[tips] Re: [Fwd: A Secret not worth keeping]

2007-05-22 Thread Paul Smith
of the article, this error is a sign of what has happened to once-respected Scientific American: Sure, if you convert your body's hydrogen into energy through nuclear fission That'd be quite a feat. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http

[tips] RE: You need a garage to park a car

2007-05-02 Thread Paul Smith
talking about the penis, and a footnote reads We will return to this topic at greater length on page Paul Smith --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tipstext_mode=0lang=english

[tips] Re: Help a professor achieve his dream and become self-actualized via musical expression

2007-04-16 Thread Paul Smith
J'ai vous donné mon vote aussi. Bon chance! Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 4/16/07, Jim Dougan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TIPsters. OK - it is going to be a real stretch to find psychology-related content here - and apologies in advance if this is inappropriate A recent

[tips] Re: Google largesse

2007-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
Google is pretty busy with new product introductions today, it seems: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html Paul On 4/1/07, Turner, G. Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's their army of nanobots I think... The nanobots travel with exhilarating nano-speed through the sewer system and

[tips] Re: student bloopers

2006-12-17 Thread Paul Smith
department secretary Chris as Christ, which may have been a motivated error subconsciously acknowledging the real power in the department. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 12/11/06, Julie Osland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While grading a child development paper on risk and resilience

[tips] Re: Psychology Fairs

2006-12-01 Thread Paul Smith
that does have its own IRB. Does Jim's teacher have to find an IRB that has jurisdiction, and go through their processes? Or can the teacher develop a review process just for this science fair? What if there is no IRB that has jurisdiction? Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make

[tips] Re: Psychology Fairs

2006-12-01 Thread Paul Smith
...). Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tipstext_mode=0lang=english

[tips] Re: is 1879 a chunk?

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Smith
, it probably would not be. The discussion in Miller's paper under the heading Recoding explains this fairly well: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Miller/ Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 10/24/06, Herb Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: is 1879 a chunk? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon

[tips] Re: Television rots your brain AND your body

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Smith
keep reading about. I do find myself gloating about that fact, but I honestly think that it means that I've done something useful about the sorry state of elections. I heartily recommend it. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 10/24/06, Wendi K. Born [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted

[tips] Re: Television rots your brain AND your body

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Smith
, if that matters, but that means I'm watching foreign or classic films rather than whatever rerun catches my eye. Oh, and I've never seen reality television, except an episode of Star Academy when I was in Quebec a few years ago. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 10/24/06, DeVolder Carol L

[tips] Re: I like my TV time!

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Smith
as charged. I just know myself well enough to know that when tired, I make excuses, and park myself in front of the set. I have removed the temptation. I haven't seen a downside yet to having done so. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http

[tips] Re: explanations? information?

2006-10-23 Thread Paul Smith
. == Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tipstext_mode=0lang=english

[tips] Re: test on misconceptions in psychology

2006-09-15 Thread Paul Smith
Diana - These are pretty old now, but worth looking over. The last one (Vaughn) presents an 80 time Test of Common Beliefs in psychology. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee = Brown, L. T. (1983). Some more misconceptions about psychology among

[tips] Re: Utah Court: University Cannot Ban Guns

2006-09-09 Thread Paul Smith
to believe that the Journal-Sentinel is hoping to create some interesting news by doing so, essentially inviting protestors to stalk this instructor. I hope that next Wednesday is a slow news day. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http

[tips] RE: Funny business at the US Department of Education

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Smith
Paul may have been referring to national-level amendments (that is, amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which are far far less likely to pass than those at the state level). Electoral chum is a very apt phrase - did you coin it yourself? Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 8/25/06, Rick

[tips] Re: plagiarism certificate?

2006-08-16 Thread Paul Smith
http://www.indiana.edu/~istd/ I use it as well. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 8/16/06, Traci Giuliano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For several years, I've had my students read the excellent site on avoiding plagiarism from Indiana University (http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets

[tips] Re: plagiarism certificate?

2006-08-16 Thread Paul Smith
this, and yes, I failed one student this spring when she couldn't pass it. We need to know that they know how to avoid plagiarism, and this is as close as we can come to a guarantee, I think. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http

[tips] Re: plagiarism certificate?

