Re: [tips] Money Changes Everything: Mental Health Treatment Edition

2011-06-19 Thread Jim Clark
Hi I was surprised by the high number of beds for the USA given all the concerns expressed about finding beds for people with psychiatric problems. When I went to the original source cited at the following link (the WHO Atlas for 2005), I found quite different values for number of

Re: [tips] Money Changes Everything: Mental Health Treatment Edition

2011-06-19 Thread Jim Clark
Hello again (last time today!) I went to WHO site for psychiatric beds per 10,000 population and extracted Europe + Canada + USA into SPSS. Below is ranking from high to low. USA falls in the middle of the pack of these select countries, 26 out of 42. Many other parts of the world have far

Re: [tips] Money Changes Everything: Mental Health Treatment Edition

2011-06-19 Thread roig-reardon
We should keep in mind that certain countries, particularly those within the former soviet sphere use or have use psychiatric diagnosis and treatment as a means of political repression.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry .

[tips] What's normal about the normal curve?

2011-06-19 Thread michael sylvester
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Re: [tips] Money Changes Everything: Mental Health Treatment Edition

2011-06-19 Thread michael sylvester
Except Cuba where they were shipped to Miami? Btw Miguel,were you a Pedro Pan? Michael - Original Message - From: roig-rear...@comcast.net To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [tips] Money Changes Everything: Mental

[tips] JAZZ FOR TIPSTERS(Rubin)

2011-06-19 Thread michael sylvester
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Re: [tips] Money Changes Everything: Mental Health Treatment Edition

2011-06-19 Thread Dr. Bob Wildblood
Just as a PS to Miguel's post, I don't want anyone to get the idea that only nations such as Russia and the Eastern European bloc use psychiatric diagnosis and treatment as a form of political repression. From my experience as a hospital corpsman in the Navy, I can assure you that trouble

Re: [tips] What's normal about the normal curve?

2011-06-19 Thread John Kulig
Well, most things in psychology have numerous independent causes. Height is caused by at least several genes, your score on an exam is caused by answers to many individual questions, etc. The sum (i.e. adding) of independent events gets normal -- faster the more things you add (among other

[tips] Anatomy Education

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Hake
Some subscribers to TIPS and TeachEdPsychk might be interested in a discussion-list post Anatomy Education [Hake (2011)]. What's anatomy education got to do with psychology education? Both suffer from a general failure to employ pre/post testing to gauge the effectiveness of their courses.

Re: [tips] What's normal about the normal curve?

2011-06-19 Thread Jim Clark
Hi Here's a simple spss simulation of John's point about sums of multiple discrete factors being normally distributed. Just cut and paste into spss syntax window. input program. loop o = 1 to 1000. end case. end loop. end file. end input program. compute score = 0. do repeat v = v1 to v25.