re: [tips] primer on critical thinking in psychological sciences?
On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 08:21:30 -0700, David Epstein wrote I moved from teaching to research twenty years ago, so I'm not hip to what's what in textbooks these days. And now I've got a postbac who needs an assist with the basics of logical inference. I'd like a book that explains (a) what kind of data you need to address a given question, and, complementarily, (b) what kinds of conclusions you can draw from a given set of data on hand. Ideally, this would cover both randomized experiments/trials and observational/longitudinal studies. Off the top of my head, I would suggest William Shaddish's updated of the Cook and Campbell book on quasi-experimentation. Shaddish has been working research methods and causal inference for quite a while so let me suggest that you tell you postbac to look at the refs on Shaddish's Google Scholar profile; see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DANel8UJ=en=ao For a unique and somewhat popular viewpoint on causal inference, see the work by Judah Pearl -- here is a list of books on books.google.com by Pearl (searching on the phrase "Judah Pearl" will show the range of areas that cite Pearl); see: https://www.google.com/search?num=100=bks=bks=inauthor:%22Judea+Pearl%22=X=0ahUKEwi8lPaD08naAhVKON8KHcY3BcsQ9AgI4wEwIQ=1280=833=1 And one text to look at that places Pearl into historical and philosophical context see the following: https://books.google.com/books?id=1bf_Ari0lbUC=PA129=PA129=%22Judah+Pearl%22=bl=1EiyR02W7t=91YMHIYSOqy6ApS-A1BHfFUMrUM=en=X=0ahUKEwjJ4uW30snaAhVwS98KHV72DOsQ6AEIiQEwFw#v=onepage=%22Judah%20Pearl%22=false I would also suggest that one look at the last 10 years of the Annual Review series -- but not just for Psychology because methods in different areas (from sociology to ecology) may be of interest. For example, one problem that ecologists deal with is estimating the population of species in an area using capture-recapture methods that turn out to be (somewhat) useful in estimating specific human populations such as injection drug users. For a list or recent research on these methods see: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2014=capture+recapture+methods=en_sdt=1,33 The Annuals Reviews give a useful overview of currently popular methods as well as sources for further examination. HTH. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. Yes, I know its ASPERGER"S and not Asberger's. Not enough coffee. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=52330 or send a blank email to leave-52330-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Kopi Luwak (was: Happy Belated New Year and Merry Orthodox X-mas
On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 05:29:14 -0800, Annette Taylor wrote: If it wasn't so expensive I'd buy it for conversation value. They missed the mark with the price point. There is psychology heremarketing. Great classroom discussion potential. Well, the cost may in fact be a selling point as well: if one buys the cereal and if some of the comments are correct (i.e., it tastes like crap), then cognitive dissonance theory would predict that the sunk cost involved with buying a bad tasting food product is justified by it's high price, namely, it's "an acquired taste" and it's price reflects the quality that only an "educated palate" can appreciate. As I mentioned to another Tipster, this reminded of another situation which I have looked up: the Indonesian coffee unknown as Kopi Luwak aka "The World's Most Expensive Coffee". Amazon sells various brands of this "civet processed" coffee and here is a link to one brand: https://www.amazon.com/Exclusive-Sustainably-Sourced-Sumatra-Indonesia/dp/B00JHSNS78/ref=sr_1_4_s_it?s=grocery=UTF8=1515250101=1-4=wild+kopi+luwak The website for this brand of Kopi Luwak provides a good review of the product and how it is "made", include cartoon images to help understand key points (great for powerpoints ;-). See: http://www.most-expensive.coffee/ NOTE: at the bottom of the homepage is an ad for "artificial" Kopi Luwak, that is, no animals are involved, instead, an enzymatic process is used to produce the coffee beans. Also available at Amazon. ;-) Wikipedia has an entry on Kopi Luwak that provides a lot of details; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak Kopi Luwak is sold in NYC at the West Village location of the coffees store "Porto Rico" (there's an East Village location and I have bought coffee products in both) and the New York Daily News had an article when it became available at Porto Rico. Now, the NY Daily News is a tabloid and tends to be more "down to earth" than the NY Times, so don't be surprised by the style of writing; the article can be accessed here: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/plucked-civet-feces-cat-poo-coffee-nyc-expensive-30-cup-article-1.203820 The Daily News guys even do a taste test (against a coffee named Ethiopia Michelle) and the taster's comments are interesting. It seems that it helps if one does not mentally imagine the process that produces the Kopi Luwak while drinking the coffee. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. I await someone coming out with an analogous version of peanuts and/or corn. Thanks. Annette No Sig line on phone and no monitor to reject my message On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 09:30:42 -0500, Michael Palij wrote: X-Message-Number: 1 It has been extremely quiet on Tips lately which can mean a variety of things but I am prompted to post to Tips because of the Events mentioned in the subject line and, for the Orthodox Christians (or old Eastern European Catholics), I think I found the perfect gift to give on Amazon; see: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BOXHMG2/ref=sspa_dk_detail_6?psc=1 I kid you not. ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51962 or send a blank email to leave-51962-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Consciousness Theory Is Where Science Goes to Die
rds into electronic format(s) on a computer. Both representations are possible but operate in different computations systems (analog computation vs digital computations). The question is which does the mind (or for reductionist materialists, the brain) use? Pylyshyn's argument points out the problems associated with the use of analog mental representations, especially in his paper "What the Mind's Eye Tells the Mind's Brain" which asks the question of what process operates on analog visual mental images (i.e., the "Mind's eye") and is there a special system of analog interpretation, manipulation, and storage (i.e. the Mind's Brain) that is different from the cognitive system(s) (or brain systems) used for information with abstract (e.g., digital) representation (e.g., the rules of syntax and the deep structure of sentences)? So, computer science tells us that we can digitalized an analog world (analog representations appear to be too primitive or too slow to work with; any who used a "slide rule" [for the younger folks who say "slide what?" see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule ), it makes sense that the computational system of the nervous system would create information representations from the senses in a digital form that are optimal for neurons to use. The psychological question is whether analog-like images can emerge from the neural activities that retain properties of real world objects we perceive like maps, sconces, animals, etc.? A person concerned with parsimony would argue that simpler theories are better (but given that Chomsky may have given up on parsimony as a criterion for evaluating theories as his own theory of syntax continues to grow and grow and ...) and that cognitive systems would operate more efficiently if all information is abstract (or some form of digitalization) rather than having two or more systems for processing analog representations (in addition to vision and audition there is taste and smell and so on). Should we give up on parsimony? Kosslyn and others have argued that visual mental images may operate through the abstract cognitive code by using the same brain areas involved with visual perceptions to create visual simulations of perceptions that emerge as higher level representations of neural activity. A neat explanation except, as Pylyshyn point out, not all of the empirical evidence supports this position. So, if cognitive psychologists operate like other people, the confirmation bias will kick in and we select which evidence best supports one's theory until a better theory is develops eliminates the two warring sides. For a tutorial on a relevant phenomenon, namely, the nature of color vision, see the following article which may be describe the situation for the analog vs abstract imagery debate as well as whether consciousness is real or epiphenomenal; see: Turner, R. S. (1993). Vision Studies in Germany: Helmholtz versus Hering. Osiris, 8, 80-103. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu - Original Message -- Paivio and Pylyshyn were both at U of Western Ontario when I was there, which made for some interesting classes and seminars. More broadly, I would think that scientists should be quite skeptical about claims that we cannot ever understand some phenomenon at a pretty deep level, whether it be imagery or consciousness. My main quibble with too many contemporary researchers on consciousness is that they act as though there was no research or reflection on the topic prior to the availability of sophisticated brain imaging. Finally I take some issue with Michael's characterization of the proper attitudes toward scientific theories. Yes, they are always provisional and subject to refutation and modification, but we hardly want students to be too dismissive of them. So interpretation of "over invest" must be communicated carefully. Same for how theories develop . in some cases theories are replaced, but they also may be modified or subsumed under broader theoretical frameworks (e.g., Newton's laws?). They might also be prematurely dismissed before the underlying mechanisms are understood (e.g., continental drift and tectonic plates). Students also need to appreciate that nominally different theories, especially those at different levels (molecular, molar) might actual reflect the same underlying mechanism. What especially needs to be emphasized with students is the importance of continuing empirical research to evaluate and strengthen our understanding of psychological phenomena. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51769 or send a blank email to leave-51769-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] One Way For The U.S. to Maintin Its Scientific Lead In an Anti-Science Cultural Turn
We can all hope that the Chinese continue to engage in unethical research conduct. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/china-science-fraud-scandals.html?emc=edit_th_20171014=todaysheadlines=389166 Clearly, there is a failure in the Chinese system that produces this degree of bad science. Unfortunately, the failure of teaching critical thinking to U.S. citizens furls the anti-intellectualism and anti-science attitudes that is now not only prevalent among citizens but now also at the highest levels of U.S. government. What is going to happen when China fixes its scientific research system -- will all of the smart U.S. students interested in science go there for education and research? Things that make you go h. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51567 or send a blank email to leave-51567-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Scientific American Tribute to Jose Delgado
The Scientific American website has an updated version of a 2005 article about Jose Delgado, he of stopping the bull with a chip implanted in the bull's brain, which Tipsters might find interesting. See: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/ One observation made in the article is that Delgado's work has not been cited much in recent years and it could be because of the scary implications of mind control. However, there is a quote from Delgado in the article that resonates with my own feelings about the issue of whether cognitive function is localized or involves global brain activity and I reproduce it here: "People are trying to investigate: Where is the area of the brain essential to consciousness? That's a silly question," because consciousness and cognition in general almost certainly stem from the workings of the entire brain. "The whole brain is involved in everything!" -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51438 or send a blank email to leave-51438-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Rats In Pants
Do you wear polyester pants? Ever wonder if they affected your reproductive ability in additional to making a fashion statement? Yeah, me neither. But one Egyptian doctor was very much concerned about this (i.e., reproductive aspects, not the fashion part) and even did studies in which rats wore little pants made from different materials (now THAT is an example to use when teaching ANOVA) as well as studies with other animals and humans. A short article on this remarkable researcher can be read here: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/polyester-rat-pants-ahmed-shafik-science-reprodcution-static-electricity The article notes that the dedicated researcher won a posthumous Ig Nobel prize in 2016. Now how did I miss that? For some reason, I can imagine an old Monty Python type comedy sketch involving the presentation of research results involving rats wearing polyester pants. And questions about whether the rats wore or took off the pants while having sex (makes one wonder about humans in the same situation ;-). One wonders if one can get pigeons to wear pants too. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51436 or send a blank email to leave-51436-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] The Case of the Exploding Pants
This is "pants week" on the Atlas Obscura website (why? why not?) and one of the more interesting articles is about exploding pants (though some might find the article on how Oscar Wilde and his wife popularized pants for women; also flatulence has nothing to do with the explosion/busting into flames). The exploding pants article can be read here: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pants-trousers-exploding-new-zealand-sodium-chlorate Now, believe it or not, this references an academic article that goes into more detail about the phenomena and the journal it appears in is on Jstor; see: Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3744710 NOTE: What's up with the use of "inflammable" in the abstract? Is this a New Zealand linguistic stylistic aberration? See: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/flammable-or-inflammable Also #2, this has nothing to do with spontaneous human combustion. but it does suggest how to make people you don't like have their pants blow-up. ;-) Also #3, the article also points out the importance of sheep and goats in weed control. So, you folks with big lawns, well, get a clue. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51410 or send a blank email to leave-51410-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] The NEW Phonebook, Er, Ig Nobel Prize Winners are here!
The Scientist website has an article on it: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50341/title/Cave-Creature-Genitalia--Other-Weird-Discoveries-Net-2017-Ig-Nobels/ Lady Penis? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51389 or send a blank email to leave-51389-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] More Evidence That Intelligence Is Overrated -- An Elon Musk Case Study
On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 00:13:42 -0700, Jim Clark wrote: That's right ... because there are no examples of failures who worked hard at what they were passionate about and never gave up! One is reminded of the scene at the beginning of the movie "Awakenings" where Robin Williams who plays Oliver Sacks is interviewed for a job at the hospital and is queried about the research that he has been involved: |Dr. Sayer: [in job interview] It was an immense project. |I was to extract 1 decagram of myelin from 4 tons of earth worms. | |Dr. Sullivan: Really! | |Dr. Sayer: Yes. I was on the project for 5 years. I was the |only one who believed in it. Everyone else said it couldn't be done. | |Dr. Kaufman: It can't. | |Dr. Sayer: I know that now. I proved it. (quote from IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/trivia?tab=qt_=tt_trv_qu And let's not forget all of the mathematicians who could not prove Fermat's last theorem. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- Original Message -- On September-09-17 8:58 PM, Mike Palij wrote: An article reprinted on the Forbes website (originally on the Quiria website) tries to answer the question whether a high level of intelligence is needed to be a successful at business or making a LOT of money (i.e., billionaire). Short answer: No. For find out what is necessary, see: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/09/09/i-worked-with-elon-musk-and-learned-that-intelligence-is-not-the-key-to-success/#64c649406fd2 Of the three key points, I think the third is most important: do something that you can monetize. Having a driving curiosity and deep intensity in learning things and developing your knowledge (i.e., being a scholar) that doesn't have a big payoff is guaranteed way to be poor though intelligent. Morale: don't become a college professor unless you can write a best-selling textbook. 1/2 ;-) Now for something completely different: Best wishes to Tipsters in Florida and other areas affected by Irma. I hope you all get through it withOUT major losses and/or grief. Really, good luck. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51358 or send a blank email to leave-51358-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] More Evidence That Intelligence Is Overrated -- An Elon Musk Case Study
On Sat, 09 Sep 2017 19:03:07 -0700, David Hogberg wrote: " with major losses ...". What?! My deepest apologies, I meant to type "without" instead of "with". Again, sorry. Take care, -Mike Palij --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51357 or send a blank email to leave-51357-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] My "Bad Neurons" Made Me Do It....
For a popular media account of the role of fast-spiking interneurons (FSIs) have in bad habits, see: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319351.php The original research article can be accessed here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/26231 Damn those f'ing Bad Neurons! ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51348 or send a blank email to leave-51348-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] What Can Computers (neural networks) Do Better Than Humans And Involves Person Perception?
The serious scientific article can be read here: https://osf.io/zn79k/ A popular media article that translates the article into everyday English can be read here (Warning-the URL is a spoiler): https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/09/computers-can-now-tell-white-people-gay-straight/ And, yes, it only holds for White people. Why? Because science is racist. ;-) <-- NOTE SMILEY -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51347 or send a blank email to leave-51347-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] More Evidence That Intelligence Is Overrated -- An Elon Musk Case Study
An article reprinted on the Forbes website (originally on the Quiria website) tries to answer the question whether a high level of intelligence is needed to be a successful at business or making a LOT of money (i.e., billionaire). Short answer: No. For find out what is necessary, see: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/09/09/i-worked-with-elon-musk-and-learned-that-intelligence-is-not-the-key-to-success/#64c649406fd2 Of the three key points, I think the third is most important: do something that you can monetize. Having a driving curiosity and deep intensity in learning things and developing your knowledge (i.e., being a scholar) that doesn't have a big payoff is guaranteed way to be poor though intelligent. Morale: don't become a college professor unless you can write a best-selling textbook. 1/2 ;-) Now for something completely different: Best wishes to Tipsters in Florida and other areas affected by Irma. I hope you all get through it with major losses and/or grief. Really, good luck. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51345 or send a blank email to leave-51345-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] When You're in the Mood for Some Brain in a Jar, Where Do You Go?
