Re: [tips] IRBs and training

2018-09-17 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Carol: My impression is that CITI is very common in North Carolina. Ken -- - Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu Professor Department of Psychology

Re: [tips] EMDR vs CBT

2018-02-20 Thread Ken Steele
My first reaction was where is the control group? Both groups are already undergoing treatment. To quote from the article: "Design This study was a non-inferiority, randomized controlled clinical trial investigating the efficacy of EMDR treatment compared with CBT intervention in patients

Re: [tips] Frontiers in Psychology

2017-11-14 Thread Ken Steele
I, too, have read several papers from Frontiers and agree with Stuart's assessment that the quality is quite variable across papers. Additionally, I agree that the editing is also of variable quality. The last paper I read had several misspellings. Ken --

[tips] Replication report released

2017-11-13 Thread Ken Steele
Some Tipsters may find the replication below to be of interest: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/replication-dijksterhuis-van-knippenberg Ken -- - Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D.

[tips] a limit on grants?

2017-05-04 Thread Ken Steele
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49337/title/Individual-Investigators-to-Have-Limit-on-NIH-Funds/ Imagine the chaos that would ensue at several institutions if such a limit was imposed. --

Re: [tips] Anyone Still Working With Rats?

2017-01-23 Thread Ken Steele
On 1/23/2017 12:15 PM, Mike Palij wrote: A curious outbreak of the Seoul version of the Hantavirus among pet rat breeders in Wisconsin and Illinois has been reported by the CDC. A popular media account is provided by CNN; see:

Re: [tips] Is 7% Copying Still Plagiarism?

2016-07-19 Thread Ken Steele
7% is the amount accounted for at this moment in time. Ken -- - Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu

Re: [tips] A couple of things so please read both; especially relevant to cognitive and personality people

2016-05-31 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Annette: Is this the article you seek? Smith, S M, Glenberg, A, & Bjork, R A (1978). Environmental context and human memory. Memory & Cognition, 6, 342-353? Ken -- - Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D.

Re: [tips] Beall's 2016 List of Predatory Publichers

2016-01-12 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Jeff: I read the article. It is very disorganized and a "literary" review (no stinking effect sizes). For those who care about the Mozart effect, the latest real review of the literature is by: Pietschnig, Vorachek, & Formann (2010) Mozart effect-Shmozart effect: A meta-analysis.

Re: [tips] Beall's 2016 List of Predatory Publichers

2016-01-12 Thread Ken Steele
"This" = Verrusio, W., Moscucci, F., Cacciafesta, M.,& Gueli, N. (2015) article On 1/12/2016 10:49 AM, Ken Steele wrote: Hi Jeff: I read the article. It is very disorganized and a "literary" review (no stinking effect sizes). For those who care about the Mozart

Re: [tips] Fechner Day!

2015-10-22 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Chris: Do you know the original source of the October 22 dream story? I have been trying to track it down. On a somewhat related note, I was reading the G. S. Hall (1912) chapter on Fechner in "Founders of Modern Psychology" when I spotted Hall's use of the iceberg metaphor on p. 171.

Re: [tips] Pavlovian "Operant" Conditioning?

2015-10-21 Thread Ken Steele
On 10/21/2015 2:59 PM, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. wrote: One other thing: the term "reinforcement" was used in the film. It would have had to be translated into English from the original Russian subtitles, which makes me wonder if the term could have been translated in different ways. Jeff

[tips] Perception Lab Software/Activities

2015-09-29 Thread Ken Steele
Hi all: We are developing labs that will provide hands-on activities for our students in areas such as personality, social, learning, neuroscience, and perception. I have been looking without success for software to run simple perception experiments. Such software was developed in the

Re: [tips] APA Style cartoon

2015-09-25 Thread Ken Steele
Rick: Thanks for posting the links. Ken -- - Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State

Re: [tips] How Would a Behaviorist Explain This?

