Mike Palij (copied below) quotes from an article by the British
psychotherapist Oliver James. TIPSters in North America will probably
not know that James is a ubiquitous pop psychologist always popping up
on the pages of The Guardian or on BBC radio programmes.
His most notable characteristic
Rick Froman writes in appreciation of Mike Palij's quotations from
Oliver James's article in The Guardian Why genes are leftwing:
Good point. The media is widely known for their
right wing proclivities.
Hey! We don't all live in the States!
The most influential medium in the UK, the BBC, is
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:22:47 -0700, Allen Esterson wrote:
Rick Froman writes in appreciation of Mike Palij's quotations from
Oliver James's article in The Guardian Why genes are leftwing:
Good point. The media is widely known for their
right wing proclivities.
Hey! We don't all live in the
One of the differences I find between U.S press reporting and that of the U.K
is that whereas the U.S demonstrates an ambivance about values,the U.K goes
more in depth about a story.
However the bad side of the British press is that
it assumes a colonialistic static attitude.For example,the
Well, when I read the word appreciation in the first line of Allen's post, I
wondered if he had recognized the sarcasm in my remarks and returned with his
own. But then the rest of the message indicated that he took my words at face
value. Of course, I couldn't have expected those outside the
On 15 Oct 2010, Mike Palij (standard disclaimers apply) wrote:
The answer to the question in the subject line appears to be Yes,
at least that is the contention of Oliver James in an article that he
wrote for the Guardian U.K.; see:
My point was simply that it is ridiculous to believe 1) that the media in the
US is so monolithic and dominated by the right-wing (of all things) that
scientific findings favoring the left-wing would be suppressed and 2) that a
genetic explanation is inherently conservative (both genetic and
Mike Palij wrote, quoting me first:
Just in case that might not be true, I think it might
be more productive to look for reasons that both
the right and the left might fear finding that human
behavior is largely determined by environment.
Wouldn't it be more productive to spend the time checking
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:49:00 -0700, Rick Froman wrote:
My point was simply that it is ridiculous to believe 1) that the media
in the US is so monolithic and dominated by the right-wing (of all
things) that scientific findings favoring the left-wing would be
suppressed and 2) that a genetic
I don't see any evidence that either right or left wingers really are motivated
to find the ultimate causes of behavior in either genetics or environment. The
majority still feel that such explanations de-humanize and violate human
freedom and responsibility. I think that is true for the
Free will for me. Determinism (genetic or environmental) for thee.
Chris Green
currently in Montreal... reading and enjoying _The Spirit Level: Why
Equlaity is Better for Everyone_, in which Oliver James is occasionally
cited, which I am sure will rankle Allen's apparently reflexive Toryism.
Chris--do you have a source for that quote--love it as so on target. Hope
I'm not repeating myself . . . but whatever, attended a lecture by Skinner
in the early 1980's at Loyola University in Chicago and left rather
depressed. The reason was, as per that quote, I had always understood
Skinner's
That would make too much sense (for the APA). By the way, the sample
standard deviation (n-1) is a biased estimator, but the sample variance (n-1)
is unbiased.
Cheers,
Karl W.
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Joan Warmbold wrote:
Chris--do you have a source for that quote--love it as so on target.
Green, 2010, personal communication. :-)
(Though the me...thee rhyme has been used by many in the past.)
But I clearly never received
[Skinner's] message on a personal level until attending this
Chris Green
currently in Montreal... reading and enjoying _The Spirit Level: Why
Equlaity is Better for Everyone_, in which Oliver James is occasionally
cited, which I am sure will rankle Allen's apparently reflexive Toryism.
:-)
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Ironically black kids learned more and
michael sylvester wrote:
Chris Green
currently in Montreal... reading and enjoying _The Spirit Level: Why
Equlaity is Better for Everyone_, in which Oliver James is occasionally
cited, which I am sure will rankle Allen's apparently reflexive
Toryism. :-)
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Ironically black
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