[tips] funny pic from the BBC web site

2015-06-09 Thread John Kulig
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwhp/ic/ibroadcast/304-171/images/live/p0/2t/6y/p02t6y8l.jpg == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 == --- You are currently

Re: [tips] Proof that I never existed

2015-06-06 Thread John Kulig
Thanks ken ... I only read the summary but it looks like there is no data that IQ or reasoning is actually affected. Of course you should be able to spot slightly different brain activity for different pieces of music. But what does that prove? I am surprised they are still toying with this

Re: [tips] Taking notes on paper

2015-05-27 Thread John Kulig
As an undergraduate I developed a few idiosyncratic short hand symbols, arrows and squiggly lines, acronyms and so forth. This allowed me to write down more information than if I wrote out full words. Also, for the first two years (before I discovered the meaning of social life) I rewrote

Re: [tips] Student excuses

2015-05-11 Thread John Kulig
I got a lot of flat tires this semester, plus a few of personal issues as well .. Thanks Beth for nudging me into thinking about an attendance policy for next fall (I try to write syllabi at the end of every semester). Beth's post is also interesting as we teach at the same institution and PSU

[tips] of potential interest to psychology?

2015-04-23 Thread John Kulig
On the surface, doesn't seem like a traditional psych topic, but this can be related to culture, biological needs (eating), fads, social bonds, evolution (was there really one one Paleo diet?) perhaps body image too. I resonate to such topics and this captured my attention:

Re: [tips] Conditional joke

2015-04-22 Thread John Kulig
If this hasn't been posted before: Descartes sitting in a bar, orders a beer, drinks it .. Bartender says another beer sir?. Yes and drinks it ... At closing time, bartender says one last beer sir? Descartes says I think not and disappears == John W. Kulig, Ph.D.

Re: [tips] Black superiority in

2015-04-21 Thread John Kulig
Hey, what's this all about?? We can find group differences if we look, but are they important enough to discuss? My 16 year old who is mostly European DNA happens to be vying for top sprinter in the state ... and if we find group differences do we have to use the word superiority? And

Re: [tips] Are coin tosses random?

2015-03-02 Thread John Kulig
-9757 Room 4L41 (4 th Floor Lockhart) www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark From: John Kulig [mailto:ku...@mail.plymouth.edu] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 8:10 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Are coin tosses random? As a practical demo of a related issue

Re: [tips] Are coin tosses random?

2015-03-02 Thread John Kulig
As a practical demo of a related issue, stand a few pennies on their edge (I would alternate which side heads is on) on a table and shake or tap the table and most will come up heads due to the fact that the head side of a penny is ever so slightly larger than the tail side, hence has a very

[tips] NHST banned?

2015-02-24 Thread John Kulig
FYI: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01973533.2015.1012991#.VOxksXZ= The journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology! == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264

Re: [tips] A lot of snow!!!

2015-02-23 Thread John Kulig
Well, that is certainly more than what Boston has! (below). PEI is on my list of places to visit this summer. Think it'll be melted by June?? http://news.yahoo.com/boston-blizzard-challenge-snow-city-mayor-marty-walsh-windows-164308035.html == John W. Kulig, Ph.D.

Re: Res: [tips] Oliver Sacks

2015-02-20 Thread John Kulig
And it is good to remember that we are just dealing with words, and they do not always sync with what's going on inside. Some people put up a good front with words to counteract despair. And there are individual as well as cultural differences. Ask a typical American how they are today and they

[tips] Fwd: NYTimes.com: The Government?s Bad Diet Advice

2015-02-20 Thread John Kulig
...@ms3.lga2.nytimes.com To: John Kulig ku...@plymouth.edu Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 3:39:49 PM Subject: NYTimes.com: The Government?s Bad Diet Advice fyi Sent by ku...@plymouth.edu : Op-Ed Contributor The Government?s Bad Diet Advice By NINA TEICHOLZ America?s dietary

Re: [tips] Oliver Sacks

2015-02-19 Thread John Kulig
It's always difficult to analyze from a distance. It sounds like he has some serious joint pain. That resonated with me. My family tree has people that .. though they live forever (my mid 90ish mother still rocks and cooks like Julia Child) ... are prone to joint pain. After a day of skiing I

[tips] Chalk one up for academic people!

