?Can you say chiropractic is bunk?
In Britain, I mean. As a result of a decision recently handed
down, it's again ok to say it is. But you'd better have $300,000
and at least two years to defend yourself against libel, just in
case.
No you won't. Once a precedent is set no one would bring such a
?A follow-up to my previous posting. This is an article published
*before* the recent appeal court judgement in favour of the science
writer Simon Singh:
Furious backlash from Simon Singh libel case puts chiropractors on ropes
One in four chiropractors in Britain are under investigation as a
I was the rogue in our department who stopped using SPSS, not just for classes
but for my own data as well. With students I use MINITAB which more common in
statistics texts written by statisticians. It's output is crisper and more
succinct, more affordable, and while its interface has the
Hello All,
I use Aron, Aron et al. for the textbook. It is extremely thorough and takes
everything step by step. It includes a study guide/workbook that includes
PASW/SPSS. However, I noticed that statistics requires some interactive models
that demonstrate concepts and animates the
We require SPSS to be taught in our psychology stats course for several reasons
(in no particular order):
-the basic stats class is a prerequisite for the 2 required advanced research
methods courses in which they will use SPSS
-it is the program that faculty use in their own research and
Hi Bob, I have also raised this question in our case and have often wondered
whether our students would be better served by learning stats using, for
example, Excel, a program that they are more likely to come across in the work
place. The use of SPSS in our stats lab (1 credit course to
Marie et al
Not that I want to pitch MINITAB commercially, but I am always amazed at
preconceptions. MINITAB has cronbach's alpha factor analysis under
Multivariate stats, multiple R, binary ordinal logistic regressions under
Regression, all anova options, etc. I would find it amazing if
John et al
Do any of you know how widely MINITAB is used in graduate school? It seems
important to teach students software packages that they will use/encounter/be
expected to know in graduate school. I've only ever encountered SAS and SPSS in
grad programs.
Marie
PS. This is what it says
Marie
Great question, I don't know. I will try to find out . but I KNOW SPSS will
be at the top of the list ...
John K
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John W. Kulig
Professor of Psychology
Plymouth State University
Plymouth NH 03264
The Cozby text used to be put out by Mayfield Publishing; one of those family
owned publishing houses; but they were swallowed up by the big boys.
I like the Cozby text because when I first starting teaching RM there were very
few ancillaries available with any text. This was the first text I
Hi
I haven't used minitab for teaching (or any other purpose) for many years. One
of the things I liked about it for teaching was the ease of implementing
formula because it allowed you to create constants from your computations and
use those in other operations. Some operators and functions
I believe exposing students to some sophisticated statistical package prepares
them to encounter it in graduate school. I expect that any student admitted to
a thesis-oriented Masters or doctoral program will have the ability to learn
some other statistical package, and this exposure helps them
To start with, this is what I use in my course:
Research Methods: Bordens Abbott's Research Design
and Methods (soon to be in 8th edition). It is it broad in its
coverage of methods, design, as well as having a three
chapters on statistics (one on descriptive, one on inferential,
and one on
I agree with you that SPSS expensive. However, we are not considering looking
for other packages because we feel it is essential to what we do (in our own
research, in our classes, and in preparing students for grad school) and
because sociology and anthropology also use SPSS (in their classes
I had always thought the national ave. was around 15% of undergrads go on to
psych grad programs...or at least try. We have about 19%. Maybe there are more
due to economy? I would like to know if this has changed. Many more do go on to
some grad/prof. program but not psych.
Gerald L.
It is my understanding that the dinosaurs(sp) would not have become extinct if
there
were chiropractors around. But honestly moving to a more serious issue(a
trademark of my intellectual flexibility)
more whites see chiropractors than blacks.Noted evidence is that anatomical
and functional
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