2006-08-16 Thread Paul Smith
Plagiarism Scanner Check your essay for free online. Buy/Sell plagiarism free essays. www.myessays.com == Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tipstext_mode=0lang=english

[tips] Re: Deities R Us - tangental

2006-07-21 Thread Paul Smith
apologies to you and to the list. Paul Smith --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tipstext_mode=0lang=english

[tips] Re: Inside Higher Ed :: Differing Standards on Plagiarism

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 7/20/06, Christopher D. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Worried about plagiarism? Perhaps you should first look up rather than down... There's some more of the problem down as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/books/13textbook.html This is how the 2005

[tips] Re: Inside Higher Ed :: Differing Standards on Plagiarism

2006-07-20 Thread Paul Smith
= Paul Smith wrote (quoting from the NYT): This is how the 2005 edition of A History of the United States, a high school history textbook by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin and Brooks Mather Kelley, relates the cataclysmic attacks of 9/11

[tips] Re: Deities R Us - tangental

2006-07-19 Thread Paul Smith
considering the consequences. Paul Smith --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tipstext_mode=0lang=english

[tips] Re: Deities R Us - tangental

2006-07-19 Thread Paul Smith
groups most devoted to this model for sex and marriage Jim: Evidence, please? http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm Paul Smith --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tipstext_mode=0lang=english

[tips] Re: Deities R Us - tangental

2006-07-19 Thread Paul Smith
if you made more money and had a higher income, you can go ahead and have sex even though you're not married). I'm not claiming here that having a certain religion causes divorce (my argument doesn't depend on that), but simply that it doesn't eliminate divorce. Paul Smith --- To make changes to your

[tips] Re: Why our students seem so dense

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Smith
small city, I think) Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 7/17/06, Michael Scoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just walked by a classroom used to train future teachers. These classrooms can be identified readily by the large number of posters on the wall. A poster near the door proclaimed

[tips] Re: Why our students seem so dense

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Smith
horrifying Yahoo Answers site, when someone promoting some new agey stuff repeated the claim. But apparently it's not part of the conventional wisdom, thank goodness. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 7/17/06, Rick Froman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe they meant to say that there are more

[tips] Re: Inside Higher Ed :: Another Scholar Turned Back at JFK

2006-06-21 Thread Paul Smith
at the State University of New York at Stony Brook this month. = Class? What's that? Heck, even the left in the U.S. doesn't talk about class these days. That kind of thing is WAY too dangerous for us. Paul Smith (who, like most Americans still expects to become rich someday) Alverno College

[tips] Re: reading list

2006-06-18 Thread Paul Smith
sidetracked by the semester. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 6/18/06, Gerald Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the psych of religious belief IS of interest and so I have found the tips exchanges interesting and entertaining. I took off from teaching this spring/summer

[tips] Re: Study on mental health and abortion

2006-06-15 Thread Paul Smith
On 6/14/06, Jim Guinee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because it is. He is the only one who made such an assertion. Other respondents took the study and batted it around without focusing one iota on the identity of the person who posted it. Well, I'm one of those other respondents, and I had the

[tips] Re: Study on mental health and abortion

2006-06-15 Thread Paul Smith
Rick Froman already called me on that: Aubyn is a man (judging by the beard, anyway), with a fascinating website: http://www.puc.edu/Faculty/Aubyn_Fulton/fulton/. My mistake, and yes, those mental pictures do color our interpretations. Interesting point. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee

[tips] RE: immigration English as racist

2006-05-26 Thread Paul Smith
in arguments about immigration. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tipstext_mode=0lang=english

[tips] RE: Name That TIPSter

2006-05-12 Thread Paul Smith
be so completely unaffected by her education. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 5/12/06, Caruso, Michael J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, I'm guessing that you are thinking of Paul Smith's Establishing Authorship exercise. My link to his original doesn't work either. I found

