Re: [tips] Girls and Boys math scores

the stereotyping, but here's another one. There were two Chinese boys in the class. Both of them produced reams of work for their coursework projects. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch

Re: [tips] Was Darwin

/einstein/ (Scroll down) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org --- Re: Re:[tips] Was Darwin michael sylvester Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:50:21 -0800 The British Stammering Association lists

Re:[tips] Is psychiatry a science?

?On 23 February 2010 Stephen Black wrote: Not to set Allen Esterson off again, but for those tiring of a steady diet of Olympics, there's a long interesting essay, in historical context, on the dilemma of treating depression. It's on-line at the _New Yorker_ at http://tinyurl.com/ykqfon8

Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

of the army who would become master of the Republic, but didn't live to see it happen in the person of Napoleon. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re: [tips] Prof Buckland wins one for the Gipper

ruled. http://tinyurl.com/ykh7pw7 Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id

Re: [tips] Prof Buckland wins one for the Gipper

I see that getting the smiley wrong (twice) in my last message rather spoils the effect of using them. :-) Allen E. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=992 or

Re:[tips] Is Darwin getting special treatment?

theory about the formation of the Andes was wrong, as he knew nothing about plate tectonics. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org

RE: [tips] When Did Having A Conversation Becomae A Substitute For Truth Finding?

, honesty, good faith, compare Ásatrú). Has anyone anything more to add? :-) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- RE: [tips] When Did

Re:[tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

, and which wouldn't help the Party if they were to be accepted by the leadership because they don't have any great support among the wider population. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

[tips] Are church attendance surveys accurate?

in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2MuI5VFtcENR=1 (about 2.15 minutes in) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

natural selection is non-teleological. My understanding is that in later editions of *On the Origin of Species* Darwin allowed a very limited role for Lamarckian mechanisms because he had problems with inheritance, and with the estimations of the age of the earth at that time. Allen Esterson Former

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

of *Origin* it remained *subsidiary* to the main process of natural selection. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery

Re: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

explanations in later editions of *Origin* was largely in response to criticism of the first edition.) For Darwin, Lamarckian mechanisms were a proposed *additional* process, not one that underlay natural selection. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester

Re: [tips] Do Jews form a race?

/Civ/2009/626.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id

Re: [tips] Can you say chiropractic is bunk?

://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/01/simon-singh-judgement Given these circumstances, the British Chiropractic Association is likely to be advised not to bother to appeal to the Supreme Court. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

Re: [tips] Can you say chiropractic is bunk?

it?” http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/02/simon-singh-chiropractic-bca-libel-appeal/ Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe

Re:[tips] Mediation over talk therapy

activities (mental and physical) that will enable him or her to live in the present and deal with current difficulties directly. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re: [tips] What Academics Are Writing About These Days...

of the postmodernist/deconstructionist stuff she was reading back then. For snippets of the real thing, see: http://denisdutton.com/bad_writing.htm Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

[tips] The Upside of Being Wrong

research, would it?' Pity Garner and the New York Times didn't do a bit of fact checking on that dubious quote! http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Albert_Einstein#Unsourced Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

Re:[tips] Chelsea Madness - psychological angle?

we happened to meet/see a different kind of celebrity, e.g., a well-known author.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - From

Re: [tips] Reminder of This Day In History: Hiroshima

(and disastrous) killing of 13 innocent civilians on 30 January 1972: Prime Minister David Cameron addressing the House of Commons: What happened on Bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10320609 Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College

Re:[tips] U.S. Adults Say The Darnedest Things!

-and-Harry-welcome-verdict-after-jury-blames-paparazzi-and-Paul.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584163/Princess-Diana-coroner-debunks-murder-theories.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re: [tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

assertions, particularly by interested parties, do not constitute proof of such assertions, even when these assertions are repeated in print, even in a book. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re: [tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

acquaintanceship with Himmler's mother comes in, as his mother agreed to visit Himmler's mother and request she pass the letter directly to Himmler. (Cassidy, 1991, pp. 379-396) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

Re: [tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

recalled it. There's an admirably balanced introduction to the letter (and several drafts), on the Niels Bohr Archive: http://www.nba.nbi.dk/papers/introduction.htm Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re: [tips] Conservapedia and the Deutsche Physik: When Ideology Drives Science

have quoted from Powers adds anything of significance to the discussion. I've said all I want to say, so all I can add is, in the words of the adage, keep digging. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re:[tips] Raising Hitler to be a nice person

from the commentator on a popular documentary and the website Famous People. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - From: Joan Warmbold jwarm...@oakton.edu

Re: [tips] Raising Hitler to be a nice person

suspected: A child's autism is a response to his environment, the last possible response open to a child. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re:[tips] Raising Hitler to be a nice person

, and shouldn't be generalised to suggest a virtual conspiracy to suppress the notion itself. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From: Mike Palij

