Re: [tips] Anonymous Post

2011-03-21 Thread Michael Smith
H. Did faculty really go to school for umpteen years in order to be a recruiter? Would administration expect a distinguished Harvard law professor to be calling students and recruiting? Perhaps we are not all distinguished Harvard law professors, but does that mean we should be given less

Re: [tips] Let us abolish paper assignments

2011-02-09 Thread Michael Smith
Perhaps unnecessary, but just to highlight that there wasn't any references to the relevant literature provided by anyone not just Michael S. (who was highlighted in your selection). There were no references to % of students sent to grad school, nor for if you can write you can think nor for and

Re: [tips] Chairs of committees

2011-01-28 Thread Michael Smith
-- -Original Message- From: Michael Smith [mailto:tipsl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:01 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Chairs of committees I was wondering what the opinion would be in TIPS with regard to having administration

Re: [tips] Curious about department heads

2011-01-18 Thread Michael Smith
College Long Beach CA -Original Message- From: Michael Smith tipsl...@gmail.com To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 9:13 am Subject: [tips] Curious about department heads I'm curious about what TIPsters think. A friend

[tips] Curious about department heads

2011-01-17 Thread Michael Smith
I'm curious about what TIPsters think. A friend of mine received an email from his department head requesting that the department head have access (viewing only I presume) to his online courses (I think 'classes you teach' was the actual words). The reason being because the department head

Re: [tips] Silly season for psychic psychology?

2011-01-15 Thread Michael Smith
Clark j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca wrote: Hi James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Michael Smith tipsl...@gmail.com 14-Jan-11 8:50 AM Jim Clark wrote: ... Indeed one of the ironies, perhaps, of claiming such an ability is that it brings the whole

Re: [tips] Silly season for psychic psychology?

2011-01-14 Thread Michael Smith
Jim Clark wrote: Personally, I believe that Stephen's posting is quite appropriate given the subject matter. It’s not the subject matter which matters. It’s the people who share those beliefs. And yet TIPSTERs apparently get upset when their belief that proper decorum should be observed on this

Re: [tips] Silly season for psychic psychology?

2011-01-11 Thread Michael Smith
In reading your post, it seems as though your posting is riddled with sarcasm, ridicule, and a-priori assumption. When reading it, a scientific attitude is not what comes to mind. --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

[tips] British autism/vaccine study a fraud it seems

2011-01-05 Thread Michael Smith
see: http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/05/autism.vaccines/index.html?hpt=T1iref=BN1 -- -- Mike For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn. (Hemingway) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

Re: [tips] Placebos: stirring the pot

2011-01-04 Thread Michael Smith
No one has really addressed my question as to why any classically conditioned stimulus could not be viewed as a placebo (or nocebo). Not being a behavioral specialist I see my opportunity here :) I would imagine that any stimulus used to entrain a classically conditioned response would not be

Re: [tips] Placebos: stirring the pot

2011-01-04 Thread Michael Smith
Michael Burman wrote: I think no one has answered this because it is essentially correct. Classical conditioning is a likely mechanism for the placebo effect. Robert Ader gave a talk at the Pavlovian Society Meeting a couple of years back showing that the immune system in rats could be classically

Re: [tips] Placebos: stirring the pot

2011-01-04 Thread Michael Smith
Mike Burman wrote: Moreover, blinking to a tone that predicts an insult to the eye is clearly a beneficial response in any sense. Yes, I suppose so. If it were up to me though, I think I would consider placebo to be a subset of expectancy effects which are medically beneficial. The rest I would

Re: [tips] Observed experiential integration therapy

2011-01-02 Thread Michael Smith
I think this is the same as one eye integration therapy that was talked about a little on TIPS before. I think it's a one-eyed version of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy. The website of two major players is found here: https://www.sightpsych.com/ --Mike On Sun, Jan

Re: [tips] A Doctor in Iraq

2010-12-31 Thread Michael Smith
Nevertheless, regardless of how much stretch is involved, there is no evidence this view is actually the case and therefore is an opinion (from a particular worldview) and is not science or psychology. There are many possibilities that could be involved involved in this case (not necessarily

Re: [tips] A Doctor in Iraq

2010-12-30 Thread Michael Smith
It seems to me the possibility of the poor young woman being forced to marry against her will is rather being almost forcefully insisted upon by Allen with no evidence whatsoever. Another example of American cultural insensitivity? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To

Re: [tips] What Is Forgiveness?

