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

2010-03-02 Thread Allen Esterson 
On 1 February 2010 Stephen Black wrote:
And while we're on the subject of winning, allow me
to slip in this modest observation on the recently-concluded
Winter Olympics. Canada, with one-tenth the population of the
USA and one-quarter the population of Russia, managed to
win more gold medals that both of those powerful countries
combined.

But what *proportion* of these countries is under snow half the year 
round? -:)

I note that Stephen fails to mention that Britain won its first Winter 
Olympics individual gold medal for more than thirty years. Enough of 
this nationalism on TIPS. -:)

And I also note that Stephen's nationalistic boasting directed 
attention away from the far more important item he cited:

A university professor who resigned in protest at the dumbing down of 
degrees was treated unfairly when exam students he failed were remarked 
to pass, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
http://tinyurl.com/ykh7pw7

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
allenester...@compuserve.com
http://www.esterson.org


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

2010-03-02 Thread Allen Esterson 
I see that getting the smiley wrong (twice) in my last message rather 
spoils the effect of using them. :-)

Allen E.

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

2010-03-01 Thread Helweg-Larsen, Marie 
I have always thought that medal counts should be divided by population (Norway 
has about 4.5 million people). Here are some interesting analyses of medal 
count by GNP.
Marie

http://www.stubbornmule.net/2008/08/olympics-by-gdp/



Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
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-Original Message-
From: sbl...@ubishops.ca [mailto:sbl...@ubishops.ca] 
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:29 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Prof Buckland wins one for the Gipper

Actually,  and even better, he wins one for the integrity of the
university educational system (in Britain, at least).  Professor 
Buckland defended the novel idea that  students did not 
deserve to pass if they had not worked hard enough or simply 
did not have the necessary ability to succeed.

Well done, Professor Buckland!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7307909/U
niversity-lecturer-who-resigned-in-protest-at-dumbing-down-
was-unfairly-treated.html or http://tinyurl.com/ykh7pw7

And while we're on the subject of winning, allow me to slip in this 
modest observation on the recently-concluded Winter Olympics. 
Canada, with one-tenth the population of the USA and one-
quarter the population of Russia, managed to win more gold 
medals that both of those powerful countries combined. Canada 
also won more gold medals than any other country in Winter 
Olympic history.

It is not in the nature of Canadians to kvell, despite the 
aberration of that embarrassing and cringe-inducing Own the 
podium campaign, but I imagine we can be forgiven just this 
one time. We're sorry. We'll try not to mention it again. 

Stephen
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Stephen L. Black, Ph.D.  
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus   
Bishop's University   
e-mail:  sblack at ubishops.ca
2600 College St.
Sherbrooke QC  J1M 1Z7
Canada
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