[tips] Darwin Movie Creation Finds a U.S. Distributor
���On 5 October 2009 Mike Palij provided a link to the forthcoming TV programme Darwin's Darkest Hour, the blurb for which includes the following: Charles Darwin’s greatest personal crisis: the anguishing decision over whether to go publicwith his theory of evolution. Darwin, portrayed by Henry Ian Cusick (Lost), spent years refining his ideas and penning his book the Origin of Species. Yet, daunted by looming conflict with the orthodox religious values of his day, he resisted publishing — until a letter from naturalist Alfred Wallace forced his hand. In 1858, Darwin learned that Wallace was ready to publish ideas very similar to his own. In a sickened panic, Darwin grasped his dilemma: To delay publishing any longer would be to condemn all of his work to obscurity — his voyage on the Beagle, his adventures in the Andes, the gauchos and bizarre fossils of Patagonia, the finches and giant tortoises of the Galapagos. But to come forward with his ideas risked the fury of the Church and perhaps a rift with his own devoted wife, Emma… I fear this programme will further propagate common myths about Darwin. To save my expanding on this, may I suggest those interested read the following article: Mind the gap: Did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years? http://tinyurl.com/cobvtn It is by John van Whye, historian of science at=2 0Cambridge University, and Director of The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. http://darwin-online.org.uk/people/van_wyhe.html A brief (though inadequate) summary of Whye's views is given here: Contrary to the beliefs of many Darwin scholars, the great evolutionist did not delay publishing his theory for fear of professional ridicule or social shame. According to a new analysis of Charles Darwin's correspondence, the real reason was much more prosaic - he was snowed under with work. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/mar/28/uk.books Re one well-known notion, the supposedly psychosomatic origins of Darwin's chronic illnesses, I had reason earlier this year to check Darwin's letters and diaries to see if there was any correlation between his more severe bouts of sickness and his working on his transmutation of species (evolution) theory as is frequently claimed, and found none. (There were even a couple of occasions that Darwin turned away from writing up one of the many books and articles on which he laboured in the two decades immediately following the Beagle voyage to *follow up* his notes on his transformation theory because he was feeling so ill and hard work on his other writings exacerbated his sickness.) Because he was ill so much of the time, there is no problem for an author to (selectively) 'find' that illness coincided with specific events, both within and without Darwin's personal life. For instance, John Bowlby, in his otherwise excellent biography, is able to 'find' evidence for life events evoking separation anxiety to explain Darwin's bouts of illness (largely on the basis of Darwin's mother having died when he was eight.) Reference Darwin's illness: a final diagnosis Fernando Orrego and Carlos Quintana Notes and Records of the Royal Society 2007: 61, 23-29 http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/61/1/23.full.pdf+html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Re: [tips] using clickers in class
I think this is one of the great advantages of them anonymity for sensitive questions. It can help to create openness in discussion without putting anyone on the spot. The disadvantages are there, also. That is, they tend to suck a lot of time away compared to what you feel you deliver to the class. But, we (maybe it is just me) are so accustomed to 6 pages of notes per hour of lecture, that if we sink¹ a bunch of time into just one concept on a clicker slide it feels like a bit of a waste, a bad trade-off. However, one way to use them is to make sure the distracter answers are common student errors so that you can discuss why they are incorrect approaches. Many students reported to me in my trial uses of clickers that was very helpful for them to see those answers selected and why they were wrong. We are so accustomed, I think, to presenting all the elements of why something is the way it is that we don¹t often think that we can clarify a topic by presenting the common errors in thinking. Clickers helps get those aspects of a topic clearly on the table for discussion. Of course, everything said above about clickers could be said about index cards, except anonymity. The clicker technologies do accumulate data instantly and can even be used for end of day quizzing or even a full exam if you were so inclined. The technology not working is terribly frustrating an none of the manufacturers take care of Macs well. The reasons are due to Microsoft failing to include active X in their update of Office for the Mac. All of them use active X controls to leverage Powerpoint for clickers. Office 2004 for the Mac was compatible, but when Office 2007 came out for Windows, then 2008 for Mac the split came. Windows kept Active X, Microsoft removed Active X from Office for Mac. Lots of add-ons for Office broke (the famous Stats suite addon for Excel was another victim). Because of the problems with Mac and the time investment, I¹ve only used clickers infrequently. We use Turning Technologies Turning Point here. I believe Bill Southerly is using clickers more than I am and can comment even more, especially in using them in a large classes. -- Paul Bernhardt Frostburg State University Frostburg, MD, USA On 10/5/09 11:22 PM, Julie Osland osla...@wju.edu wrote: My colleague, who is not on TIPS, uses clickers in her Human Sexuality class to poll on sensitive topics and then use the data as a springboard for class discussion. She really enjoys using them for that purpose--it preserves anonymity..something not possible with a show of hands in our small classes. She uses her own questions or questions based on material in the Ins. Manual. If my memory serves me right, she collected data on use/non use of clickers and student learning in her course, and didn't find any learning benefit. Julie Osland -Original Message- From: Claudia Stanny csta...@uwf.edu Sent 10/5/2009 10:53:51 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Subject: [tips] using clickers in class Does anyone on the list use personal response devices (AKA ³clickers²) in their classes? If you use these, what types of clicker questions or clicker activities do you use? My campus adopted a standard clicker and is encouraging use of these to increase student engagement in classes. I¹m interested in compiling examples of interesting ways to use this technology to improve student learning. For those who have done similar activities using a show of hands instead of clickers, what are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach?(outside the obvious advantage of cheap and low-tech for the show of hands technique) 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: csta...@uwf.edu mailto:csta...@uwf.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] From the If You're So Smart How Come You Ain't Rich? Department