The website Atlas Obscura has an article that lists nine different sites for brain banks/collections/museums; the article and associated Brain Joints can be read here: http://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/human-brain-collections-museums Note that the authors ask if the list is complete, so if you know of an appropriate collection (perhaps the one you keep in your basement doesn't count), please let them know so they can improve the list. Maybe of some use in different courses. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51336 or send a blank email to leave-51336-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Plagiarism & general knowledge
presented this metaphor cite sources that do not support their claim. Indeed, we still don't know who originally claimed that the mind is either 7/10s or 9/10s unconscious. Why? Was it considered common knowledge, hence, there was no need to cite a source? And such an attitude leaves us where now? When in doubt, cite a source and make sure it's the correct one. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51313 or send a blank email to leave-51313-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re: [tips] Plagiarism & general knowledge
ow something that is common knowledge but cannot identify a source for it -- like where did Freud refer to the mind as being like an iceberg -- perhaps one should question that "common knowledge". Scholarship is the cure for "common knowledge" and "common fake knowledge". One should know the sources for the claims that one makes. Not being able to provide a source is a flag that perhaps one does not really know what one is talking about. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. Of course, we are only discussing inductive and abductive reasoning. With deductive reasoning, once the premises and rules are known, one can demonstrate the basis for one's knowledge which everyone should be able to do, like Euclid did with geometry. ;-) -- Original Message -- On Fri, 01 Sep 2017 06:38:27 -0700, Dap Louw wrote: I have always struggled to determine where to draw the line between plagiarism and general knowledge. The general view in South Africa is that you do not have to use a reference if the information has become general knowledge. In other words, According to Freud the psyche consists of the id, ego and superego or Watson was an American psychologist does not need a reference. However, it often gets tricky. Allow me to use a pretty naive example (my apologies): * Columbus arrived in America in 1492. I assume every American knows this, but probably less than 0,001% of South Africans do. Does it mean that South Africans have to use a reference but not Americans? My family and I spent some time in the US and I therefore knew it. Am I excluded? * Columbus arrived in America in 1492 and more specifically on 12 October. Is this general kowledge in the US? If so, what about: * Columbus arrived in America in 1492 and more specifically on 12 October at 14:00 (fictitious). * Columbus arrived in America in 1492 and more specifically on 12 October at 14:00 and saw a three dead whales floating in the sea (fictitious) When do we start using references in these cases? I assume very few Americans would know about the whales, but what about American history lecturers who see this as general knowledge among themselves? In South Africa we have a system of external examiners for thesis and dissertations. In most cases at least one (sometimes all) of them must be from an international university. They see the thesis/dissertation for the first time when they receive it. In many cases these external examiners focus more on correct referencing, list of references and other technical aspects, rather than the content, often postponing the students’ graduation. Not to mention the obsession (fetish?) with the different academic systems of reference (Harvard, APA, Oxford, Vancouver, MLA, etc) --- of which there are a few thousand. Please say you understand my frustration! ☺ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51312 or send a blank email to leave-51312-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Does failing to cite a paper constitute plagiarism?
Some editors apparently don't think so. See: http://retractionwatch.com/2017/08/29/citation-not-enough/#more-51589 A couple of points: (1) Which well-known Tipster is asked about this case? (Hint: It ain't me ;-) (2) Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that it doesn't involve an article in psychology but one in the "hard" sciences. ;-) NOTE: Has anyone else developed concerns that Mr T and his posse's promotion of "fake news" is expanding to "fake science" (global warming has already been attacked but I am now referring to ALL science, that is, supporting an anti-science view) and places like Retraction Watch might be used as evidence that science is fake one should rely on "alt.science" instead? It would seem that rationality itself is under attack and critical thinking has either failed or Mr T's fans never learned it (i.e., those that never went to college but doesn't high school provide a basis to critical thinking?). Then again, people in the "Academy" may also be to blame with the promotion of positions like "post-modernism". On another list that I'm on this idea was briefly considered but I would suggest that one look at the following article how it might operate especially in certain religious contexts that claims "special knowledge" about the world. See: http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2003/postmodernism-science-and-religious-fundamentalism/ Best wishes and hope for a quick recovery to everyone, Tipsters or not, to people affected by hurricane Harvey. NYC is still getting over the effects of Super Storm Sandy. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51293 or send a blank email to leave-51293-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re: [tips] Neuromyths Paper
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 15:22:14 -0700, Stuart McKelvie wrote:
Dear Tipsters,
I recall a thread in which a question was asked about giving
introductory students a short test that contained statements
about psychology that could be classified as true or false.
Here is a reference to a recent paper that might be of interest:
MacDonald et al. (2017). Dispelling the myth:...Frontiers in
Psychology, 8, Article 1314.
Doi 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01314
The complete reference for the article is:
Macdonald, K., Germine, L., Anderson, A., Christodoulou, J.,
& McGrath, L. M. (2017). Dispelling the myth: Training in
education or neuroscience decreases but does not eliminate
beliefs in neuromyths. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1314.
The article itself can be read here:
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01314/full
Scott Lilienfeld and the kidney broker are not cited. ;-)
The questions used in the survey are provided in an appendix and
I reproduce them below:
APPENDIX A
TABLE A1 | Brain Survey.
# Item Answer
1 We use our brains 24 h a day True.
2 It is best for children to learn their native language before a second
language is learned False.
3 Boys have bigger brains than girls, on average True.
4 If students do not drink sufficient amounts of water, their brains
shrink False.
5 When a brain region is damaged, other parts of the brain can take up
its function True.
6 We only use 10% of our brain. False.
7 The left and right hemispheres of the brain work together True.
8 Some of us are "left-brained" and some are "right-brained" and this
helps explains differences in how we learn False.
9 The brains of boys and girls develop at different rates True.
10 Brain development has finished by the time children reach puberty
False.
11 There are specific periods in childhood after which certain things
can no longer be learned False.
12 Information is stored in the brain in networks of cells distributed
throughout the brain True.
13 Learning is due to the addition of new cells to the brain False.
14 Individuals learn better when they receive information in their
preferred learning style (e.g., auditory, visual, kinesthetic) False.
15 Learning occurs through changes to the connections between brain
cells True.
16 Academic achievement can be negatively impacted by skipping breakfast
True.
17 A common sign of dyslexia is seeing letters backwards False.
18 Normal development of the human brain involves the birth and death of
brain cells True.
19 Mental capacity is genetic and cannot be changed by the environment
or experience False.
20 Vigorous exercise can improve mental function True.
21 Children must be exposed to an enriched environment from birth to
three years or they will lose learning capacities permanently False.
22 Children are less attentive after consuming sugary drinks and/or
snacks False.
23 Circadian rhythms ("body-clock") shift during adolescence causing
students to be tired during the first lessons of the school day True.
24 Exercises that rehearse coordination of motor-perception skills can
improve literacy skills False.
25 Extended rehearsal of some mental processes can change the structure
and function of some parts of the brain True.
26 Children have learning styles that are dominated by particular senses
(i.e., seeing, hearing, touch) False.
27 Learning problems associated with developmental differences in brain
function cannot be improved by education False.
28 Production of new connections in the brain can continue into old age
True.
29 Short bouts of motor coordination exercises can improve integration
of left and right hemisphere brain function False.
30 There are specific periods in childhood when it's easier to learn
certain things True.
31 When we sleep, the brain shuts down False.
32 Listening to classical music increases children's reasoning ability
False.
Adapted from Dekker et al. (2012).
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to collect some data. ;-)
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New York University
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RE: [tips] If You Voted For Mr T, You're Gonna DIE!
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:55:51 -0700, Miguel Roig wrote: Interesting! But, as much as the results of this study make sense to some of us, I'll wait for a critical review of the data or, better yet, a good conceptual replication of the findings. The key part of the published article, I think, is the following passage: |In a regression context, for each additional |year of life expectancy gain, the change in |Republican vote share was 2.3 percentage |points lower (95% CI= -2.6, -2.0). Adjusting |for state fixed effects, rural status, percentage |college educated, county economic characteristics, and racial/ethnic composition |reduced the estimate of the coefficient to zero The correlation between voting for Mr. T and life expectancy is most likely an economic effect, that is, high income people live longer, low income people have shorter lives, and the latter shifted their votes from Demos to Repubs in 2016. Controlling for these economic effects (SES, which would also include level of education and other variables) makes the effect go away.. If person level data were available, one could test this directly but the article relies upon county level data which obscures the rich-poor distinction. For more info see: |(Table A, available as a supplement to the |online version of this article at http://www.ajph.org). I do agree with your sentiment: "Bad decisions ..." Not to mention "Really, really stupid decisions." Miguel -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu -- Original Message On Friday, August 25, 2017 5:36 PM, Mike Palij wrote: Of course, regardless of whom one voted for or even if they didn't vote at all, we're all going to die but those people who voted for Mr T are going to die sooner, an unusual association but perhaps not too surprising. The research appears in the American Journal of Public Health; see: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2017.303945 Reuters has a popular media summary of the article that makes clear some of the details and implications; see: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-life-expectancy-election-idUSKCN1B22DI What is even worse is that the policies Mr T wants to implement will maker his voters die even sooner (i.e., increase the difference between expected date of death and population average date of death). Well, bad decisions do lead to bad results. -Mike Palij P.S. I hope any Tipsters in the path of Harvey make out okay this weekend. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51259 or send a blank email to leave-51259-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] If You're in New York City Tomorrow (08/26), Don't Miss This Parade
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/free-the-nipple-this-weekend-at-the-go-topless-day-parade-082417?cid=eml~US_NYC~NL~1401182308~~Image~=14113884489 NOTE: There are a few parades in NYC that have topless people (e.g., the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island; see: http://www.coneyisland.com/programs/mermaid-parade ) but this parade is specifically about being topless. Note 2: toplessness loses some allure over time. However, Shakespeare in the nude in Central Park is interesting if you are a fan of the Bard.(the successful play also did a run in Brooklyn's Prospect Park; see: http://gothamist.com/2016/09/07/body_positive_mostly_nude_shakespeare.php#photo-1 Note 3: For those teaching a course in Sex and Behavior, an issue for discussion is how do displays like the above affect one's attitude towards nudity and pornography? Note 4: Yes, we are Sodom on the Hudson. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51258 or send a blank email to leave-51258-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] If You Voted For Mr T, You're Gonna DIE!
Of course, regardless of whom one voted for or even if they didn't vote at all, we're all going to die but those people who voted for Mr T are going to die sooner, an unusual association but perhaps not too surprising. The research appears in the American Journal of Public Health; see: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2017.303945 Reuters has a popular media summary of the article that makes clear some of the details and implications; see: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-life-expectancy-election-idUSKCN1B22DI What is even worse is that the policies Mr T wants to implement will maker his voters die even sooner (i.e., increase the difference between expected date of death and population average date of death). Well, bad decisions do lead to bad results. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. I hope any Tipsters in the path of Harvey make out okay this weekend. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51256 or send a blank email to leave-51256-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Another Case To Use When You Cover Ethics: Medical Experimentation
Right now in NYC there is a demand to remove the statue of Dr. J Marion Sims, a surgeon who can been called the "father of modern gynecology", in part, of gynecological experiments he first conducted on enslaved African-American women. The statue is at 103rd Street and 5th Avenue, close to the New York Academy of Medicine. One article on this is the following: https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170821/east-harlem/protestors-demand-marion-sims-monument-statue-removed The Wikipedia entry on J. Marion Sims can be read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Marion_Sims (don't forget to make a contribution) And NPR had a program on three of the African-American women who were known to have been involved the research; see: http://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/513764158/remembering-anarcha-lucy-and-betsey-the-mothers-of-modern-gynecology Here's a question for class discussion: Nazi doctors performed medical "experiments" on non-Aryans (that is, Jews and other "inferiors" like Gypsies, etc.) such as deterring how much pressure a person could endure before dying (death was the endpoint for the study). This was used to determine what conditions German airplane pilots should avoid because they created killing pressure on the human body. There has been discussion about whether such research results should be used because the research was clearly unethical. Should the results of Dr. Sims be used given the unethetical experimentation it is based on? Discuss. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. Yes, the African-American women were unanesthesized during the procedures. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51241 or send a blank email to leave-51241-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE:[tips] On Election Night, About 7 people in the East Village voted For Mr. T -- I Think I Found One of Them
On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:55:30 +, Miguel Roig wrote: And if you scroll down past a couple of other articles on that same page you will find an updated article about how the landlord of the building whose apartment displayed those flags sued the tenant. An earlier article (scroll further down) includes video of an enraged neighbor yelling obscenities . at the tenant for displaying the flags (warning: the video contains very 'colorful' language). The landlord/management company did go to court but then dropped the suit against the tenant. For some updated info and background about the tenant, here's an article from the local TV station WPIX's website: see: http://pix11.com/2017/08/23/manhattan-man-who-hung-confederate-flag-blames-media-and-schools-for-abusing-power/?utm_source=The+Lo-Down+Newsletter_campaign=eec759d3fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_09_medium=email_term=0_bc6856262c-eec759d3fa-37002069 So, why did he hang the confederate flag? Here's a quite from the PIX article: |The battle flag represents Confederate fathers who “loved |their country the way their God loved the world,” I think that Green (the tenant who hung the flag) really meant to say "God loved White people" or maybe "God loved White people who owned slaves and not White trash" or something lie that. The quote continues. |said Green, who grew up in New Jersey Insert your own joke here about a guy from Jersey who is into the confederacy. |and is keenly interested in history, including the roots of the |design and symbols of the Confederate flag. To him, it |stands for “heritage, not hate.” Yeah, just like the Nazi swastika stand for heritage, not hate for Nazis/Aryans; see the this article on the history of the swastika from the Holocaust Museum: https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007453 With respect to the confederate flag, one really has to ask what other symbol represents a society that asserts White superiority and the owner of "lesser" people, specifically African-Americans. At least in the U.S. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51240 or send a blank email to leave-51240-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] On Election Night, About 7 people in the East Village voted For Mr. T -- I Think I Found One of Them
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170819/east-village/darren-keen-arrest-smashed-window-confederate-flag/?utm_source=Manhattan_campaign=754d77142e-Mailchimp-NYC_medium=email_term=0_7456974fe2-754d77142e-140021829 Interesting that a guy from Omaha is the one who get upset by the confederate flag. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51227 or send a blank email to leave-51227-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] How Should the New Papers by Scientists Convicted of Misconduct Be Handled by Journals?
Is there redemption for scientists who have had papers retracted due to various forms of scientific misconduct? Should their subsequent research be banned or should they be given the same review (possibly with additional checking of data and images) that other researchers who have not had retractions? An article on The Scientist website review one case and how it was handled. Do you agree? see: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50124/title/How-Journals-Treat-Papers-from-Researchers-Who-Committed-Misconduct/_campaign=NEWSLETTER_TS_The-Scientist-Daily_2016_source=hs_email_medium=email_content=55470090&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_SZGo9glbfFU2KNYG2USGNzHI9NZLrkiaxFEUh2JVMBwzeJSOpEJkHDHdWb61jpx--OdozOFIAwMMjRIwHL_qiq-DQZw&_hsmi=55470090 One thing to keep in mind that this case involved basic research with plants and research that directly involves humans (e.g., drug trial, testing of surgical procedures, etc.). Should this make a difference? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51226 or send a blank email to leave-51226-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Why Do Neuroscientists Hate Left-handers?
Here's a factoid to toss out when reviewing the problems and limitation of contemporary neuroscience: Left-handers are not used in neuroscience research. I had assumed that they had been included and may have been analyzed separately from right handers (and people who are ambidextrous) in the same way that monolinguals and bilinguals are analyzed separately. For more on this point, here is an interview with leftie Paul Silva on HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neuroscience-research-seriously-flawed-a-conversation_us_59835271e4b094ff5a3f0c7d# And don't forget that August 13 is International Left-Handers Day. -Mike Palij (right handed) New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51192 or send a blank email to leave-51192-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] So, Will Have To Buy The Beatles "White Album" on DNA?
Scientists at Columbia U (in the city of New York -- always wondered why they added that bit on, possibly to avoid confusion with Columbia U in the city of Oshkosh) have developed techniques that will store all sorts of current media -- text, pictures, movies, music, any information representation [now we know how the aliens in Sagan's "Contact" encoded the blueprints for the spaceships] -- on DNA. Given the stability of DNA (we can decode human ancestor DNA that is 430,000 years old) it can be used to store all human knowledge, art, and whatever that have been produced for all time (well, maybe not the porn, that would take up a *lot* of space ;-). Columbia U in you-know-where put out a press release which can be read here that provide more information: http://datascience.columbia.edu/researchers-store-computer-operating-system-dna I guess George Lucas had better get going on converting the Star Wars movies into DNA (as well as which scenes he'll change, like whether Hans shoots first or not). -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51191 or send a blank email to leave-51191-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Worms Never Forget?
