Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA?
Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA? On 19 March 2008 Stephen Black asked us to guess Who's Jews in the USA? And atheists. And Muslims. Rank 'em in order of percentage of the population (no fair Googling!). Then I'll tell you the results of the most recent survey. Robin Abrahams responded: A problem with this is the overlap between Jews and atheists since you can be both--and lots of people are. So one of the two groups is probably being underreported, if you can only pick one answer. I don't know how my husband, for example, would respond if asked to choose between identifying as a Jew or an atheist. (Well, I know exactly how he would respond I'm just not sure how you could code for that.) Surely it all depends on how the question is worded. If the survey asks what is the respondent's religion, then someone of Jewish descent who is an atheist has only one answer: Atheist. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA?
Not necessarily, which I believe is a politer way of saying, who the hell are you to determine how another person defines themselves?. An atheist Jew might still not want to deny his or her Jewishness, whether you think there's only one answer they can give or not. Hell, you can BE an atheist and still be a practicing Jew--it's not a belief-based religion, like Christianity is. Even if all atheist Jews agreed with your implacable logic about how they must define themselves, that would still result in an underreporting of the number of Jews in the US, which was my original point. Allen Esterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely it all depends on how the question is worded. If the survey asks what is the respondent's religion, then someone of Jewish descent who is an atheist has only one answer: Atheist. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Robin Abrahams www.boston.com/missconduct Notices at the bottom of this e-mail do not reflect the opinions of the sender. I do not yahoo that I am aware of. --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: [tips] Cool Undergraduate Programs
I'm formulating my reply for the rest - but here is an example of travel that is not related to research. Our department has been taking students over to the Czech republic for the last 4 years for a 3 week Maymester experience. We have developed a strong link between us and another university over there and the courses that are most frequently taught are abnormal and i/o (with a strong emphasis on how we differ from the Czech republic - some field trips included). Ed students have also come with us since our department also houses the Ed psych profs. Each year the program has gotten bigger (this year, about 30 students are going). At 12:35 PM 3/19/2008 -0500, you wrote: I'm sorry: Cool in the sense of doing the very best undergraduate education in the science of psych that we can. Cool as in high positive student engagement and high scores on measures of outcomes. It could mean new courses, it could mean new programs (programs for undergrad research), it could mean travel (although I'm sort of at a loss about travel other than for research), it could mean internships, it could mean anything that's been shown to do a superior job with undergraduate education in psychology. Does that make sense? I want challenges for them that we can help them meet, I want them excited about studying psych, and most important, I want them well-grounded in the science. I don't know what we'll eventually be able to do, but while we're thinking, we're shooting the moon and are going to think big. m Deb Dr. Deborah S. Briihl Dept. of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698 (229) 333-5994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chiron.valdosta.edu/dbriihl/ Well I know these voices must be my soul... Rhyme and Reason - DMB --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA?