The Motley Fool website (a website that provides stock and investing advice) has a little article titled Are You Too Smart to Be Rich? in which the author goes over the reasons for why smart people (aka Big Brain/High IQ types -- I think that's a Jungian category :-) do badly at getting wealthy. Although skimpy on details (e.g., Michael Lewis wrote about the collapse of Long-Term Captial Management, an investment house with a couple of Nobel prize winning economists and heavy duty quantitative modelers and the collapse was not as simple as presented here; Lewis' article appeared in the NY Times and I provided a link to in a previous post to TiPS, so one should be able to search the archives for it). For more, see: http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2009/09/28/are-you-too-smart-to-be-rich.aspx To provide a sense of the presentation consider the following quote: |Economist Jay Zagorsky ran a study to determine whether |brains translate into riches. His conclusion? Intelligence is not |a factor for explaining wealth. Those with low intelligence should |not believe they are handicapped, and those with high intelligence |should not believe they have an advantage. | |In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell explored example |after example of how the successful became so. He concluded |that once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, |having additional IQ points doesn't seem to translate into any |measurable real-world advantage. I'm not a fan of Gladwell so I haven't read Outliers but I presume some Tipsters are fans and wonder if they can confirm that Gladwell actually says that one doesn't get a benefit for having an IQ over 120. Some people seem to believe in this as shown in the following quote: |Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) billionaire |Warren Buffett seems to agree: If you are in the investment business |and have an IQ of 150, sell 30 points to someone else. Anybody know where one can sell some excess IQ points? ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Darwin Movie Creation Finds a U.S. Distributor
Allen Esterson wrote: Mind the gap: Did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years? http://tinyurl.com/cobvtn It is by John van Whye, historian of science at=2 0Cambridge University, and Director of The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. http://darwin-online.org.uk/people/van_wyhe.html A brief (though inadequate) summary of Whye's views is given here: Contrary to the beliefs of many Darwin scholars, the great evolutionist did not delay publishing his theory for fear of professional ridicule or social shame. According to a new analysis of Charles Darwin's correspondence, the real reason was much more prosaic - he was snowed under with work. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/mar/28/uk.books Allen, I've read van Wyhe's article. Although it cleared out a lot of underbrush (like the Bowlby stuff), I must say that I didn't find his too many other important things to do account to Darwin's delay wholly convincing. The urgency of the barnacle book can't really be made to bear quite so much weight, IMHO. The issue, it seems to me, was not so much whether he was afraid of religious authorities but, rather, that he knew the theory would be extremely controversial, and he wanted to collect in advance as many lines of evidence as possible in order to be able to most effectively defend his position (having seen all too well what happened in the /Vestiges/ controversy of the late 1840s). The issue of his wife's conventional Christianity seems to have been played up a lot recently in order to personalize the matter (making for better drama, but perhaps not for better history). That said, I, too, was a little underwhelmed by the trailer for the PBS show: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darwin/program-q-300.html Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
RE: [tips] From the If You're So Smart How Come You Ain't Rich? Department
So the bottom line of the article is that High IQ people have a monopoly on arrogance? That was 10 minutes of my life I won't be getting back. I did enjoy the quote from Jay Zagorsky but that was excerpted from the list and I didn't need to read the article to see it. He got a lot of mileage from a zero correlation or in his words, Intelligence is not a factor for explaining wealth. That is getting some good mileage out of a nonsignificant result. My favorite part though is when he goes on to comfort those humble, self-deprecating, low IQ investors who must feel badly that they are not cognitively equipped to make the big money. His comforting words: Those with low intelligence should not believe they are handicapped, and those with high intelligence should not believe they have an advantage. Of course, one problem with that scenario is that I don't know that I have ever met someone who didn't believe they were intelligent (OK, they'll admit, maybe not with book smarts but certainly with common sense or street smarts or money sense or the most important real life wisdom that they don't reward in no school). One lesson of this thread is that zero correlations can certainly be over-interpreted. Yes, there may not be a correlation between IQ and great wealth but I doubt there is much of a correlation between any identifiable variable and great wealth. People seem to think that zero correlations are actually negative correlations. The fact that there is no relationship between High IQs and great wealth is not evidence that you can be too smart to be wealthy. Great wealth is bestowed on those who, for whatever set of fortuitous circumstances happen to be in right place at the right time. How many people do you suppose there are who quit college (or dropped out of high school) to start a business in their garage? What percentage of them do you suppose ended up as billionaires? Even if, retrospectively, you could identify some variables that all billionaires shared, that wouldn't mean that you could duplicate their success by mimicking those variables. (Imagine The Boys from Brazil with all the little kids wearing Bill Gates glasses). Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Box 3055 x7295 rfro...