The passage is actually, when you pull on it, it gets longer, and the
comparison was to Hooke's Law, not explicitly to Newton. It does appear in
Cohen's The Earth is Round (p.05)” (p. 1001, first column), but Cohen was
actually quoting a 1969 American Psychologist article by John Tukey.
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 05:56:22 -0800, Christopher Green wrote:
The passage is actually, when you pull on it, it gets longer, and the
comparison was to Hooke's Law, not explicitly to Newton. It does
appear in Cohen's The Earth is Round (p.05) (p. 1001, first column),
but Cohen was actually quoting a
Here's a clip from a video showing physicist Richard Feynman talking about the
scientific method. In this 55 sec clip from the video he alludes to psychology
and says essentially, you can't have a prediction be shown to be right no
matter which way it comes out. Which is of course a good
It kind of sounded like he was criticizing Freudian theories rather than
psychological research.
Rick Stevens
School of Behavioral and Social Sciences
University of Louisiana at Monroe
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.comwrote:
Here's a clip from a video
Yes, he did appear to be deliberately jabbing Freudian theory, which is
understandable, but I can see someone watching this section of the video and
concluding from it that because we can't quantify love, psychology is ipso
facto not a science.
How would we defend psychology to Feynman (if
Here's a more recent clip of Feynman talking about social science.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IaO69CF5mbYdesktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIaO69CF5mbY
He has a point, but he also seems to come from the Ernest Rutherford school of
what counts as science (All science is physics, or it is stamp
I was going to sit this thread out but I'm curious about Chris'
source for Jack Cohen's statement. I'm challenging that Jack
might have said something like that, I just want to know the
source.
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
--- Original Message
On
I had a momentary psychotic break with reality and left
*NOT* in one of the sentences I wrote. Below is the
corrected text. Apologies to Chris and anyone else.
On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:43:34 -0800, Mike Palij wrote:
I was going to sit this thread out but I'm curious about Chris'
source for Jack
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Subject: Re: [tips] Feynman on Psychology
Here's a more recent clip of Feynman talking about social science.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IaO69CF5mbYdesktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIaO69CF5mbY
He has a point
It was in one of his late articles. In American Psychologist, I think. Might it
have been in The Earth is Round, p.05”? I'll have to check.
Chris
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Christopher D Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M6C 1G4
chri...@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/christo
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