--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Brigante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Brigante" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "L B Shriver" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > This is the stuff they did a couple of years ago and said it > was > > > going to be published, but > > > > as far as I know (correct me please, if I am mistaken) it has > > > appeared in any reputable > > > > journal prior to turning up in the "Collected Papers". > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure what you are referring to -- in the MUM Review > article > > > below, it says that there are two Sthapathya Veda articles in a > > > special journal issue of The Journal of Social Behavior and > > > Personality, not "Collected Papers." This Journal appears to be a > > > peer reviewed academic journal (unless the Journal cited at this > link > > > is a very similar name): > > > > > > http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/s/msg02998.html > > > > > @@@@@@@@ > > > > I read George's post somewhat hastily and thought the reference to > 26 new studies being > > published indicated another volume of collected studies. My first > encounter with the > > studies in question was several years ago (don't remember exactly > how many, but quite a > > few now)when I was told it was being published within months. > > > > My skepticism, as indicated by remarks below, remains high. If the > journal in question > > published 26 TM studies in a special edition honoring Skip > Alexander, this suggests to me > > that TM insiders are well-represented on the editorial board. > Otherwise such an anomaly > > would be inexplicable. > > > > I don't have time to dig up the original, but I can remember a few > points about the > > burglary study. > > > > First, it ASSUMES an equal proportion of N, S, E, and W-facing > houses based solely on the > > fact that the town is laid out on a "Jeffersonian grid". If offers > no other evidence to verify > > that the different directions are equally represented. > > > > Well, that would certainly be easy to remedy in any future studies: > one just counts the houses in each direction category. > > > > Second, it notes that the SV directionality principle applies > because Fairfield's grid deviates > > ONLY 7 degrees from true North. (This was in the study; I did not > make it up.) I asked > > some architects how many degrees of deviation would be tolerable > for a house according > > to MSV; they were reluctant to answer. One said, maybe three > degrees, another said one > > degree. > > Actually, what the study said was that the grid differed from true > north _no more_ than 7 degrees at any point, like when Pleasant Plain > road takes off a angle, I guess -- in almost every place, Fairfield's > grid is dead on, which you can measure yourself by using a compass > with a declination marker and taking sample reading throughout > Fairfield (as I recall, true only varies from magnetic north by about > 1 degree for Fairfield).
%%%%%%%% I'm working from memory here, my copy of this thing is packed away. However, as someone else has pointed out: even if the measurements for Fairfield are reliable, it could be an anomaly. The very fact that people are taking this one study as PROOF of a theory they already believe in makes the enterprize somewhat questionable. %%%%%%%% > > > > > > So it's really pretty weak, in my opinion. > > > > Likewise with the Ottumwa study; just not enough information is > given to rule out > > selection or other methodological problems. > > > > @@@@@@@@ > > > > > > > > > > I have studied the one on burglaries and the one on patients > with S > > > entrances. The one on > > > > burglaries and S entries was particularly weak, in my opinion. > Not > > > enough info on the > > > > other one to rule out selection or other problems. > > > > > > > > L B S > > > > snip to end To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