I challenged people to rank the percentage of the U.S. population who are Jews, Muslims, and atheists. On 19 Mar 2008 at 8:54, Robin Abrahams wrote: A problem with this is the overlap between Jews and atheists since you can be both--and lots of people are. Too true. Similarly, Christopher Hitchens claims that in Belfast during the Troubles, someone seeking to avoid trouble by saying he was an atheist would be asked, Protestant or Catholic atheist? However, without delving into the methodology used in the survey, I can suggest a way out for Jews. Ask the respondent is to answer on the basis of religion, not ethnic group. I believe this would separate the Jews from the Jewish atheists. (I wrote this before Lyris impolitely rejected my post and the subsequent Abrahams/Esterson dust-up on the issue. I guess this puts me on the Esterson side. But see below.) For the survey, the results are in. And Jews lead atheists by a nose (and we're not going to go there, are we?), with Muslims well behind. The actual percentages in descending order are: Jews..1.7% of the population atheists..1.6% Muslims.0.6% There are three times as many Jews as Muslims in the US. Surprised? Me too. The source is the respected Pew Institute and the findings are those of the Pew Forum on Religion Public Life in its US Religious Landscape Survey conducted May 8 to Aug. 13, 2007 but just recently released. Go to: http://religions.pewforum.org/ The data here is under Affiliations although you have to click on Unaffiliated after that to get the atheist percent. Unfortunately, there are problems. The response rate was a dismal 24%, which could well have led to an undercount of Muslims reluctant to identify themselves in the current unfriendly climate twoards them. On the Jew/atheist question, Pew asks: What is your present religion, if any? Are you Protestant, Roman Catholic, Mormon, Orthodox such as Greek or Russian Orthodox, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, agnostic, something else, or nothing in particular? They could have been still clearer, but the question does specify that the answer is to be on the basis of religion. I'd think a Jewish atheist would respond atheist to that one. How about it, David? Would that question give you pause? For further information you might try the Chronicle of Higher Education article which inspired this post: Wolfe, Alan. Pew in the Pews: A survey on American belief overturns some scholars' theories. March 21, 2008. Unfortunately not free and therefore only for the privileged. (i've been pondering which is funnier, Who's Jews? or Who's Jew? It's a toss-up. The first is a more accurate title; the second is the better pun. What a dilemma.) Stephen - Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ --- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA?
At 4:58 AM -0500 3/20/08, Allen Esterson wrote: Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA? On 19 March 2008 Stephen Black asked us to guessSurely it all depends on how the question is worded. If the survey asks what is the respondent's religion, then someone of Jewish descent who is an atheist has only one answer: Atheist. Wish it were that simple. Someone of Jewish descent may feel that if they follow the mitzvot (commandments) that they are observing the core of the Jewish religion even if they do not literally believe in HaShem (G_d). Sometimes it seems to me the Reconstructionist Jews fit this model. Logic and religion don't always play well together (unless you're a Jesuit ;-). -- The best argument against Intelligent Design is that fact that people believe in it. * PAUL K. BRANDON[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Dept Minnesota State University * * 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 * * http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~pkbrando/* --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA?
I wish there were a more universal and less negative term than atheist. I know there are some terms (Bright, naturalist, secularist, etc.), but none that seem to have caught on. I mean, atheist means not a theist/believer in a god. A person who is religious isn't called a nonatheist. Why must we be labeled by what we DON'T believe? Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Practical applications of modern genetics
It was behavioural genetics that I had in mind. At 11:02 AM -0500 3/19/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I said: Well, I'm not aware of any wholesale trashing or abandonment of what we know of genetics, or even of behaviour genetics, even as the field moves ahead with impressive achievements. and Paul Brandon asked: Do those achievement include any practical applications? -- The best argument against Intelligent Design is that fact that people believe in it. * PAUL K. BRANDON[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Dept Minnesota State University * * 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 * * http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~pkbrando/* --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA?
Wasn't Sammy Davis Jr. Jewish? Didn't he trace his roots to the black Jews of Ethiopia? Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
Hi Tipsters-- I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no longer work (most students answer the items correctly). Any ideas of something new and different to try? Thanks, Julie Osland -- Dr. Julie A. Osland, M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheeling Jesuit University 316 Washington Avenue Wheeling, WV 26003 Office: (304) 243-2329 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA?