2015-08-28 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Michael: Likely the dog has learned in the past that the presence of the bell indicates that shock will happen and that the absence of bell indicates the absence of shock. My speculation would be that the owners did not change the battery before it died on previous occasions. This effect

[tips] Visiting Distinguished Professor Ad - Appalachian State University

2015-08-25 Thread Ken Steele
Colleagues: Below is an ad for a visiting Distinguished Professor position. Please consider applying for it or recommending the position to a colleague. It provides the opportunity to share your work with our department. Feel free to contact me for further details. Ken *Kulynych/Cline

[tips] Dept. Chairperson Ad - Appalachian State University

2015-08-25 Thread Ken Steele
Colleagues: Below is an ad for a chairperson position. Please consider it or pass it along to a colleague who is interested in such a position. You may contact me for further details. Ken *_POSITION ADVERTISEMENT_* *Chairperson* *Department of Psychology* *Appalachian State University

Re: [tips] Facebook and Variable Interval Schedules

2015-07-13 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Michael: First, notice that you have switched to a new response. You are now posting text or pictures and you hope that your posts will produce more emails or likes or whatever. The previous analysis still applies. Assume that you post 4 pictures to Instagram and you get one response.

Re: [tips] Proof that I never existed

2015-07-13 Thread Ken Steele
: @mbritt On Jun 5, 2015, at 2:06 PM, Ken Steele steel...@appstate.edu mailto:steel...@appstate.edu wrote: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3112339/How-listening-Mozart-boost-memory-Classical-composer-s-music-linked-increase-brain-wave-activity-beats-Beethoven.html Exact same

[tips] Proof that I never existed

2015-06-05 Thread Ken Steele
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3112339/How-listening-Mozart-boost-memory-Classical-composer-s-music-linked-increase-brain-wave-activity-beats-Beethoven.html Exact same music and hand-waving explanation as reported in Rauscher, Shaw, Ky (1993). Ken --

Re: [tips] Processes Involved in Visual Illusions

2015-06-05 Thread Ken Steele
I can strengthen the minimal movement effect if I don't put my finger too close to the monitor screen. A gap of 5 - 7 cm works for me. I had taken my children for their annual check up at the optometrist. While waiting for them, I started looking at a book of magic eye illusions. It took

[tips] 1 year NTT Clinical Psychology - Appalachian State Univ

2015-06-02 Thread Ken Steele
Dear colleagues: Below is an ad for a 1-year position in clinical. The position is due to a last-minute resignation. Ken Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D.steel...@appstate.edu Professor Department of

Re: [tips] Retraction of another psychology article

2015-05-22 Thread Ken Steele
article On Thu, 21 May 2015 07:37:48 -0700, Ken Steele wrote: On 5/21/2015 10:13 AM, Jim Clark wrote: Not to quibble, but this study was carried out by Political Scientists. On Thursday, May 21, 2015 8:10 AM, Ken Steele originally wrote: http://retractionwatch.com/2015/05/20/author-retracts-study

Re: [tips] Retraction of another psychology article

2015-05-21 Thread Ken Steele
On 5/21/2015 10:13 AM, Jim Clark wrote: Not to quibble, but this study was carried out by Political Scientists. Jim Jim Clark Professor Chair of Psychology University of Winnipeg 204-786-9757 Room 4L41 (4th Floor Lockhart) www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark -Original Message- From: Ken Steele

[tips] Retraction of another psychology article

2015-05-21 Thread Ken Steele
http://retractionwatch.com/2015/05/20/author-retracts-study-of-changing-minds-on-same-sex-marriage-after-colleague-admits-data-were-faked/ -- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D.steel...@appstate.edu Professor

Re: [tips] Fwd: This seems like something that TIPS should know about-

2015-05-16 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Hugh: This looks like an interesting project. Thanks for forwarding it. Ken -- --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu

Re: [tips] Tinnitus Is A Brain Disorder?

