At 09:33 AM 10/13/2006, you wrote:
>What seems to be even more surprising to me is that
the prizes for
>literature are going to psychologists!
>
>Annette
Wow - I guess I just don't get why this is deserving
of ridicule (even if
it is friendly ridicule).
All of us have probably had the experience of
reading a used book someone
else has underlined. Sometimes that earlier reader
has underlined strange
things that don't seem relevant. I don't know about
the rest of you, but I
find that pretty distracting.
Just how distracting is it? I don't know - but it
certainly seems worthy
of study.
-- Jim
>Quoting Robin Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>As a former winner himself, David is not exactly
>>unbiased!
>>
>>He and his student Vicki Silvers Geir won the
>>literature prize in 2002:
>>
>>Vicki Silvers Gier and David S. Kreiner of Central
>>Missouri State University, for their colorful
report
>>"The Effects of Pre-Existing Inappropriate
>>Highlighting on Reading Comprehension." [
PUBLISHED
>>IN: Reading Research and Instruction, vol. 36, no.
3,
>>1997, pp. 217-23.]
>>
>>I've always had a soft spot for the literature
prizes,
>>and this year's was an excellent one:
>>
>>LITERATURE: Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton
University
>>for his report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular
>>Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with
>>Using Long Words Needlessly."
>>REFERENCE: "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular
>>Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with
>>Using Long Words Needlessly," Daniel M.
Oppenheimer,
>>Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 20, no. 2,
March
>>2006, pp. 139-56.
>>
>>--- David Kreiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>And the inventor won the prestigious Ig Nobel
Peace
>>>Prize. From
>>>www.improbable.com :
>>>
>>>PEACE: Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales,
>>>for inventing an
>>>electromechanical teenager repellant -- a device
>>>that makes annoying
>>>noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not
to
>>>adults; and for
>>>later using that same technology to make
telephone
>>>ringtones that are
>>>audible to teenagers but not to their teachers.
>>>REFERENCE: http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>David Kreiner
>>>Professor of Psychology and
>>>Associate Dean of The Graduate School
>>>University of Central Missouri
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>> >>> "FRANTZ, SUE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
10/12/2006
>>>10:02 PM >>>
>>>
>>>I'm sure some of you have already heard of this,
but
>>>it was news to
>>>me.
>>>
>>>Today in class I was talking about hearing and
>>>hearing loss in the
>>>upper
>>>frequencies. And a couple of my students said,
"Oh,
>>>like the mosquito
>>>ringtone." They were passing comments, and I
didn't
>>>want to get into
>>>it, so I left it until I got back to my office to
>>>investigate.
>>>
>>>In short, a theater in England was having
problems
>>>with the large
>>>number
>>>of youth gathering in their square. Compound
>>>Security
>>>(http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/) supplied
them
>>>with a high-pitched
>>>tone (18-20 kHz) to pipe into the square. It
>>>worked. The kids
>>>dispersed. And since it was too high for most
>>>adults to hear, it
>>>didn't
>>>bother their patrons.
>>>
>>>For the BBC radio program that discusses it, go
>>>here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2006/04/04/mosquito_soun
>>>
>>>d_wave_feature.shtml
>>>
>>>In the radio program, they have a recording from
the
>>>square playing in
>>>the background, but according to my evening
>>>students, you can't hear
>>>the
>>>high-pitched tone. Apparently that MP3 cut off
the
>>>higher
>>>frequencies.
>>>But at the bottom of the page, there's an MP3 of
>>>just the recording
>>>from
>>>the square where it can be heard -- if you're
young
>>>enough. I'm not.
>>>All I hear is the hum of traffic and people in
the
>>>background. But my
>>>younger evening students were plugging their
ears,
>>>and my older
>>>students
>>>were left looking at each other. (I think this
MP3
>>>peaks at about 17
>>>kHz
>>>if I was reading the classroom's audio software
>>>correctly.) The
>>>descriptions students gave were interesting --
like
>>>a cricket, like
>>>dying birds. In the news program they say that
>>>people over 25 can't
>>>hear
>>>it, but of course there's much variability. One
of
>>>my nearly-30
>>>students said he could hear it.
>>>
>>>And now the kicker.
>>>
>>>It's available as a ringtone (in the US:
>>>http://www.fork.com/, in the
>>>UK: http://www.mozzyworld.com/). Reportedly,
>>>students are now using it
>>>to hear the arrival of text messages in class
>>>because their older
>>>teachers can't hear it.
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Sue Frantz Highline Community
>>>College
>>>Psychology Des Moines, WA
>>>206.878.3710 x3404 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/
>>>--
>>>Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology
>>>Assistant Director, Project Syllabus
>>>http://www.lemoyne.edu/OTRP/projectsyllabus.html
>>>
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>Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
>Professor of Psychology
>University of San Diego
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