Thank you, Paul. I am getting so angry about this thread I can't see straight. Understand that while it may seem easy to check the box Atheist if that is what you are, it means denying that you are a Jew. Which, historically, is a painful thing to contemplate. (And on the topic of Jews having to deny what they are, Happy Fracking Purim.) It's not a simple, easily dismissed matter of well, atheism is your religion, Jewish is your ethnicity. There are no ethnicity surveys where Jewish is an option. People are asked what race they are, or what their country of origin is. If you don't answer Jewish on a religion survey, you don't get to say you're Jewish at all. Where does my white, Lithuanian, atheist husband get to say he's a Jew--which he is, to the core of his being? And there is humanistic Judaism, as a movement and, I believe, even some synagogues. And as I stated before, you can be an atheist/agnostic and a RELIGIOUS Jew. Saying that they're mutually exclusive is interpreting Judaism with a Christian, belief-based lens. Paul Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 4:58 AM -0500 3/20/08, Allen Esterson wrote: Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA? On 19 March 2008 Stephen Black asked us to guessSurely it all depends on how the question is worded. If the survey asks what is the respondent's religion, then someone of Jewish descent who is an atheist has only one answer: Atheist. Wish it were that simple. Someone of Jewish descent may feel that if they follow the mitzvot (commandments) that they are observing the core of the Jewish religion even if they do not literally believe in HaShem (G_d). Sometimes it seems to me the Reconstructionist Jews fit this model. Logic and religion don't always play well together (unless you're a Jesuit ;-). -- The best argument against Intelligent Design is that fact that people believe in it. * PAUL K. BRANDON[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Dept Minnesota State University * * 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 * * http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~pkbrando/* --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Robin Abrahams www.boston.com/missconduct Notices at the bottom of this e-mail do not reflect the opinions of the sender. I do not yahoo that I am aware of. --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
Julie, Of course, you can use the old standby of asking students if there are more words in the English language that start with the letter k or have k as the third letter. One exercise I use is to read the students a list of names at the beginning of class. The list contains male and female names. There are a few more male names on the list. But just about all the female names are famous ones while none of the male names is. So, when I get to the heuristic later in the class period and ask them whether there were more males or females on the list of names I read to them earlier, they usually believe there were more female names because those are more available. However, sometimes by the time I get to this little demo my students have figured out that I am a tricky social psychologist and they guess that there were more males. Even though they may have spoiled my demo, they at least can explain why they guessed what they did and why the more common response is females. Also, even if they have guessed that there were more males on the list, if I asked them to write down all the names they can remember they see that female names are much more available. Let me know if you hear of any more ideas. Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu ( http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/ ) Julie Osland [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/20/2008 10:17 AM Hi Tipsters-- I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no longer work (most students answer the items correctly). Any ideas of something new and different to try? Thanks, Julie Osland -- Dr. Julie A. Osland, M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheeling Jesuit University 316 Washington Avenue Wheeling, WV 26003 Office: (304) 243-2329 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
Try the Is K more likely to be the 1st or 3rd letter of the word? The letter R? This one is a bit of a stretch for the availability heuristic (it is tough to imagine folding a piece of paper that many times), but it is foolproof. I have YET to have a student even came close to the right answer. If you had a huge piece of paper and could fold it 100 times in half each time, how thick would the folded paper be? At 11:17 AM 3/20/2008 -0400, you wrote: Hi Tipsters-- I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no longer work (most students answer the items correctly). Any ideas of something new and different to try? Thanks, Julie Osland -- Dr. Julie A. Osland, M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheeling Jesuit University 316 Washington Avenue Wheeling, WV 26003 Office: (304) 243-2329 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Deb Dr. Deborah S. Briihl Dept. of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698 (229) 333-5994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chiron.valdosta.edu/dbriihl/ Well I know these voices must be my soul... Rhyme and Reason - DMB --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
