I did not have time to read the article but I take the most basic scientific
approach.Earthquakes do not kill people
but falling objects do.There are some similarities between the Haitian
situation and some Californians: they both build homes in vulnerable areas
and they both have been warned
THE HAITIAN PEOPLE
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Apparently there is a belief in Scotland that the first person one meets as the
New Year begins could be a signal for
one's predicament for the year.The Scots believe that if the first person one
meets is black,this will bring good luck.
Maybe tipster McKelvie can elucidate me on this.
Michael
Mike P: I agree,but keep in mind that even though there might be solid data
to justify recommendations,there are other factors that may contribute to
publc resistance.For example the recommendation thae women could wait till
5o for mammograms was based on good data.And going way back,wasn't
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MORALE: Be careful about whose face you bite.
Happy New Year, Y'all!
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
YOur message has been relayed to Mike Tyson and Evander Holifield.
Michael omnicentricSylvester,PhD
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It is being announced that we have just ushered in a new decade with 2010,but I
thought that a decade would begin with the number 1,so the new decade should
really begin with 2011,right?
Is this a case where popular beliefs override scientific mathematical
correctness?
Michael
Where is everybody?
In Stage 4 sleep or hangover?
Michael
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HA PPY NEW YEAR
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Tiger Wood's extramarital affairs should be viewed as a guy thing. If he was
married to an American born woman,that American woman would probably be taking
him for a ride for his money,and appear before the media like Sanford's wife
did in Carolina.As the cross-cultural dude on Tips,there is a
Happy 60th.anniversary. We salute our women commonwealthers in expedition in
the South pole.You go girls.
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Are there some do's and don'ts while on sabbatical? Maybe Bill or anyone else
contemplating a sabbatical can heed some advice from our cohesive Tipsville
community.I heard about the prof who landed in the wrong country on a trip.
He apparently intended to go to the Dominican Republic but told
ALL NEW YORK TIPSTERS
Y'all know how to throw A new Year's EVE PARTY
MIKE PALIJ,MIGUEL ROIG.ELLIOT SPITZER
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Dennis Brutus ,South African poet and philosopher has passed away.Brutus was an
activist against apartheid and was jailed in the same prison where Mandela was
incarcerated. Good job,dude. We salute you. Gone but not forgotten,
I wished though that Joseph Wolpe (a South African) had used his
Martin Bolt is a good example of the Eurocentric consensus in psychology and
so are the other social psychologists
like Pedigree and Aronson.The group processes idea of social psychology and its
underpinnings are a reflection of a paradigm that failed to take into account
the unique
I was mentally reviewing some of the psyhology professors I have encountered
and it seems to me that most of them are on their second or third marriages
and I am beginning to wonder if this is a consequence of the time absorbed
in their grad studies and other academic pursuits.I know some who
erratum psychology' OK Mike P and Carol Devolder,gimme a break. Had too
much rum.
I was mentally reviewing some of the psyhology professors I have encountered
and it seems to me that most of them are on their second or third marriages
and I am beginning to wonder if this is a
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Judith Harris
Vaccination causes autism
Oprah is scary
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Cancelled
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It should be crystal clear that despite the assumption that students get
educated to be well informed,amd to think critically,the reality is that a
great majority of students see education as a gateway to get a good paying
job.It is also interesting that employers may not care about grades as
Feliz Navidad y recibe mis deseos de prosperidad
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Stephen: I have a few speculations to consider.Was Albert from the South?
Did the people involved in the study from
execution to write up Southerners or had a Southern bent? Could Albert's
parents refer to him as 'Li'l Albert
which was later changed to Little?
There is a video of American
Please help me identify Tipster OF THE WEEK.He is a white dude and is
endomorphically challenged.He has publications in many languages and is
recognized throughout the universe.He is a mobile
nomadic professor but his base is at a university somewhere in the North
pole.He has a penchant for
It is my understanding that Darwin almost did not make the trip on the HMS
Beagle.The captain did not not want him on the ship because he did not like the
look of Darwin.s nose.Just imagine if he did not make the trip we would perhaps
never have THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES and the creationists would
I heard that this was not an unusual practice in Europe.
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With a 1/4 mile driveway packed with snow,you could easily qualify
for one of those shovel ready million dollar grants from Obama.
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Miss Moneypenny would make an excellent administrative assistant to any of our
department chairs.