[tips] Re: FC in Time

2006-05-11 Thread Paul Smith
going on here, right? There's quite a bit here about the article's author, and about the FC enthusiasts. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 5/11/06, Marie Helweg-Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cover of this week's time is on New insights into the hidden world of autism. http://www.time.com

[tips] Re: Follow-up on my solution to the scantron/integrity problem

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote stating that he has chronic problems with bad luck and having to defend himself in front of Boards. He came to your school from Tom Delay's district, then? Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http

[tips] Re: Psych as a natural science

2006-04-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 4/20/06, Paul Brandon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTOH, we've got Division I hockey ...which has finally settled into its most natural state: http://www.uwbadgers.com/sport_news/whky/central/index.aspx Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go

[tips] Re: Canadian Bush bashing

2006-04-18 Thread Paul Smith
with being pro-American. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tipstext_mode=0lang=english

[tips] RE: Do PhDs make (now teaching about variables)

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Smith
You may be right, and I'll sure be more attentive to this kind of thing the next time I review a textbook. On the other hand, if this is really the culprit, it'd be about the only thing that my students learned in that kind of detail from their textbooks. grin Paul Smith Alverno College

[tips] RE: Do PhDs make (now teaching about variables)

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Smith
will mysteriously fail to have benefitted from either my witty metaphor or the utterly concrete warning that preceded it. It is experiences like that which explain to me why I so enjoy learning foreign languages. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http

[tips] RE: Do PhDs make (now teaching about variables)

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Smith
adjusted a bit. The warning was straightforward: if on your assessment you don't have the same measure for both groups, it'll be wrong, and you'll have to do it over again. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin

Re: Surge in online gambling by college students

2006-04-03 Thread Paul Smith
assumptions, a claim which I'd reject as well). Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Surge in online gambling by college students

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Smith
right, but religious belief more generally), to the detriment of the role of modern rational-empirical science. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: summary data on studying/academic learning

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Smith
Learn, at the National Academy Press website. You can read the book online still, I believe, so it'll just cost you a brief trip through cyberspace. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interreligious hate and violence

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Smith
Hi, Linda - I'll spare TIPS my reply, and send it just to you. I suspect people may be a bit sick of me at the moment grin. On 4/1/06, Linda Woolf, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Religion has long been used as a means to foster destructive hate and violence. In fact, as many generations

Re: Interreligious hate and violence

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Smith
Well dang, that went right out to TIPS, didn't it? Oh well. I guess it's time to compose a rant about not being able to use a single email program for all of my various accounts, or maybe just admit that I'm just not adept enough at these things to remember which works what way. Paul Smith On 4

Re: I hate April Fools' Day (was Re: Celebrating religious diversity)

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
for our military in general, but the General Boykin incident suggests that there is a serious problem. My military is not to be used for such purposes. Paul Smith On 4/1/06, David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, David Epstein went: No, Bill. The problem is Stephen. We've

Re: Celebrating religious diversity

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
On 4/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the positive side, if we can believe Al for once, he knows where he's not appreciated, and is now the dearly departed. As for Beth's kind note, thank you and I blush. I also appreciate Paul Smith quickly acting to back me up. It felt

Re: I hate April Fools' Day (was Re: Celebrating religious diversity)

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
having it look like a personal vendetta. I'm pleased that Linda did the Googling and reported on what she'd found, but hey, gimme some credit here too, okay? /pout Paul Smith --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Surge in online gambling by college students

2006-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
into one's worldview, one has established the claim's truth (or perhaps its Truth) - does support religious beliefs against the challenge of the lack of empirical support. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank

Re: The efficacy of prayer - again

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Smith
for the effectiveness of prayer?. That's a FAR more interesting question. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interesting quote...

2006-03-17 Thread Paul Smith
It sounded a little too pat to be true, but Snopes.com says that it is, in content if not quite in the form quoted here. There's additional material there as well: http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/raskin.asp Paul Smith Alverno College MilwaukeeOn 3/17/06, Esther Yoder Strahan [EMAIL

Re: Psychotherapy claims

2006-03-02 Thread Paul Smith
for effectiveness of therapy than, say, simple behavioral observations (Didja get out of the house today? Great!), or self-reported measures of mood. Paul Smith Alverno College MilwaukeeOn 3/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An op-ed piece was published recently in the New York Times, in whicha

Re: Psychotherapy claims

2006-03-02 Thread Paul Smith
between faculty and the students that produces the kind of learning I know I had there today. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why It's All About Me - New York Ti...