Availability heuristic examples... I've used school shooting deaths using data from this site (scroll down to the second table): http://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/school_violence.html My three current favorites. 1. Firearms deaths in the U.S. How many? (Much fewer that what people think.) And then what percentage were homicides (1/3 for my county), suicides (2/3 for my county), and accidents (negligible for my county). You should be able to get this information from your coroner's office. I would be happy to send you the data for the Seattle metropolitan area. 2. In the U.S., between 1997 and 2002, 2335 children. died in alcohol-related [automobile] crashes. How many were riding in the same vehicle with the drinking/drunk driver? I'll let you guess on this one, then you can look up the answer here: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5304a2.htm 3. And on oldie but a goodie, In the U.S., with the charge of felony, how often is the plea of insanity entered? Again, much less than what people think. Here's one source: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0005/ai_2699000509/pg_1 Btw, this is another place where I have students use clickers to share their answers. It's a pretty powerful demonstration when the vast majority of students are thinking the same -- wrong -- thing. -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College PsychologyDes Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/ -- APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology http://teachpsych.org/ Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology Associate Director Project Syllabus http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/syllabi.php --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
Julie Osland wrote: Hi Tipsters-- I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no longer work (most students answer the items correctly). Any ideas of something new and different to try? How about the old standby: How many English words start with R? How many have R as the third letter? Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
I know that there are supposed to be more with the letter in the third position than in the first but does anyone have a source of an actual count or estimate of English words of how often letters appear in the first or third position? Or possibly a program or website that would allow for making such an estimate? Thanks, Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher D. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:58 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities? Julie Osland wrote: Hi Tipsters-- I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no longer work (most students answer the items correctly). Any ideas of something new and different to try? How about the old standby: How many English words start with R? How many have R as the third letter? Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
Yes, I got this one from an old human memory text book that is no longer in print (Zechmeister and Nyberg) but it still works great. Read the names of 20 oscar or emmy winning actors (female) from the 1930s/1940s. You can find the names online. Then read the names of 18 oscar or emmy winning actors (male) from the last 10 years. Then ask if you read more men's or women's names. Most will reply more men's names. The women's names are more obscure and less likely to be encoded as they try to recall which they heard more of. (Of course you can do it opposite as well as far as gender names go.) Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original message Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:17:51 -0400 From: Julie Osland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities? To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Hi Tipsters-- I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no longer work (most students answer the items correctly). Any ideas of something new and different to try? Thanks, Julie Osland -- Dr. Julie A. Osland, M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheeling Jesuit University 316 Washington Avenue Wheeling, WV 26003 Office: (304) 243-2329 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA?
In response to my writing Surely it all depends on how the question is worded. If the survey asks what is the respondent's religion, then someone of Jewish descent who is an atheist has only one answer: Atheist. Robin Abrahams wrote: Not necessarily, which I believe is a politer way of saying, who the hell are you to determine how another person defines themselves?. An atheist Jew might still not want to deny his or her Jewishness, whether you think there's only one answer they can give or not. Hell, you can BE an atheist and still be a practicing Jew--it's not a belief-based religion, like Christianity is. Robin: By all means say (politely or otherwise) who the hell am I to determine what is meant by religion, but please don't tell me that I'm trying tell another person how to define themselves. You may be getting angry with this thread (see below) but for the life of me I can't understand why, since everyone has been trying to respond thoughtfully, simply giving their opinion. Robin wrote: I am getting so angry about this thread I can't see straight. Understand that while it may seem easy to check the box Atheist if that is what you are, it means denying that you are a Jew. and And there is humanistic Judaism, as a movement and, I believe, even some synagogues. And as I stated before, you can be an atheist/agnostic and a RELIGIOUS Jew. Saying that they're mutually exclusive is interpreting Judaism with a Christian, belief-based lens. Robin: I appreciate your point about a different way than mine at looking at the meaning of the term religion, but I find it a little ironic that, having told me I'm telling other people how they identify themselves, you are now doing something equivalent. You state as if it is an indisputable fact that if someone of Jewish descent checks the box Atheist to a question about his/her religion, he/she is denying he/she is a Jew. I'm a secular Jew, and an atheist. If I'm asked to check a box for my religion, I check Atheist. I am not thereby denying that I am a Jew, and please don't tell me I am. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