[tips] Alice Miller (was Raising Hitler to be a 'nice person' )

and problems in society and within the person, and it is on this very exclusivity that her fame is based. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From

Re: [tips] B vitamins, Alzheimer's, and telling the whole story

://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/132/8/2026.short http://radiology.rsna.org/content/229/3/691.full Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- [tips] B

Re:[tips] Autistic Girl Expresses Profound Intelligence

to independently investigated before any conclusions can be drawn. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org From: don allen dap...@shaw.ca Subject:Autistic Girl Expresses

Re:[tips] Has Western society really evolved that much from religious barbarism?

with renouncing Islam and religion, particularly given that it is punishable by death in many countries… http://www.ex-muslim.org.uk/eng/pressreleases/press-pages/121298-AnnualReport.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

Re:[tips] Galileo Was Wrong?

John Serafin wrote: Personal aside...ignore if not interested. My grandparents all emigrated from Poland to the US. They all ended up in an area just west of Detroit. My dad's parents lived on a street that happened to go by the name of Kopernik. As a kid, I had no idea the significance of that

Re:[tips] Galileo Was Wrong?

to go undetected (as we see from Dawkins' recycling of the Aveling story). Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- From: Michael Smith tipsl

RE: [tips] Galileo Was Wrong?

Mike Palij wrote: Perhaps Allen Esterson can comment on one of Raju's claims such as the following; quoting from the Wikipedia entry: |Raju built on E.T. Whittaker's beliefs that Albert Einstein's theories |of special and general relativity built on the earlier work of Henri Poincaré. |Raju

Re:[tips] tips digest: September 17, 2010

is that the contention that it was a sarcastic putdown of Hooke is nothing more than an interpretation of Newtons's words -- though as these things go nowadays, a contention repeated rapidly becomes a 'fact'. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester

Re:[tips] tips digest: September 17, 2010

own childhood demonstrates a subconscious attempt to eradicate a personal history. (Interestingly, a reference on the Wikipedia page for the shoulders of giants quotation indicates that Michael White also promotes the Faulkner interpretation.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department

Re:[tips] Atheism and Knowledge About Religion

are atheist/agnostic -- as is the newly elected leader of the UK Labour Party, Ed Miliband: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-dawn-of-generation-ed-2092566.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

Re:[tips] For Your Ethics in Research File

the discussion of the facts and myths about the Tuskagee study on TIPS in 2007 should find Susan Reverby's More Than Fact and Fiction (2001) an interesting read: http://www.wellesley.edu/WomenSt/MoreThanFactAndFiction.pdf Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London

Re:[tips] More on the 3 posts daily limit

of validation, I request from Michael what evidence he has that those who left TIPS around that time did so on the specific grounds that they were furious that he posted on African origins of psychology. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester

Re: [tips] The First Individual To Win The Noble AND The IgNoble Prize

of applications... Who said romance is dead? Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org From: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological

[tips] Freud's case notes

occurring after four years of analysis) that enabled him to find the solution to the analysis. http://tinyurl.com/25nrvc Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org From: peter

Re:[tips] Freud's case histories

consolation view: Only a few writers [at that time, 1993] have heretofore intimated the possibility that's Freud's accounts of his cases are systematically and self-servingly untruthful, but now Allen Esterson picks up the trail, and demonstrates, by acute detective work, that Freud's word cannot

Re: [tips] Freud's case histories

, Peter Swales, Richard Webster and -- last but certainly not least -- Malcolm Macmillan.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - Re: [tips] Freud's case

[tips] Freud and intellectuals

Mirage*, but eminent intellectuals/philosophers should surely be able to see through rhetorical strategies of the kind he frequently employed. So what was going on? I'm genuinely puzzled by this phenomenon (also in relation to other instances that I'm sure some TIPSters could suggest). Allen

Re: [tips] Freud and intellectuals

) And for Frederick Crews taking on all comers on psychoanalysis in a remarkable tour de force: F. Crews (ed), *The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute*, A New York Review book, 1995. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

Re:[tips] Freud and intellectuals

at the University of Vienna, see Frank Sulloway's *Freud: Biologist of the Mind* (1979, p. 463). (He was eventually promoted in 1902.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - From: Christopher

Re:[tips] Freud and intellectuals

known case histories. See: http://www.esterson.org/Mirage_acknowledgement_of_error.htm Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - From: Joan Warmbold jwarm...@oakton.edu Subject

Re: [tips] The Cult of Statistical Significance

For greater clarity, I should have added to my reference to Einstein's epoch-making 1905 special relativity paper, which takes as a fundamental premise the constancy of the speed of light in vacuo: regardless of the motion of the observer. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department

Re:[tips] Are Genes Left-Wing?

