Having watched President Obama's remarks in their entirety, the statement below by Dr. Wuensch is, IMO, a terrible misinterpretation of his message.
Obama was not intending in any way to use the phrase "negative reinforcement" as the jargon usage seen in psychology. He was speaking without a jargon style and saying 'negative influences.' If Obama had said, "We should seek if there is a correlation between people's feelings on this matter and their perspective informed by their experience of history relevant to race" we would not think he was referring to a Perason Product Moment Correlation. But, I would like to think all of us caution our students to remove the use of correlation from their writing in their formal academic writing for our classes because of its jargon meaning in our field. Listen to what Obama was saying. Paul On Jul 19, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Wuensch, Karl L wrote: Obama just incorrectly used the term "negative reinforcement." Cheers, ________________________________ <image001.jpg><http://www.ecu.edu/> Karl L. Wuensch, Professor and ECU Scholar/Teacher, Dept. of Psychology East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353, USA, Earth<http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/Earth.htm> Voice: 252-328-9420 Fax: 252-328-6283 http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm --- 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=26528 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-26528-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-26528-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- 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=26541 or send a blank email to leave-26541-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