The Scientist website has an article that summarizes research with worms that appears to show that the experience of temperature (an increased temp relative to usual) had an effect on the genome which lasted several generations even though those generations had not experienced the increased the temp increased. The Scientist summary can be accessed here: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49848/title/Epigenetic-Inheritance-in-Nematodes/ The original source article was published in Science and here is the reference: A. Klosin et al., "Transgenerational transmission of environmental information in C. elegans," Science, 356:320-23, 2017. Eventually, the genetic changes made by the temp change disappears in later generations. I can't wait to see how psychologists try to convert this into a form that applies to humans even though it is unknown if such changes occur in humans. But don't be surprised to see someone claim this as a defense in court to excuse some crime (e.g., my great-great-great-great-great grandfather was a pirate and the genes that made him a pirate made me rob that person). On a sidenote, is anyone else annoyed by the Ancestry commercials for their genetic analysis product where they confuse source of genetic materials with current personal identity? So, if one has 25% of their genetic material in common with American Indians, does that make them American Indian even if they have never had any contact with other AmInd person or culture? What would Elizabeth Warren say? ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51176 or send a blank email to leave-51176-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re:[tips] Effects, Affects, Independent and Depentent Variables
l). I think that one should probably make clear how "effect sizes" for causal relationships differ from "effect sizes" in correlational relationships. The former directly represents how changes in the causal variable produce changes in the outcome variable while the latter represents how strongly the "X" variable(s) is related to the "Y" variable(s) with the possible influence of other variables (3rd variables "Z") that are involved even though they have not be measured and included in the analysis. A related concern of mine is the use of the terms "independent variable" and "dependent variable" in research that is not experimental - that is, when no variable is manipulated. Does this apply to variables that are participant/subject attributes? Sidenote: economists often use the terms independent and dependent variables in their mathematical models of how economic factors operate. I think that this is an appeal to analyses in, say, astronomy, but is probably a stretch. For one view of how econometricians view causality, specifically a type called "Granger Causality", see: http://ejpam.com/index.php/ejpam/article/view/2948 As they say: "Induction is a bitch." ;-) There is a tendency to use "independent variable" whenever the variable is categorical and "dependent variable" when it is continuous. I think that this may be peculiar to psychology and/or possibly to certain groups of researchers who use certain types of ANOVA. Once I helped a previous student with his dissertation. No variables were manipulated, but several were categorical. I help him dummy code the categorical variables and use them in a multiple correlation analysis, with continuous covariates, to predict the focal continuous outcome variable. His dissertation advisor told him no, do an ANOVA instead, because then we have independent and dependent variables and thus can make causal inferences. So, did you smack the dissertation advisor upside the head or did you simply point out, after Jack Cohen and many others, that ANOVA and multiple regression are just different ways of doing the same analysis, as described in the following: http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1969-06106-001 However, given that experimental designs (specifically n-way factorial designs) have uncorrelated independent variables, this simplifies the analysis and makes conclusions more direct. Collinearity or correlated ind vars/predictors is the monkey wrench that gums up interpreting multiple regression results. Unbalanced factorial designs (where the sample sizes of the conditions are not constant) give rise to collinearity and make the interpretation of ANOVA results more difficult. Okay, enough. I hope I don't say too many stupid things. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51089 or send a blank email to leave-51089-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re: [tips] Grad level cognition text
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:50:44 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: Anyone have suggestions for a graduate level cognition textbook? I think one would first have to answer a couple of questions: (1) Is the textbook being in a course that is open to master's students and graduate students in non-experimental areas (e.g., clinical, developmental, social, etc.)? (2) Or is the textbook being used in a course for Ph.D. experimental psychology students? If (1) is the case, then one of the cognitive textbooks used in junior/senior level courses (e.g., John Anderson's text, maybe the textbook by Solso which is being written mainly by co-authors, etc.). might do the trick. I would, however, supplement the text with relevant article from sources like (Sigma Xi's) American Scientist, Science mag, American Psychologist (I still like Robyn Dawes' "The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models" which lays out the classic argument between those who think they can rationally decide what the best choice is from sources like interview or what might be called "qualitative" data sources versus explicit decision rules with quantitative variables that reflect the most important features to consider -- multiple regression equations used, say, to predict Grade Point Average at the end of first year in college or grad school typically outperform human judgments based on interviews, etc., but in this article Dawes shows that arbitrary weights chosen to reflect the importance and impact of the variable [i.e., magnitude like using 1, 2, 3,..to reflect importance and positive/negative sign to reflect the nature of the "effect")., and other articles and chapters written for a general scientifically oriented audience. If (2) is the case, I don't know if there really is a single text that does the job though Michael Eysenck & Mark Keane's "Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook" might be one source to consider but supplemented with articles and chapters from the Annual Reviews (of Psychology, Neuroscience, Sociology, Medicine, etc.), the series "Psychology of Learning and Motivation", and other sources (e.g., comparing and contrasting traditional rule and symbol cognitive architectures [Atkinson & Shiffrin, Newell's SOAR, etc.) versus neural network/connectionist cognitive architectures [the Rumelhart crew, and others who have proposed alternatives to traditional models] ). There is the question of how and to what degrees one wants to cover computational models of cognition and neuroscience models of cognition -- which may limit one to materials published in the last 5-10 years plus some classic/historically significant papers. I hope that the above helps but I understand if one finds what I say somewhat vague. The graduate courses in cognition I took did not use a textbook (at Stony Brook Marcia Johnson used a list of readings; when I took grad courses at NYU Sperling, Glanzer, Braine, and Kaufman used original sources though Sperling provided very few sources and he expected one follow his lectures which were mostly incomprehensible ;-). When I started to teach the Master's level course in cognition at NYU I use an textbook like Solso or Matlin and supplemented them with "accessible" original sources (though signal detection theory really required me to make my lectures as clear as possible). Some of the master's students had not been psych majors or science majors, like English Lit majors, and I had to be remind myself that the material was not only novel to them but the perspective provided they brought to class could be very different from that presented in class (i.e., the scientific study of the mind). Sadly, some psych majors were also in this boat. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=51086 or send a blank email to leave-51086-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] You Stupood Elites!
Why we are in the mess that we've in and why "Julius Caesar" isn't understood. See: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/22/new-york-city-elite-american-resentment Does this mean I should stop supporting my local PBS station? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50985 or send a blank email to leave-50985-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] OMG! Meaningful Processing Produces More Durable Memories!!!!!!
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 07:26:30 -0700, Christopher Green wrote: Given that Gus Craik worked at the Baycrest Centre for many years after retiring from University of Toronto, I'm guessing that they well know about level of processing. This looks like a newsletter for those outside of the "biz," so alerting them to phenomena that are well-known among researchers might be understandable. A few points: (1) EurekAlert is a popular media service of the AAAS and the article it contains is a press (public) release of the Baycrest Health Sciences center about an article that was published in the neuroscience journal "Neuroimage". No reference is provided but after a little searching I believe that the article that is being referred to is the following: Meltzer, J. A., Kielar, A., Panamsky, L., Links, K. A., Deschamps, T., & Leigh, R. C. (2017). Electrophysiological signatures of phonological and semantic maintenance in sentence repetition. NeuroImage, 156, 302-314. I would reproduce the abstract of the article but I don't think it actually clarifies things much. The ScienceDirect website for this article is here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811917304226?np=y=f825d12bb5243a13a2373176593e4a764e360172951b1fad4a42f29829b1ab00 (2) Quoting the EurekaAlert article: |Past studies have looked at repetition to create short-term |memories, but these findings suggest that using the word's |meaning will help "transfer" memories from the short-term to |the long-term, says Dr. Meltzer. ' "Transfer" from short-term to long-term'? Are these guys talking about a Levels of Processing explanation or an Atkinson & Shiffrin model because "transfer" only occurs in the latter. Levels of processing theory rejects such mechanisms because of their reliance on the computer metaphor of mind which most of them reject in favor of understanding how initial encoding affects the durability of a memory. Now this is pretty old levels of processing theory and is known to be inadequate because (a) the picture superiority effect among other results demonstrate that sensory memory process can be as good as semantic processing, (b) distinctiveness of the created memory trace is important in reducing interference effects (mere repetition produces proactive interference from one item to the next while the use of the method of loci - a nonsemantic processing strategy -- as a mnemonic strategy can produce highly accurate memory, just ask Cicero ;-). Meltzer sounds like a undergraduate who got a "C" in his Memory course. He doesn't even seem to realize that "short-term memory" as a construct is unnecessary because one can reframe the question of how do different processing strategies affect the durability of *long-term* memories. (3) For a somewhat different view of what might be going on, see the following article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350748/ Here's the abstract: |Semantic memory includes all acquired knowledge about |the world and is the basis for nearly all human activity, yet its |neurobiological foundation is only now becoming clear. |Recent neuroimaging studies demonstrate two striking results: |the participation of modality-specific sensory, motor, and |emotion systems in language comprehension, and the |existence of large brain regions that participate in comprehension |tasks but are not modality-specific. These latter regions, which |include the inferior parietal lobe and much of the temporal lobe, |lie at convergences of multiple perceptual processing streams. |These convergences enable increasingly abstract, supramodal |representations of perceptual experience that support a variety |of conceptual functions including object recognition, social |cognition, language, and the remarkable human capacity to |remember the past and imagine the future. The key point here is what one already knows facilitates the retention of new information though it may go through a complex set of cognitive processes distributed over the brain. The "Self-Reference Effect" only requires one to have a knowledge structure of one's self which is activated when one engages in processing (e.g., "Does this word describe me?"). From this viewpoint, a STM structure is irrelevant and processing of meaning is heavily an LTM task (even non-semantic processing like that used in the self-reference effect or long term memory for pictures or music). (4) I think Michael Scoles got it right. The only important thing about the article is that it is about "Da Brain!" They really need to get some people who are familiar with contemporary memory theory. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu .. On Jun 22, 2017, at 9:49 AM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: Who knew!?! Well, these folks apparently didn't; see: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/bcfg-lmm062017.php Shoul
[tips] OMG! Meaningful Processing Produces More Durable Memories!!!!!!
Who knew!?! Well, these folks apparently didn't; see: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/bcfg-lmm062017.php Should someone tell them about Level of Processing theory and the problems it has? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50975 or send a blank email to leave-50975-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Paul Offit's New Book on When Science Goes Wrong
The physician and science write Paul Offit has a new book out titled "Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong" reviews seven historical events in medical science that were at first accepted and widely praised but turned out to have terrible consequences (e.g., eugenics, lobotomies, etc.). There is an article on the Medscape website that is an interview with Offit about how the book came about, why the medical science went wrong, and what we can do to prevent it (e.g., making sure there is replicable research results). The article can be accessed here: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/881347_1 I'm not sure if one needs to have an account on Medscape or not (I do) to read the article. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50969 or send a blank email to leave-50969-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] The New Phone Book I HERE~! Part 1478
Remember when we used to have phone books? That line from the "The Jerk" is going to be increasingly harder for young folks to understand or find the humor in it (especially since so few will probably have seen the movie) but I digress. My alma mater (Ph.D.) sent out an announcement that it was in the top 1.4% of the QS World University Ranking (c) 2019!!! Of course, a percentage value like top 1.4% is only somewhat informative because it does not identify the actual rank relative to all other universities. How many universities were ranked higher? 25? 50? 100? 250? All sort of questions arise: is the university ranked higher or lower than, say, the University of Jyvaskyla? What about Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University? Or, more mundanely, the University of Kansas? Oh! Who gets the bragging rights?!? Anyway, if you want to see who ranks where, see: https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2018 The U.S.A. takes ranks 1-4 (MIT, Stanford, Haaarvard and Caltech) and the University of Chicago (when I was attending a structural equation modeling workshop taught by Karl Joreskog there back in the 1980s, a graffiti comment that I read while taking care of business in a men's room stall opined: "U of Chicago - the best second best college in the world"), ranked 9th. A few British universities (I forget who ;-) occupy ranks 5-8 and in 10th position is something called ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. WTF? So, 5 out of 10 ain't bad! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A! YMMV. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50942 or send a blank email to leave-50942-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Take Down That Article! Love, APA
Publish and being bullied about it. Out APA is telling authors of its journal article that they have to take the published versions of their published journal articles. Yes, we have to agree to give APA the copyright and control over the final product but some of this is getting tiresome. For more on this point, see the following article: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49670/title/Authors-Peeved-by-APA-s-Article-Takedown-Pilot/ By the way, does anybody know how much money APA makes per published article? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50937 or send a blank email to leave-50937-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Pastafarians Untie!
No, it's not a typo, go and untie or go and covfefe yourself. Getting back to the main point: an Arizona man who is a Pastafarian wore a colander on his head while having his driver's ID taken. The picture was taken and the card issued but the forces of Anti-Pastafarianism soon swooped down and invalidated the driver's license. For more saucy details see: http://www.abc15.com/news/state/arizona-pastafarian-believer-wears-strainer-in-drivers-license-photo This just another example of the biases engendered by Trump's America because in 2015 a woman in Massachusetts was able to get a driver's license while wearing a colander; see: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/11/16/church-flying-spaghetti-monster-massachusetts-religion/75862946/ And she was not alone. Quoting from the USA Today article: |Last year, a similar incident happened in Utah involving a former |porn star who said she intended to make a statement and was |allowed to wear a colander as a hat in her driver's license photo, |The Spectrum reports.At the time, Jessica Steinhauser, 41, was |the fourth person in the USA to be allowed to wear the pasta |strainer in an official photo and the first in Utah, said Bobby Henderson, |the church's founder. By the way, Steinhauser may be better known by her stage name "Asia Carrera" and, boy, does she look different in her Driver ID; see: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/17/pastafarian-drivers-license/19200447/ How America has changed! -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50912 or send a blank email to leave-50912-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re: [tips] APA Headings
On Wed, 31 May 2017 17:18:48 -0700, Karl Louis Wuensch wrote: It is OK to follow one header by another header with no text between the headers, like this: Are you asserting that it is OK or are you asking that it is OK? The physiology of emotion. immediately followed by a Level 4 heading on the next line> Bottom-up and top-down processing pathways. The recognition of emotionally laden stimuli occurs as the result of central nervous system processing. The Maybe I'm experiencing a little covfefe but the answer to your question is "Yes" if one is dealing with a Level 1 heading (i.e., a main section heading that is centered and bold) and a Level 2 heading (i.e., a side heading that is also bold. The classic example of this the identification of the method section with a centered "Methods" followed by the participant subsection as side heading "Participants". It still remains "Yes" when one uses a side heading (level 2) and a paragraph heading (level 3). However, it seems to me that the answer is "No" when one is dealing with level 3, level 4, and level 5 headings because these are all paragraph headings. If I am not covfefe, you are asking whether one can have paragraph heading without a paragraph. When stated this way, it sounds pretty covfefe. It suggests that one is not implementing the hierarchical structure of the text correctly, perhaps using the paragraph heading (level 3) when it should be a side heading. But perhaps I am covfefe. For examples of how the different levels are implemented see the following page from the University of Wisconsin: https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/DocAPAHeadings.html and the Owl APA style page from Perdue: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/24/ Then again, how much an editor cares about following such rules especially after level 3 depends on how anal he/she may be. Some editors may not care as long as the text's structure can be followed by the reader and the text doesn't look too strange. I must admit that if I saw a Level 3 paragraph heading without a paragraph followed by a level 4 paragraph heading, I would think that as being somewhat strange. Or at least covfefe. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50904 or send a blank email to leave-50904-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Covfefe and Other Insights
For more on "covfefe" see the following: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/internet-defines-covfefe/ Anyone want to bet which psychology textbook mentions it first in the next edition? ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. And a happy covfefe to all! --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50899 or send a blank email to leave-50899-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Brenda Milner Still Kickin' It
A recent article in the NY Times focused on the current research activities of Brenda Milner and some of her past achievements. The article can be accessed here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/science/brenda-milner-brain-cognitive-neuroscience.html?_r=0 It probably is just me but I've never been much of Milner booster and I'm only slightly surprised that the situation with Suzanne Corkin and Henry Molaison was not mentioned (see the NYT article on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/the-brain-that-couldnt-remember.html It could also be me but isn't her thinking of hemispheric specialization just a wee bit outdated? Then again, I'm not much of a phrenologist. Enjoy. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50876 or send a blank email to leave-50876-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Florence Nightingale: Graphic Artist
Do any of you cover Florence Nightingale in any of your classes? She was a remarkable woman and made contributions to several areas but from a data analytic perspective, she provided stunning infographics, primarily in her book "Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army founded chiefly on the experience of the late war" by Nightingale, Florence, (1820-1910). Published 1858 Here is a link to an article that focuses on one of her infographics as well as general background about her: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/florence-nightingale-infographic For those of you who are interested in looking at the aforementioned book, it is available on the Internet Archive in various format; see: https://archive.org/details/b20387118 -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50854 or send a blank email to leave-50854-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Dear "Herr Professor Doktor"
Hi Ken, Chris, and others, Although I follow Ken's explanation, after doing some searching on Norman Swartz, I think that there is a more fundamental and subtle distinction but it has to do metaphysics, basically, what kind of knowledge about the physical world is possible. There is an entry on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy titled "Laws of Nature" which is different from "Natural Law" (used in legal and ethical theories) and "Scientific Laws" (e.g., laws of physics, chemistry, etc.). The Laws of Nature represents perspectives on how to explain regularities or uniformities (e.g., the speed of light is a constant throughout the universe) in physical reality. The entry distinguishes between Regularity Theory (which I think Swartz might be an advocate of) and Necessitarian Theory (i.e., physical laws have to exist to account for why we have the structures and processes that we have but since this position originated with the belief that a Supreme Being [i.e., God or Flying Spaghetti Monster or Cosmic Muffin, etc.] instituted these laws, problems arise once we eliminate the Supreme Being from our explanation and are left with the question why and how these laws came into existence, more importantly, do we have the cognitive capabilities to understand the explanation). Anyways, the entry can be read here: http://www.iep.utm.edu/lawofnat/ Oddly enough, if Swartz is part of the Regularity group, I think he would have psychological behaviorists as company, depending upon the degree to which one believes behaviorists embrace logical positivists (which Chris implies Swartz was against). Then again, what do I know, right? -Herr Professor Doktor Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu Original Message-- On Sun, 14 May 2017 14:02:41 -0700, Kenneth Steele wrote: Hi Mike and Chris: Here is an example of a seemingly-obvious empirical fact that shows you how tricky such statements can be. Imagine that you (or as we say, "y'all"; as opposed to "youse") weigh the same object on your bathroom scale in Toronto and New York City; and you both agree it weighs 10 kg. You both agree it is an empirical fact because you each used different scales and you have replicated each other's observation. I take that object and shoot it up to the International Space Station. It will now become almost "weightless." The answer to this change in weight does not involve a subterfuge like evaporation. There is a real change in weight. (No atoms are lost in the transfer.) The problem is that most people understand weight as a measure of the amount of stuff in the object. Instead, weight is a measure of the gravitational pull on the object. The location of the object in Toronto and NYC is about equal with respect to the center of the earth and so the gravitational pull is about equal on objects of equal mass (equal stuff). I moved the object more than 200 miles from the center of the earth; the gravitational pull becomes much weaker; and the weight decreases. That is why people on Earth become weightless in space. On May 14, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Christopher Green wrote: Mike, You're missing something because I didn't explain it. Norm Swartz was an interesting guy. Very smart - it's not like he was unaware of the ancient roots of the conventional accounts of mathematical truth - but very radical. Once a devoted follower of Hempel, but he had taken the lessons of Quine's "Two Dogmas" very much to heart, I think. To a first approximation (he wrote a whole, complex book on the topic that I'm not really competent to paraphrase), he thought that, with the apparent collapse of the analytic, all statements are empirical or they are nonsense (the remaining two-thirds of the old Logical Positivist triad). Mathematical statements, then - to the degree that they had any meaning anymore - became theories of empirical reality. As it turns out, there are empirical exceptions to mathematical truths like 1+1=2. For instance, if you add 1 litre of water to 1 litre of water, you get slightly less than 1 litre of water (due to evaporation). The effects are much more profound with gasses, where volume is a function of temperature and pressure, in addition to the raw "amount" of gas you have. I didn't say I agreed with this position. Indeed, since I don't fully understand his position - I'm sure he has responses to the obvious objections that are forming in your mind even now - I'm not really in a position to agree or disagree with it. It is interesting to contemplate, nevertheless. The most obvious objection, I think, to my claim that everything is opinion would be the counterclaim that some things are fact. It might well be that there are some raw facts out there. But we don't have "metaphysical access" to those. All we have are our observations and our statements about o
Re: [tips] Dear "Herr Professor Doktor"
On Sun, 14 May 2017 08:29:46 -0700, Christopher Green wrote:
Everything is opinion. Some opinions are just better backed with
evidence than others. None are so well evinced that they are certain.
