Wow, here's a story just chock full of causal inferences from a relational
study.
My favorite: kids shouldn't start out in community colleges because they will
be 36% less likely to finish a four-year degree than if they start out in a
four-year school.
On this day of reflection I have been thinking about whom we as a
culture and society consider to be heros and how we interpret who they
are and what they have done. Although this might have relevance to
the event of 9/11/01 I am actually thinking about psychologists who
are held in high esteem
Wow is right. That's a good article to use at the end of the term to see how
many misrepresentations students can find. I have added it to the Correlation
or Causation page at
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/100/correlation_or_causation.htm
Thanks,
Jon
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Jon
Well, I wouldn't consider any psychologist past or present a hero,
nor am I proud of any.
I also usually try to introduce a life context to the particular
person's contribution. This is usually enough to dispel any hero
worship
I also find it a peculiar idea that a psychologist serves as a
Mike Palij wrote:
... I am actually thinking about psychologists who
are held in high esteem and presented as a type of hero for other
psychologists to be proud of and as an example to be emulated.
One can think of many examples, old and recent, of people who
are seen as having made a
British parliamentary debates and proceedings must be the most uncivilized
affair on the planet.
Members of parliament disrupt,laugh,boo and throw all types of verbal assaults
at the Premier
and cabinet ministers.It continues outside of the building where members of
parliament can be pied and
So, I was just wondering before class today if there might not be something
like a Random Inkblot Generator on the internet so I googled it and came up
with a nice little site that also includes a word association test and a dream
analysis exercise. You can also print out your inkblots if you
This site has lots of good activities Rick. Thanks for the link.
Michael
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Host of The Psych Files podcast
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mich...@thepsychfiles.com
So, I was just wondering before class today if there might not be
something like a Random Inkblot Generator on
michael sylvester wrote:
British parliamentary debates and proceedings must be the most
uncivilized affair on the planet.
Members of parliament disrupt,laugh,boo and throw all types of verbal
assaults at the Premier
and cabinet ministers.It continues outside of the building where
THANKS for sharing, this is a great addition to my collection of similar news
headlines which are a great source of timely critical thinking exercises for
students with ripped from the news relevance rene
Dr. Rene Verry
Associate Professor of Psychology
Behavioral Sciences Department
���Michael Sylvester wrote:
British parliamentary debates and proceedings must be the
most uncivilized affair on the planet. Members of parliament
disrupt, laugh, boo and throw all types of verbal assaults at
the Premier and cabinet ministers. It continues outside of the
building where members of
In his erudite and informative account, Chris Green wrote:
You may recall that Margaret Thatcher was thrown out *not*
by a vote of the opposition, but by a vote of her own Tory caucus.
This requires some amplification. In 1990 the former Defence Minister
Michael Heseltine stood against
Sorry, I massively blundered in my posting on Margaret Thatcher:
In 1990 the former Defence Minister Michael Heseltine stood against
Margaret Thatcher in a first ballot for the leadership of the
Conservative Party, and 'won' by 204 votes to 152.
I meant to write that *Thatcher* won the first
Hi
Just taking off on the following part of Christopher's recent post on hero
worship.
James M. Clark
Professor of Psychology
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Department of Psychology
University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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CANADA
Christopher D. Green
Thanks for clarifying the British system.It is my understanding that Britain
does not have a written constitution.
So do they go by intuition or the Magna Carta?
Michael
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Jim Clark wrote:
First, it was not primarily historians of science who were anti-science (see
more below), although historians like Kuhn were much misused by the critics
of science. Kuhn was quite explicit in his writings that he did NOT see his
ideas as incompatible with the standard
And now the right-wing groups are successfully drumming up public support
for Joe's strident remark. I strongly suspect that this entire incident
and the support that is now swelling up for Mr. Wilson was all planned and
orchestrated in advance in order to denigrate and dishonor Obama in a very
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:53:21 -0700, Joan Warmbold wrote:
And now the right-wing groups are successfully drumming up
public support for Joe's strident remark. I strongly suspect that
this entire incident and the support that is now swelling up for
Mr. Wilson was all planned and orchestrated in
Uh, maybe Mr. Wilson was channeling that other great
South Carolina politician Andrew Butler who beat the
Senator from Massachusetts with a cane over the head
(metaphorically,speaking). See:
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm
and
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