Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA?
On 19 March 2008 Stephen Black asked us to guess
Who's Jews in the USA?
And atheists. And Muslims.
Rank 'em in order of percentage of the population (no fair Googling!).
Then I'll tell you the results of the most recent survey.
Robin Abrahams responded:
A
Not necessarily, which I believe is a politer way of saying, who the hell are
you to determine how another person defines themselves?. An atheist Jew might
still not want to deny his or her Jewishness, whether you think there's only
one answer they can give or not. Hell, you can BE an atheist
I'm formulating my reply for the rest - but here is an example of travel
that is not related to research. Our department has been taking students
over to the Czech republic for the last 4 years for a 3 week Maymester
experience. We have developed a strong link between us and another
university
I challenged people to rank the percentage of the U.S. population who are
Jews, Muslims, and atheists.
On 19 Mar 2008 at 8:54, Robin Abrahams wrote:
A problem with this is the overlap between Jews and atheists since
you can be both--and lots of people are.
Too true. Similarly, Christopher
At 4:58 AM -0500 3/20/08, Allen Esterson wrote:
Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA?
On 19 March 2008 Stephen Black asked us to guessSurely it all
depends on how the question is worded. If the survey asks
what is the respondent's religion, then someone of Jewish descent who is an
atheist has only
I wish there were a more universal and less negative term than atheist. I
know there are some terms (Bright, naturalist, secularist, etc.), but none
that seem to have caught on. I mean, atheist means not a theist/believer
in a god. A person who is religious isn't called a nonatheist. Why
must
It was behavioural genetics that I had in mind.
At 11:02 AM -0500 3/19/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I said:
Well, I'm not aware of any wholesale trashing or abandonment of what we
know of genetics, or even of behaviour genetics, even as the field moves
ahead with impressive
Wasn't Sammy Davis Jr. Jewish? Didn't he trace his roots to the black Jews
of Ethiopia?
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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Hi Tipsters--
I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need
demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past, I
used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning
strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have found it to no
longer work
Thank you, Paul. I am getting so angry about this thread I can't see straight.
Understand that while it may seem easy to check the box Atheist if that is
what you are, it means denying that you are a Jew. Which, historically, is a
painful thing to contemplate. (And on the topic of Jews having
Julie,
Of course, you can use the old standby of asking students if there are more
words in the English language that start with the letter k or have k as the
third letter.
One exercise I use is to read the students a list of names at the beginning of
class. The list contains male and
Try the Is K more likely to be the 1st or 3rd letter of the word? The
letter R?
This one is a bit of a stretch for the availability heuristic (it is tough
to imagine folding a piece of paper that many times), but it is foolproof.
I have YET to have a student even came close to the right
Availability heuristic examples...
I've used school shooting deaths using data from this site (scroll down to the
second table): http://www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/school_violence.html
My three current favorites.
1. Firearms deaths in the U.S. How many? (Much fewer that what people think.)
Julie Osland wrote:
Hi Tipsters--
I'm going to be covering heuristics in a week, and I need
demonstration/activity for the availability heuristic. In years past,
I used a handout comparing causes of death (such as asthma, lightning
strike, stroke, tornado, all accidents, etc) but have
I know that there are supposed to be more with the letter in the third position
than in the first but does anyone have a source of an actual count or estimate
of English words of how often letters appear in the first or third position? Or
possibly a program or website that would allow for
Yes, I got this one from an old human memory text book that is no longer in
print (Zechmeister and Nyberg) but it still works great.
Read the names of 20 oscar or emmy winning actors (female) from the
1930s/1940s. You can find the names online. Then read the names of 18 oscar or
emmy winning
In response to my writing
Surely it all depends on how the question is worded. If
the survey asks what is the respondent's religion, then
someone of Jewish descent who is an atheist has only
one answer: Atheist.
Robin Abrahams wrote:
Not necessarily, which I believe is a politer way of
Rick,
According to Myers (2005), there are two to three times as many k's in print
in the third position than in the first.