2015-01-30 Thread John Kulig
I don't really have a horse in this race, but I am pleased that academic people are the focus of attention.

Re: [tips] Cognitive Dissonance in the News

2014-11-07 Thread John Kulig
They can also say .. this will make Hillary's victory all the sweeter == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 == - Original Message - From: Jim

Re: [tips] The decline of intellectual curiosity

2014-09-29 Thread John Kulig
“Floreat Labore” __ -Original Message- From: John Kulig [mailto:ku...@mail.plymouth.edu] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 9:05 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] The decline of intellectual curiosity Stuart

Re: [tips] The decline of intellectual curiosity

2014-09-26 Thread John Kulig
It is true there are too many distractions. Another speculation is that the lack of curiosity is simply passivity caused by the lower educational levels being overly structured with rubrics and outlines. My boys (one in HS another almost there) have very detailed instructions for coursework.

RE: [tips] The decline of intellectual curiosity

2014-09-26 Thread John Kulig
Floreat Labore [cid:image002.jpg@01CFD994.C1E6F680] [cid:image003.jpg@01CFD994.C1E6F680] ___ From: John Kulig [mailto:ku...@mail.plymouth.edu] Sent: September 26, 2014 1:42 PM

Re: [tips] Bridge on the River Kwai

2014-08-26 Thread John Kulig
Can't remember Richard Attenborough in The Bridge Over the River Kwai ... (perhaps we are thinking of William Holden or Sir Alex Guinness?). But a great movie and yes he was a great actor, described as a champagne socialist ... the best kind. == John W. Kulig, Ph.D.

Re: [tips] Psychological consequences of losing by sports teams?

2014-05-15 Thread John Kulig
Actually, I was wondering if a sports team winning - home field vs. away, same country vs. different country, etc - causes one to get a little cheeky? I'm not much of a sports fan, but I suspect Montreal vs. Boston games have the same psychological punch as say, Red Sox vs. Yankees or

Movies; was: Re: [tips] Psychological consequences of losing by sports teams?

2014-05-15 Thread John Kulig
- From: John Kulig ku...@mail.plymouth.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:43:38 AM Subject: Re: [tips] Psychological consequences of losing by sports teams? Actually, I was wondering if a sports team

Re: [tips] The Faking Orgasm Scale for Women

2014-05-15 Thread John Kulig
Bit of trivia about that scene (I will deplete all my TIPs posts) - director Rob Reiner (Michael meathead Stivik from All in the Family, son of famed Carl Reiner) acted out how he would do that scene in front of the cast, and he felt especially weird because his mother was there watching. Why

Re: [tips] Chitlin' test

2014-05-02 Thread John Kulig
Yikes - teachers can't do anything these days! In fairness to the teacher: It was originally called the Dove Counterbalance General Intelligence Test and can remind people about the importance of culture in test taking performance. The items are from the 1960s. However, I hope the teacher in

Re: [tips] Chitlin' test

2014-05-02 Thread John Kulig
p.s. I also notice in the top of the photo that it is part of a standard educational text (Wadsworth/Thompson Learning). In the US at least, grade school teachers have strict goals to accomplish, and cultural sensitivity is one of them. And the text book industry fills the books with

Re: [tips] chicken, Fox News, and correlations

2014-05-01 Thread John Kulig
Sounds like they assigned children to conditions. Was it random? But even if not, each Ss served in both conditions. Small N. I wouldn't necessarily call the IV confounded, but chicken on-the-bone versus bite sized chunks is a sloppy IV - what exactly is the key stimulus feature? It could

Re: [tips] What's in a name?

2014-04-29 Thread John Kulig
rhymes with Science! == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 == - Original Message - From: michael sylvester msylves...@copper.net To: Teaching in

Re: [tips] How Intelligent is IQ

2014-04-09 Thread John Kulig
Thanks Jim and Stuart for thoughtful comments, and Mike for getting me thinking about the speed of race cars! Speaking about construct validity, the strong inter-correlations between diverse sub tests is difficult to dismiss. Even more impressive, g is consistently the best predictor of

Re: [tips] How Intelligent is IQ

2014-04-09 Thread John Kulig
Mike I am not sure I get the point about g being an artifact of factor analysis. I realize we can name factors anything we wish. The loadings correlate the sub-tests with the hypothetical/latent variable that we call factor I, II etc I also know that there are different methods of

Re: [tips] What Does The SAT Predict?

