Of potential interest to Tipsters, an article in today's NY Times on
Wikipedia and its little known Arbitration Committee or
ArbCom. See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/technology/internet/08link.html?_r=1th=adxnnl=1emc=thadxnnlx=1244459114-ZxwZN6pDeU7IxfqqVFvyiw
or
http://tinyurl.com/mf29pj
I just wanted to drop a quick note to let everyone know that in the most
recent episode of my podcast I review the Milgram study and the recent
replication by Jerry Burger. Even for those of you familiar with the
study I think I was able to dig up some interesting new tidbits,
especially from
Hey look! Someone (besides professors) thinks tenure is a good idea! :-)
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/08/metro
Chris
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Hi everyone, this morning I was alerted to this data-to-text macro, that
appears to generate a sort of results section from an SPSS data file:
http://davidakenny.net/dtt/apimindist.htm . Has anyone here used it and if so
would you kindly comment on it?
Thanks.
Miguel
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To make
This is a great ruling, but I am skeptical that it will have any signficant
long-term impact given the public's negative attitude toward tenure and how
widespread this attitude seems to be (no data; just my impression). At some
institutions, tenure is no longer what it once was and some don't
Hi
Not just the public ... in a 2006 Behavioral and Brain Sciences paper, Ceci et
al provided empirical data that they concluded was inconsistent with the
rationale often given for tenure.
Take care
Jim
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Professor of Psychology
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Is it true that kids tend to resemble their dads as nature's assurance to the
dad that the kids are his?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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Just a comment.
Although I surmise scientific types in general don't condone alternative
medicine, being that we live in a country with personal freedoms I think
that people are allowed to choose 'questionable', 'useless', or even
'dangerous' treatments if they wish. If more and more people want
Here is a prediction brought to you by my psychic powers.
Tenure will be subsumed under the needs of business and will become a
distant memory which will also eventually fade.
Research will be wholly in the service of what is profitable and useful for
government, business and technology.
Hi
On the harms of alternative medicine, see
http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/harmquack.html
On the issue of freedom to choose, see
http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/hfreedom.html
They are both from Stephen Barrett's quackwatch site, a rich resource on these
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