TIPSTERS,
I'm so sorry - I just accidentally sent a partial summary of the "button"
pronunciation. (Meant to "send later.")
It's only partially complete, but more importantly, it's a mess. I intended
to summarize and pare it down to a manageable size, etc. In the present
state it's long and
Title: Pronunciation of button summary
Subj: Pronunciation question
Date: 10/10/2000 5:53:09 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beth Benoit)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TIPS)
There's a discussion going on in one of my classes on the pronunciation of
buttons (the terminal neuron
As part of a regular discussion series, my dept. is discussing John
Horgan's screed against psychology:
Horgan, J. (1999). The undiscovered mind: how the human brain defies
replication, medication, and explanation. Psychological Science,
10(6), 470-474.
I am singularly unimpressed with his
Good idea for dept discussions! I think I would take more strongly
the idea that psychology is pseudoscience--if only to argue as devil's
advocate. As regards psychotherapy, what theory or knowledge base other
than neuroscience has been shown to be efficacious? I presume the
Hindsight is 20-20, but couldn't you co-develop a course with a title like
"Statistics for the Social SCiences" and co-teach it for a while, until the Math
folks felt better about it? After all you will probably use their tutoring
services a bit. LIke most psych depts at 4 year schools, we
An alternative interpretation of existing situations that is compatible with
much of what goes on at psychological conventions is that psychology may be
scientific, but psychologists are not necessarily. And not just the
clinicians. Science if by nature self correcting. It may just take much
1. Do we measure on a LIE-KURT scale or a LICK-URT scale?
2. When using a Likert scale with adjective-modified anchors (as in
"extremely pleasant" or "extremely bitter") - are we permitted to
compare results between subjects/groups? or are we limited to
within-subject comparisons?
I have the
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:08:34 -0400 "John W. Kulig"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Do we measure on a LIE-KURT scale or a LICK-URT scale?
This depends on whether you are a (a)Michigan PhD, (b)pedant,
(c)had met Rensis at a convention, or (d) some combination of
the former. In that case, you