2006-02-22 Thread Paul Smith
answered in under a minute by email. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intro to Theory of Evolution Article

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Smith
, some of those variations. Paul Smith Alverno College MilwaukeeOn 12/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fellow Canuck and former student Jean-Marc from the real True North Strong andFree asked about a good introduction to evolution for first-year students. Two suggestions were

Re: Intro to Theory of Evolution Article

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Smith
that change. So to play compulsive editor, I suggest the following slight adjustment to Chuck's list of 2: 1) Organisms vary in many ways that can be inherited. 2) These variations can be selected to produce large changes in populations over many generations. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee On 12

Re: Loony alert (and hide those VCRs)

2005-12-27 Thread Paul Smith
It's clear that those children are FAR too special to ever attend college. ;) Paul Smith Alverno College MilwaukeeOn 12/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tomy has broken five VCRs in the family home using only his energy force,Kaufman said. http://www.fortwayne.com/mld

Re: Intro to Theory of Evolution Article

2005-12-27 Thread Paul Smith
You might consider sending them to the alt.talk.origins site and have them read and present on articles there: http://www.talkorigins.org/ Or have them just analyze the FAQ there: http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-qa.html I'd say it's even more reliable than wikipedia. Paul Smith

Re: And So This Is Christmas...

2005-12-23 Thread Paul Smith
On 12/23/05, Annette Taylor, Ph. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great news story :)But I have to admit to a limitation in my understanding: what does YMMV standfor? Your Mileage May Vary Paul --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL

Re: ID ruling

2005-12-22 Thread Paul Smith
, and (for the IDers) it's not exactly the road to a Christian fundamentalist takeover either. Paul Smith Alverno College MilwaukeeOn 12/22/05, Jim Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HiThere are at least several problems with Stephen's eminently sensiblesuggestions below.1.The level of science education

Re: Plagiarism detection software

2005-12-18 Thread Paul Smith
the link to turnitin.com immediately afterwards will serve to reinforce the ProfEssays.com ad. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Research ethics question: in loco parentis permission

2005-12-09 Thread Paul Smith
/guardians. The journal's editor agreed with me. I would recommend rejection in your situation as well, with a careful note about the reasons for your recommendation. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee -Original Message-From: Traci Giuliano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, Decembe

RE: More on Mirecki

2005-12-08 Thread Paul Smith
Christopher D. Green wrote: I have it on good authority from a professor at Kansas that Paul Mirecki, the professor who was beat up on a rural road for making some disparaging remarks about supporters of ID, has now resigned as chair of religious studies. The Kansas City Star is

RE: More on Mirecki

2005-12-08 Thread Paul Smith
of the environment seems to have grown recently from an odd story in the NYTimes to a genuine phenomenon. There is, it seems, more here than meets the eye. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee winmail.dat--- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email

Wikipedia/Mozart Effect

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Smith
Since we're talking about Wikipedia, I wonder what people think about the Wikipedia article on the Mozart Effect. I'd particularly like to hear from Ken Steele about it (is he still around here?). No hidden agenda - just curious. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee winmail.dat--- You

RE: need help from clinical folks

2005-12-05 Thread Paul Smith
to do with the study of mental illness (I find normal psychology far more interesting than abnormal psychology). Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee -Original Message- From: Annette Taylor, Ph. D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 12/5/2005 11:04 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological

RE: ID course cancelled

2005-12-02 Thread Paul Smith
that Christian and anti-science fundamentalist are co-referential? They're not. I believe that she owes a lot of Christians an apology (though I doubt that such an apology would reflect a real change in her heart). Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee winmail.dat--- You are currently subscribed to tips

RE: Does taking a survey on X lead to X behavior?

