On 12 Mar 2013 at 22:39, Jim Clark wrote:
> 1. He is a communications professor. I've often wondered whether > journalism students shouldn't be required to take courses in > statistics and research methods. How else can they properly evaluate > the truth of real-life events? As a callow undergraduate at McGill, I took a course in the psychology of learning from a young professor (we were all young back then) who impressed me with his intelligent, logical, and evidence-based approach to psychology. This man was rigorous! This psychology was science! I'm sorry to have to report that he has recently surfaced in the news, after a long and distinguished career at McGill, with a new book asserting the reality of alien abduction. I'm afraid that even skilled knowledge of statistics and research methods is insufficient to protect against such beliefs. http://snipurl.com/26lf2hz Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=24306 or send a blank email to leave-24306-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