@jbu.edu http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman Proverbs 14:15 A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought to his steps. -Original Message- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 8:05 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: [tips] From the If You're So Smart How Come You Ain't Rich? Department The Motley Fool website (a website that provides stock and investing advice) has a little article titled Are You Too Smart to Be Rich? in which the author goes over the reasons for why smart people (aka Big Brain/High IQ types -- I think that's a Jungian category :-) do badly at getting wealthy. Although skimpy on details (e.g., Michael Lewis wrote about the collapse of Long-Term Captial Management, an investment house with a couple of Nobel prize winning economists and heavy duty quantitative modelers and the collapse was not as simple as presented here; Lewis' article appeared in the NY Times and I provided a link to in a previous post to TiPS, so one should be able to search the archives for it). For more, see: http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2009/09/28/are-you-too-smart-to-be-rich.aspx To provide a sense of the presentation consider the following quote: |Economist Jay Zagorsky ran a study to determine whether |brains translate into riches. His conclusion? Intelligence is not |a factor for explaining wealth. Those with low intelligence should |not believe they are handicapped, and those with high intelligence |should not believe they have an advantage. | |In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell explored example |after example of how the successful became so. He concluded |that once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, |having additional IQ points doesn't seem to translate into any |measurable real-world advantage. I'm not a fan of Gladwell so I haven't read Outliers but I presume some Tipsters are fans and wonder if they can confirm that Gladwell actually says that one doesn't get a benefit for having an IQ over 120. Some people seem to believe in this as shown in the following quote: |Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) billionaire |Warren Buffett seems to agree: If you are in the investment business |and have an IQ of 150, sell 30 points to someone else. Anybody know where one can sell some excess IQ points? ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Darwin Movie Creation Finds a U.S. Distributor
I'm not a Darwin scholar and looking at the materials that Allen has linked to, it seems to me that there will be no definitive answer to why Darwin waited so long to publish On the Origin of the Species unless some new material comes to light. I assume that there were multiple factors in causing the delay, some of which are publicly available and some that may have been known only to Darwin himself (I am reminded of the situation with Ph.D. candidates who take a LNG time to write their dissertation; when asked, they'll say they're working on, they're overloaded with other work [i.e., their day job], they're thinking through what they want to say, etc., but in some cases there may be the fear that either they can't actually finish writing it or that what they write will not be satisfactory, mostly to themselves regardless of what members of the dissertation committee say [e.g., We know what you did and how it turned out, just write the damned thing and get the degree already!]. One question I didn't see addressed (perhaps I missed it) is what effect would having published the book 20 years earlier would have had? Would its reception had been different from when it actually came out? Worse, the same, better? Did the passage of 20 years make Darwin's theory more palatable because of other changes in culture, beliefs, and society? Or would evolutionary theory be more advanced than it is today if it had been presented 20 years earlier (it still would have to wait for Sir Ronald Fisher to make the connection between evolutionary theory and genetics in the early 20th century)? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:12:42 -0700, Christopher D. Green wrote: Allen Esterson wrote: Mind the gap: Did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years? http://tinyurl.com/cobvtn It is by John van Whye, historian of science at Cambridge University, and Director of The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. http://darwin-online.org.uk/people/van_wyhe.html A brief (though inadequate) summary of Whye's views is given here: Contrary to the beliefs of many Darwin scholars, the great evolutionist did not delay publishing his theory for fear of professional ridicule or social shame. According to a new analysis of Charles Darwin's correspondence, the real reason was much more prosaic - he was snowed under with work. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/mar/28/uk.books Allen, I've read van Wyhe's article. Although it cleared out a lot of underbrush (like the Bowlby stuff), I must say that I didn't find his too many other important things to do account to Darwin's delay wholly convincing. The urgency of the barnacle book can't really be made to bear quite so much weight, IMHO. The issue, it seems to me, was not so much whether he was afraid of religious authorities but, rather, that he knew the theory would be extremely controversial, and he wanted to collect in advance as many lines of evidence as possible in order to be able to most effectively defend his position (having seen all too well what happened in the /Vestiges/ controversy of the late 1840s). The issue of his wife's conventional Christianity seems to have been played up a lot recently in order to personalize the matter (making for better drama, but perhaps not for better history). That said, I, too, was a little underwhelmed by the trailer for the PBS show: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darwin/program-q-300.html --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] From the If You're So Smart How Come You Ain't Rich? Department
Contrary to some TIPSters, I am a fan of Malcolm Gladwell. He's not doing research on telomerase or other Nobel-inducing work, but I think he *is* making people think, and think critically. I think his books are fun. Mike Palij asked the following: ...wonder if they can confirm that Gladwell actually says that one doesn't get a benefit for having an IQ over 120. The answer is yes and no. He does say something to that effect, but is quoting someone else - actually two others. And he's not saying it has no benefit, but rather that it doesn't relate directly to how much money you'll make in your lifetime and other possible benefits. On p. 79, he writes: In general, the higher your [IQ] score, the more education you'll get, the more money you're likely to make, and - believe it or not - the longer you'll live. But there's a catch. The relationship between success and IQ works only up to a point. Once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, having additional IQ points doesn't seem to translate into any measurable real-world advantage.