2014-03-31 Thread John Kulig
Obviously, the differences between aptitude and achievement, as well as innate versus whatever the opposite of innate is, are not clear cut. There are varying degrees of overlap between all the these (and innate is too crude to be useful). And SAT is correlated pretty high with g (the exact

Re: [tips] Impact Factor Distortions

2014-03-21 Thread John Kulig
Thanks Chris .. I am adding this to my impact factor file. In a few weeks I am co-chairing a meeting on publication options for new faculty; impact factor will be discussed. == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology Honors Plymouth

[tips] question about open access, on line publishing

2014-03-13 Thread John Kulig
Hi all First, a disclaimer: In a few weeks I am helping with a seminar on publishing outlets and publishing options for new faculty. So I am asking the TIPSs community to help with my homework. I will present some objective information on open access and on line publishing, but would like to

Re: [tips] question about open access, on line publishing

2014-03-13 Thread John Kulig
of the exchanges on the subject of open access that have taken place in that forum should be useful to you: http://scholarlyoa.com/. Miguel From: John Kulig [ku...@mail.plymouth.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:14 AM To: Teaching

Re: [tips] Psychology and Politics

2014-03-10 Thread John Kulig
Someone a while back said that US academics are probably middle of the road compared to academics in other countries and the general public in many European countries. I split this into two dimensions: Economic issues: (Low taxes, no government regulation, anti-union) - (High taxes,

Re: [tips] Psychology and Politics

2014-03-10 Thread John Kulig
Well what a coincidence Not _exactly_ about the liberty/equality trade off, but the economic growth/equality trade of with government intervention (i.e. lack of freedom) lurking in there somewhere:

Re: [tips] Psychology and Politics

2014-03-10 Thread John Kulig
Steele steel...@appstate.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 5:23:52 PM Subject: Re: [tips] Psychology and Politics On 3/10/2014 3:26 PM, John Kulig wrote: If I had 10 seconds to size up a person, I'd ask which is more

[tips] NYTimes article on breast feeding and well being

2014-03-04 Thread John Kulig
The traditional breast feeding advantage may have little to do with the milk per se; rather the general health of the mothers who choose to breast feed: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/is-breast-feeding-really-better/?hpwrref=health

Re: [tips] SAT and High School grade study

2014-02-20 Thread John Kulig
Ah Christopher Green beat me to a few points ... only _partly_ tongue-in-cheek, I would add that letter grades are close to the magical number of categories (7 +- 2) that limits some of our cognitive processes. When grading essays or artistic performances, can we reliably segregate students

Re: [tips] SAT and High School grade study

2014-02-19 Thread John Kulig
Well, grades are not perfect measurement devices, but what is in psychology? Interestingly, less than perfect reliability of any otwo variables limits the extent the two variables can correlate. Measurement texts give the upper limit, or maximum, of validity coefficients (as, say, SAT

Re: [tips] SAT and High School grade study

2014-02-19 Thread John Kulig
== - Original Message - From: John Kulig ku...@mail.plymouth.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:46:32 AM Subject: Re: [tips] SAT and High School grade study Well, grades

Re: [tips] SAT and High School grade study

2014-02-18 Thread John Kulig
) will be a good college student. Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College Long Beach CA -Original Message- From: John Kulig ku...@mail.plymouth.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Tue, Feb 18, 2014 8:16 am Subject: [tips] SAT and High

Re: [tips] Paper says physical scientists smarter and less religious than social scientists | Inside Higher Ed

2014-02-12 Thread John Kulig
Hey does anybody have access to the full article? (I will subscribe if I can't get a copy any other way) Is it merely the fact that physical scientists, on average, have higher IQs (duh, more math!) and are also less religious (whatever that means) than other scientists? If so there are a

Re: [tips] Paper says physical scientists smarter and less religious than social scientists | Inside Higher Ed

2014-02-12 Thread John Kulig
This article is worth reading carefully IF you wanted to start untangling IQ, religiosity, academic disciplines etc ... I did a quick read, not enough to get it all, but enough to realize the importance of operational definitions. Much research is cited. There is also some interesting data to

Re: [tips] Scientific method: Statistical errors : Nature News Comment

2014-02-12 Thread John Kulig
Thanks Chris .. this is a terrific article and many undergrads can plow through it. I have gone back and forth on the p versus CI (which is simply rearranging the math) versus effect size issue and have come to the conclusion that we have to keep our options open and not use one rule to

