My favorite recent story about IOD (IRB Overreach Disorder):
Last year, Emory's IRB informed one of our psychology graduate students that
she needed to change the font on her participant recruitment sheet because it
was too large, and hence too coercive to potential participants.
..Scott
You make some excellent points Paul. As always with technology, we must
separate the what might be cool/fun from the what is worth the time to do.
In reflecting on this project I'll say that I learned the most from doing two
things:
a) listening to and watching Skinner
b) editing the audio
I recently had a simple, innocuous memory experiment rejected because 'the
students might feel bad if they couldn't remember all of the words'. It
did get approved after I explained that if all of the students recalled all
of the words, I would have nothing to compare between groups.
Rick
And then the disabilities accommodation committee insisted that the font needed
to be larger to assist the vision impaired, and then... And so it goes.
Chris
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Christopher D Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M6C 1G4
chri...@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/christo
On
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:30:06 -0800, Michael Britt wrote:
You make some excellent points Paul. As always with technology,
we must separate the what might be cool/fun from the what is
worth the time to do. In reflecting on this project I'll say that I
learned the most from doing two things:
a)
In response to our current foray into the inconsistencies and frustrations of
IRB's, I just wanted to share a recent epiphany concerning an informed consent
paradox. As I was reading this blog
Given the volume of social science (sic) research, and the fact that the
members of IRB's are (mostly) human, it is inevitable that there will be some
weird outcomes.
Does anyone have any actual data on the incidence of these 'inappropriate'
outcomes?
In other words, do we have a systemic
IRB over-reach and abuse can be a systemic problem on some campuses. Much
depends on the local structure and training of IRB members and the culture
of the campus.
Sometimes there are weird outcomes and questions that arise when a new
member comes on an IRB. A well-functioning IRB will address
Hi TIPSters:
I seek your help in identifying the source of a quotation, as well as the exact
quote itself. I've looked around the web for some time without any success, so
have turned as a last resort to this august (ahem...) and cheerful band of
scholars.
Here's what I recall, and I hope
Scott, I don't have any information about the quotation or its source, but your
post brought to mind an article that I read recently at
http://www.nature.com/news/rejection-improves-eventual-impact-of-manuscripts-1.11583.
From the first sentence of the Nature article:
Just had your paper
Greetings, Scott. I've used this quote (which I do see is on p. 96 via a
Google book search):
“The rejection of my own manuscripts has a sordid aftermath:
(a) one day of depression; (b) one day of utter contempt for the
editor and his accomplices; (c) one day of decrying the conspiracy
Many thanks to Dave Myers for uncovering the quotation...many thanks, Dave!
This email interaction bears out two things: (1) Dave Myers is always a helpful
colleague and (2) my memory is even worse than I thought it was.
Thanks again for the gracious help (and thanks also to Miguel for the
On 7 Mar 2013 at 19:22, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:
I seek your help in identifying the source of a quotation, as well
as the exact quote itselfsnip
One's
reaction to a manuscript rejection occurs in three phrases...first,
one becomes angry at how stupid the reviewers are; second , one
And do pay heed to Stephen Black's reference to a terrific paper on
Science, Pseudoscience, and The Three Stags of Truth. Not right on
target but relevant to the topic and a fascinating paper for students
interested in the scientific method relative to how convoluted the process
can become.
Just to clarify things a little:
(1) David Myers says that he finds the quote on books.google.com
on page 96. He is correct in that the quote is on page 96 of a book
titled Psychological Research but it is not by Benton Underwood,
it is by someone named M. Asch who seemed to have plagiarized
To David and other tipsters,
I was very interested in the quote that David found, so I
searched for the first 9 words of the quote and also found the quote on page
96. However, it was in a volume titled Psychological Research by an M. Asch.
The bio says of her: ...a keen
Dear TIPSters,
It's my understanding that the word glia is plural--if that's the case,
what is the singular form of the word? Is it similar to bacteria/bacterium?
I realize there are deeper problems in the world, but this is bugging me.
Thanks,
Carol
--
Carol DeVolder, Ph.D.
Professor of
To add to the question, the adjectival form of glia is glial. What is
the rule here? (Yes, I heard the NPR snippet this afternoon on
injecting glial cells into the brains of mice and the effects of doing
so.)
DKH
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Carol DeVolder devoldercar...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7 Mar 2013 at 19:37, Carol DeVolder wrote:
It's my understanding that the word glia is plural--if that's the
case, what is the singular form of the word? Is it similar to
bacteria/bacterium? I realize there are deeper problems in the world,
but this is bugging me.
I like questions like
Thank you all for your wonderful answers to my questions. I really
appreciate it and enjoyed learning from your collective wisdom.
Carol
--
Carol DeVolder, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
St. Ambrose University
518 West Locust Street
Davenport, Iowa 52803
563-333-6482
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You are currently
Hi
With a Greek wife, the view in our house is that the Euro is messing with the
Greeks!
And Stephen's penalty for questioning the contribution of the Greek language to
English is to write a scientific paper without once using a word with Greek
origins!
Take care
Jim
James M. Clark
If you would like to get some control of the IRB process, compel your
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We just went to this system and I estimated that I saved 30% of the
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