[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-12 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Bear in mind that there's nobody on this forum in a position to defend the ME studies. It's easy to make folks think you've debunked

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread L B Shriver
Response below. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Personality issues should not enter

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Science succeeds or fails as a public enterprise. Its conventions are agreed to by all. Like the justice system, it is as flawed as the people who practice it; science sometimes fails in the same way that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread L B Shriver
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip *If* there really is a Maharishi Effect, it's hard to see how it could be considered anything less than a tragedy that the project and the study had no impact. I start to agree, then I wonder how

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip *If* there really is a Maharishi Effect, it's hard to see how it could be considered anything less than a tragedy that the project

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread Peter
--- markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip *If* there really is a Maharishi Effect, it's hard to see how it could

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps MMY has Cosmic ADHD? ;-) Like a stick through water, perhaps. A minute later, what stick? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread Peter
--- akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps MMY has Cosmic ADHD? ;-) Like a stick through water, perhaps. A minute later, what stick? Exactly! Who told you to use the stick? At least it's not Alzheimers where you

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread Peter
--- L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LB, your last post in this thread was truncated, so I couldn't include it, but I wanted to compliment you on your observations. As you note, science is, at its best, an international, public discourse. I can understand MIU's reluctance to hand over the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps MMY has Cosmic ADHD? ;-) Like a stick through water, perhaps. A minute later, what stick?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LB, your last post in this thread was truncated, so I couldn't include it, but I wanted to compliment you on your observations. As you note, science is, at its best, an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread Peter
--- akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thus, its critical to make the full original dataset available to other researchers to test the hypothesis via their approach to model specification and selection. If a suboptimal specification were chosen by the original researchers,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thus, its critical to make the full original dataset available to other researchers to test the hypothesis via their approach to model specification and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thus, its critical to make the full original dataset available to other researchers to test the hypothesis via their approach to model specification and selection. Just to make sure several different things don't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Unfortunately the TMO is not interersted in having its ME research looked at because they know it is not robust. It's a very faint whisper of pattern in a sea of random noise that can only be seen if you look at it in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread Rick Archer
on 11/11/05 11:44 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And in good science this discourse goes back and forth with re-analysis of data, arguments for and against stated conclusions and out of this seeming mess really good, scientific advances come about. (On a side note, if you follow the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Since the publication of ME research, it has not, to my knowledge, generated any non-TMO reasreach or funding. That speaks to the strength and credibility of the original research. It speaks at least as much to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Since the publication of ME research, it has not, to my knowledge, generated any non-TMO reasreach or funding. That speaks to the strength and credibility of the original research. One additional point: It isn't

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thus, its critical to make the full original dataset available to other researchers to test the hypothesis via their approach to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 11/11/05 11:44 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And in good science this discourse goes back and forth with re-analysis of data, arguments for and against stated conclusions and out of this seeming mess

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thus, its critical to make the full original dataset

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 11/11/05 11:44 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And in good science this discourse goes back and forth with re-analysis of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread Jason Spock
oaches to Preventing and Reversing the Effects of Stress Are Not the Same. American Journal of Health Promotion 1998; (5):297-299 ---OriginalMessage-- From: "Markmeredith2002" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:16:34 -0000 Subject: [FairfieldL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 11/11/05 11:44 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread markmeredith2002
: Markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:16:34 - Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study A realistic impact of the course/study would have been to inspire some other group of academics or public policy people to investigate further

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LB, your last post in this thread was truncated, so I couldn't include it, but I wanted to compliment you on your observations. As you note, science is, at its best, an

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread Vaj
On Nov 11, 2005, at 10:20 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LB, your last post in this thread was truncated, so I couldn't include it, but I wanted to compliment you on your observations. As

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Thus, its critical to make the full original dataset available to other

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 11/11/05 11:44 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And in good science this discourse goes back and forth with re-analysis of data, arguments for and against stated conclusions and out of this seeming mess

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 11/11/05 11:44 AM, Peter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-11 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 11, 2005, at 10:20 PM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LB, your last post in this thread was truncated, so I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread markmeredith2002
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But he hasn't seen the study. It used highly sopisticated statistical methodology, and I don't think it's even possible to speculate about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip They never even considered looking at nonviolent crime. That isn't what they were out to prove. But they WOULD have mentioned it if the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But he hasn't seen the study. It used highly

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread Peter
--- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Does someone have a link for the published study so we can all look at the methodolgy section? It isn't on the Web (or we'd have been looking at it long since). Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, markmeredith2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But he hasn't seen the study. It used highly

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip They never even considered looking at nonviolent crime.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread akasha_108
authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, I don't believe akasha is in a position even to guess at flaws in the study or to say the results didn't reflect the reality unless he knows *exactly* what methodology the researchers used. He has to be able to see the published study

