RE: [tips] Inattention blindness in radiologists

2013-02-15 Thread Stuart McKelvie
Dear Tipsters, Here are the data again from the paper: Detect Not detect Radiologists 0 24 Controls 4 20 A chi square test without Yates correction is significant (p = .036). A chi square test with Yates correction

Re: [tips] Inattention blindness in radiologists

2013-02-15 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
Beat me to it, though I wanted a Fisher Exact (and you've reversed the categories for Radiologists and Controls). Fisher Exact p = .107 So, n.s. Paul On Feb 15, 2013, at 7:12 AM, Stuart McKelvie wrote: Dear Tipsters, Here are the data again from the paper:

Re: [tips] Inattention blindness in radiologists

2013-02-15 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Stuart: This is a follow-up to Stephen Black's point that the radiologists were looking for cancer signs and not for other irrelevant images. What were the instructions that the radiologists and the controls were given? Ken

Re: [tips] Inattention blindness in radiologists

2013-02-15 Thread Jim Clark
Hi James M. Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R4 CANADA >>> 15-Feb-13 1:09 AM >>> On 14 Feb 2013 at 21:38, Stuart McKelvie wrote: > The immediate question tha

Correction to....RE: [tips] Inattention blindness in radiologists

2013-02-15 Thread Stuart McKelvie
Dear Tipsters, Thanks to Paul for pointing out my slip! Here are the data again from the paper: Detect Not detect Controls 0 24 Radiologists 4 20 A chi square test without Yates correction is significant (p =

RE: [tips] Inattention blindness in radiologists

2013-02-15 Thread Stuart McKelvie
Dear Ken and Tipsters, Radiologists "had up to three minutes to freely scroll through each of 5 lung CTs, searching for modules as we tracked their eyes." They clicked module locations with a mouse. The gorilla was entered on the final trial. The naïve observers were given 10 minutes teaching

[tips] Is Pavlov in the House?

2013-02-15 Thread Michael Britt
I'm selling my house and someone is coming over to look at it. Aren't I supposed to bake an apple pie to hopefully remind them of their childhood or something? ;) Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt --- You are currently

Re: [tips] Inattention blindness in radiologists

2013-02-15 Thread Claudia Stanny
Stephen is correct in his recollection of the superior memory for chess positions only when master players are asked to remember chess positions from genuine games. They perform like novices when confronted with pieces randomly arranged on a chess board. (Chase & Simon, 1973, Perception in chess,

Re: [tips] Is Pavlov in the House?

2013-02-15 Thread Christopher Green
Apparently, the smell of vanilla helps. Many stores use it. Just pour a little on a flat surface (to maximize evaporation). Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ =

Re: [tips] Is Pavlov in the House?

2013-02-15 Thread William Scott
It might depend on their age. Younger people are more likely to find the aroma of Windex more comforting than baking bread. Here's a recent related study. http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facBios/file/Smell%20of%20Virtue%20Psych%20Sci.pdf A spritz of windex led folks to being more willing to par

[tips] Houdini horse?

2013-02-15 Thread Gerald Peterson
Okay, not exactly Clever Hans, but still cleverly shaped behavior. I am not sure what kind of locks they are talking about here either. http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2013/02/houdini_horse_from_midland_is.html#incart_river G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU --- You are

Re: [tips] Is Pavlov in the House?

2013-02-15 Thread Michael Britt
Interesting looking study Bill. It's printing out now... I liked Chris Green's idea about Vanilla. That would probably work on me, but Windex? This I have to learn more about. Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Feb

[tips] 2 Job Openings: Clinical Faculty and Director of the Psychological Center

2013-02-15 Thread Paula Waddill
*Assistant Professor (Clinical) and Director, Psychological Center. *The Department of Psychology at Murray State University (*www.murraystate.edu *) seeks to fill one tenure-track assistant professor position (to begin August, 2013) and to hire a Director of the department’s Psychological Center (

Re: [tips] Houdini horse

2013-02-15 Thread Joan Warmbold
Thanks Gary. An amusing story as well as a funny and impressive video showing a mare who has figured out how to open an amazing variety of locks. It was shaping but self-shaping of sorts. Apparently she enjoyed playing with things with her mouth from the get-go and soon progressed to fooling aro

[tips] Sweat Much?

2013-02-15 Thread Mike Palij
Harvard Superstar researcher Pardis Sabeti (who appears to be giving Joe Ledoux some competition in the rocker/researcher area; Google her name) has some of her research written up in the popular media. See: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-human-evolution-genes-20130215,0,7710369.story

[tips] Russian Meteor And Dash Cams

2013-02-15 Thread Mike Palij
As most Tipsters must now know, being the news mavens that they are, a meteor blew up in the sky over Russia today. Evidence of the meteor's streak and explosion was provided by numerous car dash cams that captured the meteor's fate. This event, of course, leads to a natural question: Why do so

[tips] The cruise from hell/ Seligman

2013-02-15 Thread michael sylvester
It would appear that passengers who spent days stranded at sea,in what has been dubbed " The cruise from hell" would fit in well into Seligman's Learned helplessness paradigm.A friend of mine who was on the cruise was so happy to see land that he texted LAND AHOY! No cannibalism was reported