Rick, According to Myers (2005), there are two to three times as many k's in print in the third position than in the first. Myers, D. G. (2005). Social psychology. (8th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu ( http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/ ) Rick Froman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/20/2008 11:20 AM I know that there are supposed to be more with the letter in the third position than in the first but does anyone have a source of an actual count or estimate of English words of how often letters appear in the first or third position? Or possibly a program or website that would allow for making such an estimate? Thanks, Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher D. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:58 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities? Julie Osland wrote: Hi Tipsters-- I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no longer work (most students answer the items correctly). Any ideas of something new and different to try? How about the old standby: How many English words start with R? How many have R as the third letter? Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
Thanks, Jon. I will look there. I hope that Myers cites a primary source for this statement but even better would be a program or a site that would allow for the demonstration of this difference (possibly some kind of onilne crossword dictionary). Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jonathan Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:56 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities? Rick, According to Myers (2005), there are two to three times as many k's in print in the third position than in the first. Myers, D. G. (2005). Social psychology. (8th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.eduhttp://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/ Rick Froman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/20/2008 11:20 AM I know that there are supposed to be more with the letter in the third position than in the first but does anyone have a source of an actual count or estimate of English words of how often letters appear in the first or third position? Or possibly a program or website that would allow for making such an estimate? Thanks, Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher D. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:58 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities? Julie Osland wrote: Hi Tipsters-- I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no longer work (most students answer the items correctly). Any ideas of something new and different to try? How about the old standby: How many English words start with R? How many have R as the third letter? Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
It appears the original source is Tversky A, Kahneman D. Availability: a heuristic for judging frequency and probability. Cognit Psychol. 1973;5:207-232. But I cannot access it online. Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu ( http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/ ) Rick Froman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/20/2008 12:28 PM Thanks, Jon. I will look there. I hope that Myers cites a primary source for this statement but even better would be a program or a site that would allow for the demonstration of this difference (possibly some kind of onilne crossword dictionary). Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jonathan Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:56 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities? Rick, According to Myers (2005), there are two to three times as many k's in print in the third position than in the first. Myers, D. G. (2005). Social psychology. (8th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu ( http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/ )http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/ Rick Froman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/20/2008 11:20 AM I know that there are supposed to be more with the letter in the third position than in the first but does anyone have a source of an actual count or estimate of English words of how often letters appear in the first or third position? Or possibly a program or website that would allow for making such an estimate? Thanks, Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher D. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:58 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities? Julie Osland wrote: Hi Tipsters-- I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no longer work (most students answer the items correctly). Any ideas of something new and different to try? How about the old standby: How many English words start with R? How many have R as the third letter? Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