My name is Bond,James Bond.
or
My name is Esterson,Allen Esterson.
And while on this subject,there seems to be the feeling that it is the
administrative assistant who runs the department.I have seen
My favorites:
Harry Belafonte Mary's boy child
Jose' Feliciano Felix navidad
Worse christmas album- Mannheim Steamroller
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Handing out a syllsbus to a student is no guarantee that the student wii read
it.I had a policy of reading aloud wth the class the instrument to students and
having them sign it .Then I gather them for validation and redistribute them
to the students.
Yep,signed,sealed.and delivered.
Any
I first became aware of the expression self-hating jew this past
summer.Apparently it is alleged that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has been using this expression to describe White House officials like
Rahm Emmanuel,David Axelrod and other jewish members of the Obama
As the cross-cultural dude and British literature freak on Tips,I wish to
note that it was 150 years ago that the classic A TALE OF TWO CITIES was
published .I am a Dickens man. It seems that this work is beginning to
represent sign of our times as our middle class struggles to stay afloat.
Check out www.scitechdaily.com
Michael
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The issue of whether some idea is settled or not usually pops up during the
hearings for a supreme court nominee re opinions about abortions.The nominee is
likely to concur that Roe versus Wade
is settled law.Contrary to the physical and biological sciences where
tenets are usually
I am looking tor the link to a piece .I think it is titled I SHALL NOT PASS
THIS WAY AGAIN
and goes something like this:
And it came to pass on the last dat of the semester,there came
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Please accept my condolences at the death of your founder.I feel your pain.
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Skinner?
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or what? I can remember having proble
ms with Spence.I could not decide who was who,for example Spence Spence
or Loftus Loftus.
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MIKE PALIJ
Congrats! Subject to repetition.
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About the weather. When you have it bad,we in Daytona Beach have it good.
I would imagine John Kulig.David Souter are enjoying fermented apple cider this
time of the year.
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is a thought to ponder- would
this be noticeable in the case of vitro fertilization? And is this one for
Chomsky?
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Mike:
Please note that the Tipster of the year award is copyrighted and is my
domain.Any more onfringement could subject you to hard labor at the
U,S-Canada-Russian front.
Michael
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Chris: The 2009 Tipsters of the year were chosen based on their ability to
tolerate sense as well as nonsense
with academic grace.
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I CAN HEAR PAVLOV RINGING THE BELL TO SUMMON THE MOOSE FROM MY HOUSE
by Sarah Palin
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He plays good soothing music,so why are we stuck on Mozart? Asian bias anyone?
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Before Seligman thre was Brady who used a yoked-control experimenral method
with effects on the executive monkey.I an trying to figure out who suffered
more stress the executive monkey who could turn off the shock
or the other one who had no control of the shock and felt helpless.
I stand
Tips threads are most interesting but I wonder at times if we are too focused
on the past explanatory style the ideas The ideas ,explanations and
clarifications are great,but at times it feels like thesame old,same old .
Sounds like the historicism error-applying ideas of the past without
I used Intro to Stats by Cohen,Ewen,Welkovitz (sp) way way back.
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CHRISTOPHERGREEN
Congrats! A DVD box set of COMPUTERESE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE is being shipped
to you.
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The Brits are reporting the results of a ten year study involving multitudes
that support a correlation between cell phone usage and brain tumors.The study
was reported in the Telegraph according to CNN.
Now if the results are upheld,I am speculating that this could lead the way for
more people
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Grades are based on performance on tests and other delineated specified
measures of the instructor.We measure performane in class and although some
will contend that performance indicates learningI would not bet on this all the
time.One can still learn even though the performance is
Darwin must be rolling over in his grave.
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What arrangements do you make for the special needs' students in your courses
re taking exams?.Most schools,I presume,have a Testing center where profs can
drop off the test and
Testing Center personnel will administer the tests.Is this the method you
follow?
It is assumed that the student will
There used to be some kind of a language requirement as a part of the grad
requirement.
I am not sure if it was in lieu of stats.Anyway,what happened to that idea?
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. I imagine that this is also the
case on the professional tennis circuit ��� all the even moderately
successful tennis players are reasonably fluent in English.
Allen Esterson
And so are cricketeers.
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My neighbor bought a Baby Einstein for her three-month old daughter and the
daughter keeps on repeating E equals MC squared.Btw,are Fechner day toys
available?