. So, it’s good that he’s got it all sorted out. Oh wait, it turns out he’s talking a load of boswellox. Again. […] http://www.mentalnurse.org.uk/2009/08/oliver-james-has-the-answer-to-alzheimers/ Enough already! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London

Re:[tips] Are Genes Left-Wing?

finding that genetic predispositions play a substantial role in human behaviour. (You could start with Oliver James. :-) ) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org From: Rick Froman

Re: [tips] Are Genes Left-Wing?

misconception about this initial comment. Re-reading it in the light of what you now tell me, I can see I failed to grasp the import of your follow-up remarks. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

RE: Re:[tips] Are Genes Left-Wing?

that experience has largely immunised me against such a restriction on one's critical faculties. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- From: Christopher D. Green

Re:[tips] Are Genes Left-Wing?

role, and of course more in the case of some people than others, according to their social/environmental circumstances. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From: John Kulig ku

Re:[tips] Why don't we hear more about such things?

of there,' said Mario Sepulveda when he emerged from the mine this morning. http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7027154-chilean-miners-families-thank-god-for-rescue-prayers-for-miracle Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com

Re:[tips] Why don't we hear more about such things?

-ha Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n

Re: [tips] Crisis of the Humanities II - NYTimes.com

favourite chapter heading originating from these authors is Why Feminist Epistemology Isn't (Janet Radcliffe Richards, in *The Flight From Science and Reason*, eds. P. Gross, N. Levitt and M. W. Lewis, 1997, pp. 385-412.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London

Re: [tips] Freud's narcissism of small differences

Ernest Crawley. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org [tips] Freud's narcissism of small differences. michael sylvester Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:06:44 -0700 I am

Re: [tips] Random Thought: China Diary, Ourselves

because… because… Oh! there must be *something* to cite in mitigation, it can't possibly be because of Mao's ideological campaign against religion. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re: [tips] Random Thought: China Diary, Ourselves

with particular emphasis on the recent and current situation. So, if you want to continue this discussion in more detail, I'd be only to happy to do so off-line. Thanks, but no thanks, Louis. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

Re: [tips] Girls and Horses - Archetype?

-archetypal way. I'm not too big on Jung, but I don't have any other explanation. Try asking an orthodox Freudian (some still exist!). Next, try a (Melanie) Kleinian. Then take your choice. :-) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

[tips] A change from horses

spectrum. N.B. Collectables from A-Z: http://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/boards.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe

Re: [tips] E.O Wilson ants/Goodall's termites

Michael Sylvester asks: I am curious whether sociobiologist Wilson was studying ants or termites in Panama. There is no entry for termites in the index of E. O. Wilson's autobiography *Naturalist*. Allen E. - -- [tips] E.O

Re: [tips] Who's on first?

refrain from commenting on the fact that you misspelled my surname Esterton, for which the (psychodynamic) explanation is too obvious to spell [sic] out. :-) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re: [tips] Collecting

On 31 October 2010 Mike Williams gave us My 2 cents on collecting […] Thanks, Mike, for all that interesting insider info on collecting (as against hoarding). (More like $2 worth!) I hesitate to mention horses again, but you could say this was straight from the horse's mouth. :-) Allen

Re:[tips] Big news on the Larry Summers front

level in recent times that I shall not go into here. :-) ) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From: sbl...@ubishops.ca Subject:Big news on the Larry Summers front Date

Re:[tips] Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

reference to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader. Mehdi Karoubi, 72, a defeated presidential candidate, said: “These crimes are a source of shame for the Islamic republic.” Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

Re: [tips] Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

at this time of year, cold and drizzly. Just possibly. :-) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - Re: [tips] Happy Guy Fawkes Day! sblack Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:00:39 -0700

Re:[tips] Big news on the Larry Summers front

with what Susan Pinker finds in her book *The Sexual Paradox: Troubled Boys, Gifted Girls and the Real Differences Between the Sexes* (2008). Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - From: sbl

Re:[tips] Future shock

would add that Maxim 2 should also apply more generally to how one judges the case made for an author's viewpoint on *any* subject, scientific or otherwise. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re: [tips] Canada's early intolerance

and circulation. But the general sentiment backed a British neutrality that in reality favored the North. (In Robert L. Beisner, *American Foreign Relations Since 1600: A Guide to the Literature.Vol. 1*, p. 393 note 8: 397) http://tinyurl.com/ Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department

Re:[tips] Canada's early intolerance

://tinyurl.com/36kugjv (Chapter 13) http://tinyurl.com/3xk4jsj http://tinyurl.com/32jwfac Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From: Christopher D. Green chri

Re:[tips] NYU Faculty First In Backward Looking Technology!

their identities for the police (and at the inquest for the people killed). But no one was viewing those several cameras at the time. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re:[tips] Canada's early intolerance

that author has taken. But even then, I make it a principle to only accept the case made for the issue in question tentatively until I have had the opportunity to read a criticism of, or another viewpoint on, the position taken by the author (which, if it is important enough, I then seek out). Allen

