My colleague, Alan Bensley, has an article related to these issues. http://www.csicop.org/author/dalanbensley
Paul Sent from my iPhone On Mar 13, 2013, at 2:01 AM, "Jim Clark" <j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca<mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca>> wrote: Hi It is no guarantee for sure! But are such cases as Donderi rarer than among those lacking such training? I had a quick glance around and it appears belief in extra-terrestrial life (UFOs??) is unrelated to education or somewhat higher for highly educated people (field not specified in the surveys I found). Also somewhat higher in at least one survey for non-believers ... perhaps a kind of secular "religion." And of course UFOs constitute another area of conspiracy theories. Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca<mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca> Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R4 CANADA <sbl...@ubishops.ca<mailto:sbl...@ubishops.ca>> 12-Mar-13 11:07 PM >>> 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<http://ubishops.ca> --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca<mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&n=T&l=tips&o=24306 or send a blank email to leave-24306-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-24306-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: pcbernha...@frostburg.edu<mailto:pcbernha...@frostburg.edu>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263003&n=T&l=tips&o=24308 or send a blank email to leave-24308-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-24308-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> <Jim Clark.vcf> --- 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=24314 or send a blank email to leave-24314-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