2010-12-27 Thread Michael Smith
Some hold that unilateral forgiveness is the model, pointing to the much discussed case of the Amish unilaterally forgiving the murderer of their children (for an account of this case, see “Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy,” by D. B. Kraybill, S. M. Nolt, and D. L. Weaver-Zercher).

Re: [tips] Neurobabble

2010-12-22 Thread Michael Smith
lol. The video was very funny! --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7438 or send a blank email to

Re: [tips] The joy of stats

2010-12-17 Thread Michael Smith
I agree. I wouldn't normally respond to Mike P's personal innuendos and comments in kind (which are usually, if not always, initiated by him to multiple posters on TIPS), but I thought I would this time in order to highlight its inappropriateness and the degree to which Mike P is willing to

Re: [tips] The joy of stats

2010-12-16 Thread Michael Smith
I think I'll try to match Allen's lengthy response. I haven't read it (The Spirit Level) either (although I think I have it somewhere and have been planning to). I think Chris made a good point that it is a popular book and so perhaps focuses on readability. This, however, doesn't mean the

Re: [tips] The joy of stats

2010-12-16 Thread Michael Smith
Mike P: As someone who is familiar with the research methods literature in sociology. Congratulations. I think most here are familiar with regression. I am puzzled about (a) why you are laughing (outside of your being prone to laugh at things for no apparent reason) ...better than being a

Re: Re:[tips] A brilliant discovery

2010-12-10 Thread Michael Smith
Too bad there's no job for people who remember odd bits of arcana I think there is ... a psychology professor :) --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

Re: [tips] Stanford Dissertation Browser

2010-12-10 Thread Michael Smith
Seems interesting. Of course it depends on what the software is actually doing, but word overlap doesn't necessarily mean semantic overlap. --Mike On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Frantz, Sue sfra...@highline.edu wrote: Interesting Discover blog today:

Re: [tips] Objectivity and statistical reality

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Smith
Or could be that TIPSTERS fall 2 standard deviations below the mean, as they are insulated in an academic cocoon safely removed from reality. --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

Re: [tips] Objectivity and statistical reality

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Smith
University, Mankato paul.bran...@mnsu.edu On Dec 7, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Michael Smith wrote: Or could be that TIPSTERS fall 2 standard deviations below the mean, as they are insulated in an academic cocoon safely removed from reality. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: tipsl

Re: [tips] More anti-social-science ... from the public.

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Smith
lolthat's hillarious...the studies were pretty funny too (except of course for the fact that money may have been wasted on them). But what comes through clearly is that the public knows best...they aren't fooled by the eggheads (thank God!). --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips

Re: [tips] Early Seasons Greetings!

2010-12-06 Thread Michael Smith
Thank you for the post David. Yes it would be good if people were trying to reclaim the altruistic spirit of the original Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas). I will be sure to visit her site. :-) --Mike On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:39 PM, David Myers my...@hope.edu wrote: What fun to return from

Re: [tips] Psychological Science

2010-12-05 Thread Michael Smith
Well...I actually never said what I think of psychology as a science. Of course, a disproportionate amount of its credence as a science, if indeed it has much, could come from those parts that are closest to biology such as neuroscience. While the rest such as personality and social may reside in

Re: [tips] Is there a real scientific Psych

2010-12-05 Thread Michael Smith
Please leave the poetry and allegory and metaphor to English majors, they do a much much better job. From what I read, it seems that the author has missed most of the pionts entirely and has inserted his own misconceptions to further clarify the issue. --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to

Re: [tips] I need to share...

2010-12-03 Thread Michael Smith
Sad but highlights that a BA is just the equivalent of what high school used to be. There is no higher in higher-ed. --Mike On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Marc Carter marc.car...@bakeru.edu wrote: From a method section in lab report: Surveys were given out in a face to face passed out

[tips] Psychological Science

2010-12-03 Thread Michael Smith
If psychology is a science, then why don't psych credits count toward a science requirement in a BA program? --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6944 or

Re: [tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-11-28 Thread Michael Smith
What I usually find uncomfortable is that people use research to support their personal views. For example, Michal Britt finds that he's ok with the research that finds homosexuality is not a mental illness. This is clearly not what research shows since it can show nothing of the kind. Another

Re: [tips] Should we be objective?