2005-11-09 Thread Paul Smith
to the problem, unfortunately, but I think that the problem would be better addressed by better character education than by focusing on intelligence. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee winmail.dat--- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL

RE: Relativity: Einstein and Psychology

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Smith
impact of relativity on psychology is its unfortunate seminal role in the metaphor problem: the failure to distinguish between the metaphorical (e.g., all the various everything is relative psychological claims) and the literal (e.g., Einstein's physical relativity). Paul Smith Alverno College

RE: psychology vs psychological science

2005-10-04 Thread Paul Smith
it to you to figure out whether political science is or isn't. Well, if redundancy is a concern, then Department of Politics won't fly either. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee winmail.dat--- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL

RE: adult attention span cross-posting with psychteach

2005-10-03 Thread Paul Smith
. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee -Original Message- From: Dennis Goff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 9/27/2005 8:34 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: RE: adult attention span cross-posting with psychteach Ah serendipity! Here is a link to an MSNBC report

RE: Correlation and Causation

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Smith
of another general tendency I've noticed in research methods courses at all levels: when you use meaningful examples, the students want to talk about the content - about cats and dogs, in this case - and not about the methodological principles you're trying to illustrate. Paul Smith Alverno College

Re: forensic psychology

2005-09-07 Thread Paul Smith
. In addition, I'm also curious about who forensic psychologists work for. Is assessing mental competency a fulltime position? Or is the treatment part the major part of the job? Paul Smith Alverno College David Wasieleski wrote: Primarily assessment of mental status at the time

Honor Among Thieves

2005-08-31 Thread Paul Smith
a student who gets caught complaining to the professor but the site I bought it from PROMISED that the text was original!. Paul Smith http://tinyurl.com/8zu2w Custom Papers: In addition to the term papers already available on our site, we offer a service

Re: Opposing Viewpoints and the Status of Scientific knowledge

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Smith
(Shameless plug follows...) FWIW, my colleague Kris Vasquez will lead a discussion of this during the seminar we're doing at the Best Practices in Critical Thinking conference in Atlanta in about a month. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee Mike Palij wrote: (snipped in various places

Re: 7+- 2 Chunks

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
leagues. I doubt that would work for many people, though I'll bet Willie could use it. As a result, it doesn't make sense to say to try to impose a fixed number of chunks on a phone number or zip code. It varies by individual. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee Herb Coleman wrote: The way I

Alternative autism treatment death

2005-08-26 Thread Paul Smith
http://tinyurl.com/9gc9s Death raises questions about autism treatment 5-year-old boy was receiving chelation therapy at doctor's office Updated: 7:12 a.m. ET Aug. 26, 2005 PITTSBURGH - The death of a 5-year-old autistic boy has raised questions about whether a medical treatment aimed at

Re: Things you can do with a psychology degree

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Smith
for real carpenters. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: student's question

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Smith
have it, as well as access online to the .pdf. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote: Paul That sounds like a great article. Can you provide issue, volume number and year. Thanks. Marie Paul Smith wrote: Annette Taylor, Ph. D. wrote: In addition, I find

Re: student's question

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Smith
poor jugglers. === (p75) Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Things you can do with a psychology degree

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Smith
You can become the most dangerous man in America, like Timothy Leary (BA-Psych, U. of Alabama). http://www.answers.com/topic/timothy-leary Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Things you can do with a psychology degree

2005-08-23 Thread Paul Smith
Oh, god, Stephen Black _retired_? Congratulations! I can't imagine what this list is going to look like now that Stephen - already one of the most prolific and well-informed posters here - has more time on his hands to answer our questions and set the record straight. Paul Smith Alverno

Re: student's question

2005-08-22 Thread Paul Smith
remember, and so in fact part of being a college teacher means teaching what we think of as basic writing skills. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee Melissa A. St Pierre wrote: Hi all, I tend to disagree with Joan and Patrick on this one...would you want poor spelling from a future colleague

Re: student's question

2005-08-22 Thread Paul Smith
the newest issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a fascinating article titled Flawed Self-Assessment: Implications for Health, Education and the Workplace. The gist of it was that we are bad self-assessors with respect to a wide range of skills. Paul Smith Alverno College