2015-04-25 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Mike: Notice in the story that they were able to suppress the tinnitus by playing white noise; that indicates some events in the inner ear were likely driving the brain activity. Ken Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D.

Re: [tips] March Madness Working Backwards heuristic

2015-03-29 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Jim: We, like every place, do an office competition and I play around with multiple strategies. One strategy I tried for a couple of years, which I called Go with the head, was always to pick the higher ranked team. Usually I would end up in the bottom of the upper quartile or the

[tips] Fwd: [CP] Sweet Briar college

2015-03-14 Thread Ken Steele
From another list. I have been following the story and the comments from the Sweet Briar administration have not made much sense to me. Ken Original Message Subject:[CP] Sweet Briar college Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 12:55:21 -0400 From: Dan Gottlieb

Re: [tips] Is This Dress Red And Green?

2015-02-27 Thread Ken Steele
Check out the cubes on Dale Purves web site to see very strong examples of the effect of taking into account the illuminant. http://www.purveslab.net/seeforyourself/ Ken Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D.

Re: [tips] Cold Enough For You?

2015-02-20 Thread Ken Steele
ASU is up in the Western mountains of NC and our weather patterns are more like NW PA or upstate NY. (A 15/20-degree difference between Boone and Charlotte or Winston-Salem/Greensboro in not that uncommon.) Thursday the low was around -9 (with 50 MPH gusts). The high was +1. Today the low

[tips] James McKeen Cattle

2015-02-11 Thread Ken Steele
I am teaching a History of Psych course this semester as an emergency substitute for a faculty member who suffered a severe blow to the head and has moved into administration. This course is considered a capstone course at ASU and requires a paper and presentation about some famous

Re: [tips] more on GS Hall and the iceberg

2015-02-11 Thread Ken Steele
Mike: Good finds. I spent an afternoon using archive.org to go through many of Hall's publications (Adolescence, ...), including later editions, looking for references to Freud and Iceberg without success. I thought that result to be odd given that GS Hall is the official translater of A

[tips] more on GS Hall and the iceberg

2015-02-10 Thread Ken Steele
Beatrice Hinkle (an early psychoanalyst -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_M._Hinkle) wrote the introduction to Jung's (1916) Psychology of the Unconscious. She connects GS Hall with the iceberg metaphor.

Re: [tips] Icebergs redux

2015-02-09 Thread Ken Steele
I think it hit a Titanic rim shot Seriously, I think we tired out because the possibilities seemed so enormous. But after Chris' recent post I was thinking of checking Hall's bibliography to see if anything looked like a popular description of Freudian theory. Ken

Re: [tips] Words used in On-Line Course Comments

2015-02-09 Thread Ken Steele
Stuart's point is made by using the word hot and looking at the case of engineering. Ken Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D.steel...@appstate.edu Professor Department of Psychology

Re: [tips] Is It Time Yet For No Pants Class Day?

2015-01-13 Thread Ken Steele
On 1/13/2015 2:06 PM, Mike Palij wrote: Well, it's that time of year for No Pants Subway Ride again and for those who want to see how it's done, here are your notes and video from the underground: http://gothamist.com/2015/01/12/no_pants_2015_photos.php Bay, what I wouldn't give to see Louis

Re: [tips] What Would Skinner Do?

2015-01-10 Thread Ken Steele
I noticed that a social exclusion type of analysis was applied by French commentators to the explanation of why many young Muslim males were very susceptible to recruitment by radical groups. The unemployment rate of males in their 20s was said to be 30%-40% and prospects of gainful

[tips] History Systems class ideas

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Steele
Hi all: I took over a History and Systems class (Yes, Chris, that is the title) in the middle of last semester on an emergency basis. I followed the syllabus of the original instructor. It seemed to follow a common format. The initial 3/4 of the semester was lecture and the last 1/4 was

Re: [tips] Behaviorist Prof Urban Legend

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Steele
I do a variation of that story in my class on shaping. I have the class discover a reinforcer that works with me, which turns out to be their attentive looking and smiling. Then I take them through the steps of shaping me to move to the side of the room and turn off a light with my nose.