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread Peter
Akasha, did they use an interupted time series analysis? I'm assuming with my baby stats background that this would have been appropriate. --- akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, I don't believe akasha is in a position even to guess at

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Akasha, did they use an interupted time series analysis? I'm assuming with my baby stats background that this would have been appropriate. Yes, it appears they used an ARIMA / Box-Jenkins model. Which is efficient for

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip On the same token, I suppose its hard for you to defend the study without having it at hand. I'm not defending the study, as you must know if you've been reading my posts. (Just curious, did you read the full

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread akasha_108
authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not at all sure he can come up with his own method, run all the numbers, get different results, and on that basis, without knowing what methodology they were using, say there was something wrong with their results. I guess, if thats

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not at all sure he can come up with his own method, run all the numbers, get different results, and on that basis, without knowing what methodology they were

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread akasha_108
akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not at all sure he can come up with his own method, run all the numbers, get different results, and on that basis, without knowing what methodology they were using, say there was something wrong with

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread bbrigante
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Jamshad Ghanbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a favor Do you have access to a good quality picture of the 1993 peace creating group in Washington DC by any chance ? Please inform me on that and if possible attach the poster and mail it All the best

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread L B Shriver
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [...] At this point, it would take a separate study, beginning from the raw stats, to see if such a reduction was obvious. As I said before, quite a lot of massaging

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread L B Shriver
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Personality issues should not enter into it and MIU should have honored a request from an adjacent and major university. It would have been a little like handing him a gun so he could shoot them.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Personality issues should not enter into it and MIU should have honored a request from an adjacent and major university.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread L B Shriver
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Personality issues should not enter into it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-10 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Personality issues should not enter into it and MIU should have honored a request from an adjacent and major university.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Robert Gimbel
Back in December, 1983, Maharishi arrived for the Taste of Utopia Course. That evening, the temperature in Fairfield plunged to about 15 degrees below zero; The local press, made a big deal of all the meditators, standing outside the dome, in the freezing temperatures, for a glimpse of

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Peter
The coldest it got was 25 below. When you walked in the snow it sqweeked. --- Robert Gimbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back in December, 1983, Maharishi arrived for the Taste of Utopia Course. That evening, the temperature in Fairfield plunged to about 15 degrees below zero; The local

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Vaj
On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:15 AM, authfriend wrote:It's important to understanding the study.  It's being used as a way to suggest they changed things around after seeing the data to get a better result, which isn't what happened.  And you're using it to construct all kinds of speculations about

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread L B Shriver
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LB, (or anyone familiar with the study) Per your prior note, What was added in the 25% second round of analysis, relative to the first round, the 17% results? Was it the weather variables or Index? Or was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Vaj
On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:54 PM, akasha_108 wrote:You don't see how possibly "a single well constructed model would control for weather,  sociological and crime-factor variabes, and the intervention  variable, ALL AT THE SAME TIME."? If you don't understand this, then what can I say. You have no

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Vaj
On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:03 AM, sparaig wrote: So what's going to be the practical result of all these half or 3/4 baked M-effect studies? Millionaires giving MMY lots of money? The birth of a really creative marketing tool: make people think they are actually getting a meditation technique that

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The FBI uniform crime statistics were used for the study. The data is publicly available from the FBI, but not the researchers, a chief

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:15 AM, authfriend wrote: It's important to understanding the study. It's being used as a way to suggest they changed things around after seeing the data to get a better result, which isn't what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LB, (or anyone familiar with the study) Per your prior note, What was added in the 25% second round of analysis, relative to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:03 AM, sparaig wrote: So what's going to be the practical result of all these half or 3/4 baked M-effect studies? Millionaires giving MMY lots of money? The birth of a really creative

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread L B Shriver
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Personally, I thought the course was a great experience. I doubt if anyone outside the course even remembers it. Certainly it is not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Vaj
On Nov 9, 2005, at 8:06 AM, sparaig wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:03 AM, sparaig wrote: So what's going to be the practical result of all these half or  3/4 baked M-effect studies?Millionaires giving MMY lots of money? The

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:15 AM, authfriend wrote: It's important to understanding the study. It's being used as a way to suggest they changed things around after seeing the data to get a better result, which isn't what

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip PANDITS HAD BEEN PART OF THE ORIGINAL PROTOCOL. They were not any part of the protocol that was made public, nor any part of the discussion and planning by the independent review board that was made public. I got

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:54 PM, akasha_108 wrote: You don't see how possibly a single well constructed model would control for weather, sociological and crime-factor variabes, and the intervention variable, ALL AT THE SAME

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Why do you think they MIU researchers refused to share their raw data with the University of Iowa? As Judy pointed out,that was for the Jerusalem