2010-11-25 Thread Michael Smith
I think Jim's post highlights some of the problems when talking about objective, evidence, opinion, etc. That is, the reviewer Jan Golinski is simply promoting further evidence for his views while Jim sees through this with his more objective knowledge which presumably puts the lie to Golinski.

Re: [tips] Canada's early intolerance

2010-11-23 Thread Michael Smith
Well, I pay little attention to due dates :-) Hmm. It seems the point, silly as it is, is still not getting across. I'll try to simplify further... My point was: Must a post be in essay format to be well thought out, informative, and properly referenced? Put another way, the Essay Hypothesis: A

Re: [tips] Canada's early intolerance

2010-11-22 Thread Michael Smith
S. Black responds to this thread with: ...uncharacteristically disagreeable... I disagree. I don't find the discussion disagreeable, just a discussion. it's time I expressed an opinion OK. This must be significant I guess, but I'm not sure why. 'Verbiage' refers to more than just the length of

Re: [tips] Resource and reference books

2010-11-22 Thread Michael Smith
I agree that Martin Bolt's resource manual is fantastic. Unfortunately for those in Canada. Some of the resources (e.g. a particular psychology video series recomended in the manual (which I wanted to get)) are not sold in Canada. :-( But the printed material and resource suggestions in the

Re: [tips] Canada's early intolerance

2010-11-20 Thread Michael Smith
In response to: It is tiring and unnecessary (I think) to wade through a lot of verbiage particularly on a list-serve Allen said I find that a rather remarkable comment, on two counts. First, no one has to wade through any post on this listserv First the first statement isn't really remarkable

Re: [tips] Canada's early intolerance

2010-11-19 Thread Michael Smith
It is tiring and unnecessary (I think) to wade through a lot of verbiage particularly on a list-serve. Perhaps what Chris meant was, instead of essays: skip the quotes make it point form with concision (of course the same criticism could be leveled at M. Palij who also tends to be an essay

Re: [tips] Future shock

2010-11-17 Thread Michael Smith
I also would highlight (from Allen) ...how one judges the case... --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=6568 or send a blank email to

Re: [tips] Future shock

2010-11-15 Thread Michael Smith
Aw. I don't think we should pick on psychologists. Every academic discipline has it's pre-cognitives as I pointed out recently about Joseph S. Nye's (Harvard) TED talk where he assures us about certain aspects of the future. --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org.

Re: [tips] The Shadow Scholar

2010-11-15 Thread Michael Smith
Personally I found that the article stated nothing new, over-represented the problem, and most of all was really boring. I think the author's self-aggrandizing real point is that he is an amazingly gifted and brilliant scholar which the college system failed to recognize. I also imagine that he

Re: [tips] American men are becoming chicks

2010-11-07 Thread Michael Smith
The last time I used the C word the New England and the California first responders and other female tipsters were highly offended. lol. Really?... fascinating that adults can be highly offended by a word. Apparently that valuable lesson that used to be learned in kindergarten is no longer

[tips] American men are becoming chicks

2010-11-06 Thread Michael Smith
At least according to Comedian, author Adam Carolla American men are becoming chicks and all Americans will be chicks in 50 years: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2010/11/05/ps.adam.carolla.int.cnn?hpt=T2 ...I wonder if he got his cue from academics where the process seems to be a lot

Re: [tips] Why isn't this plagiarism?

2010-11-02 Thread Michael Smith
Marie said: In fact, in the biological sciences it is common for the lab director to be an author on every paper produced by his/her lab even if he/she did nothing specifically to create the paper or research. And this is also the case in bio-psychology (or is that psycho-biology...ahem, I

Re: [tips] The Failure of Higher Education And Its Effect On U.S. Politics

2010-10-31 Thread Michael Smith
An equally entertaining news item is this Ted Talk which highlights divinatinatory practices among academics. http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/10/31/nye.rise.china.fears/index.html?hpt=C2 I wonder if he prefers the tarot card or the crystal ball? --Mike On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Mike

Re: [tips] 100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School

2010-10-31 Thread Michael Smith
12:26:09 -0700, Annette Taylor wrote in reponse to Prof. Michael Smith: Well, now that's an attitude that will generate job security for those of  remaining in academia. But it won't do anything for students who really would like to aspire to become college professors! Or who just like life-long

Re: [tips] Why don't we hear more about such things?