* And his footnote is this: *The IQ fundamentalist Arthur Jensen put it thusly in his 1980 book *Bias in Mental Testing *(p. 113): The four socially and personally most important threshold regions on the IQ scale are those that differentiate with high probability between persons who, because of their level of general mental ability, can or cannot attend a regular school (about IQ 50), can or cannot master the traditional subject matter of elementary school (about IQ 75), can or cannot succeed in the academic or college preparatory curriculum through high school (about IQ 105), can or cannot graduate from an accredited four-year college with grades that would quality for admission to a professional or graduate school (about IQ115). Beyond this, the IQ level becomes relatively unimportant in terms of ordinary occupational aspirations and criteria of success. That is not to say that there are not real differences between the intellectual capabilities represented by IQs of 115 and 150 or even between IQs of 150 and 180. But IQ differences in this upper part of the scale have far less personal implications than the thresholds just described and are generally of lesser importance for success in the popular sense than are certain traits of personality and character. Then on p. 80, Gladwell writes: ...the British psychologist Liam Hudson has written, 'and this holds true where the comparison is much closer - between IQs of, say, 100 and 130. But the relation seems to break down when one is making comparisons between two people both of whom have IQs which are relatively high...A mature scientist with an adult IQ of 130 is as likely to win a Nobel Prize as is one whose IQ is 180.' Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] APA errata sheet
Yesterday I found a 7 page errata sheet for the first printing of 6e Publication Manual at http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/index.aspx under Supplemental Materials for Manual Owners. I hope this information is helpful to others, Blaine --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
RE: [tips] APA errata sheet
Thanks Blaine! This arrived just in time for a discussion of APA style in our senior seminar. Dennis -- Dennis M. Goff Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology Randolph College (Founded as Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1891) Lynchburg VA 24503 dg...@randolphcollege.edu From: Blaine Peden [mailto:cyber...@charter.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:42 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] APA errata sheet Yesterday I found a 7 page errata sheet for the first printing of 6e Publication Manual at http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/index.aspx under Supplemental Materials for Manual Owners. I hope this information is helpful to others, Blaine --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] APA errata sheet
Thank you! I just downloaded the file e-mailed it to my department. Julie Blaine Peden wrote: Yesterday I found a 7 page errata sheet for the first printing of 6e Publication Manual at http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/index.aspx under Supplemental Materials for Manual Owners. I hope this information is helpful to others, Blaine --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) -- 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: osla...@wju.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] APA errata sheet
blaine, when i tried to download the file (it says corrections for 2 e right?), the file had an error in it and wouldn't open. were you able to open it? is there any chance you could send it to me? thanks so much! t Blaine Peden wrote: Yesterday I found a 7 page errata sheet for the first printing of 6e Publication Manual at http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/index.aspx under Supplemental Materials for Manual Owners. I hope this information is helpful to others, Blaine --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) -- Traci A. Giuliano Professor of Psychology John H. Duncan Chair Southwestern University Georgetown, TX 78626 office 512.863.1596 fax 512.863.1846 --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
[tips] Calorie Postings Don't Change Habits, Study Finds
It's a trend: another interesting non-significant (assuming the small increase in calories ordered was not significant) finding. Any ideas from a cognitive (or other psychological) perspective as to why giving people calorie information will not influence buying habits? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/nyregion/06calories.html Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Box 3055 x7295 rfro...@jbu.edu http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman Proverbs 14:15 A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought to his steps. --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
RE: [tips] Darwin Movie Creation Finds a U.S. Distributor
Although I tend to believe that theatrical movies are much more geared toward affecting hearts than minds, if you are of a mind to show a theatrical adaptation of a “true” story in one of your classes, it appears that there may be some useful guidelines to follow to make sure that students learn the facts (even if the movie does not present them accurately). The following was recently published in Psychological Science (vol. 20, #9): Using Popular Films to Enhance Classroom Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Interesting (p 1161-1168) Andrew C. Butler, Franklin M. Zaromb, Keith B. Lyle, Henry L. Roediger, III Published Online: Jul 23 2009 2:25PM DOI: 10./j.1467-9280.2009.02410.x Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3055 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu (479)524-7295 http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 8:14 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Darwin Movie Creation Finds a U.S. Distributor Allen Esterson wrote: Mind the gap: Did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years? http://tinyurl.com/cobvtn It is by John van Whye, historian of science at=2 0Cambridge University, and Director of The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. http://darwin-online.org.uk/people/van_wyhe.html A brief (though inadequate) summary of Whye's views is given here: Contrary to the beliefs of many Darwin scholars, the great evolutionist did not delay publishing his theory for fear of professional ridicule or social shame. According to a new analysis of Charles Darwin's correspondence, the real reason was much more prosaic - he was snowed under with work. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/mar/28/uk.books Allen, I've read van Wyhe's article. Although it cleared out a lot of underbrush (like the Bowlby stuff), I must say that I didn't find his too many other important things to do account to Darwin's delay wholly convincing. The urgency of the barnacle book can't really be made to bear quite so much weight, IMHO. The issue, it seems to me, was not so much whether he was afraid of religious authorities but, rather, that he knew the theory would be extremely controversial, and he wanted to collect in advance as many lines of evidence as possible in order to be able to most effectively defend his position (having seen all too well what happened in the Vestiges controversy of the late 1840s). The issue of his wife's conventional Christianity seems to have been played up a lot recently in order to personalize the matter (making for better drama, but perhaps not for better history). That said, I, too, was a little underwhelmed by the trailer for the PBS show: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darwin/program-q-300.html Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.camailto:chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