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread L B Shriver
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip PANDITS HAD BEEN PART OF THE ORIGINAL PROTOCOL. They were not any part of the protocol that was made public, nor any part of the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Vaj
On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:29 AM, authfriend wrote:I'm also on the record many times as saying that even if the ME *does* exist, I don't think it can be conclusively demonstrated scientifically. Well, two comments. One, I think it can be demonstrated and has--but it was not called the "Maharishi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Rick Archer
on 11/9/05 4:41 AM, Robert Gimbel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back in December, 1983, Maharishi arrived for the Taste of Utopia Course. That evening, the temperature in Fairfield plunged to about 15 degrees below zero; The local press, made a big deal of all the meditators, standing outside

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Peter
--- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Why do you think they MIU researchers refused to share their raw data with the University of

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip PANDITS HAD BEEN PART OF THE ORIGINAL PROTOCOL.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:29 AM, authfriend wrote: I'm also on the record many times as saying that even if the ME *does* exist, I don't think it can be conclusively demonstrated scientifically. Well, two comments. How

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Why do you think

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Vaj
On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:19 PM, authfriend wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:29 AM, authfriend wrote: I'm also on the record many times as saying that even if the ME *does* exist, I don't think it can be conclusively demonstrated

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:19 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:29 AM, authfriend wrote: I'm also on the record many times as saying that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Vaj
On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:05 PM, authfriend wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:19 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:29 AM, authfriend wrote: I'm also on the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:05 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:19 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Peter
The latest round of tag team wrestling on FFL. Soon Irmeli and I will jump in for you! --- Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:42 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:05 PM, authfriend wrote:

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Vaj
On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Peter wrote:The latest round of tag team wrestling on FFL. Soon Irmeli and I will jump in for you! Since Barry disappeared, it was inevitable. I'll remember to bring the Jello next time. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:42 PM, authfriend wrote: snip Akasha, as you know, was responding to something I had said, hence your comment appeared designed to include me as one of the TBs you proceeded to viciously attack.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Peter wrote: The latest round of tag team wrestling on FFL. Soon Irmeli and I will jump in for you! Since Barry disappeared, it was inevitable. Yeah, Vaj, you just couldn't bear to see me

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest round of tag team wrestling on FFL. Soon Irmeli and I will jump in for you! Sorry if it offends you, Peter, but there's entirely too much indiscriminate bashing with the scornful TB label of those who don't happen

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Vaj
On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:36 PM, authfriend wrote:--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Peter wrote: The latest round of tag team wrestling on FFL. Soon Irmeli and I will jump in for you! Since Barry disappeared, it was inevitable. Yeah,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread tazarmfune
Vaj commented: This is a constant in the TB mentality: *sound* like you know what you are talking about and hope that if you repeat it many times, people will believe you. I find this to be a rather common phenom in movement type and it is a subtle and continuous form of disinformation.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Peter
It doesn't offend me, Judy. I recognize that it has much more importance for the participants then anyone else. And I certainly have done the same thing many times especially with Akasha and most recently with Irmeli. I was attemting to inject a little levity into the situation. --- authfriend

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread Vaj
On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:46 PM, tazarmfune wrote:Vaj commented: This is a constant in the TB mentality: *sound* like you know  what you are talking about and hope that if you repeat it many times, people will believe you. I find this to be a rather common  phenom in movement type and it is a subtle

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest round of tag team wrestling on FFL. Soon Irmeli and I will jump in for you! Also, can you guys adopt wrestler-type nicknames, like these: http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/jasonsite/nicknames.html It'll be a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:36 PM, authfriend wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Peter wrote: The latest round of tag team wrestling on FFL. Soon Irmeli and I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Personally, I thought the course was a great

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 8:06 AM, sparaig wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:03 AM, sparaig wrote: So what's going to be the practical result of all

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:15 AM, authfriend wrote: It's important to understanding the study. It's being used as a way to suggest they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip PANDITS HAD BEEN PART OF THE ORIGINAL PROTOCOL. They were not any part of the protocol that was made public, nor any part of the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Why do you think they MIU researchers refused to share their raw

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, L B Shriver [...] At this point, it would take a separate study, beginning from the raw stats, to see if such a reduction was obvious. As I said before, quite a lot of massaging was required afterwards to make the data look good. That may or may not

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:29 AM, authfriend wrote: I'm also on the record many times as saying that even if the ME *does* exist, I don't think it can be conclusively demonstrated scientifically. Well, two comments. One, I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] In any published paper the methodology and the type of statistical analysis along with the rational for that particular analysis used is discussed in the paper. My understanding is that Markovsky wanted to see the raw data

[FairfieldLife] Re: Was Lynch - Now Crime, Abortion the DC study

2005-11-09 Thread akasha_108
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then they discovered he was making derogatory public comments to the media and was strongly biased *against* the whole enterprise. When he

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