Re: [tips] Article on paper mills in the The Chronicle of Higher Ed.

2009-03-20 Thread Ken Steele
My writing assignments are like Gary's and I haven't had trouble with plagiarism. My assignments are research reports that are built from multiple drafts or short very-specific assignments such as analysis of a problem or response to a question. I would rather see 2 pages of organized and

Re:[tips] Weird science

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Palij
A few points on the messages below: (1) Stephen Black must have a definition of goodies that I am unfamiliar with (then again, it's been years since I was an undergraduate and perhaps my sense of humor has changed over time). Were these studies identified because they're kind of like the

Re: [tips] Article on paper mills in the The Chronicle of Higher Ed.

2009-03-20 Thread Blaine Peden
Ken's practices follow guidelines for discouraging plagiarim outlined at http://www.uwec.edu/markgrjs/plagiarism.html - Original Message - From: Ken Steele steel...@appstate.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009

RE:[tips] Article on paper mills in the The Chronicle of Higher Ed

2009-03-20 Thread Amadio, Dean
I was surprised a few years back that you could actually buy personal statements for college application online. I saw quite a few resources for clinical psychology grad school personal statements. Also, yahoo answers was quite a surprise find as well. From the main yahoo page click on answers

Re:[tips] Weird science

2009-03-20 Thread Jim Clark
Hi James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Department of Psychology University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 CANADA Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu 20-Mar-09 9:30 AM (4) I can see how Jim Clark's presentation of Goldberger's testing might

RE: [tips] Article on paper mills - disturbing but . . .

2009-03-20 Thread Shearon, Tim
Dean- Yes the Yahoo.answers is a bit disturbing. But let's not ignore that sometimes folks are chided on the site for asking others to do their work. In response to a question about who formed the theory that opposed Bowlby. Usually this information will be within the first few paragraphs of

[tips] Another retrospective psychiatric diagnosis

2009-03-20 Thread Allen Esterson
Is there a word for a medic who jumps on the bandwagon of retrospective psychiatric diagnoses of famous people? Here we go again. The Irish Medical Times reports that Prof Michael Fitzgerald (Henry Marsh Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin) believes that Charles

[tips] Health statistics again

2009-03-20 Thread Allen Esterson
Apparently conflicting reports of a recent study on screening for prostate cancer: New York Times: Prostate Test Found to Save Few Lives http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/health/19cancer.html The Guardian: Prostate cancer screening could cut deaths by 20% http://tinyurl.com/ddrfrr A perceptive

Re: [tips] Health statistics again

2009-03-20 Thread Raymond Rogoway
This is totally a personal viewpoint: As a prostate cancer survivor, the idea of watchful waiting, regardless of age is a very uncomfortable idea. When I was first dx w/ PC, the thought of something that could harm me, growing inside of me was almost overwhelming. There was no hesitation

Re: [tips] Another retrospective psychiatric diagnosis

2009-03-20 Thread Christopher D. Green
Allen Esterson wrote: Is there a word for a medic who jumps on the bandwagon of retrospective psychiatric diagnoses of famous people? Foolish. Here we go again. The Irish Medical Times reports that Prof Michael Fitzgerald (Henry Marsh Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Trinity

Re: [tips] Health statistics again

2009-03-20 Thread Christopher D. Green
I can appreciate that the knowledge that one has cancer (even of a slow-moving type) is very stressful. However, I think it goes too far to say that statistics ... should not be part of the criteria. Of course it should be part of the criteria. Being rational is almost entirely about

Re:[tips] Weird science

2009-03-20 Thread sblack
On 20 Mar 2009 at 10:30, Mike Palij wrote: A few points on the messages below: (1) Stephen Black must have a definition of goodies that I am unfamiliar with (then again, it's been years since I was an undergraduate and perhaps my sense of humor has changed over time). Were these studies

Re:[tips] Weird science

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Palij
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:02:03 -0700, Stpehen Black wrote: [Yadda, yadda snipped] Perhaps you need a transgenic treatment for HDD--a transfer of humour genes. I am truly humbled by your tongue lashing and will look into such a procedure when the time is appropriate. [WARNING: Irony Alert!] In