I once had a philosophy of science professor who was such a
thoroughgoing empiricist that he disputed whether 1+1=2.
Dear "Herr Professor Doktor" Chris,
I think I'm missing something, about the connection between
empiricism and "1 + 1 = 2". Was he against logic and mathematics?
The equation "1 + 1 = 2" requires certain assumptions (e.g., base 10
number system) and one could just as easily argue for the truth of
"1 + 1 = 10" if one assumes a base 2 system (binary arithmetic;
see the Wikipedia entry for more background on this and other
systems that go back to ancient Egypt {ca. 2400-1200 BCE]
and China in the form of the text "I Ching" [800 BCE]). As a logic
system, the only issue is whether it is free from contradiction
not whether it corresponds to things in the real word -- a
distinction, I believe is captured by the difference between
validity of deductive arguments and their soundness (see:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/val-snd/ ). If one doesn't believe
in logic, then logical systems make no sense. Is this
what your PoS Prof was arguing or, that the equation "1 + 1 = 2"
is considered true if everyone agrees that it is true,
regardless of the underlying logic, that is, it is a consensus
view? What was Herr Professor Doktor's argument?
Ich habe mich verlaufen. ;-)
(see:
http://www.dummies.com/languages/german/common-conversational-words-and-phrases-in-german/
)
-Mike Palij
New York University
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[tips] Dear "Herr Professor Doktor"
Tipsters may find interesting a NY Times opinion piece on the role of etiquette in today's colleges and university by Molly Worthen who is identified as: Molly Worthen is the author of "Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism," an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a contributing opinion writer. Her article can be accessed here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/opinion/sunday/u-cant-talk-to-ur-professor-like-this.html So, how do you deal with students who think "Okay, you got a Ph.D., so what? Think you're better than me?" -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50827 or send a blank email to leave-50827-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Explaining What Expertise Is (was Teaching expertise
, that I was able to think more deeply about statistical issues, about how to tailor statistical analyses to a problem instead of using a "canned" solution, and being able to learn about new approaches and techniques (e.g., structural equation modeling). However, even with all my experience (over 40 years of learning, teaching, and doing statistical consultation), I don't consider myself an expert (in part, it is because I know what I don't know, if you know what I mean). Getting back to the issue of how students may find statistics hard even if they do well on tests, I have had similar experiences. But students are novices and the material is difficult even if they can do the work correctly. Have them do statistical problem everyday for a month (like they might do on job as a research assistant doing data analysis for a project) and then ask them how hard it is to do things at the end of the month. Regular practice in a meaningful context does remarkable things to one's perception of their ability. If one accepts the idea that students cannot become "experts" in the statistics we teach, merely competent, then we should focus on "best practices" for statistical analyses and trying to establish a foundation for future courses and work (e.g., as a research assistant who has to do statistical analyses). Statistical analysis should be presented as problem solving that requires problem representation, identification of goals, and what routes one might take to reach those goals (e.g., using an ANOVA procedure instead of multiple regression even though the two are equivalent though they give somewhat different information, depending upon how one does them). Among "best practices" I would include teaching correlation and regression before t-tests, contrary to some current textbooks (e.g., Gravetter & Wallnau) because it is important that students understand what correlation is when conducting the correlated groups t-test (the direct difference method is only appropriate if the correlation is positive) and sphericity in the context of repeated measures ANOVA (and the general concept of a covariance matrix and its structure, especially for multilevel analysis of nested designs, and, later, for factor analysis and structural equation modeling). I would also recommend that in the context of multiple comparisons in ANOVA, one cover Fisher's Least Significant Difference (LSD) test and the Bonferroni correction to t-tests -- neither is covered in Gravetter & Wallnau (I assume other current textbooks also follow this practice) even though SPSS only provides these tests (plus the Sidak version of the Bonferroni) for multiple comparisons in repeated measures ANOVA. So, in summary, I think "expertise" is the wrong concept to use and instead mastery or competence in being able to do certain analyses (and not hand calculations, but ability to use software even if it is only Excel) would be better.. Just my opinion but what do I know, right? ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50781 or send a blank email to leave-50781-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] A Problem With Collaboration, Including Supervised Student Research
The Scientist has an interesting article on the problem of multiple authorship resulting from collaboration with peers and/or student research. See: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49233/title/Coming-to-Grips-with-Coauthor-Responsibility/ There is an interesting inforgraphic for 8 researchers with "problematic" papers and shows the relationship between the "perp" and other authors; see: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49281/title/Infographic--Web-of-Retractions/ The problem of misconduct and "problematic" papers is multiplied was the number of co-authors/collaborators increases and questions arise about their role in the enterprise (i.e., duped or complicit). The number of collaborators has been increasing steadily in the biomedical sciences but it also appears to be the case in psychology (the days of the lone researcher appear to be coming to an end). Dierderik Stapel, the Dutch social psychologist who was found out to have "problematic" papers is a relevant case for teachers of research methods, statistics, and related courses as well as the supervision of research/collaboration. see the APA statement: http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2011/12/diederik-stapel.aspx Ultimately, I think, the question comes down to what roles and responsibilities collaborators/co-authors have in situations that produce "problematic" papers. How much did the collaborator know and when did they know it? And if they knew there was a problem, what did or didn't they do? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50752 or send a blank email to leave-50752-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE:[tips] Teaching stats and Critical Values Tables
search of google scholar on this topic will provide a fair number of hits -- many people are often surprised to learn this). If one is actually doing analyses by hand, then tables will be critical and students should be taught how to use them if they will emulate the behavior of the researcher. I will leave it to the reader to decide how reasonable doing this is. More below. Currently I have them work with the table, but it seems old-fashioned and unnecessarily cumbersome. On the other hand, using the table forces them to perhaps have a bit more conceptual understanding of what they are doing. From what I have written above, ti should be clear that researcher or student or anyone really needs to needs to know a lot about the population situations as well as the sampling distributions relevant to the testing they want to do. If they don't have this knowledge, well, then they are just engaging in ritualsistic behavior. Teaching then become "we do things this way because this is what we always do." On a more practical level, if one is teaching APA style for writing, then one has a decision to make. If one is a Fisherian, then the simple p< .05 or p> .05 is sufficient because one is just reporting the basis for rejecting or failing the null hypothesis. A table is adequate to make this decision. However, if one is a Neyman-Pearson disciple and one want to follow the APA commitee on statistical practice and reporting recommendations, then one will want to report the EXACT p-value associated associated with the test done but a printed table usually does not contain this information -- one cannot report that a t-test result has a p= 0.036. The mention of "printout" suggests the use of some unspecified software package may be used but not specifying the package is a problem. Consider: Microsoft Excel is almost universally avaiable and using the add-in "statistical toolpak" or some (more accurate and powerfult) third party add-in will allow one to do most of the statistical analyses covered in the "traditional" psychological statistics textbook. So, for the independent groups t-test (either equal variance or unequal variances0, Excel provide the critical t-value for both 1-tailed and 2-tailed tests as well as the obtain t-test p-value (a little redundant) which makes the use of a table somewhat irrelevant (on quizzes and exams, one can provide the appropriate critical t-value in the question, so a t-table doesn't have to be available). If one is using SPSS, usually just the p-value of the obtained statistic is provided so that one has to use the rule: If p(obtained statistics) < .05, then reject the null hypothesis. This is in contrast to the rule that is used if one is using a table or is provided a critical value: (assuming a 2-tailed t-test): If | obtained t-value | > | critical t-value |, then reject null hypothesis. The vertical lines indicate that one should use the absolute value of the statistic. Use of tables implies that one is following the latter rule instead of the former rule. But this might cause problems if one want to follow the APA style recommendations for exact p-values. It should be noted that SPSS often truncates p-value if they have more than three zeros (i.e., if p=.5, SPSS prints p = .000 which many students find confusing). In contrast, Excel provides many more decimal value though for very small probabilitites, this is expressed in scientific notation (e.g., p = .912 becomes 9.12E-9) which some may consider to be more informative. Alas, APA style also recommends that p values less than .001 should be reported as p < .001 which kind of undermines the recommendations of APA statistics committee but no one ever said that APA style was supposed to make sense. ;-) So, should one use a table of critical values when teaching psych stats? That will depend upon how one teachers, what one knows about the phenomena one will be using as examples to analyze, whether one is a Fisherian or Neyman-Pearsonian in perspective (but let's not forget the Bayesians and other "fringe" groups ;-), and the degree to which wants to follow APA style. Another consideration is that if one doesn't use tables then one might use computer software or a website app to get the relevant information. Of course, in the case of a electrical outage or a zombie apocalypse or some other similar catastrophe, computers and the web may not be available and books will be all that we have. So, being able to read stiatistical table is problably a useful skill to have as one is running away fomr zombies. ;-) Hope this helps. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. NOTE: I wrote tne above this morning before my first cup of coffee and it is possible that I may have fallen asleep but continuing to type but generated gibberish. If so, just point out the relevant passages and I'll try to figure out what I meant t
[tips] What the Numbers Tell Us About Literature (and non-lit)
The Smithsonian website has an interesting interview with the writer Ben Blatt who has a book out "Nakokov's Favorite Word is Mauve". Blatt uses quantitative methods to analyze different written works, from classic literature to some of the trash that people find so enjoyable. ;-) The article doesn't really explanation the metholodology which is presumably gone into more detail in the book or, hopefully, appropriate academic journals. I'm not really sure what this work adds to previous quantitative analyses of texts (e.g., the Federalist papers, Tweets, etc.), but may be of use in teaching. See: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/one-writer-used-statistics-reveal-secrets-what-makes-great-writing-180962515/?utm_source=smithsoniantopic_medium=email_campaign=20170319-Weekender=28290961=MjQ2NTEzODIxNDYyS0=1002519329=MTAwMjUxOTMyOQS2 Just don't start your narrative with a sentence about the weather. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50551 or send a blank email to leave-50551-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] The War at Home
I was teaching at the time the fighting broke out in the building next to Kimmel. It was an inside classroom and we never knew what was going on. See: http://gothamist.com/2017/02/03/nyu_proud_boy_protest.php So, is this the "Trump Youth"? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50358 or send a blank email to leave-50358-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Fw: [DIV52] FW: APA Immigration statement (please share)
I think that APA is going to have find a far stronger magic to use if it is going to take on Voldemort. As well as dealing with Voldemort's supporters in its own ranks. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu - Original Message - From: Bullock, Merry To: di...@lists.apa.org Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 12:30 AM Subject: [DIV52] FW: APA Immigration statement (please share) Subject: APA Voices Concern Over Trump Administration's Restrictions On Refugees -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 Contact: Kim I. Mills (202) 336-6048 kmi...@apa.org -- TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S ORDERS POSE HARM TO REFUGEES, IMMIGRANTS, ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE, ACCORDING TO PSYCHOLOGISTS APA asks president to consider impact on families, students and researchers WASHINGTON - While safeguarding the nation from terrorist entry is of critical national importance, the Trump administration’s proposed restrictions on refugees and other visitors are likely to compound the stress and trauma already experienced by populations at risk for discrimination, limit scientific progress and increase stigma, according to the American Psychological Association. APA voiced concern regarding the executive order issued Jan. 27 that suspends all refugee admissions for 120 days, more than halves to 50,000 the number of refugees to be admitted in 2017, indefinitely blocks all refugees from Syria, and bars entry for 90 days to individuals from seven Muslim-majority countries. “Refugees, particularly those displaced from war zones, experience stress, trauma and other serious mental health problems,” said APA President Antonio E. Puente, PhD. “Denying them entry to the United States, particularly those who have already been vetted, is inhumane and likely to worsen their suffering. This conclusion is based on extensive research and clinical experience, as well as my own personal past.” Such policies can lead to a perception of reduced freedom, safety and social connection for those directly affected, as well as for society at large. APA urged the administration also to consider the importance of allowing international students and psychologists with proper documentation to enter the United States. The restrictions to entry will prevent many international students and scientists from studying, working or attending conferences in the United States, curbing the nation’s ability to benefit from global scientific talent, according to APA. They will also impede the international engagement of scientists living in this country who are not U.S. citizens. APA also took exception to an executive order issued on Jan. 25 that would make it easier to deport immigrants. Research has documented serious mental health consequences for immigrant children and/or their parents who have been forced to leave the United States, which may magnify earlier trauma experienced in or upon fleeing their country of origin. Sudden and unexpected family separation is associated with negative outcomes on child well-being that can last well into adulthood. The president’s executive order on immigration could lead to expanding family detention centers, according to APA.Immigration detainees are more vulnerable to psychological stress, compared to those in the community. The longer the detention period, the greater the risk of depression and other mental health symptoms for immigrants who were previously exposed to interpersonal trauma. “The United States has historically served as a safe haven for the world’s refugees and a destination for those interested in the educational and employment opportunities that our nation offers, as it did for me,” Puente said. “We must strive to develop ways to secure our borders from those very few who wish to harm us while continuing to welcome others who come to our shores in peace.” -- The American Psychological Association, in Washington, D.C., is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA's membership includes nearly 115,700 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial
[tips] Did Psychometrics Sway the Election?