Almost to the moon (I forget how many miles it is). I typically start singing the inchworm song (2 and 2 are 4, 4 and 4 are 8... - and for those of you who remember the old hair commercial of I told 2 friends, and they told 2 friends). After 9-10 folds, it is about as thick as their textbook, so I then state 2 textbooks, 4 textbooks, etc. Another one that works really well is What percentage of people in court cases are actually are acquitted by the insanity defense? At 12:26 PM 3/20/2008 -0400, you wrote: I like the paper folding one-- what is the answer? Isn't it something like the distance from earth to the moon or something? Julie Deb Briihl wrote: Try the Is K more likely to be the 1st or 3rd letter of the word? The letter R? This one is a bit of a stretch for the availability heuristic (it is tough to imagine folding a piece of paper that many times), but it is foolproof. I have YET to have a student even came close to the right answer. If you had a huge piece of paper and could fold it 100 times in half each time, how thick would the folded paper be? At 11:17 AM 3/20/2008 -0400, you wrote: Hi Tipsters-- I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no longer work (most students answer the items correctly). Any ideas of something new and different to try? Thanks, Julie Osland -- Dr. Julie A. Osland, M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheeling Jesuit University 316 Washington Avenue Wheeling, WV 26003 Office: (304) 243-2329 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Deb Dr. Deborah S. Briihl Dept. of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698 (229) 333-5994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chiron.valdosta.edu/dbriihl/ Well I know these voices must be my soul... Rhyme and Reason - DMB --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Dr. Julie A. Osland, M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheeling Jesuit University 316 Washington Avenue Wheeling, WV 26003 Office: (304) 243-2329 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Deb Dr. Deborah S. Briihl Dept. of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA 31698 (229) 333-5994 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chiron.valdosta.edu/dbriihl/ Well I know these voices must be my soul... Rhyme and Reason - DMB --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
These are excellent. I especially like the one illustrating when the availability heuristic does work. Will balance out my presentation of information nicely. And I completely forgot about the Plous text, and we have a copy. Claudia Stanny wrote: Assuming a sheet of paper is .1mm thick: .1mm x 2 (to the 100th power - lost my formatting here) = 1.27 x 10 (to the 29th power) mm or 1.27 x 10 (to the 23rd power) km Or 800,000,000,000,000 times the distance between the earth and the sun -- a bit more anchoring and adjustment at work here, eh, Deb? ;-) My students just can't believe this result. Of course, they want to know where we'd get a sheet of paper that big! (And what would the square mileage of such a sheet be - an additional problem for the math wonks out there in TIPS-land!) From Plous, S. (1993). The psychology of judgment and decision making. New York: McGraw-Hill. Plous has a quiz at the beginning of this text that is chock full of good examples of heuristics, biases, and choice problems that typically elicit various sorts of irrational decision making. He also provides the answers and might have these indexed to the chapter where this is discussed - either that or I annotated by copy (it is in another office than where I am now). Here is an example you can use to show when the availability heuristic will produce a correct set of answers (if you want to talk about Gigerenzer's argument that heuristics are quick and dirty ways to usually get a good answer). Rate the following words on their relative frequency in language (the Kucera-Francis word counts are provided next to each word): _ BOTTLE K-F freq 50 _ BUTTER K-F freq 100 _ CHAOS K-F freq 9 _ COTTAGE K-F freq 46 _ PYTHON K-F freq 1 _ VALLEY K-F freq 100 Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director, Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor, Psychology University of West Florida Pensacola, FL 32514 - 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm -Original Message- From: Deb Briihl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:31 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities? Almost to the moon (I forget how many miles it is). I typically start singing the inchworm song (2 and 2 are 4, 4 and 4 are 8... - and for those of you who remember the old hair commercial of I told 2 friends, and they told 2 friends). After 9-10 folds, it is about as thick as their textbook, so I then state 2 textbooks, 4 textbooks, etc. --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Dr. Julie A. Osland, M.A., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheeling Jesuit University 316 Washington Avenue Wheeling, WV 26003 Office: (304) 243-2329 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
Assuming a sheet of paper is .1mm thick: .1mm x 2 (to the 100th power - lost my formatting here) = 1.27 x 10 (to the 29th power) mm or 1.27 x 10 (to the 23rd power) km Or 800,000,000,000,000 times the distance between the earth and the sun -- a bit more anchoring and adjustment at work here, eh, Deb? ;-) My students just can't believe this result. Of course, they want to know where we'd get a sheet of paper that big! (And what would the square mileage of such a sheet be - an additional problem for the math wonks out there in TIPS-land!) From Plous, S. (1993). The psychology of judgment and decision making. New York: McGraw-Hill. Plous has a quiz at the beginning of this text that is chock full of good examples of heuristics, biases, and choice problems that typically elicit various sorts of irrational decision making. He also provides the answers and might have these indexed to the chapter where this is discussed - either that or I annotated by copy (it is in another office than where I am now). Here is an example you can use to show when the availability heuristic will produce a correct set of answers (if you want to talk about Gigerenzer's argument that heuristics are quick and dirty ways to usually get a good answer). Rate the following words on their relative frequency in language (the Kucera-Francis word counts are provided next to each word): _ BOTTLE K-F freq 50 _ BUTTER K-F freq 100 _ CHAOS K-F freq 9 _ COTTAGE K-F freq 46 _ PYTHON K-F freq 1 _ VALLEY K-F freq 100 Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director, Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor, Psychology University of West Florida Pensacola, FL 32514 - 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm -Original Message- From: Deb Briihl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:31 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities? Almost to the moon (I forget how many miles it is). I typically start singing the inchworm song (2 and 2 are 4, 4 and 4 are 8... - and for those of you who remember the old hair commercial of I told 2 friends, and they told 2 friends). After 9-10 folds, it is about as thick as their textbook, so I then state 2 textbooks, 4 textbooks, etc. --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[tips] Identical twins