Re: [tips] UG Psych students magazine

2014-02-04 Thread John Kulig
Thanks ... they did a great job with this, I am passing this along to our faculty and psych club ... JK == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 == -

Re: [tips] so how cold was it? The Waffle House Index

2014-01-29 Thread John Kulig
Now is this ordinal or interval scaling? Another odd metric: I introduced my class yesterday to Oliver Smoot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot) who used his body to measure the Harvard Bridge. It's my understanding that after he tired, his brothers

Re: [tips] IN MEMORIAM PETE SEEGER 94

2014-01-28 Thread John Kulig
At the height of my guitar playing days (height is a relative term), I could stumble through 'Living in the Country' by Pete Seeger .. it's the only instrumental I heard him do. There may have been others. Lets not forget: Little Boxes Where have all the flowers gone (inspired by the obscure

Re: [tips] A Cute Way To Teach The Central Limit Theorem

2014-01-24 Thread John Kulig
I liked the dragons better than the rabbits. I would have explained it to a class by having a random sample of 2 dragons from the bimodal and creating a sample space with 4 possibilities: Short/Short, Short/Long, Long/Short, and Long/Long. There are twice as many ways to get a medium average.

Re: [tips] What Do You Mean?

2014-01-21 Thread John Kulig
Thanks Mike for this interesting article .. probably all languages have expressions that are understood best without logical. My favorite AI language interpreter joke is: The British are coming! The British are coming! .. By land or by sea? Yes!. And my Russian priest, when dissing others'

Re: [tips] Catching student cheaters

2014-01-15 Thread John Kulig
Well, Skinner's pigeons did not fly by themselves, but they were trained to peck at outlines of ships so as to guide missiles to their target during WWII ... the military did not support Project Pigeon wholeheartedly though Skinner claimed it would have worked. Each nose cone had three

Re: [tips] Was Skinner a warmonger?

2014-01-15 Thread John Kulig
I don't have any evidence on whether he signed anything like this .. though very few people would sign a blanket opposition to all wars at all times. However, in general, he did seem to be idealistic about the possibility of reducing violence and other nasty things as evidenced by his interest

Re: [tips] more on dialects and dialect quzzes

2014-01-02 Thread John Kulig
Actually, it does let you submit from the link - underlined - in How well does this test of regional slang reveal where you’re from? I took it and it told me I was either from northern new england or southern Florida (obviously people who fled the hardy and healthy north). I will check outside

Re: [tips] Sources of happiness

2013-12-19 Thread John Kulig
-786-9757 4L41A From: John Kulig [mailto:ku...@mail.plymouth.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 12:52 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Sources of happiness This may be my third post? We shall see! I am currently trying to locate some info

[tips] heritability again?

2013-12-19 Thread John Kulig
Just checked my snail mail box and thought I was done with H .. but in my new copy of Psych Science, Kan et al .. On the nature and nurture of Intelligence and It gives H estimates for a variety of cognitive abilities and .. low and behold .. H estimates are higher with more culture-laden

Re: [tips] heritability again?

2013-12-19 Thread John Kulig
more culture-free .. sorry for typo! == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 == - Original Message - From: John Kulig ku...@mail.plymouth.edu

Re: [tips] Sources of happiness

2013-12-18 Thread John Kulig
It's a well worn story, but Donald Hebb attacked the heritability (H) concept with the story of raising children in a barrel until 12 (per Mark Twain's suggestion) after which their average IQ would be very low but heritability would = 1 because there is no environmental variation, despite the

Re: [tips] Sources of happiness

2013-12-18 Thread John Kulig
of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3519 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu (479) 524-7295 http://bit.ly/DrFroman -- From: John Kulig [mailto:ku

Re: [tips] Sources of happiness

2013-12-18 Thread John Kulig
Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3519 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu (479) 524-7295 http://bit.ly/DrFroman -- From: John Kulig [mailto:ku...@mail.plymouth.edu] Sent

Re: [tips] Sources of happiness

2013-12-17 Thread John Kulig
Philippe: Yes, and we are getting more snow. It was -10 F this morning (-23 C) and more snow for tonight. But I'm in the country so we handle it better than the cities. The 50/40/10 is probably accurate. It's close to 50% based on data from Caprara et al. (2009) Human optimal functioning:

Re: [tips] Is placebo also Russian?