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Just curious as to Freud's English skills.I imagine he had some since he
practiced in England,
And didn't he give some lectures at Clark U with G Stanley Hall?
And while on this subject,with all those psychologists (William James) going to
Leipzig did the
Americans know German? Must be tough
Malcolm G,the author of Outliers,brought to my attention that despite all that
hoopla about
the Beatles as probably the best rock group that ever existed for their
creative songs did not get that reputation easily.He mentioned that the the
Beatles worked their ass off as a house band in a
I have a question
What's the difference between Sternberg's practical intelligence and the
construct of crystallized intelligence (Horn/Catell)?
Seems like Sternberg focuses on tacit knowledge but can't that be considered
a subset of crystallized?
Steve
I am surprised that you
I really miss the latin mass and all that Gregorian chant within the Catholic
liturgy.However this is not about me. I think that the latin mass could
probably help ameliorate some conflict that has emerged between Latino
catholics and Anglo catholics.Anglo catholics go to churches where the
Baseline measures are usually taken prior to putting an experimental variable
into effect.
It is assumed that any changes below or above the baseline are due to the
manipulation of the experimental vriable.There is a type of experimental design
where the experimental variable
is withdrawn and
The British Egyptologist E Wallis Budge in his works Egypt-the light of the
world has some interesting facts about early Egyptian science.Interestingly
enough the ideas of Fechner and the other structuralists were already know by
those Egyptians and Africans.As I have reiterated many times
1.Negative reinforcement -trying to be like physics wannabes
2.Fundamental attribution error-depends on if one lives in an individualistic
culture
3,Developmental stages- very vague;where does one stop and the other begins
-continous or discrete
4.Intelligence-what is it? Whites think that it
Submitted to me by a Canadian friend working in Doha,Qatar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR5p_bD3uLc
woman disabled by flu vaccine.
Michael
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I am curious as to tipsters' feelings about promoting adjuncts to full time
positions. I personally feel that such a practice has its pluses and
minuses.What I do not like about it is that many highly qualified people who
may go through an exhaustive application process may not get a job
IMHO.Psychology is the study of behavior all over the planet.And it makes no
difference whether it is scientific or not.
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CHRISTOPHER GREEN
STEPHEN BLACK
JAMES CLARK
STUART McKELVIE
ALLEN ESTERSON
JOHN KULIG
Congrats! Copies of Gilbert Ryle
The nature of
Do not totally ignore all my posts.Try sending me some feedback whether
positive or negative on some of my ideas.About 97% of my posts are never
responded to.Some tipsters change the subject line or do not even give me
credit for initiating a thread. And it is not true that my posts are not
Most people probably know of John Dewey's by the mentioning the Dewey decimal
library system but what else did he invent?
Michael
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Way way back J J Gibson wrote a book titled The senses as perceptual systems.
If I remember correctly his approach was that the perceptual laws were
inborn.Is this still a current debatable issue? And did this debate rose to the
level of the Chomsky -Skinner debate re language?
Michael
Please, please, please Bill, TIPS moderator, see this as one last example of
why this guy needs to be removed from this list. I know the current extinction
strategy is in place, and I know Bill's comittment over the years to free
speech, but there is no real value of this person to
Marc et al:
You may want to check out a four volume work by Melvin Marx on the history
of learning,learning processes,conditioning,and the transfer of
learning.Marx was a colleague of mine at Mizzou in the mid 70s.
His work on learning are really exhaustive.I suspect he was a contemporary
of
A colleague had a question that I had no real answer to because I really did
not know my own opinion so I thought I would ask this group for input.
An adjunct in our department, who is finishing his Ph.D., puts, as part of
his signature, Professor of Psychology. He, of course, does
Hi
Darwin did write a wonderful book on worms (and books on many other
topics) that should be required reading for all people wanting to
emulate his great mind. He even describes some tests of worm's
perceptual abilities based on research conducted in his study. The
essential question was
Here is my formula for excusable faculty absences.Take the person's age divide
by 2 and then minus 15. Then add 5.
Michael
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From: Alice Locicero
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 1:15 PM
Subject: [tips]
So, how does one change a culture from one assistive technology to a better
one? What sort of persuasion and social influence, directed to what audiences,
can bring us to a tipping point where a new technology becomes prevalent?
Dave Myers
This is beginning to remind me of The
Did Freud really say where id is,there shall ego be? and anatomy is destiny?
or are these statements the deductions of others from his writings?