RE: [tips] APA errata sheet
Dear Tipsters, Many thanks for Blaine for posting the corrections link. Sincerely, Stuart _ Floreat Labore [cid:image001.jpg@01CA4687.216AFF30] Recti cultus pectora roborant Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.ca) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psyblocked::http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Floreat Labore [cid:image002.jpg@01CA4687.216AFF30] [cid:image003.gif@01CA4687.216AFF30]___ From: Blaine Peden [mailto:cyber...@charter.net] Sent: October 6, 2009 11:42 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] APA errata sheet Yesterday I found a 7 page errata sheet for the first printing of 6e Publication Manual at http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/index.aspx under Supplemental Materials for Manual Owners. I hope this information is helpful to others, Blaine --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)inline: image001.jpginline: image002.jpginline: image003.gif
RE: [tips] APA errata sheet
Wow that is a long list of corrections. Can APA just give us a correct copy of the manual (those of us who were foolish to buy the first edition)? Yeah - that's likely to happen. Marie Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Kaufman 168, Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971 Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30 http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/psych/helwegm From: Blaine Peden [mailto:cyber...@charter.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:42 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] APA errata sheet Yesterday I found a 7 page errata sheet for the first printing of 6e Publication Manual at http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/index.aspx under Supplemental Materials for Manual Owners. I hope this information is helpful to others, Blaine --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Darwin Movie Creation Finds a U.S. Distributor
���Re the publishing of Origin of Species*, Chris Green wrote: The urgency of the barnacle book can't really be made to bear quite so much weight, IMHO. The issue, it seems to me, was not so much whether he was afraid of religious authorities but, rather, that he knew the theory would be extremely controversial, and he wanted to collect in advance as many lines of evidence as possible in order to be able to most effectively defend his position (having seen all too well what happened in the /Vestiges/ controversy of the late 1840s). I couldn't agree more that (especially after the publication of the seriously flawed *Vestiges*) Darwin was deeply concerned to collect as many lines of 20evidence as possible for his highly controversial theory. With regard to the barnacle work, it is probably significant that Darwin took a remark from Hooker to heart in 1845, to which he replied, How painfully (to me) true is your remark that no one has hardly a right to examine the question of species who has not minutely described many. I was, however, pleased to hear from Owen (who is vehemently opposed to any mutability in species) that he thought it was a very fair subject and that there was a mass of facts to be brought to bear on the question, not hitherto collected. The barnacle studies were to be an example of the mass of facts brought to bear on one small 20corner of animal life, and in 1846 Darwin wrote to Hooker that the work would take him some months, perhaps a year, and then I shall begin looking over my ten-year-long accumulation of notes on species and varieties, which, with writing, I dare say will take me five years… Once started, being Darwin he could not but make sure he had covered just about everything there was to say about the subject, and eventually produced in four large volumes the definitive work on barnacles, what Rebecca Stott describes as the sum of all barnacle knowledge. The first volume alone, together with his work on coral reefs, led to his being awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society. =0 D And with all the specimens he was receiving from all over the world, the possibly a year ended up about six years (which included an estimated couple of years lost through lengthy periods of illness and attempts to alleviate the symptoms with time away from Down on cures). Mike Palij wrote: One question I didn't see addressed (perhaps I missed it) is what effect would having published the book 20 years earlier would have had? Would its reception had been different from when it actually came out? Worse, the same, better? Just to clarify one point for those not familiar with the details, there was of course no way that Darwin could have produced such a book 20 years earlier (ie, around 1839), within a couple of years of returning from the Beagle trip in late 1837. It was only in March 1838 that the identification of his Galapagos mocking birds as different species by Gould became the starting point for his conviction of the transmutation of species, and his reading of Malthus later that year inspired in him the notion that evolutionary changes occurred by what came to be called natural selection. But at that time he had a mass of work to undertake, writing books and articles on the Beagle voyage, on geological ideas arising from what he had seen on the voyage, and on the formation of coral reefs. Only as what he called his prime hobby cou ld he in those years make notes on his ideas on transmutation, including during times when his illness prevented the arduous work required for books and articles. References Stott, Rebecca (2003). *Darwin and the Barnacle*. Faber and Faber. Sulloway, Frank (1982). Darwin's Conversion: The Beagle Voyage and Its Aftermath. Journal of the History of Biology, 15 (1982): 325-96. http://www.sulloway.org/Conversion.pdf Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
RE: [tips] APA errata sheet