2013-12-16 Thread John Kulig
The word? It's Latin I shall please .. unless we mean that the Russians were using placebos first in medical research. The Russian word for please is пожалуйста, pronounced po-zhal-ista. And you'd use Я (pronounced Ya .. not a russian R btw) for I (but I believe there are alternate words used

Re: [tips] grade inflation at Harvard and other places

2013-12-05 Thread John Kulig
I believe there is grade inflation nation-wide but I am willing to cut Harvard some flack. They have become increasingly elite, and if they retain fixed standards for grades, grades should creep up. I am not necessarily defending A- as the modal grade. Here is some data from Chapter 1 of the

Re: [tips] The Canadian aboutand out

2013-11-22 Thread John Kulig
Speaking about bad accents, remember Paul McCartney's Dakota accent in Rocky Racoon? He couldn't keep it after second :30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNRH7_Kd5Ycbtw I ran "capital of Canada" past my kids and they of course knew it .. they were

[tips] Fwd: Harvard students don't know the capital of Canada?

2013-11-20 Thread John Kulig
: John Kulig ku...@mail.plymouth.edu To: John Kulig ku...@plymouth.edu Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:24:07 PM http://news.yahoo.com/whats-the-capital-of-canada-harvard-video-140610532.html == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology

[tips] not necessarily psychology but teaching related

2013-11-20 Thread John Kulig
Tipsters: Some time ago I recall reading something to the effect that our 90/80/70/60 ABCD grading scheme originated with Scottish instructors who brought it across the Atlantic in colonial times but I have not been able to verify this or locate where I saw that. Does anybody know? When you

Re: [tips] not necessarily psychology but teaching related

2013-11-20 Thread John Kulig
Plymouth, NH On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:39 PM, John Kulig ku...@mail.plymouth.edu wrote: Tipsters: Some time ago I recall reading something to the effect that our 90/80/70/60 ABCD grading scheme originated with Scottish instructors who brought it across the Atlantic in colonial

Re: [tips] Pavlov and bells

2013-09-27 Thread John Kulig
I have the Dover edition of Conditioned Reflexes in English (Anrep, translator) and I don't recall bells, but there are buzzers, metronomes, light flashes and tactile stimuli. The Russian word for bell .. well, hard to do on keyboard... 'E'BOHOK but my 'E' is that iconic backwards E which is

Re: [tips] Pavlov and bells

2013-09-27 Thread John Kulig
: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Cc: Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 9:58:48 AM Subject: Re: [tips] Pavlov and bells  On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 06:21:08 -0700, John Kulig wrote: I have

Re: [tips] Pavlov : multiple choice

2013-09-26 Thread John Kulig
memory says metronome and tone but no bell ... == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 == - Original Message - From: michael sylvester

Re: [tips] Sometimes Even Tenure Can't Protect You

2013-09-21 Thread John Kulig
Yes .. tenured professors can get fired, and I knew one here that was. After a quick glance at the info, I wasn't sure if he tweeted on University stationary or his own (I realize tweets are electronic ... I have never done one but assume they can be sent from either the UK's computer or his

Re: [tips] Sometimes Even Tenure Can't Protect You

2013-09-21 Thread John Kulig
btw, check out one of the more famous cases of a professor can have opinions that others find abhorrent ... most tipsters will disagree with his views on Chinese immigrants but perhaps they will like his view of railroads .. A railroad deal is a railroad steal .. he was a supporter of the

Re: [tips] Compare and contrast

2013-09-08 Thread John Kulig
I understand the 'systems' in history and systems to refer to the classic approaches take by different psych 'schools' - behavioral, structuralism, gestalt, psychoanalytic, cognitive (look the the outlines of well known texts like Brennan). The problem is that the systems do not exist in these

Re: [tips] Student Loans

2013-08-23 Thread John Kulig
Oh the stories we could tell! I lived in an attic apartment (real cozy actually), drove a 1967 Volvo only when I left town (it was past its prime even then; the 67s were not the upscale Volvos of today), lived without any phone for a year, accepted care

Re: [tips] Conspiracy lovers

2013-06-06 Thread John Kulig
OK I have a minute:(1) Separating other people into out-groups and in-groups is a basic human tendency (2) We identify groups by some combination of physical characteristics, gestures, uniforms, languages and accents, customs and beliefs (3) "The media"