Myers, D. G. (2005). Social psychology. (8th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Jon
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Professor of Psychology
North Central College
30 N.
Thanks, Jon. I will look there. I hope that Myers cites a primary source for
this statement but even better would be a program or a site that would allow
for the demonstration of this difference (possibly some kind of onilne
crossword dictionary).
Rick
Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of
It appears the original source is
Tversky A, Kahneman D. Availability: a heuristic for judging frequency and
probability. Cognit Psychol. 1973;5:207-232.
But I cannot access it online.
Jon
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Jon Mueller
Professor of Psychology
North Central College
30 N. Brainard St.
Almost to the moon (I forget how many miles it is). I typically start
singing the inchworm song (2 and 2 are 4, 4 and 4 are 8... - and for those
of you who remember the old hair commercial of I told 2 friends, and they
told 2 friends). After 9-10 folds, it is about as thick as their textbook,
These are excellent. I especially like the one illustrating when the
availability heuristic does work. Will balance out my presentation of
information nicely.
And I completely forgot about the Plous text, and we have a copy.
Claudia Stanny wrote:
Assuming a sheet of paper is .1mm thick:
Assuming a sheet of paper is .1mm thick:
.1mm x 2 (to the 100th power - lost my formatting here) = 1.27 x 10 (to
the 29th power) mm or 1.27 x 10 (to the 23rd power) km
Or 800,000,000,000,000 times the distance between the earth and the sun
-- a bit more anchoring and adjustment at work here, eh,
This one, I hope will prove less controversial than the What is a Jew?
thread I inadvertently started. Who knew?
Ed Pollak said:
As I suspected, something not mentioned in the NYT article is the fact
that these copy number variations (CNVs) represent a genetic mosaic. They
exist only in some
A nice online source for these sorts of questions about words is the MRC
Psycholinguistic Database at http://www.psy.uwa.edu.au/mrcdatabase/uwa_mrc.htm
.
I used the Simple Letter Match to locate words that started with k and words
that had k as the third letter. Now, there are numerous
Doris Vasconcellos wrote re being a twin, Olha so esta!
OK, so I'm the 3rd twin on the list. There were 5 sets in my kindergarten
class.
Ed
Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D.
Peoples Building, Room 44
Department of Psychology
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Spring semester office hours: Monday
Given the recent discussion of Harris' books and
genetics, I was wondering if anyone was familiar with the
work of Jay Joseph, the author of The Gene Illusion.
One review of the book is avaialable at:
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/03/jjoseph.html
A search of PsycInfo provides a variety of
And here I was thinking that Gene Autry existed.
Michael Sylvester
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:45:42 -0700, Msylvester wrote:
And here I was thinking that Gene Autry existed.
That depends upon which Gene Autry you're referring to (for
biographical info see:
http://www.geneautry.com/geneautry/geneautry_biography.html )
For many pop culture figures, especially movie
Completely unrelated to the teaching of psychology outside of
being totally demented. You cannot make such stuff up. See:
http://wcbstv.com/local/central.park.public.2.680677.html
And, no, I don't plan on attending.
-Mike Palij
New York University
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If you check the last quote of my signature below, you will find the
exact quote from Indianapolis' own Kurt Vonnegut.
On Mar 20, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
As Kurt Vonnegut so astutely noted I believe in his novel
Mother Night: We must be careful about who we pretend
to be.
Dr.
Play footsie for me.
Michael Sylvester
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First, don't believe what your state says its high school graduation
rate is. They appear to be misrepresenting them in order to please the
federal government and satisfy the No Child Left Behind legislation.
From the NYT: *http://tinyurl.com/38xsy7 *
Also from NYT, an item about the
Should we count how many TIPSters are twins?
Let's start:
1. Beth Benoit
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Pollak, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doris Vasconcellos wrote re being a twin, Olha so esta!
OK, so I'm the 3rd twin on the list. There were 5 sets in my kindergarten
class.
Ed
In what activity should one engage at the end of the performance in
order to express one's appreciation?
Surely mere clapping would be far too conventional. :-)
Chris
Mike Palij wrote:
Completely unrelated to the teaching of psychology outside of
being totally demented. You
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