Re: [tips] History Systems class ideas

2015-01-08 Thread Ken Steele
This is my 3rd post of the day so I won't be able to reply publicly in the near future. The class is supposed to be a senior capstone course and the enrollment is capped at 20 students. The class size is one reason I thought I could get away from the lecture format. One observation from

Re: [tips] So I'm going to be a woman...

2015-01-02 Thread Ken Steele
On 1/1/2015 7:14 PM, Michael Britt wrote: I am going to play the lead in the musical La Cage Aux Folles this spring, which means I’ll be wearing high heals, wigs, dresses, fake boobs and lots of makeup. I expect I'll be gaining a new empathy and respect for what women go through on a daily

Re: [tips] HAPPY NEW YEAR, Y'ALL!

2015-01-01 Thread Ken Steele
On 1/1/2015 11:59 AM, Mike Palij wrote: Best wishes to all for the coming year! May your teaching loads be lightened and your committee/administrative work be lessened as your salaries are increased. All good things to wish for. True Story: after a tiring day of teaching I was taking the

[tips] curious statistical reasoning

2014-12-11 Thread Ken Steele
A colleague sent me a link to an article - https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/10/study-finds-gender-perception-affects-evaluations I took a look at the original article and found this curious footnote. Quoting footnote 4 from the study: While we acknowledge that a significance level

Re: [tips] more fun with predatory journals

2014-12-08 Thread Ken Steele
And last year, reporter John Bohannon and the prestigious journal Science collaborated on a similar stunt, getting a deeply flawed paper about a cancer-fighting lichen accepted by 60 percent of 340 journals. Using IP addresses, Bohannon discovered that the journals that accepted his paper

Re: [tips] more fun with predatory journals

2014-12-08 Thread Ken Steele
This part of the email makes sense... Hope this mail finds you in good health!!! He hopes a dental appliance malfunction would not interfere with completing a review. How much is he willing to pay for the review? What? You are not getting paid? Shocking, shocking, shocking! Ken On

Re: [tips] Psychology is over.

2014-10-31 Thread Ken Steele
Yo Chris: I hate to be perspicuous but: a: Please identify the y-axis. Is this explanations of murders in pulp fiction? Explantions of career failure in business enterprises? Darwinian accounts of success in hard goods or real property? Amounts of candy I will pass out to tonight? b:

[tips] Robert P Lanza

2014-10-27 Thread Ken Steele
A long time ago...a very long time ago Robert P. Lanza posted the availability of a piece about his work in Skinner's lab on the self-awareness and symbolic communication studies. I requested a copy and now I can't find it. I tried searching for his post in the mail archives without

Re: [tips] Robert P Lanza

2014-10-27 Thread Ken Steele
this help? http://www.robertlanza.com/lanza-skinners-work-on-symbolic-communication-featured-in-new-york-times/ On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Ken Steele steel...@appstate.edu mailto:steel...@appstate.edu wrote: A long time ago...a very long time ago Robert P. Lanza posted

Re: [tips] Robert P Lanza

2014-10-27 Thread Ken Steele
with Epstein and Skinner, but nothing on Humpty Dumpty. On Oct 27, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Ken Steele steel...@appstate.edu mailto:steel...@appstate.edu wrote: A long time ago...a very long time ago Robert P. Lanza posted the availability of a piece about his work in Skinner's lab on the self-awareness

Re: [tips] Teach statistics before calculus

2014-10-04 Thread Ken Steele
On 10/4/2014 1:02 AM, drnanjo wrote: Math is beautiful. When we suggest to students that it's an obstacle to be skirted and not a skill set to be valued and cultivated, we do them an injustice. It's part of being a good critical thinker and a competent consumer of information in general. It

Re: [tips] Women's Skirt Size Causes Cancer!!!