Dear Tipsters, This sample paper is not correct in that Running head appears on the title page and the errata says it should be removed! Erratum Page 41 - Figure 2.1, p. 2 of sample paper, delete words Running head: in top left corner of page and on all remaining pages of the sample paper. Sigh Stuart _ Floreat Labore Recti cultus pectora roborant Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.ca) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Floreat Labore ___ -Original Message- From: Blaine Peden [mailto:cyber...@charter.net] Sent: October 6, 2009 1:54 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] APA errata sheet Hi Traci it says 2e but I believe that means the second printing. i thought that odd as well but checked page properties blaine - Original Message - From: Traci Giuliano giuli...@southwestern.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [tips] APA errata sheet blaine, when i tried to download the file (it says corrections for 2 e right?), the file had an error in it and wouldn't open. were you able to open it? is there any chance you could send it to me? thanks so much! t Blaine Peden wrote: Yesterday I found a 7 page errata sheet for the first printing of 6e Publication Manual at http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/index.aspx under Supplemental Materials for Manual Owners. I hope this information is helpful to others, Blaine --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) -- Traci A. Giuliano Professor of Psychology John H. Duncan Chair Southwestern University Georgetown, TX 78626 office 512.863.1596 fax 512.863.1846 --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
RE: [tips] APA errata sheet
I think it's telling us to remove Running Head from all pages starting with 2. So it should be on the title page? m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts Sciences Baker University -- -Original Message- From: Stuart McKelvie [mailto:smcke...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 2:18 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] APA errata sheet Dear Tipsters, This sample paper is not correct in that Running head appears on the title page and the errata says it should be removed! Erratum Page 41 - Figure 2.1, p. 2 of sample paper, delete words Running head: in top left corner of page and on all remaining pages of the sample paper. Sigh Stuart _ Floreat Labore Recti cultus pectora roborant Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.ca) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Floreat Labore ___ -Original Message- From: Blaine Peden [mailto:cyber...@charter.net] Sent: October 6, 2009 1:54 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] APA errata sheet Hi Traci it says 2e but I believe that means the second printing. i thought that odd as well but checked page properties blaine - Original Message - From: Traci Giuliano giuli...@southwestern.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [tips] APA errata sheet blaine, when i tried to download the file (it says corrections for 2 e right?), the file had an error in it and wouldn't open. were you able to open it? is there any chance you could send it to me? thanks so much! t Blaine Peden wrote: Yesterday I found a 7 page errata sheet for the first printing of 6e Publication Manual at http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/index.aspx under Supplemental Materials for Manual Owners. I hope this information is helpful to others, Blaine --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) -- Traci A. Giuliano Professor of Psychology John H. Duncan Chair Southwestern University Georgetown, TX 78626 office 512.863.1596 fax 512.863.1846 --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto (e-mail) is sent by Baker University (BU) and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify Baker University by email reply and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments thereto. Thank you. --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
Re: [tips] Darwin Movie Creation Finds a U.S. Distributor
Correction! I slipped up on dates in my last posting, where I wrote of Darwin returning from the Beagle voyage in late 1837, and the identification of the Galapagos mocking birds as different species by Gould in March 1838. I should have written: ...there was of course no way that Darwin could have produced such a book 20 years earlier (ie, around 1839), within a couple of years of returning from the Beagle trip in late 1836. It was only in March 1837 that the identification of his Galapagos mocking birds as different species by Gould became the starting point for his conviction of the transmutation of species, and his reading of Malthus in the following year inspired in him the notion that evolutionary changes occurred by what came to be called natural selection... Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
RE: [tips] APA errata sheet
Dear Tipster, Mea culpa (and apologies for sounding too smart). Marc is correct. It seems they want Running head to remain on the title page. Sorry. Stuart _ Floreat Labore Recti cultus pectora roborant Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.ca) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Floreat Labore ___ -Original Message- From: Marc Carter [mailto:marc.car...@bakeru.edu] Sent: October 6, 2009 3:25 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] APA errata sheet I think it's telling us to remove Running Head from all pages starting with 2. So it should be on the title page? m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts Sciences Baker University -- -Original Message- From: Stuart McKelvie [mailto:smcke...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 2:18 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] APA errata sheet Dear Tipsters, This sample paper is not correct in that Running head appears on the title page and the errata says it should be removed! Erratum Page 41 - Figure 2.1, p. 2 of sample paper, delete words Running head: in top left corner of page and on all remaining pages of the sample paper. Sigh Stuart _ Floreat Labore Recti cultus pectora roborant Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.ca) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Floreat Labore ___ -Original Message- From: Blaine Peden [mailto:cyber...@charter.net] Sent: October 6, 2009 1:54 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] APA errata sheet Hi Traci it says 2e but I believe that means the second printing. i thought that odd as well but checked page properties blaine - Original Message - From: Traci Giuliano giuli...@southwestern.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [tips] APA errata sheet blaine, when i tried to download the file (it says corrections for 2 e right?), the file had an error in it and wouldn't open. were you able to open it? is there any chance you could send it to me? thanks so much! t Blaine Peden wrote: Yesterday I found a 7 page errata sheet for the first printing of 6e Publication Manual at http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/index.aspx under Supplemental Materials for Manual Owners. I hope this information is helpful to others, Blaine --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) -- Traci A. Giuliano Professor of Psychology John H. Duncan Chair Southwestern University Georgetown, TX 78626 office 512.863.1596 fax 512.863.1846 --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto (e-mail) is sent by Baker University (BU) and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify Baker University by email reply and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments thereto. Thank you. --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription
[tips] Subjects or Participants?