2010-10-20 Thread Michael Smith
Chris wrote Which is precisely why it doesn't count as a candidate for knowledge (for anyone remotely sympathetic to Popper). I think I would agree that the statment wouldn't count as a scientific hypothesis, but not that it couldn't count as knowledge. To say that assumes a scientific world view

Re: [tips] Freud and intellectuals

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Smith
I suppose it could be put down to belief perseverance and confirmation bias. Just as UFO enthusiasts interpret contrary evidence to fit their preconceptions, I imagine Freud believers do the same. Personal intelligence and critical thinking are often of little help when it comes to assessment (or

Re: [tips] Freud's case histories

2010-10-11 Thread Michael Smith
Very interesting to read your two posts. I haven't looked into Freud really at all, so this is news to me. Was the VAST majority of his published stuff (and the theories of his system) doctored and (at times completely made up)? E.g. the glove aneasthesia case so often referred to in intro psych

Re: [tips] behavioral dilemma

2010-10-11 Thread Michael Smith
I don't go for the germs theory either. In Canada (at least for the 3D movies) the glasses are in plastic pouches, giving at least the illusion of germ free :-) Personally I would postulate the I don't want to disturb the symmetry theory. I've noticed that many people are a bit hesitant to

Re: [tips] Deans Can't Count on First Amendment

2010-10-11 Thread Michael Smith
Shows you the illusory nature of rightsand I wonder how weak the rights are of an individual professor are. I guess it still, and always will come down to whoever has the greater force is the one who makes the rules and decides the rights of everyone else. The constitution of countries can

Re: [tips] behavioral dilemma

2010-10-10 Thread Michael Smith
I hesitate to point this out, butthere is no evidence that this behavior exists or is automatic and that the fact that he fully understands that when people go to these places they are not 'themselves' but rather some zombie-like shell of themselves to me is a bizzarre assumption. Especially

Re: [tips] It Takes Women To Make A Group Intelligent

2010-10-08 Thread Michael Smith
Well, according to the popular article: But the team's scores had little to do with the intelligence scores of individual members, or with the score of the smartest person on the team, the researchers reported. So, actually then, the c factor would have little to do with intelligence. --Mike On

[tips] How many deaths do you think it will take?

2010-10-07 Thread Michael Smith
You know the type of story... After 5 kids get killed playing on the street, THEN the city decides it might be a good idea to put a stop sign. In a similar vein, I was wondering how many suicides (such as the most recent one: the 13 year old girl Hope) would have to occur before bullying and

[tips] If you act now, you can get 20% off an MA dissertation

2010-10-07 Thread Michael Smith
http://dissertationblog.com/ --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=5479 or send a blank email to

Re: [tips] I knew it! Psychology sunk the Titanic!

2010-09-24 Thread Michael Smith
I dindn't want to imply that it wasn't a good article for a psych class. I find I can use almost anything to illustrate something in psychology or as a discussion starter. Even for motiviation class...she is after all promoting her new novel Good as Gold. The entire story of what happened during

Re: [tips] I knew it! Psychology sunk the Titanic!

2010-09-23 Thread Michael Smith
Actually it was her grandmother who told her. Which means, the story is also at least twice removed from the source. Also, to mention a few other variables: the story is dependent on more than one person's memory processes, assumes Louse Patton knew what he was talking about (would the ship really

Re: [tips] Professor fired.

2010-09-22 Thread Michael Smith
Hi all. Well...my use of quotes around the word fact was to designate that I don't know that it was a fact. The use of question marks was to denote that I'm asking some questions with regard to provocative behavior (and dress) of young latina women when cultures were mixed in a classroom way

Re: [tips] Professor fired.

2010-09-22 Thread Michael Smith
Mike P: Perhaps you are just a bigot? Bigot: a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion. (Reference: A dictionary) You pretend to be open minded, but your bigotry and anti-religious stance shines through anyway. --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips

Re: [tips] Professor fired.