2014-09-27 Thread Ken Steele
That means, if I don't wear a skirt, then I won't get cancer? Thanks Carol!! On 9/27/2014 3:01 PM, Carol wrote: That means that, if I wear pants, then I won't get cancer? Thanks Mike!!! -- --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D.

Re: [tips] The season of the deceased grandparent

2014-09-05 Thread Ken Steele
On 9/5/2014 6:51 PM, Beth Benoit wrote: I tried that for a couple of semesters but found that if students were satisfied with their first three tests, they SKIPPED the final fourth of the class, skipped the fourth test and then the final. How did you get around that? Beth Benoit Plymouth State

Re: [tips] The Future Of College?

2014-08-14 Thread Ken Steele
A very long time ago as a preteen, I used to watch educational tv, which consisted of taped lectures from courses at the local state university. I liked the history courses that explained the development of the red menance and the rise of nazism. I liked the math courses on algebra and

Re: [tips] Holy Crap Part 2! Now The Princeton Review Phonebook Came In!uor

2014-08-04 Thread Ken Steele
Sixty-two categories may seem excessive but they won't get my bit coins until they include the rankings on Best Western NC Comprehensive-level Universities Located West of the Lenoir/Granite Falls/Hickory throughway. Ken ---

Re: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody Is Not Going To Be Happy!

2014-07-30 Thread Ken Steele
Memo to Time.com: You want people to look at your site. Your site is so bloated by advertisements that it can't be navigated. BTW, schools committed to business programs and engineering programs dominate your top schools. It would seem that 5 year salary is your favorite metric. On

Re: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody Is Not Going To Be Happy!

2014-07-30 Thread Ken Steele
On 7/30/2014 7:30 PM, William Scott wrote: I see that 5% of the quality of education is based on RateMyProfessor scores. That is very funny. RateMyProfessor doesn't distinguish among a 1st time graduate student, a person who has been teaching the course for 20 years, and an adjunct who has

Re: [tips] How Much Is Your School Paying For Its Journals?

2014-06-19 Thread Ken Steele
We have had several presentations from our library on issues related to journal costs. One problem has been that several big publishers have been buying up smaller journals and then selling packages to institutions. You can imagine how much more income a publisher can produce by packaging

Re: [tips] Sample sizes

2014-06-15 Thread Ken Steele
On 6/15/2014 12:39 PM, Annette Taylor wrote: Sorry this is coming from my microcomputer aka cell phone. Typos and short sentences may abound. I have not had a stats class since grad school. I am well into my 60's now. So here is my confusion. I was taught way back then that too large a

Re: [tips] Your Brain On Porn

2014-05-28 Thread Ken Steele
On 5/28/2014 5:28 PM, Mike Palij wrote: The journal JAMA Psychiatry (previously known as Archives of General Psychiatry) reports a nueroimaging study that shows that certain brain structures and processes are correlated with self-reported time consuming internet porn (measured in hours; I know

Re: [tips] Compare and contrast

2014-05-27 Thread Ken Steele
On 5/27/2014 5:38 PM, Jim Matiya wrote: your submissions to TIPS arrive with a black background. And since you are using black for the color of your fonts, twice you submitted black and unreadable When I reply to you, now I can read your submission Jim Psych FGCU That invisible

Re: [tips] Replicating psychological science: A case of bullying?

2014-05-26 Thread Ken Steele
I am just back from the APS meeting where I attended the symposium on the Replication Revolution - 1 Year Later. The speakers included many of the people connected with the Perspectives on Psych Science (PoPS) articles published in November of 2012. These people are working hard to

Re: [tips] Some Fish To Fry...