This one, I hope will prove less controversial than the What is a Jew? thread I inadvertently started. Who knew? Ed Pollak said: As I suspected, something not mentioned in the NYT article is the fact that these copy number variations (CNVs) represent a genetic mosaic. They exist only in some tissues and not in others and represent copy errors during embryonic development. Something analogous is responsible for true hermaphrodites in humans (i.e., individuals with both ovarian testicular tissue). Following Ed's lead, I discovered that the original article is available for free at http://www.ajhg.org/AJHG/abstract/S0002-9297(08)00102-X although it's not easy reading. The point about genetic mosaicism is interesting. If my understanding is correct, they found this CNV mosaicism in all 9 of 9 MZ twin pairs selected because they were discordant for Parkinsonism (which made success in their search much more likely). They also found it in at least one of 10 unselected concordant MZ twins (twin pair D). But in this study, they did not find it in some tissues and not in others as Ed suggested. Instead, they examined only nucleated blood cells, and it was within this tissue that they found that these aberrations will typically occur in only a proportion of cells. In one twin, they found one type of aberration in 20% of the blood cells, and another type in 10-15% of blood cells. In the concordant pair D they found it in 70-80% of blood cells. There is also a less exotic example of mosaicism than true hermaphroditism. Only one of the pair of X-chromosomes found in every somatic cell of normal women functions, the other being randomly X- inactivated. This means that a woman is actually a mosaic of two different cell lines each with a different working X-chromosome. Obligatory sexist joke: This explains why women are so complicated. Note added after Lyris rejection: There's another news report on the research at http://tinyurl.com/2f9jld or http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=articlearticle_id=218 393078 Keep scrolling down to read, ignoring the annoying ads. It has not escaped my notice that the article quotes the author, Dumanski, as pointing out that the research has implications for the interpretation of twin studies. As I suggested in an earlier post, if MZ twins are not absolutely identical genetically, some part of the variation in characteristics between them must be genetic in origin. The standard interpretation is instead to claim differences between MZ twins indicates only environmental influence. Stephen - Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ --- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities?
A nice online source for these sorts of questions about words is the MRC Psycholinguistic Database at http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/mrcdatabase/uwa_mrc.htm . I used the Simple Letter Match to locate words that started with k and words that had k as the third letter. Now, there are numerous options about which types of items to include or exclude.So the answer is going to depend on what you consider a word (and how it is coded in the database). I included all of the items that were coded as standard as opposed to obsolete, foreign, etc. I also excluded non-word morphemes such as prefixes and suffixes. Anyway, here are the results from my search: Words beginning with k = 297 Words with k as 3rd letter = 158 David Kreiner Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of The Graduate School University of Central Missouri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rick Froman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/20/2008 12:28 PM Thanks, Jon. I will look there. I hope that Myers cites a primary source for this statement but even better would be a program or a site that would allow for the demonstration of this difference (possibly some kind of onilne crossword dictionary). Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jonathan Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:56 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities? Rick, According to Myers (2005), there are two to three times as many k's in print in the third position than in the first. Myers, D. G. (2005). Social psychology. (8th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.eduhttp://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/ Rick Froman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/20/2008 11:20 AM I know that there are supposed to be more with the letter in the third position than in the first but does anyone have a source of an actual count or estimate of English words of how often letters appear in the first or third position? Or possibly a program or website that would allow for making such an estimate? Thanks, Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher D. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:58 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Availability Heuristic Activities? Julie Osland wrote: Hi Tipsters-- I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no longer work (most students answer the items correctly). Any ideas of something new and different to try? How about the old standby: How many English words start with R? How many have R as the third letter? Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[tips] Twins