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Didn't C P Snow state that Jewish people were highly intelligent?
Btw,I read somewhere that the Japanese are most intelligent because they use
both right and left hemispheres of the brain whereas Europeans use only 10%
of their brains.Norther Europeans
are supposedly more intelligent than
Must the recent application come from published research? what about recent
applications
in current events?
Michaelomnicentric Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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From: Britt, Michael
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Sunday, October
Is there any type of scientific consensus as to what intelligence is?
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WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD YOU IN PSYCHOLOGY CLASS:
Freud is given credit for all types of psychoanalytic stuff but the truth is
that FReud was not an original.Freud took many ideas from the Greeks and the
Greeks stole many of their ideas from Egypt and Africa.As a matter of fact the
roots of
The acid rock group Steppenwolf has a a song titled the Pusher with the words
God damn the pusher. Well ,if they were singing that same song today they
could change the words to God bless the Brits government pushers. You see the
British government has an approach to
drug addiction by providing
I am surprised that some people are shocked that such attitudes still exist.
Actually I am more concerned about the racism of benign neglect that pops
up occasionally
on some of the threads.
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A colleague had just returned from a conference in Hawaii.When asked by the
Dean how did it go? He replied it went well.I got leid.
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It helps if you actually read details of the study before commenting on
it:
The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness, page 14:
Trends in happiness among blacks are examined in columns one and two.
These data show that happiness has trended quite strongly upward for
both female and male
I am curious as to how many tipsters subbscribe to the idea of academic
nullification.
Simply this is the notion that states that profs should be cognizant that
there may be students in a class who may have been deprived of opportunities
for academic excellence because of
But what do we do now about your other post, drawing our
attention to research claiming that candy rewards lead to violent
crime? Does reward solve societal problems or create them?
Psychology is just so darn confusing!
(Moore, et al (2009). Confectionery consumption in childhood
and adult
Oh, no no no. I'm about a year into learning uilleann pipes. *That* is
horrifying.
--
Marc Carter, PhD
Marc: Hold on,halloween is not too far away.
Remember also the fun of devil's night in Detroit on halloween.
Michael(omnicentric) Sylvester,PhD
Daytona
STEPHEN BLACK
Congrats! Please pick up your case of Beefeaters gin at the Dean's office.
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University of Pennsylvania researchers have released results of a study that
showed that women are not too happy.I only wished that they could qualify this
by stating that it is white women in the U.S that are not happy.So the
expression that you have come a long way baby should .be followed
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From: michael sylvester
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:56 AM
Subject: Daewin and cognitive dissonance
Isn't it interesting that the man who probably discovered that man evoled to be
a hunter and seek game
Is it ok to talk to yourself as long as you do not get the answers back?
And I do have a follow-up question.
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I never did understand the point-biserial statistic.I came across it at Mizzou
when I was in charge of grading lots of scantrons.It had something to do with
test items but I never figured out why.
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Since we have a thread on Stormy Monday,I thought I woild throw in a query
about the song One toke over the line.You would assume that I would know
since I am also DJ supreme on Tips.But I do have a problem of categorizing this
song by Brewer and Shipley.Is it soft rock,gospel or mellow
Isn't it interesting that the man who probably discovered that man evoled to be
a hunter and seek game as food was himself a vegetarian.There seems to be
something wrong with that picture.I wondered if he ever thought that human
evolution went the wrong way.Btw,there are some who think so.
What is your ethnicity? Palij sounds like a sortenened version of a Polish
or Czeck name.
Like Tom Brokaw? Are you multicultural or Armenian Orthodox? Your mention
of Hans Kung
may indicate your knowledge of events in Catholicism.Btw,the real shocker
was when a Monsignor in Britain(Davis) left
When I used that term women tipsters were coming out of the woodwork
attacking me and also Jim Matiya .It was predicted that members would be
leaving the list like lemmings.
And now we are going to have a thread on this?
Sleepless in Daytona.
Michael
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Thanks for your vote for Obama.He will be as great as your ex-UN ambassador,Dag
Hammarskjold.
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autonomy of the Eurocentric paradigm has remained.
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The issue of sanpling bias has been raised by Mike Palij and Jim Clark in
recent posts.
And I have been doing some thinking about that.It seems to be that the sampling
bias
accusation comes up when the results of the research are construed to be
applicable to
poulation parameters not
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