Re: [tips] Conspiracy lovers

2013-06-06 Thread John Kulig
typo, yikes! ... liberals are _not_ above this! ==John W. Kulig, Ph.D.Professor of PsychologyCoordinator, Psychology HonorsPlymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 ==From: "John Kuli

Re: [tips] Conspiracy lovers

2013-06-06 Thread John Kulig
"Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" tips@fsulist.frostburg.eduSent: Thursday, June 6, 2013 1:54:21 PMSubject: Re: [tips] Conspiracy loversOn 2013-06-06, at 12:57 PM, John Kulig wrote:In-group, out-group joke of the day: "Nobody goes to Coney Island anymore. It gets too cro

Re: [tips] What Is Wrong With Harvard?

2013-05-30 Thread John Kulig
'. And heritability is not a genetic measure, just a statement of the extent to which a measure is predictable from one generation to the next. On May 29, 2013, at 12:59 PM, John Kulig wrote: Hi Mike Yeah well, there is always a difference between (1) description of group differences and (2

Re: [tips] What Is Wrong With Harvard?

2013-05-29 Thread John Kulig
Hi Mike Yeah well, there is always a difference between (1) description of group differences and (2) explanation. Group differences in IQ (and/or g) exist. In one sense, what really matters is the effect size. In another sense, average performance differences do not matter; what _really_

[tips] Hot hand in sports? Maybe a cold hand?

2013-05-09 Thread John Kulig
I _knew_ it was only a matter of time before more data appeared! I will try to track down the details. I predicted some dependence could be demonstrated since a person shooting hoops (unlike a coin) has a memory, is prone to fatigue/practice effects, arousal fluctuations etc. It is also

Re: [tips] Polling...

2013-04-23 Thread John Kulig
I agree with the eyeball method and it fits a distinction I always make between the context of discovery and a context of justification. Most researchers (some tipster might want to say "some researchers") discover based on the eyeball, playing with

Re: [tips] Hey, We Got A Pope!

2013-03-13 Thread John Kulig
Mike et al I'm laying my bet on O'Mally from Boston ... not an Italian but he is perceived as doing good job with scandals AND he really looks the part (the beard and all) ... JK == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, University Honors

Re: [tips] Hey, We Got A Pope!

2013-03-13 Thread John Kulig
== - Original Message - From: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Cc: Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:29:38 PM Subject: Re: [tips] Hey, We Got A Pope! On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:17:21 -0700, John

[tips] question about meta analysis - skip if you want!

2013-03-11 Thread John Kulig
I am not the expert in meta-analysis, so any help will be appreciated. I am currently finding some materials but in the meantime a few quick questions. I know how to combine Z scores to get an overall Z and p level using Stouffer's methods - in my case I have 4 p values, and I would find the

Re: [tips] A TIPS-vention in NYC

2013-03-05 Thread John Kulig
Oh somebody just hit my Boston button! Sorry for the non-psych related yada yada .. but its one of the truly _walkable_ and historic cities in the US. There are few greater thrills greater than walking around at night (well, Cambridge mostly, but ..) amidst students, bicycles, tourists etc

Re: [tips] my crummy knowledge of stats

2013-01-17 Thread John Kulig
That was my understanding too ... though while washing dishes last night I warmed up to Jim's (was it Jim Clark?? Sorry if I forgot!) suggestion (imperfect memory here) of treating item as a random factor, get a CI, and then noting which improvements lies outside the CI. Also, a very simple

Re: [tips] Flu vaccine and p.6 level of significance

2013-01-15 Thread John Kulig
Nice replies (Jim C, Karl W and Mike P and others ..) so I won't repeat what has been said except to note - as a tangent to the original posts - that in some of my classes I spend time with the relative risk Karl W discusses. I use the example of aspirin and MI (heart attack) in the 1988 (New

Re: [tips] Stressed out Monkeys

2012-12-21 Thread John Kulig
The _original_ was Brady, 1958 Scientific American the executive monkey study. In this study those that _had_ control developed ulcers ... other studies dealt with predictability. It is my understanding the original Brady study had design issues .. Brady, J. V. (1958). Ulcers in

Re: [tips] Stressed out Monkeys

2012-12-21 Thread John Kulig
Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Dec 21, 2012, at 8:47 AM, John Kulig ku...@mail.plymouth.edu wrote: The _original_ was Brady, 1958 Scientific American the executive monkey study. In this study those

Re: [tips] Goodbye g -- We Hardly Knew Ya

2012-12-21 Thread John Kulig
On 'g' .. I suspect rumors of its demise are premature. The bottom line, for me, is that IQ tests remain solid predictors of academic and employment success, and when the items on them (any multi-item test of general cognitive abilities) are factor analyzed, g is very difficult to avoid. Few

Re: [tips] Emigration to Canada off the table?