Doris Vasconcellos wrote re being a twin, Olha so esta! OK, so I'm the 3rd twin on the list. There were 5 sets in my kindergarten class. Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Peoples Building, Room 44 Department of Psychology West Chester University of Pennsylvania Spring semester office hours: Monday noon-2 3-4; Tuesday Thursday 11-1; by appointment. http://home.comcast.net/~epollak Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist, bluegrass fiddler and herpetoculturist.. in approximate order of importance. --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[tips] The Gene Illusion
Given the recent discussion of Harris' books and genetics, I was wondering if anyone was familiar with the work of Jay Joseph, the author of The Gene Illusion. One review of the book is avaialable at: http://human-nature.com/nibbs/03/jjoseph.html A search of PsycInfo provides a variety of publications, one with an intriguing title: Joseph, J. (2002). Twin studies in psychiatry and psychology: Science of pseudosciece? Psychiatric Quarterly, 73(1), 71-82. Retrieved March 20, 2008, from PsycINFO database. Opinions? -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Regarding credentialing, Joseph has a Psy.D. but don't hold that against him. ;-) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] The Gene Illusion
And here I was thinking that Gene Autry existed. Michael Sylvester --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re:[tips] The Gene Illusion
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:45:42 -0700, Msylvester wrote: And here I was thinking that Gene Autry existed. That depends upon which Gene Autry you're referring to (for biographical info see: http://www.geneautry.com/geneautry/geneautry_biography.html ) For many pop culture figures, especially movie stars, there is a persona that they develop that is seperate from who they really are. For example, Achibald Alexander Leach started his acting career at about 14 years of age, doing pantomime, acrobatics, and comedy in the English provinces until he came to the U.S. with the troupe and skipped off to Hollywood to become Cary Grant. Consider: |Once told by an interviewer, Everybody would like to be |Cary Grant, Grant is said to have replied, So would I. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm026/bio Similarly, we have Norma Jean Mortensen, better known to the world as Marilyn Monroe. As Kurt Vonnegut so astutely noted I believe in his novel Mother Night: We must be careful about who we pretend to be. Perahps there really is/was a Gene (Autry) Illusion. -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[tips] The Larry Craig Theatre?
Completely unrelated to the teaching of psychology outside of being totally demented. You cannot make such stuff up. See: http://wcbstv.com/local/central.park.public.2.680677.html And, no, I don't plan on attending. -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] The Gene Illusion
If you check the last quote of my signature below, you will find the exact quote from Indianapolis' own Kurt Vonnegut. On Mar 20, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Mike Palij wrote: As Kurt Vonnegut so astutely noted I believe in his novel Mother Night: We must be careful about who we pretend to be. Dr. Bob Wildblood IU Kokomo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King, Jr. Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin, 1775 We are what we pretend to be, so we better be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] The Larry Craig Theatre?
Play footsie for me. Michael Sylvester --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[tips] NYT, high school dropouts, and profs outing themselves
First, don't believe what your state says its high school graduation rate is. They appear to be misrepresenting them in order to please the federal government and satisfy the No Child Left Behind legislation. From the NYT: *http://tinyurl.com/38xsy7 * Also from NYT, an item about the increasing level of self-disclosure some professors are engaging in: *http://tinyurl.com/2sn5to * Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ Part of respecting another person is taking the time to criticise his or her views. - Melissa Lane, in a /Guardian/ obituary for philosopher Peter Lipton = --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] Twins
Should we count how many TIPSters are twins? Let's start: 1. Beth Benoit On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Pollak, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doris Vasconcellos wrote re being a twin, Olha so esta! OK, so I'm the 3rd twin on the list. There were 5 sets in my kindergarten class. Ed *Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D.* *Peoples Building, Room 44* *Department of Psychology* *West Chester University of Pennsylvania* *Spring semester office hours: Monday noon-2 3-4; Tuesday Thursday 11-1; by appointment.* *http://home.comcast.net/~epollak*** ** *Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist, bluegrass fiddler and herpetoculturist.. in approximate order of importance.* --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [tips] The Larry Craig Theatre?
In what activity should one engage at the end of the performance in order to express one's appreciation? Surely mere clapping would be far too conventional. :-) Chris Mike Palij wrote: Completely unrelated to the teaching of psychology outside of being totally demented. You cannot make such stuff up. See: http://wcbstv.com/local/central.park.public.2.680677.html And, no, I don't plan on attending. -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