From http://supp.apa.org/style/pubman-ch03.00.pdf , Guideline 3: Problematic is The participants were run. Preferred is The subjects completed the trial. Hmmm, I guess subjects has become politically correct again. Cheers, Karl W. -Original Message- From: Stuart McKelvie [mailto:smcke...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 3:35 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] APA errata sheet Dear Tipster, Mea culpa (and apologies for sounding too smart). Marc is correct. It seems they want Running head to remain on the title page. Sorry. Stuart _ Floreat Labore Recti cultus pectora roborant Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.ca) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Floreat Labore ___ -Original Message- From: Marc Carter [mailto:marc.car...@bakeru.edu] Sent: October 6, 2009 3:25 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] APA errata sheet I think it's telling us to remove Running Head from all pages starting with 2. So it should be on the title page? m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts Sciences Baker University -- -Original Message- From: Stuart McKelvie [mailto:smcke...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 2:18 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] APA errata sheet Dear Tipsters, This sample paper is not correct in that Running head appears on the title page and the errata says it should be removed! Erratum Page 41 - Figure 2.1, p. 2 of sample paper, delete words Running head: in top left corner of page and on all remaining pages of the sample paper. Sigh Stuart _ Floreat Labore Recti cultus pectora roborant Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.ca) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Floreat Labore ___ -Original Message- From: Blaine Peden [mailto:cyber...@charter.net] Sent: October 6, 2009 1:54 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] APA errata sheet Hi Traci it says 2e but I believe that means the second printing. i thought that odd as well but checked page properties blaine - Original Message - From: Traci Giuliano giuli...@southwestern.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [tips] APA errata sheet blaine, when i tried to download the file (it says corrections for 2 e right?), the file had an error in it and wouldn't open. were you able to open it? is there any chance you could send it to me? thanks so much! t Blaine Peden wrote: Yesterday I found a 7 page errata sheet for the first printing of 6e Publication Manual at http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/index.aspx under Supplemental Materials for Manual Owners. I hope this information is helpful to others, Blaine --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) -- Traci A. Giuliano Professor of Psychology John H. Duncan Chair Southwestern University Georgetown, TX 78626 office 512.863.1596 fax 512.863.1846 --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto (e-mail) is sent by Baker University (BU) and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient,
RE: [tips] APA errata sheet
Well, it caused me a bit of panic and righteous indignation. I was getting sleepy and the thought that they'd screwed up the corrections was both believable and infuriating and woke me right up -- and I have a lot of work to do, so I'm grateful. It remains to be seen whether there are other errors in the corrections to the errors... m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts Sciences Baker University -- -Original Message- From: Stuart McKelvie [mailto:smcke...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 2:35 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] APA errata sheet Dear Tipster, Mea culpa (and apologies for sounding too smart). Marc is correct. It seems they want Running head to remain on the title page. Sorry. Stuart _ Floreat Labore Recti cultus pectora roborant Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.ca) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Floreat Labore ___ -Original Message- From: Marc Carter [mailto:marc.car...@bakeru.edu] Sent: October 6, 2009 3:25 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] APA errata sheet I think it's telling us to remove Running Head from all pages starting with 2. So it should be on the title page? m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts Sciences Baker University -- -Original Message- From: Stuart McKelvie [mailto:smcke...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 2:18 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] APA errata sheet Dear Tipsters, This sample paper is not correct in that Running head appears on the title page and the errata says it should be removed! Erratum Page 41 - Figure 2.1, p. 2 of sample paper, delete words Running head: in top left corner of page and on all remaining pages of the sample paper. Sigh Stuart _ Floreat Labore Recti cultus pectora roborant Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.ca) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Floreat Labore ___ -Original Message- From: Blaine Peden [mailto:cyber...@charter.net] Sent: October 6, 2009 1:54 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] APA errata sheet Hi Traci it says 2e but I believe that means the second printing. i thought that odd as well but checked page properties blaine - Original Message - From: Traci Giuliano giuli...@southwestern.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [tips] APA errata sheet blaine, when i tried to download the file (it says corrections for 2 e right?), the file had an error in it and wouldn't open. were you able to open it? is there any chance you could send it to me? thanks so much! t Blaine Peden wrote: Yesterday I found a 7 page errata sheet for the first printing of 6e Publication Manual at http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/index.aspx under Supplemental Materials for Manual Owners. I hope this information is helpful to others, Blaine --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) -- Traci A. Giuliano Professor of Psychology John H. Duncan Chair Southwestern University Georgetown, TX 78626 office 512.863.1596 fax 512.863.1846 --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto (e-mail) is sent by Baker University (BU) and is
Re: [tips] From the If You're So Smart How Come You Ain't Rich? Department
Hi The Zagorsky article appears to go out of its way to make the case for a lack of relationship between IQ and wealth. Just a couple of observations. 1. From figures 1 and 2, Zagorsky points out disparity in upper quadrants for income but not wealth. That is, more people of high income have high IQ than low IQ, but about equal numbers for wealth. But looking at figure 2 (wealth), it is clear that the (ignored) quadrant of low income and low wealth is much denser than the (ignored) quadrant of high income and low wealth. 2. In Table 2, average wealth (Net Worth) is presented for groups of different average IQ levels. The relationship is clearly linear with only one reversal. In fact the correlation between the aggregate figures (IQ and net worth) produces r2 = .963, only marginally less than IQs correlation with income for these aggregate data, r2 = .968. Much lower correlations for individual scores appears to be more due to noise in the data than to a lack of relationship. 