RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example

2010-06-15 Thread Mike Palij
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:45:53 -0700, Jim Clark wrote: >Hi >The supplement to the PNAS article can be found at >http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2010/06/03/1000690107.DCSupplemental/sapp.pdf > Many thanks to Jim for pointing out the supplement which makes a number of points in the article cleare

RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example

2010-06-15 Thread Jim Clark
Hi The supplement to the PNAS article can be found at http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2010/06/03/1000690107.DCSupplemental/sapp.pdf Figures s5 and following show clearly the pattern, including the replication. Findings were partly replicated in sense that both studies show effect of murder

RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example

2010-06-15 Thread Mike Palij
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:11:28 -0700, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote: >Hi Mike et al. - Mike, thanks for the helpful clarification. I have to >confess that I was initially confused by your message until I later >realized that you we referring not to the press story described in >David Hogberg's message

Re: [tips] a recent corr/causation example

2010-06-15 Thread Ken Steele
Scott's concern is similar to a running argument that a colleague and I have had for a long time on the importance of main effects vs. interaction effects. He maintains that interaction effects are more important because they show differential effects and what we are interested in are variab

RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example

2010-06-15 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
_ From: Mike Palij [m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 8:44 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:16:07 -0700, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote: >This study, which I have

Re: RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example

2010-06-14 Thread michael sylvester
To me description or analysis of data is one thing but explanation is quite another.I will not argue with the statistical analysis(main,simple,and interactional effects).Seems relable so far but as to validity of constructs more information is needed.I do not buy the witness to violence and co

RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example

2010-06-14 Thread Mike Palij
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:16:07 -0700, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote: >This study, which I haven't read, raises another question (in addition to the does detecting an effect in one group (e.g., African-Americans) but not >another >(e.g., Hispanics) constitute a legitimate statistical interaction vs. a f

Re: [tips] a recent corr/causation example

2010-06-14 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
2010 6:15 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example This study, which I haven’t read, raises another question (in addition to the correlation-causation question) that I always find interesting to ponder…when does detecting a

RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example

2010-06-14 Thread Bourgeois, Dr. Martin
_ From: Lilienfeld, Scott O [slil...@emory.edu] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 6:15 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example This study, which I haven’t read, raises another question (in addition to the correlation-causation questi

Re: RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example

2010-06-14 Thread don allen
nterested in hearing what others have to say. -Don. - Original Message - From: "Lilienfeld, Scott O" Date: Monday, June 14, 2010 3:16 pm Subject: RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" > This study, w

RE: [tips] a recent corr/causation example

2010-06-14 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
This study, which I haven't read, raises another question (in addition to the correlation-causation question) that I always find interesting to ponder...when does detecting an effect in one group (e.g., African-Americans) but not another (e.g., Hispanics) constitute a legitimate statistical inte