But then again, on the other hand, maybe it didn't. Quoting Michal Kosinski on the Bloomberg website: |Michal Kosinski, a Stanford professor, was one of a small |group of researchers that pioneered the marriage between |psychometry and big data. I asked him whether he believed |big data had won the day for Trump. | |"Obviously, it is not big data analytics that wins the election," |he wrote back. "Candidates do. We don't know how much |his victory was helped by big data analytics." From: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-08/no-big-data-didn-t-win-the-u-s-election In other words, to accept the claim that "Big Data" or "Little Data" won the election, you just have ask yourself one question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDYNuD4CwlI Meanwhile, Voldemorte supporters are coming together in song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN7r0Rr1Qyc If one has drank the Kool-Aid and believes enough in Big Data to bring Tinkerbell back to life (NOTE: see "Peter Pan"), then check out Kosinski's publication list (note the psychological journals) here: http://www.michalkosinski.com/home/publications Any bets on replication problems? And if you want to become a "Golly Gee Whiz" Tom Swift and His Electric Big Data Machine take Kosinski's tutorial on da Big Data; see: http://mypersonality.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mining Getting back to the original article that hailed the triumph of Big Data over all empirical and theoretical contenders, does anyone else find this paragraph strange: |Remarkably reliable deductions could be drawn from |simple online actions. For example, men who "liked" |the cosmetics brand MAC were slightly more likely to be gay; "slight more likely to be gay"? How many straight men liked MAC and, more importantly, why? |one of the best indicators for heterosexuality was |"liking" Wu-Tang Clan. Or on the "down-low". For those unfamiliar with the phrase see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down-low |Followers of Lady Gaga were most probably extroverts, |while those who "liked" philosophy tended to be introverts. Note the weasel words "probably" and "tended" -- they should have provided what the probabilities were and what was the baserate or chance baseline is. |While each piece of such information is too weak to produce |a reliable prediction, when tens, hundreds, or thousands |of individual data points are combined, the resulting |predictions become really accurate. So, if someone is lying and a lot of people are also lying (e.g., on the down-low, claiming to be heterosexual while have sex with men or MSM as it is known in the public health literature), the large the sample of liars, the more "accurate" the relationship? For an article that is supposed to be about psychometrics, there's way too little discussion of validity, spurious correlation, and response bias. Then again, maybe Big Data did play a big role Voldemorte's victory but not in the way implied in the article. I loathe to have to quote a earlier post of mine on Tips but folks mike want to look at the following post I made back in August, 2016 and also read the links, another source of "Big Something" is involved; see: http://www.mail-archive.com/tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu/msg14057.html For those who need to a more direct path, see: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/no-one-knows-what-the-powerful-mercers-really-want/514529/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mercer_(businessman) If Cambridge Analytics is so great, why isn't Ted Cruz President? And remember who actually correctly predicted Voldemort's victory. with 13 sentences; see: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/professor-predict-trumps-win/ Big Data that! ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50346 or send a blank email to leave-50346-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] What the Hell is Clarivate Analytics?
Among this morning's emails is one from an entity named "Clarivate Analytics", something that I had not head about before, so I was wondering why/how I was getting email from them. A few web searches later, I think I know what is going on. I'm on an email list to get notices from the Web of Science database/website and Clarivate has bought WoS. Here are some new articles on how Thomson Reuters sold off its "intellectual Property & Science businesses" to a couple of companies that came up with snappy new name "Clarivate". See: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/acquisition-of-the-thomson-reuters-intellectual-property-and-science-business-by-onex-and-baring-asia-completed-300337402.html and http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/Phillys-old-ISIThomsonReuters-now-Clarivate-Analytics.html So, I went to the Web of Science database/website to see if there were any obvious changes. Nope, same old, same old. I run a citation count to see if that has changed -- nope. No obvious changes yet. Nonetheless, Web of Science is a featured produce on the Clarivate homepage; see: http://clarivate.com/ Elsewhere on the website, they have a webpage that contains the "Highly Cited Researchers" based on citation analysis of Web of Science data. The following link *may* get you to this page: http://hcr.stateofinnovation.com/ It is a very long list but a quick scan of turns up no familiar names in psychology or cognitive science (that could just be me). However, some people are cited so often that they are listed twice. Or it could be an error. I guess this is one way to make a buck off of scientific information that is produced for its own sake. But I have a feeling this will not turn out well, at least for the scientific community. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50313 or send a blank email to leave-50313-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Is the American Psychological Association Doing Anything About Claims of Torture's Effectiveness?
He who should not be named claims that torture works and it is possible that is a real and sincere belief (like the belief that alligators live in NYC sewers (see: http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/gator.asp ) but inconsistent with the facts -- though maybe not with "alternative facts" (what are instructors going to say when students tell them "those are your facts, I have alternative facts" as a retort in critical thinking exercises and courses?). So, of course, what is "our" APA or APS going to say in response? The "other" APA, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Medical Association are probably going to have to put out statement reminding physicians that ethically they are not allowed to be engaged in torture or similar activities that can harm individuals. As has been made clear during the W. administration, psychologists apparently felt that they were not under such restrictions and, even with new statements from out APA to reign in such behavior, those psychologists appear to still believe that torture is okay. Will our APA state its position on the claims by the Tweeter in Chief? Or should we start preparing to teach new psychology courses on "Effective Psychological Methods of Interrogation and Torture"? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. I wonder if Seligman is going to say anything. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50312 or send a blank email to leave-50312-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re:[tips] Anyone Still Working With Rats?
On Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 03:10:42 +, Karl Louis Wuensch wrote: I worked with wild-caught Mus and Peromyscus while in graduate school, and even kept a small colony of Peromyscus at home as pets. Had no idea I was at risk of exposing myself to Hanta. You might want to take a look at the following article for some of the history of Hanta: Schreiner, G. E. (1996). Hanta is coming. Artificial organs, 20(6), 451-455. The article states that the Hanata virus wasn't isolated until 1976 though the hemorrhagic fever (HF) in Asia was known since at least WWII -- the author talks about his experience as a physician dealing with U.S. soldiers in the 1950s in Korea with HF. The Japaness military during its WWII invasion of Korea came across the illness but called it "Songo". The outbreak of HF in the U.S. sourthwest during the early 1990s (mentioned in the movie "Outbreak") brought needed attention to the conition in the U.S. even though it has been a problem in Asia for a long time. Mus Norvegicus (Norwegian brown rat) apparently transmitted the virus around the world because of global Norwegian shipping trade. So, blame Norway for spreading the illness. ;-) Karl, whatever your risk for exposure to Hanta would depend where and when you did your graduate work and its exposure to either global shipping or U.S. military bringing home rodent pets from Asian assignments. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50307 or send a blank email to leave-50307-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Anyone Still Working With Rats?
On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:32:21 -0800, Ken Steele wrote: On 1/23/2017 12:15 PM, Mike Palij wrote: A curious outbreak of the Seoul version of the Hantavirus among pet rat breeders in Wisconsin and Illinois has been reported by the CDC. A popular media account is provided by CNN; see: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/health/pet-rats-seoul-virus-outbreak-cdc-bn/ The CDC report can be read here: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/s0120-seoul-virus-outbreak.html I assume that rats being used in labs and professional breeders have enough safeguards to prevent external transmission of the Seoul virus into their colonies but I bet that the CDC and other groups will monitor these groups just in case. I haven't worked with rats in the context of "Rat Lab" (experimental psychology lab) since the late 1980s/early 1990s and I was under the impression that many colleges had stopped using rats or pigeons in psych lab because of the cost of meeting all the federal regulations involving the care and housing of the animals. But if one of the infected pet breeders took a rat lab course or worked in a lab with rats, I expect that could introduce the Seoul virus into these colonies and from there to humans. Mike: That is an interesting question whether an infected human could introduce the hantavirus into a rat lab colony. I could find no suggestions that this could happen and there is no report of a person infecting another person with a hantavirus. See https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/hps/transmission.html That's a good site but slightly better ones at the cdc are the following: https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/outbreaks/seoul-virus/faqs.html and https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/outbreaks/seoul-virus/index.html There appears to be two means of transmission of Seoul hantavirus: (1) Breathing in aerosolized feces or blood or urine or having such material entering broken human skin (i.e., cuts, etc.), and (2) through bites from infected animals. I've looked at some of the epi work on Seoul virus breakouts (China seems to have hotspots, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25704595 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23840719 ) and it seems that there is no evidence of person-to-person transmission, meaning that exchange of blood, semen, urine, etc. does not transmit the virus. However, I was thinking about a person who was infected and handled a lab rat who bit the person and drew blood. Would there be enough virus in the blood to infect the rat? The human evidence seems to suggest that the answer is no. So, I stand corrected. You are right. Meeting all of the federal regulations involving the care and housing of animals is now a very cumbersome and expensive business. There are several regulations aimed at preventing the hantavirus, specifically, from entering a rat colony. I think that getting rid of rat lab in general is probably a good thing for a variety of reasons (not the least being having to do systematic desensitization to rats for some students) and perhaps limiting them to psychology departments with a strong psychobio/physio/neuroscience faculty. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50296 or send a blank email to leave-50296-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Anyone Still Working With Rats?
A curious outbreak of the Seoul version of the Hantavirus among pet rat breeders in Wisconsin and Illinois has been reported by the CDC. A popular media account is provided by CNN; see: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/health/pet-rats-seoul-virus-outbreak-cdc-bn/ The CDC report can be read here: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/s0120-seoul-virus-outbreak.html I assume that rats being used in labs and professional breeders have enough safeguards to prevent external transmission of the Seoul virus into their colonies but I bet that the CDC and other groups will monitor these groups just in case. I haven't worked with rats in the context of "Rat Lab" (experimental psychology lab) since the late 1980s/early 1990s and I was under the impression that many colleges had stopped using rats or pigeons in psych lab because of the cost of meeting all the federal regulations involving the care and housing of the animals. But if one of the infected pet breeders took a rat lab course or worked in a lab with rats, I expect that could introduce the Seoul virus into these colonies and from there to humans. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50294 or send a blank email to leave-50294-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] College based Mobility in the U.S.A.
On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:52:48 -0800, Jim Clark wrote: Hi I downloaded the dataset to play with a bit. That's good idea. I should do that. Below is a plot of income success (y axis) as a function of access (x axis). Universities with higher access rates in general result in lower percentages of low income students in higher incomes later in life. I get Tips in digest form but I go to the Mailarchive website to check on posts. Unfortunately, images are not reliably reproduced on website. I also think that they're not reproduced in the digest (I get the digest in text format; if there is an html version, it might show up there. It is the product of these two variables (as fractions) that produce their mobility measure. I can't quite get my head fully around why mobility (the product) would be a better outcome measure than success. Lots of factors at play here, but one thing I wonder about is graduation rates for low income students. Are low income students graduating at the same rates in the low and high access universities? Perhaps the access measure in part reflects different standards for admission (i.e., not simply $)? Yes, there are a lot of factors that are not being controlled. In the public health area it is well-known that there are significant disparities in health outcomes (even everyday health) based on income differences. The ACA was supposed to help to address this but that all over now, Baby Blue. I doubt that the graduation rates are the same or that the amount of time to graduation is the same. There is probably differential attrition as a function of income, which means that there's an additional selection bias. I scanned through the report that the NY Times article was based on and I saw a later section that suggested that there was a need to do experimental or quasi-experimental research to control these and other factors. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50289 or send a blank email to leave-50289-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Fw: College based Mobility in the U.S.A. --- Ooops!
I hit the wrong key and sent the email below before I finished. The Equality of Opportunity Project website can be accessed at: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/ And I remain, -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu - Original Message - On Sunday, January 22, 2017 4:14 PM, Mike Palij wrote: I'm kind of surprised that no one on Tips has mentioned this recent article in the NY Time that is based on an economic analysis of the income background of students to the colleges that they attend and the likelihood that the students will move upward (or, if coming from a poor background but going to a college with a lot of middle class students, will earn incomes comparable to their college peers). The NY Time article is here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html?em_pos=small=edit_up_20170118=upshot_art=0=389166=headline=1&_r=0 It's all somewhat complicated but the graphics help to make the information somewhat more accessible. The original research report and additional materials can be accessed at the Equality of Opportunity Project website: --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50286 or send a blank email to leave-50286-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] College based Mobility in the U.S.A.
I'm kind of surprised that no one on Tips has mentioned this recent article in the NY Time that is based on an economic analysis of the income background of students to the colleges that they attend and the likelihood that the students will move upward (or, if coming from a poor background but going to a college with a lot of middle class students, will earn incomes comparable to their college peers). The NY Time article is here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html?em_pos=small=edit_up_20170118=upshot_art=0=389166=headline=1&_r=0 It's all somewhat complicated but the graphics help to make the information somewhat more accessible. The original research report and additional materials can be accessed at the Equality of Opportunity Project website: --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50285 or send a blank email to leave-50285-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re: [tips] Highest IQ cabinet
On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 06:36:07 -0800, Annette Taylor wrote: Certainly the wealthiest! Unfortunately, as I have shown previously on Tips, there is a negative correlation between wealth -- as measured by placement on the Forbes mag ranking of richest people in world -- and highest level of educational achievement -- a proxy for "intelligence". My previous post on this is available here: http://www.mail-archive.com/tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu/msg11691.html The above post was made in 2014, so let me update it with 2016 data from the Forbes Richest People in World; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires I have created a "Highest Educational Level Achieved" variable based on published sources on the highest grade level achieved by a billionaire. For example, assuming that a high school graduate has gone through 12 years of grade and high school plus a year for each year of college, Bill Gates gets an Ed level of "14" because he dropped out of Harvard during sophomore year. The second wealthiest man, Amancio Ortega, dropped out of school at the age of 14 -- it is unclear what grade this would correspond to but I'll assume that it corresponds to sophomore year in high school or a value of "10". And so on. Below I attempt to provide a table of person's name, net worth & highest Ed Level Name__Net worth_Ed Level Bill Gates_$75.0_14 Amancio Ortega$67.0_10 Warren Buffett_$60.8_18 Carlos Slim___$50.0_16 Jeff Bezos$45.2_16 Mark Zuckerberg___$44.6_14 Larry Ellison___$43.6_14 Michael Bloomberg_$40.0_18 Charles Koch__$39.6_20 David Koch___$39.6_18 The Pearson r between Net Worth & Ed level = -0.57. NOTE: Assuming that a person spend 4 years in college, 5 years in graduate school, and 2 years as post doc, such a person will have an Ed level of 23. If these folks' first job is as an assistant prof, it should come as no surprise that the there is a negative correlation between Ed Level and net worth. In general, few Ph.D.s make it into the Billionaire's Club and none that I know of into the top 10. So, if one accepts highest grade achieved as a proxy for IQ, the greater one's wealth, the lower one's IQ. So, if the proposed cabinet is the wealthiest, then it's I'll leave the answer to the interested reader. ;-) Billionaire 'boys' club--'boys' in quotes because they're not all boys but might as well be and because they might as well be called boys rather than men. Well, one could argue that "boy" is what a high status male (or female) calls a low or lower status male. Then again, it can also be used to refer to males that don't behave as adults even though they are clearly old enough. On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 02:18:19 +0100, Philippe Gervaix wrote: Hi all, What do you make of new president’s boast "we have by far the highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled†? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50273 or send a blank email to leave-50273-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] The New Presidential Science Advisor Nominee
The computer scientist David Gelernter at Yale is being considered for the role of Science Advisor; the Washington Post has an article on this. see: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/18/david-gelernter-fiercely-anti-intellectual-computer-scientist-is-being-eyed-for-trumps-science-adviser/ The website Inside Higher Ed also picks up on this news: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/01/20/trump-considers-gelernter-science-adviser It appears that Gelernter might be an observant Orthodox Jew which makes the following quite from the IHE ,as well as found in other sources, somewhat strange: |Gelernter is Jewish but suggests that some of what |he sees as academe's problems relate to increasing |"Jewish presence at top colleges." He wrote that, in |part because of Jews, colleges have moved to the left |politically and acquired "a more thrusting, belligerent tone." Dr. Gelernter, let me introduce you to Dr. Noam Chomsky. His Wikipedia entry provides more background info on Gelernter; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gelernter One of the more personally disturbing details of Gelernter's life is that he got his Ph.D. at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook in 1982 -- at the same time I was getting my Ph.D. there (1984). I also think that it is somewhat weird that he named the computer language he created "Linda" after the porn actress Linda Lovelace who is remembered for her skills as a kielbasa swallower (as a counter to the computer language "ADA" which was named after Lady Ada Lovelace; for more on Ada Lovelace see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace ) For some reason Gelernter reminds of another American Jew who played a significant role in U.S. history: Judah P. Benjamin. For info on JPB, see his Wikiepedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_P._Benjamin Lastly, what is with computer scientists support of Voldemort? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mercer_(businessman) Another odd coincidence is that Mercer lives a stone's throw away from SUNY-Stony Brook. Busy, busy, busy. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu . --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50270 or send a blank email to leave-50270-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] "Highest IQ cabinet"
On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:07:49 -0800, Christopher Green wrote: That he is making an empty boast. What possible evidence could he have for such a claim? Chris is right. In all likelihood Voldemort has no idea what an IQ score is outside of being a measure of intelligence or "smartness". As one cable TV commentator has said (paraphrasing): "The Oompah Loompah King (okay, maybe he said something else) has come into a treasure trove of data that consists of all of the IQ scores of all of the cabinet members since Washington was President. How else would he know that his cabinet members have the highest IQ ever?" He may just be impressed by how much his cabinet members know (i.e., confusing being knowledgeable with intelligence) or something similar. Trump could have just as easily said: "We have by far the biggest [insert male body part word here] of any Cabinet ever assembled! And that goes double for the female members!" The real question is whether whatisname is just exaggerating, delusional, or psychotic. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. "Hands" is an acceptable answer to the fill-in above. On Jan 20, 2017, at 8:18 PM, Philippe Gervaix wrote: Hi all, What do you make of new president's boast "we have by far the highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled" ? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50268 or send a blank email to leave-50268-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Has Anyone Done a Content & Stylistic Analysis of Tweets?