3. The regression analyses, some of which actually show a negative relationship between IQ and wealth, appear problematic to me because they include predictors that are at least moderately correlated and arguably serve as mediators of relationships. For example, IQ and education correlated .62 according to Table 1 and both correlated about .16 / .17 with wealth. Including both in the regression analysis means that one is examing the relationship between wealth and IQ controlling statistically for education. That is, what is impact of IQ if education level does not differ. Is that really a sensible thing to do if the causal path is IQ * Education * Wealth or Income? My main take from this study is if you want to be wealthy ... don't get divorced, don't be born Black or Hispanic or in the USA, be self-employed (good luck) rather than a professional, don't marry someone who works (presumably wealthy people can keep their spouse at home), don't smoke heavily (good advice at the best of time), and don't be the primary earner (anyone looking for a partner to keep at home to make themselves wealthy, give me a call ... but don't tell my wife and ignore the fact that you would be the primary earner!). Personally I think this is a good candidate for the correlation (i.e., non-experimental) does not imply causation book, despite the seeming sophistication of the analyses. One final note ... anyone wanting to give away IQ points can also give me a call. I find that one can never have enough! Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu 06-Oct-09 8:04:33 AM The Motley Fool website (a website that provides stock and investing advice) has a little article titled Are You Too Smart to Be Rich? in which the author goes over the reasons for why smart people (aka Big Brain/High IQ types -- I think that's a Jungian category :-) do badly at getting wealthy. Although skimpy on details (e.g., Michael Lewis wrote about the collapse of Long-Term Captial Management, an investment house with a couple of Nobel prize winning economists and heavy duty quantitative modelers and the collapse was not as simple as presented here; Lewis' article appeared in the NY Times and I provided a link to in a previous post to TiPS, so one should be able to search the archives for it). For more, see: http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2009/09/28/are-you-too-smart-to-be-rich.aspx To provide a sense of the presentation consider the following quote: |Economist Jay Zagorsky ran a study to determine whether |brains translate into riches. His conclusion? Intelligence is not |a factor for explaining wealth. Those with low intelligence should |not believe they are handicapped, and those with high intelligence |should not believe they have an advantage. | |In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell explored example |after example of how the successful became so. He concluded |that once someone has reached an IQ of somewhere around 120, |having additional IQ points doesn't seem to translate into any |measurable real-world advantage. I'm not a fan of Gladwell so I haven't read Outliers but I presume some Tipsters are fans and wonder if they can confirm that Gladwell actually says that one doesn't get a benefit for having an IQ over 120. Some people seem to believe in this as shown in the following quote: |Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) billionaire |Warren Buffett seems to agree: If you are in the investment business |and have an IQ of 150, sell 30 points to someone else. Anybody know where one can sell some excess IQ points? ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
RE: [tips] From the If You're So Smart How Come You Ain't Rich? Department
Re: the widely cited threshold claim, for which the research evidence is weak (nonexistent?), see the following article by Sackett and colleagues, especially p. 221: http://academics.eckerd.edu/instructor/hardyms/PS337-001_08/high_stakes_testing.pdf I believe that Sackett also has some data, perhaps still unpublished, examining relations between GRE scores and measures of real-world achievement in people between the exceedingly high 750 and 800 GRE range, and the relations are still linear. My understanding is that researchers in the abilities domain have looked and looked - and looked - for evidence of curvilinearity and have pretty consistently come up empty-handed. But if anyone knows of any replicated evidence to the contrary, I'd love to see it. I'm also inclined to think that Gladwell has been pretty explicit about the existence of this ostensible threshold effect, both in Outliers and elsewhere. In interviews, he has referred to a threshold of preparation for greatness, and made clear (or as clear as one could, I believe) that above a given threshold, additional intellectual firepower doesn't really matter much when it comes to real-world achievement. For example, he has said in an interview that We need to get away from this stratification of intelligence. You need to be smart enough to get into a good college, and you have to be honest and considerate and work hard. But you don't need to know more than that about your IQ. Again, this seems to me a pretty clear assertion of a threshold effect. I'd like to gently push Beth a bit and ask her why she believes that Gladwell's books help readers to think critically. I've read (well, more precisely listened to audio versions of) The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, and although I found all three books entertaining, I found them sorely wanting when it comes to scientific thinking, which to me is largely about trying to minimize confirmation bias, especially by eliminating rival explanations for phenomena. I've seen precious little of any of that in Gladwell's writings. To take merely one example, in Outliers, he talks at length about the intriguing 10,000 hour rule, but barely talks at all - or does he even discuss? - the question of why certain people, but not others, end up accumulating 10,000 hours or more of practice, never seeming to let readers know that the causal arrow between practice and talent might also run in the opposite direction (e.g., Was it sheer happenstance that the Beatles ended up playing 10,000+ hours in Hamburg? Did it have nothing to do with the fact that they were really, really good in the first place and kept getting called back to play gigs?). But I'd be certainly willing to persuaded otherwise about Gladwell. I find him to be an immensely talented writer and story teller, but not an especially clear or critical thinker. All I know is when I'm reading a book (or listening to one), and on virtually every other page, I mentally keep asking (or shouting out), But what about this explanation? or What about that...?, I feel that the author hasn't done a good job of getting readers to think scientifically. Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Professor Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) Emory University 36 Eagle Row Atlanta, Georgia 30322 slil...@emory.edu (404) 727-1125 Psychology Today Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/ The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his intellectual passions. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him - he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) From: Beth Benoit [mailto:beth.ben...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 10:57 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] From the If You're So Smart How Come You Ain't Rich? Department Contrary to some TIPSters, I am a fan of Malcolm Gladwell. He's not doing research on telomerase or other Nobel-inducing work, but I think he is making people think, and think critically. I think his books are fun. Mike Palij asked the following: ...wonder if they can confirm that Gladwell actually says that one doesn't get a benefit for having an IQ over 120. The answer is yes and no. He does say something to that effect, but is quoting someone else - actually two others. And he's not saying it has no
