>And this is relevant to teaching psychology because...
I would say it is at least as relevant as all of the self-serving comments
that I read on this list. It is at least as relevant as the inane one word
emails about some psychic parrot (although I did laugh out loud over the
polly graph comment... that was clever...).
In the short time I have been reading emails from this list, I would say
that far more than half of the posting have little to do w/ direct (or
indirect) teaching of psychology. People use this forum like a chat room
for too often...
Personally, I teach critical thinking/skepticism/scientific thought in my
Methods class. I often bring up the difference in thinking between
creationists and scientists in the context of what can science discuss?
what should it leave alone? what is good science? I find the data from the
Gallup survey interesting for that matter.
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Stephen W. Tuholski Ph.D.
Asst. Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Southern Illinois U. at Edwardsville
Edwardsville IL 62026
Phone: 618 650 5391
Fax: 618 650 5087
http://www.siue.edu/~stuhols
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell
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