2014-05-20 Thread Ken Steele
On 5/20/2014 4:11 PM, Mike Palij wrote: And a cannibal at that. See: http://www.livescience.com/45702-fanged-cannibal-lancetfish-north-carolina.html -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu mailto:m...@nyu.edu The picture of the lancetfish I saw in the Charlotte Observer showed the

[tips] Poster Tube

2014-05-19 Thread Ken Steele
I am headed to the APS convention this week. In the past, I have carried on-board a suitcase, a satchel, and my poster tube without being charged for a third item. Has this practice changed? Or am I likely to be charged for a 3rd carry-on? Ken

Re: [tips] Psychology and Politics

2014-03-10 Thread Ken Steele
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 important: liberty or equality? I go with equality - i.e. Civilization and its Discontents. == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology

Re: [tips] Condolances

2014-02-21 Thread Ken Steele
On 2/21/2014 6:32 PM, Jim Clark wrote: There is much sadness here in Canada over our good friends in the USA and their unfortunate losses in ice hockey. Our condolances go out to all. Jim Jim: Thanks for the sadnesses from Canada. It is the coming of the Canadian Vortex Apocalypse. The

Re: [tips] Classical versus Vicarious Conditioning of Phobias

2014-02-09 Thread Ken Steele
I think there would be less angst in using classical conditioning terminology if people read what Pavlov wrote in Conditioned Reflexes. In Lecture I, Pavlov lays out his definition of the reflex. A reflex is a systematic, predictable relationship between a stimulus and a responses. Thus a

[tips] Goings on at NCSU

2014-01-20 Thread Ken Steele
Not psychology but science-related. http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/18/3539211/ncsu-professor-becomes-convinced.html http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/19/3544566/in-a-notebook-at-nc-state-a-smoking.html Ken

Re: [tips] While we are on the topic of Skinner

2014-01-17 Thread Ken Steele
A followup to Rick's comments. Skinner once described the following situation. (I am blanking on the source.) He had made an off-the-cuff joke which produced a strong reaction in his audience. He describes going back to his office and trying to remember the words and intonation he used so

Re: [tips] WITHDRAWN

2014-01-16 Thread Ken Steele
Hi all: I would suggest both issues are problems. But I do have a dog in this fight* ;-) Ken *Steele, K. M. (2013). Failure to replicate the Mehta and Zhu (2009) color-priming effect on anagram solution times. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. Advance online publication. doi:10.3758

Re: [tips] Did You Drop Trou?

2014-01-14 Thread Ken Steele
On 1/14/2014 11:33 AM, Mike Palij wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2014, it was No Pants Subway Ride Day, a celebration of pantless subway riding that is observed around the world. Here is one account of what happened in NYC:

Re: [tips] Pavlov's Experiments on Children

2014-01-14 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Lisa: I am going to defer to Chris Green's comments about the video. I have seen the supposed full video three or four times and the contents strike me as odd. It is clearly horrific to us in the 21st century but the contents seem unsystematic and more intended to shock rather than be a

Re: [tips] Modern Day Example of Insight Learning?

2014-01-12 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Michael: Is this the link you intended to post? http://m.wcti12.com/beagle-improvises-to-steal-chicken-nuggets-on-kitchen-counter/-/21996622/23852574/-/155h2hmz/-/index.html There are some choppy spots that look like editing cuts. But assume that was just my crummy connection. The

Re: [tips] more on dialects and dialect quzzes

2014-01-02 Thread Ken Steele
To continue the dialect fun, there is a town/section/greater-metropolitan whatever/ that is just west of Asheville, NC, that is spelled Leicester. You will know the locally-correct pronuciation if you are from Worcester, MA. Ken PS - I can't compete in Mike P's contest because I have

Re: [tips] Happy New Year!