Re: tips digest: August 18, 2005

2005-08-19 Thread Paul Smith
After acknowledging Deteriorata, I don't know how you could still be so remiss to have failed to acknowledge Shatnerology, the worship of the One True Shatner: http://www.shatnerology.com/index.html Paul Smith Mike Palij wrote: And I would be seriously remiss if I did not acknowledge

Re: [Fwd: 30% of medical research is wrong]

2005-07-14 Thread Paul Smith
with our intuitions instead responses)? Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee Stephen Black wrote: My suggestion is that the problem lies with the original work being correlational and the later work randomized. Note that for one of the studies, the claim is for a more rigorous study. It's

Re: p = .051

2005-06-25 Thread Paul Smith
Could you comment on how this comparison would look to you if instead of just the p-value from the hypothesis test, you also included a measure of effect size? This is a very interesting discussion. Thanks, Paul Smith Karl L. Wuensch wrote: My point is that the CI gives you everything you

Re: p = .051

2005-06-25 Thread Paul Smith
the difference in effect sizes (.039 versus 4.25). Is that a fair reading? (oh, and the p-value itself isn't really adding much of anything, is it?). Paul Smith Karl L. Wuensch wrote: Here are more details on the hypothesis test of no effect, which for the sophisticated reader will provide the same

Re: p = .051, p = .049, and Equivalence Testing

2005-06-25 Thread Paul Smith
in which there was a narrow confidence interval, but around a much larger difference (and of course there would be a much smaller p-value to go with it). I see your point (I think). I'm getting pretty close to convinced enough to change how I teach this. Paul Smith --- You are currently

Re: Was freud a Scientist?

2005-05-09 Thread Paul Smith
or not Freud was a scientist - I care about which of his claims are supported and which are not. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Prisoners of Silence

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
Jim Matiya wrote: Paul Smith, Did you see the latest issue of People magizine? There is a story of an autistic boy who learned to type without his facilitated communicator, on his own, successfully! gulp! Er, People magazine? My subscription must have run out before that issue wink

RE: [Fwd: Essay-grading software]

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
it, the computer will let you know, and you can come back next semester and sit there not understanding it a second time, as I say it all the same way again. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee David Epstein wrote: On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Christopher D. Green went: Let the debate begin! Dear students

RE: On the efficacy of prayer: red flags in the morning

2005-04-07 Thread Paul Smith
Stephen Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] And Paul Smith replied: Run the randomization over and over again until you get the results you want? With retroactive prayer, that'd be pretty easy to do, right? Well, that would be dishonest, wouldn't it? I think we should be reluctant

RE: On the efficacy of prayer: red flags in the morning

2005-04-06 Thread Paul Smith
really any more honest than this would be, if that's what he did. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Schiavo Case and Death by Starvation

2005-04-01 Thread Paul Smith
of it and let her die. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Concerning Terri Schiavo's Mental State

2005-03-29 Thread Paul Smith
for consciousness. That's the status quo to be maintained if we pass over in silence until we have a definitive answer. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: Concerning Terri Schiavo's Mental State

2005-03-28 Thread Paul Smith
, but that doesn't mean that there can't be a perfectly useful sense of the term as a shorthand reference to something important which is at the same time normal physical processes in the brain and body. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org

Re: FW: Concerning Terri Schiavo's Mental State

2005-03-28 Thread Paul Smith
are generally mind/body dualists? Do you think that's a common assumption among behaviorists? I know that Skinner touched on that in his last paper (the famous cognition as creation science paper), and I've never known if he really meant to suggest that cognitivism implies dualism. Paul Smith

Re: FW: Concerning Terri Schiavo's Mental State

2005-03-28 Thread Paul Smith
activity' Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Rate my professor

2005-03-15 Thread Paul Smith
understand these things well. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Brenda's titles

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Smith
Pour quoi pas D'fendereuse de la Foi? Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee Jean-Marc Perreault wrote: Actually, last time I hear, Elizabeth was the Queen, and not the King. Therefore, it should go as follows: Instead of /Dfendeur de la Foi, one should read //*Dfenderesse* de la Foi. JM

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