2012-11-07 Thread John Kulig
Interestingly, some supporters of Romney said (I am told) we should not worry about a Romney presidency because he really didn't mean all the stuff he said during the campaign. That was my optimistic outlook ... three cheers for etch-a-sketch politics! == John W.

Re: [tips] No one's named Dave like I am

2012-11-06 Thread John Kulig
Today's Boston Globe f eatures our own John Kulig, who is also my colleague at Plymouth State University: http://bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/11/03/hello-entirely-unique-name-dave/oDwyfrbnNwwFa8e1AU5JwO/story.html Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire

Re: [tips] No one's named Dave like I am

2012-11-06 Thread John Kulig
in the little hamlet in NH? I could swear one voter looked like you. Michael - Original Message - From: John Kulig To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [tips] No one's named Dave like I am Hey Beth Thanks

Re: [tips] The Dark Life of Killer Kittys

2012-08-08 Thread John Kulig
Yes, what a surprise that cats are predators! They are not the only predators out there of course, especially in the wilds of NH (where Mitt Romney shops for hardware stuff Yikes!). I lost two cats the past few years, and the thought of seeing, up close on cam, the open jaws of a larger

Re: [tips] Survey finds that social psychologists admit to anti-conservative bias | Inside Higher Ed

2012-08-08 Thread John Kulig
I am a little surprised at the result, as the data in the table was % who checked 4 or higher on 7 point scale. BUT, I am always cautious with results from such scales for lots of reasons ... (1) results can change with the verbal anchors on the scale .. what were they? I anxiously await

Re: [tips] Bad animal dads

2012-06-17 Thread John Kulig
Yes, probably the same lessons we can learn from watching soap operas and reading Harlequin romances ... they present human behavior as it actually occurs and not how we _want_ it to occur. We can also gain insight into human nature/behavior/motivation by noting what we as humans like to watch

[tips] summer reading

2012-06-17 Thread John Kulig
I cannot remember if we had posts on summer reading .. but these two are on my coffee table: The Social Animal by David Brooks (Conservative writer and NY Times columnist). He follows the lives of hypothetical people Harold and Erica to put a human face on evolutionary psych findings. I

Re: [tips] 73% flunked

2012-05-17 Thread John Kulig
Well, as someone once said scratch a criterion and find a norm .. Criterion referenced tests have a fixed standard to passing, while normed tests are graded on a curve. == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, University Honors Plymouth State

Re: [tips] Brain Damage Makes You More Spiritual?

2012-04-19 Thread John Kulig
Hey Mike Well, some will argue that spirituality is a personality trait in its own right, the 6th and neglected trait, and totally overshadowed by the Big 5 OCEAN. I am not surprised there are neurological links; temporal lobe epilepsy has been linked to spiritual states of consciousness, and

Re: [tips] Brain Damage Makes You More Spiritual?

2012-04-19 Thread John Kulig
Mike and others I always do everything backwards, I read your link _after_ I shot off my post! The researchers in Italy were measuring (ST) Self-Transcendence which is a trait in Cloninger's Temperment and Character Inventory (TCI). ST has three sub scales, and a brief description of ST can

Re: [tips] Likert scale graph/chart results presentation

2012-04-12 Thread John Kulig
I think either is ok ..though my preference is histogram style. Even though (as Don says) the Likert scales are not necessarily equal intervals if we think about the relationship between our data and the true (unknowable) underlying function, I would consider the scales continuous as opposed to

Re: [tips] Statistical question-correlations

2012-02-27 Thread John Kulig
One possibility (which is easily checked by examining the scatterplot of all data with the two groups visually coded) is this. In a scatterplot of all the data, lets say group 1's data shows a positive correlation, but most of the points are in the upper left quadrant. Group 2's data, which

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