2014-01-01 Thread Ken Steele
--- On 1/1/2014 10:45 AM, Mike Palij wrote: On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 06:30:54 -0800, Ken Steele wrote: Best wishes to all. And an idle question. I was stunned to see on CNN the New Years fireworks display coming from Dubai UAE. When did such fireworks' displays become a global requirement

Re: [tips] Language and Dialect

2013-12-24 Thread Ken Steele
On 12/24/2013 1:15 PM, Claudia Stanny wrote: I finally got a map . . . I think the site shares load problems experienced on the ACA site. :-) I also adopted Jeff's strategy of selecting responses based on choices I would have made growing up rather than usages I know about based on where I now

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

2013-11-20 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Chris: Pardon my ignorance, but are we talking sapling or mature? Deciduous or conifer? Summer or winter? If you can't classify correctly a mature weeping willow in the summer then you need to get outside more often. :-) Ken

Re: [tips] What to do with skewed data

2013-11-11 Thread Ken Steele
On 11/11/2013 1:01 PM, Michael Britt wrote: I did a survey which asked respondents how satisfied they are in their current (romantic) relationship on a 1=10 point scale (where 10=very satisfied). While there was some variation, not surprisingly, the results are strongly negatively skewed. That

[tips] The creepiness of Google

2013-11-08 Thread Ken Steele
Today I was searching for example audiograms to show to my perception-class students. Now all of my nonacademic web sites are full of ads for hearing aids. Ken Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D.

Re: [tips] Google autocomplete psychology

2013-11-04 Thread Ken Steele
One of the issues here is that Google autocomplete is geared to the search history that exists for the computer on which the search is run. So when I enter the word proper then the autocomplete for me is to a restaurant in Boone, NC. (The restaurant serves local, Southern-history food to

Re: [tips] New? Course

2013-10-14 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Joel: We do a course like this at ASU. It is a 1-hour course called Careers in Psychology in which we help the beginning psych major review career posibilities, identify a career goal, and then plan their courses to go towards that goal. I see only a subgroup, those headed towards

Re: [tips] Pavlov and bells

2013-09-27 Thread Ken Steele
On 9/27/2013 12:24 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: One possibility for why we don't remember the metronome could be that it doesn't fit well into our schemas for CS. My limited memory of a metronome is a thing on a piano that makes noise continuously. A bell is more of a discrete stimulus. Rick

Re: [tips] Pavlov and bells

2013-09-27 Thread Ken Steele
On 9/27/2013 1:23 PM, Mike Palij wrote: (1) The film that Prof. Black refers to (i.e., the NY Times review) is available on the web and can be downloadable here: http://vimeo.com/20583313 Wow!! Imagine showing the 15-37 min section of that film in class. Ken

Re: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it?

2013-08-27 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Michael: Be careful with the effect size statistic that G*Power uses, sometimes it is using rho. rho = .3 would be a medium effect size. Ken PS - It is surprising how underpowered are many of the experiments reported in the journals.

Re: Alec Guiness....RE: [tips] The Character-Actor Delusion

2013-08-25 Thread Ken Steele
I think that Sellers did a wonderful job of portraying a MidWest US accent. Ken Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D.steel...@appstate.edu Professor Department of Psychology

Re: [tips] Why my mind no longer changes on weed?

2013-08-14 Thread Ken Steele
On 8/14/2013 9:31 AM, Mike Palij wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 03:38:56 +, , Karl LWuensch wrote: It stopped having any noticeable effect on me, many years ago. Is this unusual? How does this happen? Cheers, Dear Karl, I don't know how to say this delicately so I'll just say it straight: it

Re: [tips] Evolution of Two Brains in Homo sapiens

2013-07-23 Thread Ken Steele
Of course I meant Yin and Yang. Or did I? Truly, I am rereading the Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. It is a trippy experience. Ken On 7/23/2013 5:18 PM, Ken Steele wrote: We can think of this answer as a ying and yang response. On the one hand you have

Re: [tips] Evolution of Two Brains in Homo sapiens

2013-07-23 Thread Ken Steele
We can think of this answer as a ying and yang response. On the one hand you have the rational brain. But to keep the Cosmos in balance then you must develop an irrational brain which encourages the opposite type of behavior. On the other hand, you may conclude that I have been watching

