--- In [email protected], "L B Shriver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- 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. >
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). > > 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/