On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:14:49 -0800, Gerald L. Peterson wrote: It IS a fascinating world., that of tweets. I would assume that various research and marketing firms do big data analyses of tweets. It would seem to offer rich possibilities to also explore the issues you highlight here as well as the spread of rumors, emotional contagion, and source factors such as those from celebrities, those hi and low social status, etc. I wonder if the Survey Research center at U. Michigan is doing anything interesting along these lines. Maybe some tipsters will have connections? I don't have any connection to the SRC but a search of their website and a more general google search does not provide any hits involving tweets or twitter. It is possible that there is such research that hasn't been published yet or, if published, is in another language. There is a paper the examines tweets and other data from the "Great East Japan Earthquake" and though it is unaffiliated with the SRC it does cite an SRC publication that reports a survey of the people affected by the earthquake but the paper is in Japanese. The original article is available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/29901_Behaviour_Analysis_Using_Tweet_Data_and_geo-tag_Data_in_a_Natural_Disaster The SRC report in the reference list is identified as "Survey Research Center 2011" and a weblink is provided to the report. So, if you can read Japanese, one might be able to figure out if the SRC used tweet data in this instance. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50230 or send a blank email to leave-50230-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re:[tips] Has Anyone Done a Content & Stylistic Analysis of Tweets?
My thanks to both Carol and Jim. How I missed the NY Times Upshot article on this topic is beyond me -- the end of the semester was pretty hectic but I thought that I was following issues like this well. An interesting (important?) question whether the nature of the tweets will be maintained once the one who cannot be named becomes the Head Orange In Charge (HOIC). One wonders if he will stop using Twitter or become the Tweeter in Chief? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. In my research methods class where I cover APA style in depth, I point out that the APA has a separate manual for electronic sources which tells one how to cite web blogs, email, and tweets though I usually say that I don't know why one would one to cite a tweet in an APA style paper. Well, now I have reasons for citing tweets. On: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:37:38 +, Jim Clark wrote: And of course, analysis of tweets shows just how polite we Canadians are! http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/01/07/polite-canadian-study-tweets-mcmaster_n_8935540.html On January-13-17 6:30 PM, Carol DeVolder wrote: These showed up in my Facebook feed: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/06/upshot/how-to-know-what-donald-trump-really-cares-about-look-at-who-hes-insulting.html?_r=0 http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/ On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Mike Palij wrote: This is a follow-up to my original post and Claudia's response because of new information. On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:06:07 -0800, Claudia Stanny wrote: I haven't seen an analysis other than the examination of the originating device to determine "true" authorship (V himself on an android or an underling on an iPhone). I'm sure a content analysis can't be far behind, if only from the literary types who use this type of analysis to guess at authorship. There is a literature on this analysis among Shakespeare scholars and Biblical scholars (authorship of different books0. The latest issue of "Psychological Methods" is a special issue devoted to "Big Data in Psychology" (big data is the current fad in "Data Science") and one of the articles is relevant to my original question of whether there was research on the analysis of the content of Tweets. The following reference and abstract describes research that focused on change in emotional content of Tweets from before and after violent incidents on college campuses. Interestingly, it uses Pennebaker's LIWC in addition to statistical analyses. For those who are interested, here's some info: Tweeting negative emotion: An investigation of Twitter data in the aftermath of violence on college campuses.Jones, N. M.; Wojcik, S. P.; Sweeting, J.; & Silver, R. C. Psychological Methods, Vol 21(4), Dec 2016, 526-541. doi: 10.1037/met099 Studying communities impacted by traumatic events is often costly, requires swift action to enter the field when disaster strikes, and may be invasive for some traumatized respondents. Typically, individuals are studied after the traumatic event with no baseline data against which to compare their postdisaster responses. Given these challenges, we used longitudinal Twitter data across 3 case studies to examine the impact of violence near or on college campuses in the communities of Isla Vista, CA, Flagstaff, AZ, and Roseburg, OR, compared with control communities, between 2014 and 2015. To identify users likely to live in each community, we sought Twitter accounts local to those communities and downloaded tweets of their respective followers. Tweets were then coded for the presence of event-related negative emotion words using a computerized text analysis method (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, LIWC). In Case Study 1, we observed an increase in postevent negative emotion expression among sampled followers after mass violence, and show how patterns of response appear differently based on the timeframe under scrutiny. In Case Study 2, we replicate the pattern of results among users in the control group from Case Study 1 after a campus shooting in that community killed 1 student. In Case Study 3, we replicate this pattern in another group of Twitter users likely to live in a community affected by a mass shooting. We discuss conducting trauma-related research using Twitter data and provide guidance to researchers interested in using Twitter to answer their own research questions in this domain. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) So, I guess the real question is whether anyone is doing a LIWC analysis of Voldemort's tweets? I'd suggest folks write up a research proposal to get some grant money to do this research if it isn't being done but I have a feeling that anyone suggesting such research will probably be gulaged after you know who takes over. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu<mailto:m...@nyu.edu> P.S. Maybe out Canadian colleagues can do a LIWC an
Re: [tips] Has Anyone Done a Content & Stylistic Analysis of Tweets?
This is a follow-up to my original post and Claudia's response because of new information. On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:06:07 -0800, Claudia Stanny wrote: I haven't seen an analysis other than the examination of the originating device to determine "true" authorship (V himself on an android or an underling on an iPhone). I'm sure a content analysis can't be far behind, if only from the literary types who use this type of analysis to guess at authorship. There is a literature on this analysis among Shakespeare scholars and Biblical scholars (authorship of different books0. The latest issue of "Psychological Methods" is a special issue devoted to "Big Data in Psychology" (big data is the current fad in "Data Science") and one of the articles is relevant to my original question of whether there was research on the analysis of the content of Tweets. The following reference and abstract describes research that focused on change in emotional content of Tweets from before and after violent incidents on college campuses. Interestingly, it uses Pennebaker's LIWC in addition to statistical analyses. For those who are interested, here's some info: Tweeting negative emotion: An investigation of Twitter data in the aftermath of violence on college campuses.Jones, N. M.; Wojcik, S. P.; Sweeting, J.; & Silver, R. C. Psychological Methods, Vol 21(4), Dec 2016, 526-541. doi: 10.1037/met099 Studying communities impacted by traumatic events is often costly, requires swift action to enter the field when disaster strikes, and may be invasive for some traumatized respondents. Typically, individuals are studied after the traumatic event with no baseline data against which to compare their postdisaster responses. Given these challenges, we used longitudinal Twitter data across 3 case studies to examine the impact of violence near or on college campuses in the communities of Isla Vista, CA, Flagstaff, AZ, and Roseburg, OR, compared with control communities, between 2014 and 2015. To identify users likely to live in each community, we sought Twitter accounts local to those communities and downloaded tweets of their respective followers. Tweets were then coded for the presence of event-related negative emotion words using a computerized text analysis method (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, LIWC). In Case Study 1, we observed an increase in postevent negative emotion expression among sampled followers after mass violence, and show how patterns of response appear differently based on the timeframe under scrutiny. In Case Study 2, we replicate the pattern of results among users in the control group from Case Study 1 after a campus shooting in that community killed 1 student. In Case Study 3, we replicate this pattern in another group of Twitter users likely to live in a community affected by a mass shooting. We discuss conducting trauma-related research using Twitter data and provide guidance to researchers interested in using Twitter to answer their own research questions in this domain. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) So, I guess the real question is whether anyone is doing a LIWC analysis of Voldemort's tweets? I'd suggest folks write up a research proposal to get some grant money to do this research if it isn't being done but I have a feeling that anyone suggesting such research will probably be gulaged after you know who takes over. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. Maybe out Canadian colleagues can do a LIWC analysis of tweets before and after the election, eh? ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50221 or send a blank email to leave-50221-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] How Long Would It Take Zombies To Wipe Out the Human Race?
The answer can be read here: http://www.livescience.com/57407-zombie-apocalypse-would-take-100-days.html But it probably is still longer than it will take Voldemort's supporters. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50186 or send a blank email to leave-50186-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re:[tips] If You are in NYC This Sunday (01/08) and Will be Riding the Subway...
On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 20:42:31 +, Karl Louis Wuensch Temps on Sunday predicted to range from the teens to a high of 28. There are going to be some cold buns in NYC. Not to mention the well known "male shrinkage" that occurs at such temperatures (in degrees Fahrenheit), I imagine there will be a lot of spontaneous singing of "Baby, It's Cold Outside!" ;-) I guess one could put one of those chemical hand warmers into one's shorts but this might lead to complaints that one is enhancing one's "package". ;-) Cheers, Karl L. Wuensch -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu -Original Message- On Wednesday, January 04, 2017 1:09 PM, Mike Palij wrote: don't forget to take your pants off. See: http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2017/01/the-no-pants-subway-ride-returns-this-sunday.html Don't go commando. ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50179 or send a blank email to leave-50179-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] If You are in NYC This Sunday (01/08) and Will be Riding the Subway...
don't forget to take your pants off. See: http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2017/01/the-no-pants-subway-ride-returns-this-sunday.html Don't go commando. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50161 or send a blank email to leave-50161-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Remember that scene in the movie "Fargo" with Wood Chipper?
Well, you can now get up close and personal with it, foot and sock and all. See: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fargo-wood-chipper But, please, don't bring body parts, m'kay? ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50159 or send a blank email to leave-50159-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] The Ethics of Doing Research With Candy: One Really BAD Example
Here's another example of unethical human experimentation by our Swedish friends using, of all things, caramels with people in a mental institution to determine how much candy was too much: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/an-adorable-swedish-tradition-has-its-roots-in-human-experimentation So, is "Saturday Candy" a real thing in Sweden? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50158 or send a blank email to leave-50158-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] The Making of a Historic Music Video
I can't claim to have been a fan of George Michael's music but I do have a sense of where and how he fits into pop culture and history. The NY Times has an interesting article based on the remembrances of the participants of the music video for his song "Freedom". David Fincher directed the video, which was what he was doing before becoming a movie director (e.g., directing "Se7en", "Fight Club", and so on") and it is interesting to get the participants take on what Fincher wanted to accomplish. The article can be read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/fashion/george-michael-freedom-video.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ffashion=click=fashion=rank=package=highlights=1=sectionfront The video for "Freedom" is provided in article though there is an ad at the start that can be skipped. The Times reports that the video has been viewed on The YouTube over 37 million times since Michael's death on Christmas day. I'm still not sure what the song is about but the visual style is pretty good as eye candy. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50144 or send a blank email to leave-50144-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Has Anyone Done a Content & Stylistic Analysis of Tweets?
I don't know about anyone else but i am getting increasing irritated by Voldemort's tweets. Not so much for the content -- which is bad but I can deal with intellectually -- but the style of expression that reminds me of junior high/high school "commentary". I assume that people have done frequency analyses of word appearance and have created word clouds but I was wondering if anyone has used the software that analyzes the educational level of the text (e.g., popular newspapers typically have articles/features that are oriented towards, say, 10th graders). I understand that there is a 140 character limit on tweets but there is a world of difference between a Haiku and the verbal diarrhea that some spew. So, does anyone know of recent studies? I assume that people will write dissertations about Voldemort's tweets ranging from content analyses to markers of potential psychopathology but that's off into the future (unless Twitter goes out of business soon; one wonders what Voldemort would do then at 3am?). --Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50132 or send a blank email to leave-50132-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Fw: For Those That Observe: Merry Christmas & Happy Chanukah, Part Deux
This time with the message: For those that observe, Merry Christmas to you and yours, Happy Chanukah, Peace on Earth, and, if you believe, Blessings be upon you and yours. And now for some tunes. An Oldie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbKQ7nXx0o8 A Newie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd79mpzBnJ4 For Adam Sandler fans: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/adam-sandler-sings-the-hanukkah-song/n10627?snl=1 Finally, as we enter the Age of Voldemort, we all must use our wits, creativity, and, of course, psychwar techniques. See: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-supporters-revenge-gifts-christmas-presents-2016-12 So, send a donation to Planned Parenthood as a gift in the name of Mike Pence. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50116 or send a blank email to leave-50116-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re: [tips] Student's Name: _________
On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 05:53:51 -0800, Karl Louis Wuensch wrote: On my stats exam there appears, in the upper right of the first page, "Student's Name _." Two of my students wrote in there "William S. Gosset." Should I give them extra credit? A pint of stout? I'd have been more impressed if the student wrote "Bernard Lewis Welch". By the way, when I teach the Student/Gosset t-test, I tell the old Guinness story and point out that if one has homogeneous variances, one should celebrate by having a Guinness stout. However, if one has heterogeneous variances, there's more work to do with Welch's correction and they should drink grape juice instead of stout. Sometime the mnemonic works. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=50062 or send a blank email to leave-50062-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Happy Thanksgiving!
To those Tipsters who still remain and who celebrate the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving, Greetings to You and Yours and that you actually spend some time today reflecting upon what you have to be thankful for with the realization that some people have more to be thankful for than others, even the same person may have more to be thankful for one year than in others. It may also be appropriate to reflect on the history of Thanksgiving which has had something of a checkered past; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States) But in the U.S. we are all about reinvention and second chances, so some neutral or terrible things can become opportunities for joyous celebration. Just remember that Thanksgiving is not about gluttony or mindless consumerism (don't see it as the starting point for "Black Friday/Cyber Monday/Xmas sales"). And if you really have many things to be thankful for, remember to do onto others who have less or none. And be thankful that you can be helpful to others. And remember: no political discussions. ;-) Enjoy the day as best you can. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49961 or send a blank email to leave-49961-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?
