Okay, so what do we call this:
How could there possibly be global warming? It's really cold where I am.
Confirmation bias perhaps? Anyway, good time to talk about this is psych class.
Michael
Michael A. Britt, Ph.D.
mich...@thepsychfiles.com
http://www.ThePsychFiles.com
Twitter: @mbritt
We call it not understanding the difference between anecdote and systematic
evidence.
We call it not understanding the difference between weather and climate.
We call it not understanding that the increase in mean global temperature comes
along with an increase in variability.
Chris
...
I thought it was just not caring about accuracy when it conflicts with your
job description.
Rick Stevens
Department of Behavioral Sciences
University of Louisiana at Monroe
stevens.r...@gmail.com
OSGrid - Evert Snicks
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote:
Regarding We call it not understanding the difference between weather and
climate, immediately after super storm Sandy and at different times
afterwards, I heard a number of TV and radio commentators insinuate that Sandy
was the direct result of climate change/global warming. Oy!!! So, yes
Some humor on the issue:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/01/polar-vortex-causes-hundreds-of-injuries-as-people-making-snide-remarks-about-climate-change-are-pun.html?mobify=0
And it does appear (according to some media reports - I'm not a climate expert)
that the cold
One especially frustrating thing--make that infuriating--is that many
Americans (and any that then follow suit, if such there be) have been
influenced by the powerful lobby, The Advancement of Sound Science
Coalition (TASSC). Allegedly defunct, this lobby was initiated under the
auspices of (then)
The media are, of course, idiots when it comes to science. There is a
connection, but it is not that Sandy is the direct result of a warming
climate (whatever that claim might mean, exactly). It is that storms of the
strength of Sandy are becoming more common as a result of a warming climate.
Hi from -25 (Celsius ... colder with wind chill factored in)
Of course, here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, we live through this every year!
You people just need to buy block heaters and winter tires for your cars, dress
for polar conditions (fur is in), and learn about things like wind chill
Even better, the Arctic Vortex is due to global warming. The melting of the
Arctic ice cap makes the jet stream, which controls the vortex, unstable, which
is why it has looped so far south bringing the vortex with it.
http://grist.org/climate-energy/why-the-arctic-is-drunk-right-now/
Paul
On
Some subscribers to TIPS might be interested in a post How Universities Can
Help to Create a Wiser World.
The abstract reads:
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ABSTRACT: Philosopher Nicholas Maxwell, in his HoPoS-L post How Universities
Can Help to Create a Wiser World calls
Making the media rounds is a story about physics research on
time travel that involves twitter. I can't/don't want to/whatever
explain, so see this story for one view:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/researchers-time-travelers-twitter-turn-empty-handed-article-1.1568677
and
No, but there is truth to the rumor that Daryl Bem was my undergraduate
advisor. Hmmm...Scott
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 8, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Mike Palij m...@nyu.edumailto:m...@nyu.edu
wrote:
Making the media rounds is a story about physics research on
time travel that involves
You're sure this wasn't something typed by an immortal monkey?
On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:50 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
Making the media rounds is a story about physics research on
time travel that involves twitter. I can't/don't want to/whatever
explain, so see this story for one view:
And before that he was a grad student a couple of years ahead of me with Harlan
Lane at Michigan.
I knew him very slightly.
On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:54 PM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:
No, but there is truth to the rumor that Daryl Bem was my undergraduate
advisor. Hmmm...Scott
Sent from my
Nice to see that Scott still follows TiPS though he is a little
short on whether Daryl Dem tweets. Then again, there may
be good reasons for people from the future not to tweet
into the past.
I can't think of any reasons for this but I can't really think
of any reasons to tweet in real-time
Hi everyone,
This latest ToPIX update includes new content on the following pages: Grading
Rubrics, Therapy Video, and Statistics in the Classroom pages.
Thanks to Joanne Zinger, Kate Wolfe, and Leigh Harrell Williams for their
contributions.
Check out the new content here:
Carol,
If you are interested in the connections between the smoking-cancer denial
lobby and the climate change denial lobby, read Oreskes Conway's _Merchants
of Doubt_. Indeed, the two groups consist of many of the very same individuals.
Science denial is a highly-paid political industry, not
Thank you Chris, I just ordered it from Amazon--I appreciate the suggestion.
Carol
On Jan 8, 2014, at 11:04 PM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote:
Carol,
If you are interested in the connections between the smoking-cancer denial
lobby and the climate change
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