--- In [email protected], "Bob Brigante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "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. 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. 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/