Don, thanks for the overview of the convoluted process by which Canadian elect their Prime Minister. I'm not entirely sure it is better than direct election of a head of state but it is interesting. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu -- Original Message - On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:48:39 -0800, Don Allen wrote: Hi Mike- You asked, " Don't you folks in Canada elect your Prime Minister through a popular vote?" No we don't. Most Canadians don't get to vote directly for the Prime Minister because thy don't live in his riding. A riding is an electoral district. Candidates compete against one another within ridings and the person with the most votes (often a plurality not a majority as there are usually at least three major parties represented) becomes the member of Parliament for that riding. The party with the greatest number of seats in Parliament puts forward their leader (assuming he or she has won their riding) as Prime Minister. The advantage of this system is that you can't have the situation that you have just endured where a Democrat President was constantly fighting a hostile Republican Congress. In our system the government actually gets to govern! That said, there will occasionally be a "minority government". Since we have three major parties it sometimes happens that one party takes power with less than a majority of seats. These are often good things because they prevent one party from running roughshod over the others and usually result in good compromise legislation. Hope that helps. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49939 or send a blank email to leave-49939-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:06:35 -0800, Stuart McKelvie wrote: https://www.concordia.ca/jmsb/faculty/gad-saad.html Thanks for the link but I did searches on the interweb on him because some of the things he's posted on Linkedin are, well, interesting and not in a good way. For an alternate view of the good professor, see the following discussion board "BadSocialScience" on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BadSocialScience/comments/3zl9is/oh_my_gad/ Needless to say, one conclusion that can be drawn is that his hype is greater than his substance and another conclusion is that he appears to overconfident in his opinions and not realize the tentative nature of his claims. Dear Mike, I attended a public lecture he gave here at Bishop's in 2008 (scroll down in the link above to see the listing). From memory, it was fairly interesting, was data based, but perhaps a little bit glib. From what I read at the site above and elsewhere, I think the term "glib" is perhaps an understatement and add in an inability to know where the line is that separates serious discussion from glib statements, indeed, confusing the two. But just my opinion. Take a look at this post that he made which can be described in a variety of ways but one might start with the question "What set this off?" See: https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/2ff5bd00-a1a3-4f25-8631-9d7348e2fe14-original.png I'm not sure who he is referring to when he says unidentified people are trying to "magically" win the Presidential election for Hillary Clinton through some "fudging process" (not sure but actual fudge might be involved; it seems to me that he doesn't really understand what the electoral college is or how it came about). Don't you folks in Canada elect your Prime Minister through a popular vote? If so, I'm surprised the Prof appears to be unfamiliar with the concept. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu -Original Message- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] Sent: November 16, 2016 8:48 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad? I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in because of former students sending me invites) and though I have tried to keep contacts on a professional level, there are some folks that one might characterize as "interesting" (as in the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times). One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much time on his hands and seems to be heavy into self-promotion. There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian colleges and went on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: I'm not saying anything about that photo) https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9 and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an endowed chair which always raises questions). Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that early on he seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive psychologist (even making some presentation a the meetings of the Society for Computers in Psychology which historical meets before the Psychonomics meeting; my mentor Doris Aaronson was involved in SCiP) but somewhere along they way he appears to have gone off the rails, focusing on evolutionary psychology and consumer psychology (not necessarily bad things but raises certain issues). Not as bad as, say, publishing article in the journal "Intelligence". ;-) These days he seems to be more involved in doing podcasts (thank God these things will die out soon), making appearances on TV shows, and making weird posts to Linkedin. Apparently trying to become a pop psychologist which always pays better than being an academic. But for some reason he reminds of the comedian Marc Maron, perhaps best known for his recent TV series on IFC (see his Wiki entry) except Saad is not as funny a Maron. So, what's is the story about Saad from Canadians who are familiar with him? You can contact me off-list if you like but I would appreciate a public discussion if possible. Send me something. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. It is "interesting" (see definition above) to be living in the same city as Voldemort and all of the protests (some by students from NYU starting at Washington Square Park and moving uptown). To get some idea of how "popular" Voldemort is in Manhattan, see the following which give a map of voting patterns in Manhattan at some surrounding areas but with an emphasis on the Lower East Side: http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2016/11/heres-how-many-voters-picked-trump-on-the-lower-east-side.html I'm still trying to figure out who the 7% in the East Village who voted
Re: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 05:57:08 -0800, Christopher Green wrote: Mike, Never heard of him. Thankfully, from what I can gather. Sorry I can't be more helpful. Chris, you are one of people that are my "go to" sources for things Canadian, so, if you are not familiar with this guy, that really does say something. Maybe one of the other Canadians know of him but it seems to me that he is trying to be more like Dr. Phil (pop psych) than a serious psychologist who is trying to popularize some aspects of psychology (e.g., Stephen Pinker though he too has his own problems beside needing a haircut ;-). Thanks anyway. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu On Nov 16, 2016, at 8:48 AM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in because of former students sending me invites) and though I have tried to keep contacts on a professional level, there are some folks that one might characterize as "interesting" (as in the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times). One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much time on his hands and seems to be heavy into self-promotion. There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian colleges and went on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: I'm not saying anything about that photo) https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9 and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an endowed chair which always raises questions). Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that early on he seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive psychologist (even making some presentation a the meetings of the Society for Computers in Psychology which historical meets before the Psychonomics meeting; my mentor Doris Aaronson was involved in SCiP) but somewhere along they way he appears to have gone off the rails, focusing on evolutionary psychology and consumer psychology (not necessarily bad things but raises certain issues). Not as bad as, say, publishing article in the journal "Intelligence". ;-) These days he seems to be more involved in doing podcasts (thank God these things will die out soon), making appearances on TV shows, and making weird posts to Linkedin. Apparently trying to become a pop psychologist which always pays better than being an academic. But for some reason he reminds of the comedian Marc Maron, perhaps best known for his recent TV series on IFC (see his Wiki entry) except Saad is not as funny a Maron. So, what's is the story about Saad from Canadians who are familiar with him? You can contact me off-list if you like but I would appreciate a public discussion if possible. Send me something. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. It is "interesting" (see definition above) to be living in the same city as Voldemort and all of the protests (some by students from NYU starting at Washington Square Park and moving uptown). To get some idea of how "popular" Voldemort is in Manhattan, see the following which give a map of voting patterns in Manhattan at some surrounding areas but with an emphasis on the Lower East Side: http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2016/11/heres-how-many-voters-picked-trump-on-the-lower-east-side.html I'm still trying to figure out who the 7% in the East Village who voted to Voldemort. .P.P.S Think that NYU is a bastion of "Liberal PC Hellfire"? You are not alone as one of out faculty expressed these ideas though on Twitter under the pseudonym "Deplorable Professor". Michael Rectenwald; a op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post can be accessed here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/campus-pc-culture-is-so-rampant-that-nyu-is-paying-to-silence-me/?utm_term=.c94cd6997e83 NOTE: Rectenwald at first implied he was forced to take a leave from NYU but it turns out that he had requested a leave -- see the updated Editor Note at the bottom of the WaPo piece and: https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/november/email-correspondence-between-professor-michael-rectenwald-and-de.html So, what is the current status of the self-righteous anti-PC faculty member? He got a promotion; see: http://nypost.com/2016/11/13/nyu-awards-promotion-and-full-time-gig-to-deplorable-professor/ Damn! Sound like being anti-PC really pays off! ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49916 or send a blank email to leave-49916-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?
I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in because of former students sending me invites) and though I have tried to keep contacts on a professional level, there are some folks that one might characterize as "interesting" (as in the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times). One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much time on his hands and seems to be heavy into self-promotion. There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian colleges and went on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: I'm not saying anything about that photo) https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9 and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an endowed chair which always raises questions). Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that early on he seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive psychologist (even making some presentation a the meetings of the Society for Computers in Psychology which historical meets before the Psychonomics meeting; my mentor Doris Aaronson was involved in SCiP) but somewhere along they way he appears to have gone off the rails, focusing on evolutionary psychology and consumer psychology (not necessarily bad things but raises certain issues). Not as bad as, say, publishing article in the journal "Intelligence". ;-) These days he seems to be more involved in doing podcasts (thank God these things will die out soon), making appearances on TV shows, and making weird posts to Linkedin. Apparently trying to become a pop psychologist which always pays better than being an academic. But for some reason he reminds of the comedian Marc Maron, perhaps best known for his recent TV series on IFC (see his Wiki entry) except Saad is not as funny a Maron. So, what's is the story about Saad from Canadians who are familiar with him? You can contact me off-list if you like but I would appreciate a public discussion if possible. Send me something. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. It is "interesting" (see definition above) to be living in the same city as Voldemort and all of the protests (some by students from NYU starting at Washington Square Park and moving uptown). To get some idea of how "popular" Voldemort is in Manhattan, see the following which give a map of voting patterns in Manhattan at some surrounding areas but with an emphasis on the Lower East Side: http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2016/11/heres-how-many-voters-picked-trump-on-the-lower-east-side.html I'm still trying to figure out who the 7% in the East Village who voted to Voldemort. .P.P.S Think that NYU is a bastion of "Liberal PC Hellfire"? You are not alone as one of out faculty expressed these ideas though on Twitter under the pseudonym "Deplorable Professor". Michael Rectenwald; a op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post can be accessed here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/campus-pc-culture-is-so-rampant-that-nyu-is-paying-to-silence-me/?utm_term=.c94cd6997e83 NOTE: Rectenwald at first implied he was forced to take a leave from NYU but it turns out that he had requested a leave -- see the updated Editor Note at the bottom of the WaPo piece and: https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/november/email-correspondence-between-professor-michael-rectenwald-and-de.html So, what is the current status of the self-righteous anti-PC faculty member? He got a promotion; see: http://nypost.com/2016/11/13/nyu-awards-promotion-and-full-time-gig-to-deplorable-professor/ Damn! Sound like being anti-PC really pays off! ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49914 or send a blank email to leave-49914-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Voldemort Wins
On Wed, 09 Nov 2016 18:38:27 -0800, Jim Clark wrote: Sometimes we get the leader that others deserve, but not us! No, it is on all of us in the U.S. It is amazing that someone that not only lost his own state but is actually disliked on the island he lives on (Manhattan) won the U.S. Presidency. People in rural areas of the U.S. for some reason think that a New York realtor will treat them better than they have been treated. Voldemort even now has a mass of protesters outside of his home on 5th Avenue. He better move to one of his other houses quickly if he doesn't want people reminding every day that "He's Not My President". -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. Anyone who has deal with a real estate agent in New York knows that they are the lowest form of life. In additions here are some other things to consider: http://gothamist.com/2016/11/09/arrival_of_cheeto_fuhrer.php Trump = Cheeto Fuhrer -Original Message- On November-09-16 6:58 AM, Mike Palij wrote: We get the leaders we deserve. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49873 or send a blank email to leave-49873-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Voldemort Wins
On Wed, 09 Nov 2016 06:15:01 -0800, Don Allen wrote: Deepest condolences from Canada. Don't think that Canada and the rest of the world won't feel the pain. Strap in, it's going to be a bumpy ride. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu - Original Message - On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 4:58:17 AM, Mike Palij wrote: We get the leaders we deserve. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49865 or send a blank email to leave-49865-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Voldemort Wins
We get the leaders we deserve. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49862 or send a blank email to leave-49862-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Hey Vegans! When Plants Communicate, Do You Listen?
On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 07:34:34 -0700, Jim Clark wrote: Seems that a lot here hinges on what the word "know" means. For some reason this statement reminds me of Bill Clinton when he said "It depends upon what the meaning of 'is" is..." For those who don't know or have forgotten or are actively repressing any memories from that period of time, see the Wiki entry for a refresher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton So, let me put forward a "hypothetical": a person is infected by a flu virus. It initiates an attack by the immune system which produces antibodies to either eliminate the virus or put it into a state where it can no longer attack the body. Question: Is this "memory"? Depending upon one's medical knowledge this may sound like an odd question because our subjective experience of memories (cognitive) represent a completely different system. Then again, there are those with a different view; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_immune_system#Immunological_memory What does "memory" mean? Oh, that reminds me, I need to buy a new hard drive to back-up files on my PC --- I'm running out of memory. Does the response of an object to any treatment warrant the label? Is there some logical system or calculus that will allow us to unambiguously answer this question? Or does it depend upon one's subjective definition or agreement with a group convention? Or does "know" imply something else, like awareness. I don't think so, especially given that social cognitive psychologies have shown how often human responses in social and non-social situations are done unconsciously, priming effects in an almost "stimulus-response" situation. Even if were to concede the operation of "awareness" or "consciousness" one is stuck with the problem that Sir John Eccles had in describing consciousness as "consciousness1", "consciousness2", "consciousness3", and so on. Even "they fight back" seems like a provocative and perhaps unjustified wording, although not as egregious as "know." Again, are you appealing to some abstract logical system or subjectivity or social consensus for what these words mean? Does an organism or object reacting imply "fighting back?" If an immune system generate antibodies in response to a virus, is it "fighting back"? Or does your immune system have an awareness that our brain's awareness is not aware of? If I throw a rock up in the air, is it "fighting back" against gravity when it falls to the ground? Metaphorically or literally? If "fighting back" mean "working in opposition", then when anything is thrown away from a large body, like a rock into the air from the surface of a planet, isn't working in opposition to gravity? With enough opposition it might even escape the clutches of gravity and go out into space with it will be attracted by the gravitational forces of other large bodies. Silly example, but does illustrate that "fighting back" does not apply to all reactions of objects. Metaphorically or literally? Or should we avoid the whole problem of using natural language and simply create a compute simulation where we can operationally define "fighting back" by referring to the operation of specific code? Question is whether the reactions of plants to being eaten are more akin to the rock or to some animate object that can "fight back" and perhaps "know." H, sounds like you think words have Buddha Nature. For one view on what this means, see: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildfoxzen/2013/11/do-words-have-buddha-nature-fighting-over-and-gnawing-at-rotting-bones-crunch-snap-howl-bark.html Btw. Mu! -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu On October-30-16 6:55 AM, Mike Palij wrote: Plants apparently respond to "attacks" on them, such as eating them. For a couple of examples. see: http://daily.jstor.org/plants-know-when-they-are-being-eaten-and-they-fight-back/ There is an old story in Zen Buddhism about all living things having Buddha nature and it is a sin to kill and eat, say, animals, because of this. But one day a novice asked a master about plants and whether they had Buddha nature. The mater responded "All living things have Buddha nature". The novice responded "So when we eats plant, they scream as we eat them?' The master responded "Yes, but they do so very quietly." In contrast, on the Zombie series "The Walking Dead" Carl makes the astute observation: "Everything is food for something else." Yes, indeed. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49800 or send a blank email to leave-49800-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Hey Vegans! When Plants Communicate, Do You Listen?
Plants apparently respond to "attacks" on them, such as eating them. For a couple of examples. see: http://daily.jstor.org/plants-know-when-they-are-being-eaten-and-they-fight-back/ There is an old story in Zen Buddhism about all living things having Buddha nature and it is a sin to kill and eat, say, animals, because of this. But one day a novice asked a master about plants and whether they had Buddha nature. The mater responded "All living things have Buddha nature". The responded "So when we eats plant, they scream as we eat them?' The master responded "Yes, but they do so very quietly." In contrast, on the Zombie series "The Walking Dead" Carl makes the astute observation: "Everything is food for something else." Yes, indeed. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49798 or send a blank email to leave-49798-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Happy Birthday to a "4"
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 08:45:06 -0700, Christopher Green wrote: I hear that she's moving to Canada if the unthinkable happens. :-) Well, I heard that the islanders are going to build a wall to keep the Staten Islanders out. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu On Oct 28, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: The Lady in the Harbor has a birthday but since she is a lady her age won't be mentioned. For more, see: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/statue-of-liberty-dedicated-oct-28-1886-230301 And if you want to see her views of things, see: http://www.earthcam.net/projects/statueofliberty/ellisisland/rwd.php?cam=brooklyn --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49789 or send a blank email to leave-49789-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Happy Birthday to a "4"
The Lady in the Harbor has a birthday but since she is a lady her age won't be mentioned. For more, see: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/statue-of-liberty-dedicated-oct-28-1886-230301 And if you want to see her views of things, see: http://www.earthcam.net/projects/statueofliberty/ellisisland/rwd.php?cam=brooklyn -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49785 or send a blank email to leave-49785-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] For The Woman Who Has Everything Except.... (NSFW)
The Vice news channel on YouTube has a video episode on the creation of the "Male Sex Dolls" (and you thought only prevvy guys went for this kind of thing). It is an interesting story about how they are made, who the clientele are (I'm looking at you Texas) and it might be useful for classes on human sexuality, especially in comparing male and female use of such dolls. The video is on YouTube and you get a warning about adult content, so you have to decide/click through to watch it. It is remarkably mundane given the subject matter. The video is at: https://youtu.be/GKFHZuCvvS4 Makes one wonder how long until the first lifelike sex robots are built. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49765 or send a blank email to leave-49765-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Would William James Attend?
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/we-tried-to-talk-to-the-dead-at-new-yorks-only-spirit-church Some things never change. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49737 or send a blank email to leave-49737-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Well Who Knew?
