been at a point where left hemisheric differentiation were p
Hi
But isn't there a p involved in the CI (or rather 1 - p)? I'm not sure how one
interprets a CI without some notion of p or its inverse. For example, why do
we choose z = 1.645 or 1.96 or 2.333 or whatever to construct the CI?
Take care
Jim
James M. Clark
Professor of Psychology
I have always introduced estimation, point and interval, prior to
Statistical Hypothesis Inference Testing. After introducing hypothesis
testing, I note that once one has a confidence interval, e can generally decide
whether or not a hypothesis fits well with the observed data or not,
Mike and others
I always do everything backwards, I read your link _after_ I shot off my post!
The researchers in Italy were measuring (ST) Self-Transcendence which is a
trait in Cloninger's Temperment and Character Inventory (TCI). ST has three sub
scales, and a brief description of ST can be
Hey Mike
Well, some will argue that spirituality is a personality trait in its own
right, the "6th" and neglected trait, and totally overshadowed by the Big 5
OCEAN. I am not surprised there are neurological links; temporal lobe epilepsy
has been linked to spiritual states of consciousness, an
I came a across an article on the Science News website that seems to
claim that (a) a specific brain area is associated with "spirituality" and
(b) damage to this area increased one's spirituality as defined by a
a measure of Self-Transcendence (ST). Quoting from the article:
|The group found tha
