A website known as Atlas Obscura has articles on a variety of offbeat topics and one was published yesterday was on the longest running scientific experiments. Here is the link to the article: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/guide-longest-science-experiments NOTE: only two psychology-ish studies are included: look for the "Human Speechdome Project" (source of a petabyte of home video) and "Laboratory of Adult Development" that includes some of the work done at Harvard as well as Michael Apted's documentary "Up" series (Apted also directed a James Bond film; I leave it as an exercise for the interested read to find out which one).
For comparison's sake, the journal "Nature" had a similar article a couple of years ago but focused on only five studies; see: http://www.nature.com/news/long-term-research-slow-science-1.12623 NOTE: This article includes the Lewis Terman study of "genius" at Stanford which started circa 1921 -- I think this might qualify as the oldest ongoing scientific research study in psychology but if anyone knows of another older one (I'm looking at you Chris Green -- others are also invited), I think people would be interested in learning about it. In keeping with recent events, I believe that research involving H.M. also qualifies as one of the longest research studies in psychology (though those dirty cognitive neuroscientists might claim he's all theirs ;-). I know it's the beginning of the semester for most (all?) of us but maybe someone could put together a Top Ten List of the Longest Running Studies in Psychology for fun and giggles. Might contain a surprise or two. Sidenote: one of the longest running studies identified in both studies are the agricultural studies done at the Rothamsted agricultural research station in England. They have been doing work there since 1843. What is of additional significance is, if my memory is working properly, Sir Ronald Fisher got one of his first jobs here and one of his first tasks was to analyze the decades of data that had been collected but not seriously analyzed. I believe this is where Fisher developed the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) here and what was known as the Fisher z-test (later F test, courtesy of Snedecor 1934) and the intraclass correlation. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=49420 or send a blank email to leave-49420-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