On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 17:42:07 -0700, Carol DeVolder wrote: Well thanks for sharing that, Mike. You forgot the ;-) to indicate that you are being ironic. ;-) Now I won't sleep tonight. It's damned scary. What's really scary is what Voldemort's supporters might do after he loses the election. Revolution and assassination are just a couple of things being mentioned. Second amendment solutions. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Mike Palij wrote: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/donald-trump-hate-groups-neo-nazi-white-supremacist-racism Gee, anyone doing Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) on Voldemort's supporters? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49685 or send a blank email to leave-49685-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Well Who Knew?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/donald-trump-hate-groups-neo-nazi-white-supremacist-racism Gee, anyone doing Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) on Voldemort's supporters? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49683 or send a blank email to leave-49683-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
With all due respect to Chris Green, the passage he quotes (I've placed it at the bottom of this post), reminds of what Henry James did when attempting to ask where he was while driving in a car with Edith Wharton. Wharton wrote down the exchange James had with a village local in the British countryside and an excerpt is provided below: ** His most famous utterance was recorded by his friend and fellow novelist Edith Wharton, who often took him motoring. Mrs. Wharton and her motorcar-he was fond of both of them-exhausted the aging James, who called her an "angel of devastation." Once he wrote of a visit:: "Her powers of devastation are ineffable, her repudiation of repose absolutely tragic, and she was never more brilliant and able and interesting. " On another occasion she remembered him asking directions in the town of Windsor, England. While I was hesitating and peering out into the darkness James spied an ancient doddering man who had stopped in the rain to gaze at us. "Wait a moment, my dear-I'll ask him where we are"; and leaning out he signaled to the spectator. "My good man, if you'll be good enough to come here, please; a little nearer-so," and as the old man came up: "My friend, to put it to you in two words, this lady and I have just arrived here from Slough; that is to say, to be more strictly accurate, we have recently passed through Slough on our way here, having actually motored to Windsor from Rye, which was our point of departure; and the darkness having overtaken us, we should be much obliged if you would tell us where we now are in relation, say, to the High Street, which, as you of course know, leads to the Castle, after leaving on the left hand the turn down to the railway station. I was not surpassed to have this extraordinary appeal met by silence, and a dazed expression on the old wrinkled face at the window; nor to have James go on: "In short" (his invanable prelude to a fresh series of explanatory ramifications). "in short my good man, that I want to put to you in a word is this: supposing we have already (as I have reason to think we have) driven past the turn down to the railway station (which in that, by the way, would probably not have been on our left hand, but on our right) where are we now in relation to. . . " "Oh, please" I interrupted, feeling myself utterly unable to sit through another parenthesis, "do ask him where the Kind's Road is." "Ah-? The King's Road? Just so? Quite right! Can you, as a matter of fact, my good man, tell us where, in relation to our present position, the King's Road exactly is?" "Ye're In It," said the aged face at the window. -Edith Wharton, "A Backward Glance", 1934· ** It is amazing that Henry James can bloviate so much on asking "Where is King's Road?" I had the same feeling reading William James on what might be the basis of the saying in the subject line. It seems to me that attribute that saying to William James is comparable to claiming the Freud used the iceberg metaphor. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- Original Message --- On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 05:27:37 -0700,Christopher Green wrote: On Oct 11, 2016, at 9:14 AM, Mike Palij wrote: So, what's the source? William James is often associated with the quote in Subject line but, like icebergs and Freud, no sources or references are given. Or did I miss it? Send me something. I do not find that exact quote. However, the 5th para. of chapter 14 (Association) of James' Principles of Psychology expresses a similar idea: The truth must be admitted that thought works under conditions imposed ab extra. The great law of habit itself -- that twenty experiences make us recall a thing better than one, that long indulgence in error makes right thinking almost impossible -- seems to have no essential foundation in reason. The business of thought is with truth -- the number of experiences ought to have nothing to do with her hold of it; and she ought by right to be able to hug it all the closer, after years wasted out of its presence. The contrary arrangements seem quite fantastic and arbitrary, but nevertheless are part of the very bone and marrow of our minds. Reason is only one out of a thousand possibilities in the thinking of each of us. Who can count all the silly fancies, the grotesque suppositions, the utterly irrelevant reflections he makes in the course of a day? Who can swear that his prejudices and irrational beliefs constitute a less bulky part of his mental furniture than his clarified opinions? It is true that a presiding arbiter seems to sit aloft in the mind, and emphasize the better suggestions into permanence, while it ends by droopping out and leaving unrecorded the confusion. But this is all the difference. The mode of genesis of the
[tips] A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
So, what's the source? William James is often associated with the quote in Subject line but, like icebergs and Freud, no sources or references are given. Or did I miss it? Send me something. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49664 or send a blank email to leave-49664-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re: [tips] Reflection questions for students viewing Memento
rhaps the most important point to make about the movie is if one treats it uncritically and simply as entertainment, one might be fooled into thinking it is an exceptional film but as soon as one realizes what tricks are used, how the view is being manipulated (and can only be manipulated once because once one knows what is going on, they no longer can be manipulated; what that old saying: "Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, won't get fooled again" ;-)., and what the real storyline is, the movie loses much of its power. As a comparison, action adventure films that have lots of special effects will often impress a naive viewer with effects and hide the underling weak storyline (e.g., any Transformer movie). For a comparison of two films that deal with the same topic, compare the movie "Armageddon" and "Sudden Impact" -- the first movie is a special effects lovefest while the latter is human relationships, coming to resolutions of personal conflicts, and the acceptance of one's future (or one's inability to accept it). Needless to say, "Armageddon", a classic "Hollywood Movie" (not a positive label) made tons or money while "Sudden Impact" (not to be confused with Clint Eastwood's movie in the Dirty Harry series) has probably still hasn't made back its cost, primarily because of it focus on human relationships which most people find boring compared to spectacular explosions and scenes of mass destruction. As with many works of "art", one has to have a good knowledge base and critical skills to interpret it properly -- but if one is just interested in being entertained, such cognitive processing is unnecessary, only bring your ability to emotionally respond to scenes crafter to elicit those responses (scenes that make one go "WOW"). "Memento" is a decent movie but it is not a great movie. YMMV. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:06:06 -0700, Joan Warmbold Boggs wrote: Bridgette asked on the PsychTeacher listserv about reflection questions to give to students for use when viewing certain films, one being Memento. I often have difficulty getting messages on that listserv so thought I would simply respond via TIPS. I love the film Memento and use it when time allows. I have developed a worksheet with questions that I'll attach assuming such is allowed. The film is particularly instructive as there are examples of behaviors of the protagonist, Leonard, that are not realistic for a person with anterograde amnesia as well as those that are reasonably representative of someone with this type of memory issue. Enjoy. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49592 or send a blank email to leave-49592-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Is memory better when message is conveyed with different words the second time around?
Miguel, you're welcome. If you find the article that you originally were looking for and/or similar ones, would you please let us know? Also, originally you seemed to imply that this was involved somehow in plagiarism (sorry but I snipped that part out in my response). Can you expand on this point? At first I thought I saw where you were going in this area but now I'm not sure. The results below and similar results elsewhere (Delorosa & Bourse 1985; see my original post for full reference) suggest that when we lecture and present either a difficult concept/point or interpretation, we should perhaps first simply repeat what we said (to make sure that students heard the complete statement(s) we made and encode that) but then paraphrase it, putting the important words/concepts in a different arrangement or frame. Something like: (1) the independent groups t-test is used when you have a between- subjects design with two mean and want to determine whether the mean dependent variable is different at each level. (2) So, if we want to determine if two means that represent that dependent variable at the two levels of a between-subjects design are different, we use the independent groups t-test. Or something like that. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu -- Original Message -- On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:31:17 -0700, Miguel Roig wrote: I just retrieved the paper in question and the following explanation from the authors sort of verifies what I had been thinking: "Recall of information in massed paraphrased repetitions was significantly greater than recall of information in massed verbatim repetitions of both visually and aurally presented information. Third, contrasts of verbatim and paraphrased materials in spaced repetitions conditions indicated no significant difference in recall. The results confirm those of Dellarosa and Bourne (1985) and extend them to a longer segment of prose and to aurally presented information". However, as with most psychological phenomena, 'it's complicated'. Further down in the discussion they elaborate their results as follows: "When massed paraphrased repetitions are considered, full encoding also should occur on each repetition. Paraphrased versions of the same material differ enough in surface structure so that the retrieval cues they offer are not sufficient for easy retrieval of the prior encoding. When retrieval of prior encodings fails, full-encoding processes occur. The resulting memory trace, then, should be equivalent to that observed in spaced repetitions. Paraphrased versions of material presented in spaced trials, however, should be no more effective than verbatim versions because full-encoding processes are required regardless of whether the repeated material is presented in verbatim or paraphrased versions". Thank you, Mike! --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49531 or send a blank email to leave-49531-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re: [tips] Is memory better when message is conveyed with different words the second time around?
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:48:02 -0700, Miguel Roig wrote: Hi everyone, in my work on plagiarism I have come across the claim that a reader will have better memory/understanding of a message if on subsequent trials that message is conveyed in different words. Miguel, are you asking for something like the following: Influence of paraphrased repetitions on the spacing effect. Glover, John A.; Corkill, Alice J. Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol 79(2), Jun 1987, 198-199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.79.2.198 In two experiments, we examined the "spacing" effect in students' memory for paragraphs and brief lectures. In the first experiment, students who read massed verbatim repetitions of paragraphs recalled less of the content than did students who read verbatim repetitions spaced across time. In addition, students who read paraphrased versions of the paragraphs in massed repetitions recalled as much as did students who read the paragraphs in the spaced conditions. For Experiment 2, we used a brief lecture as the to-be-learned material and replicated the results of Experiment 1. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) I don't think that level of processing theory explains results like this, rather, massed verbatim repetition probably gives rise to proactive interference (PI) and reducing memory performance while massed paraphrase (which has the original followed by the paraphrase) would have less PI, at least at the surface or "verbatim" level. Glover & Corkill give a somewhat different explanation based on Cuddy & Jacoby (1982). Also, the Glover & Corkill article is a replication of Dellarosa & Bourne (1985) -- refs follow: Cuddy, L. J., & Jacoby, L. L. (1982). When forgetting helps memory: An analysis of repetition effects. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 21, 451-467. Dellarosa, D., & Bourne, L. E. (1985). Surface form and the spacing effect. Memory and Cognition, 13. 529-537. HTH -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49524 or send a blank email to leave-49524-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The New Ig Nobel Prizes Were Handed Out! And YOU Didn't Win!
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:24:04 -0700, Michael Scoles wrote: Was this a procedure used by Boring to test his "angle of regard" hypothesis about the moon illusion? If you are referring to the following reference, then the answer is no. Holway, A. H., & Boring, E. G. (1940). The moon illusion and the angle of regard. The American Journal of Psychology, 53(1), 109-116. H had subjects standing and looking at the moon in one of the experiments while in another they were supine, flat on their back. However, the latter position is probably where drunk subjects wind up after looking at the moon too long from between their legs. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. If anyone is interested, H's conclusion was (quoting from the final section: | The moon illusion is a function of the angle of regard as referred |to the body as a frame of reference. When supine position, the |illusion remains constant and is reversed with respect to the earth. |Thus with regard in the primary position, and smaller at the horizon |than in culmination.6 On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: When an event like the awarding of the Ig Nobel prize occurs, many, many outlets provide coverage, so, if you ain't too lazy, you can find the source you like best. In the meantime, here's how the BBC website covered it: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37443204 In summary, there are only two words that captures the nature of the awards: Goat man. For psychological research, here is what the BBC reports: |Psychology Prize - Evelyne Debey and colleagues, for |asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding |whether to believe those answers. All I can say is that I've seen worse research. There was a prize for Perception research and, again, quoting the BBC: |Perception Prize - Atsuki Higashiyama and Kohei Adachi, |for investigating whether things look different when you bend |over and view them between your legs. I don't know what the results were for the perception research but I'm willing to bet that if you are bent over and looking backward through your legs because you're drunk and just threw up (hence being bent over), then, yeah, things would probably look different. But I think there might be an interaction between type of perception and whether or not one is drunk. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49509 or send a blank email to leave-49509-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] The New Ig Nobel Prizes Were Handed Out! And YOU Didn't Win!
When an event like the awarding of the Ig Nobel prize occurs, many, many outlets provide coverage, so, if you ain't too lazy, you can find the source you like best. In the meantime, here's how the BBC website covered it: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37443204 In summary, there are only two words that captures the nature of the awards: Goat man. For psychological research, here is what the BBC reports: |Psychology Prize - Evelyne Debey and colleagues, for |asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding |whether to believe those answers. All I can say is that I've seen worse research. There was a prize for Perception research and, again, quoting the BBC: |Perception Prize - Atsuki Higashiyama and Kohei Adachi, |for investigating whether things look different when you bend |over and view them between your legs. I don't know what the results were for the perception research but I'm willing to bet that if you are bent over and looking backward through your legs because you're drunk and just threw up (hence being bent over), then, yeah, things would probably look different. But I think there might be an interaction between type of perception and whether or not one is drunk. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49507 or send a blank email to leave-49507-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] U.S. FALLS! NO LONGER #!! What the Hell is an Oxford University?!?
A shocked and stunned America woke up today to find out that it was no longer NUMBER 1 That is, London's "Times Higher Education" annual World University Rankings (WUR) places something called the Oxford University (UK) as the best, I said THE BEST university IN THE WORLD!?!?! OXFORD knocks California Institute of Technology out of 1st place into 2nd and it is the first time in the 13 year history of the WUR that a non-U.S. university has come in first. Sidenote: Andrew "Andy" Hamilton, previously the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford will be installed as the 16th President of NYU this Sunday, Sept 25. Presumably his job as Chancellor of Vice at Oxford has made him prepared for working in NYC, known as Sodom on the Hudson in parts of the U.S. Getting back to shock and awe-shucks, the Wall Street Journal has an article on the U.S. downfall as an intellectual powerhouse in the WUR rankings; See: http://www.wsj.com/articles/oxford-tops-list-of-worlds-best-universities-1474488002 And the list of WUR rankings can be accessed here: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2017/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank_label/sort_order/asc/cols/rank_only A word on how WUR determines the rankings: quoting the WSJ: | WUR tends to focus on research, counting metrics like the |number of citations and publications by a university's scholars |and the amount of research funding attained in a given year. |The list also takes reputation into account by surveying some |20,000 leading scholars to identify top schools, said Phil Baty, |rankings editor at Times Higher Education. | |"The single biggest individual indicator is research impact," |Mr. Baty said. "We're looking at 56 million citations, |11.9 million research publications." How did Oxford get to first place? Quoting the WSJ: |Oxford's boost came from an exceptionally strong research |income and global collaboration. The university secured record |research income of £522.9 million, or $679 million at today's |exchange rates, from external funders in the 2014-2015 academic |year, said Louise Richardson, vice-chancellor of Oxford. Question: what is it with Oxford's fixation with vice and having a chancellor of it? In other bad news, NYU ranked only 32, being beat out by other foreign universities like Peking University (#29) which is located in some place called Beijing (why would they name a university after a duck dish?). U.S. schools occupy about a third of the top 200 WUR schools (same as the previous year) but British universities drop to 16% from 17% while German universities rise to 11% from 10%. Asian universities make a strong showing, especially China which has been putting money into their universities to raise their international profile. Unhappy U.S. academics try to alleviate their sorrow for their fallen status by the use of cognitive restructuring, telling themselves that such rankings are just a joke and reading the following: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/why-college-rankings-are-a-joke.html?smid=li-share&_r=0 Even so, I think the U.S. still needs a hug. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. Insert ;-) where appropriate. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49499 or send a blank email to leave-49499-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re: [tips] Interesting idea to avoid publication bias
t. The use of constructed manuscripts would make clearer whether significance of results affect the decision of a reviewer (make have the papers have significant results, half nonsignificant, then use a 2x2 factorial design for creating papers with design issues [valid vs invalid] and results [significant vs nonsign]). So, is the research idea as stated in either the Scientist article or the statement for BMC Psychology interesting? I don't know. Why? Because one would have to have something like a research proposal explaining the background, why certain hypotheses were selected, why the procedure was used (i.e., actual manuscripts vs specially constructed manuscripts that systematically the variables that presumably affect reviewers' judgment), what results would be expected (and why) and the implications of the results. But, hey, what do I know, right? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49497 or send a blank email to leave-49497-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] What Price Altruism?
and beyond. In Paper for the third workshop on the Economic Transformation of Europe (ETE) Sophia-Antipolis, Jan. Andersen, E. S. (2004). Knowledges, specialisation and economic evolution: Modelling the evolving division of human time. In Evolution and Economic Complexity. Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. And from your Canadian colleagues at the U of Toronto, the following doctoral thesis: Earnshaw-Whyte, E. (2012). Modeling Evolution (Doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto). NOTE: Available at: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/35081/3/Earnshaw-Whyte_Eugene_E_201211_PhD_thesis.pdf So, Price: gone but not completely forgotten. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu On Sep 18, 2016, at 12:11 PM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: George R. Price was born in NYC and would go down a crooked road that would ultimately lead to the Galton Lab where he would produced what is now referred to as the "Price Equation" that attempts to explain why altruism exists if evolutionary theory is correct. An interesting -- if depressing -- account of his life and its twists and turns is presented in the following article, which puts Price's life in the context of a female British playwright who would write a play about Price; see: http://mosaicscience.com/story/George-Price-altruism-equation?utm_source=narratively_medium=email_campaign=weekender09182016 NOTE: at the bottom of the article is a reference list but one has to click on the "reference bar" to see them. For more "straight " info on Price, there entries in Wikipedia that provide more information but leaving out some of the details in the article above: The biographical entry on Price: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R._Price On the Price Equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_equation An entry on a movie where the Price equation plays a critical role: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%CE%94Z NOTE: The original title of the movie is "W (Greek Symbol delta) Z" which is a part of the equation. In the U.S., the movie was released with the title "The Killing Gene" which is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Gene-Barbara-Adair/dp/B00151QY9Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8=1474212073=8-1=The+Killing+Gene I think that one can't help feeling sorry for Price because though he was brilliant in certain ways, he did not have the self-insight to understand how he would ultimately destroy himself. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. No new explosions today in NYC. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5=T=tips=49477 or send a blank email to leave-49477-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