Re: [tips] WOMAN HAS BABY

2013-07-23 Thread Ken Steele
Shocking and eminently newsworthy. Thank you for that important information. Otherwise, I would be playing skittles without a care. ;-) Ken On 7/23/2013 5:21 PM, michael sylvester wrote: michael -- --- Kenneth M. Steele,

Re: [tips] Isch bin eich Berliner

2013-06-16 Thread Ken Steele
The typical example of the difference an article can have in this context is: I am Danish. vs. I am a Danish. Wiedersehen. Ich bin weg vom Fenster. Ken --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu Professor

Re: [tips] Isch bin eich Berliner

2013-06-16 Thread Ken Steele
Jun 2013 14:25:29 -0700, Ken Steele wrote: The typical example of the difference an article can have in this context is: I am Danish. vs. I am a Danish. Yeah, but a Danish what? ;-) Wiedersehen. Ich bin weg vom Fenster. Now Google translate says: Goodbye. I'm a goner. But a more literal

Re: [tips] Polling...

2013-04-22 Thread Ken Steele
The use is a highly irritating conflation of a dichotomous decision and an indication of effect size. Ken Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D.steel...@appstate.edu Professor and Assistant Chairperson

Re: [tips] funny and relevant

2013-04-09 Thread Ken Steele
Here is a link to a newspaper account of the possibility of human tetrachromats: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/health/some-women-may-see-100-million-colors-thanks-to-their-genes-450179/ I discuss tetrachromats and the Mantis shrimp when I talk about human dichromats. Ken --

Re: [tips] SPRING BREAK ADVISORY

2013-03-27 Thread Ken Steele
Dangit...I wish you had posted this advice earlier. Ken On 3/27/2013 7:12 PM, michael sylvester wrote: Fellow Tipsters: Please advise your students who plan on coming to Daytona Beach for Spring Break not to attempt to jump from their 20th floor hotel balcony to the swimming pool. michael

Re: [tips] The Soft Side of B.F. Skinner

2013-03-03 Thread Ken Steele
Science and Human Behavior is available as a free pdf book at http://www.bfskinner.org/bfskinner/PDFBooks.html Ken Kenneth M. Steele, Ph. D.steel...@appstate.edu Professor and Assistant

Re: {Disarmed} [tips] To Good Ole Boys in Tipsville

2013-02-22 Thread Ken Steele
On 2/22/2013 11:10 AM, Pollak, Edward (Retired) wrote: As luck would have it, I recently returned Florida, having been on a bluegrass cruise to the Bahamas. (Really.) And aside from having no interest in watching auto racing, I have even less interest in playing Dueling Banjos. One can't play

Re: [tips] Experimental Programming Languages that Generalize to E-Prime??

2013-02-22 Thread Ken Steele
On 2/22/2013 12:28 PM, Jim Clark wrote: Hi Ideally, we would like to have our students using e-prime in a number of our courses, as that experience is helpful when they later work as RAs in labs that use e-prime. But e-prime appears expensive for many users. I wondered if anyone had any

Re: [tips] To Good Ole Boys in Tipsville

2013-02-21 Thread Ken Steele
On 2/21/2013 8:54 AM, michael sylvester wrote: The Daytona 500 is on this Sunday,so let me know if any of Tipsville's good ole boys(Michael Scoles,Ken Steele,Ed,et al) will be in Daytona.Let us meet as a group.I have two cases of Mountain Dew and unlimited Jack Daniels.There will also

Re: [tips] Goodhart's Law and education

2013-02-17 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Chris: I see this issue at several levels of administration. A related issue is how values are assigned to become targets. We have a small but successful MA program in experimental psychology. (Success being defined as both admission into PhD programs and people realizing that they do

Re: [tips] Inattention blindness in radiologists

2013-02-15 Thread Ken Steele
Hi Stuart: This is a follow-up to Stephen Black's point that the radiologists were looking for cancer signs and not for other irrelevant images. What were the instructions that the radiologists and the controls were given? Ken

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