Re:[tips] Canada's early intolerance

. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - From: Michael Smith tipsl...@gmail.com Subject:Re: Canada's early intolerance Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:20:04

Re:[tips] Canada's early intolerance

boards still publish old-style GCE examination papers, but these are taken by school students in British Commonwealth countries, not in England! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re: [tips] Highly Sensitive people - anything to this?

concessions or indulgence. It's a place where people of like-mind (or in this instance, like-feeling) can exchange ideas and experiences, not a bad idea, and one that the arrival of the internet has enabled. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester

Re: [tips] I Am Shocked! SHOCKED!!! Part 374

£25,000 per year. A partial grant would be offered to students with family income up to £42,000 and there would be higher maintenance grants for students in London. http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/39276 Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester

Re:[tips] Should we be objective?

are inclined to endorse (often because it chimes with our own current viewpoint). Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click

Re:[tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

On 27 November 2010 Michael Sylvester wrote: It is probably only in the U.S that spanking is viewed as negative... Michael, I think you'll find that the Scandinavian countries comfortably outdo the U.S. in this respect, as well as some other European countries. Allen Esterson Former lecturer

Re:[tips] Exercises: Triangular Theory of Love/Attachment Theory

), Penguin Books. P.S. Well worth two minutes of your time, from Riki's list: How to rig a questionnaire (Yes Minister): http://www.psychexchange.co.uk/videos/view/20809/ Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re:[tips] Autism miracle or hoax?

-gone-septic.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From: sbl...@ubishops.ca Subject:Autism miracle or hoax? Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10

[tips] A brilliant discovery

A useful tip: http://kottke.org/10/12/how-to-fold-a-fitted-sheet Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http

Re:[tips] A brilliant discovery

to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(word) Read on for why this was important. Question for students: Which do you think is more valuable/useful, Archimedes' brainwave or this: http://kottke.org/10/12/how-to-fold-a-fitted-sheet Allen Esterson

Re:[tips] A brilliant discovery

inaccurate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_effect Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- From: Marc Carter marc.car...@bakeru.edu Subject:RE: Re:A

Re:[tips] Ed Diener on YouTube

the characteristics that Diener so defines, it is legitimate for him to use the word as defined for the purposes of his research. Thanks for drawing attention to your workshops, David. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

Re:[tips] Teacher evaluations and learning

, and an indication that China is likely to experience a surge in scientific achievements in the coming years, can be seen from this article: http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/6526228/the-gaokao-challenge.thtml Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester

Re:[tips] The joy of stats

, for those who reached adulthood most of them might well live to the age of 55 or 60. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From: sbl...@ubishops.ca Subject

Re: [tips] Students stretch truth on teacher evaluations, UNI professor's study finds | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register

wondered: Do they always tell the truth? Do students always tell the Truth? (My upper case!). Tee, hee! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org From

Re:[tips] The joy of stats

/22/esr.jcp046.abstract Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org From: Christopher D. Green chri...@yorku.ca Subject:Re: The joy of stats Date: Wed

Re:[tips] The joy of stats

that this is just one brief item, but it does at least exemplify one criticism widely levelled at the book: that the authors do not control for other possible relevant factors. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

Re:[tips] The joy of stats

thesis is far from compelling for quite a few academics who have considerable knowledge of the relevant subject matter. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re:[tips] The joy of stats

the diagram, the pattern of points mostly looks random, and the data dominated by a few outliers. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- From: Michael Smith

Re:[tips] The joy of stats

relevant factors.” Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- From: Christopher D. Green chri...@yorku.ca Subject:Re: The joy of stats Date

RE: [tips] The joy of stats

’ propensity towards a “correlations demonstrate cause” viewpoint), that has some relevance to the use and (possible) misuse of statistics. And I hope you will find that I do not figure in the “sequence” of ad hominem attacks that have disfigured the later stages of the thread. Allen Esterson Former

Re:[tips] King George V1 and stuttering

: A commentator remarked some genetic basis to stuttering but I am not buying it. I would hope it is not a question of anyone “buying” this, but of examining the evidence. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

RE: [tips] Ahoy! Iceberg Ahead!

… which are usually hidden out of sight, and of whose existence, so long as they acted well, we never troubled ourselves.” Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - From

[tips] Erroneous scientific beliefs

estimates of many millions of years. In fact the geologist James Hutton, on whose work Lyell built, had already proposed enormous stretches of time to account for the world’s geology, and others before him had estimated the age of the earth as at least a million years. Allen Esterson Former

Re:[tips] More on the Psychology of Zombies

people killed? Huge numbers of people watch the endless stream of hospital dramas on TV. Does this imply that they enjoy seeing people ill and injured, rather than that the situations are such that the events have a strong dramatic focus in such situations? Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science

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