2010-09-21 Thread Michael Smith
Being the x-cultural dude Michael S. should be able to point me in the right direction here. Wasn't it a recognized 'fact' a while ago (70's?) that young Latina women behaved more seductively and provocatively than your average young american women and that the young american men took the

[tips] New advances in eye movement therapy

2010-09-20 Thread Michael Smith
If you thought EMDR was an advance, well we now have something better: OEI (One Eye integration Therapy). Yes its true. OEI therapy only needs to use one eye, so maybe its twice as good as EMDR! At any rate, here's what some 'observers' have said: ... OEI is like a combination of EMDR,

Re: [tips] New advances in eye movement therapy

2010-09-20 Thread Michael Smith
I wouldn't say the only problem with the claims of OEI is lack of peer review. For one example, this cut and paste from the website is, to me, devoid of meaning: In contrast, in OEI clients actually observe changes in cognitions, emotions, and physical sensations, depending on which eye they

Re: [tips] Galileo Was Wrong?

2010-09-17 Thread Michael Smith
Well...there's way too much there to comment on. But a couple of comments anyway: Some thoughts about Marc Carter's post. Marc said that my original contention was that: thoughtful theologians were responsible for modern science, not that the collection of people who invented science were

Re: [tips] Galileo Was Wrong?

2010-09-16 Thread Michael Smith
I'm thinking that the dark ages weren't so dark and science is a natural outgrowth of thoughtful Christian theology. So, without the dark ages and Christian theology, science wouldn't be anywhere. --Mike On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Jim Dougan jdou...@iwu.edu wrote: I sometimes engage in a

Re: [tips] Galileo Was Wrong?

2010-09-16 Thread Michael Smith
Well, I didn't mean anything very deep. Just that the first scientists were all very religious men. Bacon, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, and Darwin for example. They saw (like Aquinus) that an orderly, rational, lawful universe was a reflection of those qualities of its creator. And studying nature

Re: [tips] Self-plagiarism

2010-09-15 Thread Michael Smith
(I don’t mean that he is good at it, just that he knows a lot about it.) lol. That's funny. Especially since it kinda imply that he couldn't actually apply the knowledge. --Mike On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu wrote:

Re: [tips] They Too Died That Day

2010-09-14 Thread Michael Smith
My take would be that curious directions are directions he perhaps thinks are not worthwhile talking about. And I agree most are related either directly or indirectly to the madness aspect and what-can-we-learn/teach from it. Including the stereotypes of muslims and christians. But anyway, I

Re: [tips] They Too Died That Day

2010-09-13 Thread Michael Smith
JC. Your question assumes that the default position has been to read the bible literally. However, the 'dogmatic literalist' view is a distortion of modern times. So, the short answer to your question 'when did people seriously consider the bible from a non-literalist view' is: Always. From the

Re: [tips] They Too Died That Day

2010-09-12 Thread Michael Smith
Apparantly Hermann Goering claimed that it was very easy to control the public (and he should know)...just call a person unpatriotic. It still works today. Just call people who differ in opinion racist, or islamohphobic or homophobic, and there you go--you have control. I also think there could

Re: [tips] They Too Died That Day

2010-09-11 Thread Michael Smith
Perhaps psychologists should say that a lasting emotional reaction to serious tradgedy isn't madness nor islamophobia, and that the tough SHOULD be open minded Americans need to be treated with care and respect also. Perhaps, as some have suggested, it's too soon, and/or the location should be

Re: [tips] Psychology Department Advisory Boards

2010-09-11 Thread Michael Smith
It would seem that an advisory board is to take those traditionally faculty concerns (priorities, planning, curriculum, etc.) out of faculty hands and put it more into the hands of administration. In other words, a further disempowering of faculty and imbuing administration with greater

Re: [tips] Velcro Parents

2010-08-23 Thread Michael Smith
Perhaps they should provide special rooms where mom can breast feed her precious one last time. Maybe it's actually a new stage of development. Instead of child, adolescent, emerging adulthood, adulthood, and old age we could have: childhood, extended childhood, childhood undocking (may take 2-5

Re: [tips] Warning: Rant: $180!!!!!

2010-08-22 Thread Michael Smith
Yes I think textbook costs for psychology are ridiculous. I suppose the publishers are cashing in on the popularity of psychology It must be all those chapter technologies for enhanced learning. Only for visual learners though :-) It might be helpful if people posted specifically which textbooks

Re: [tips] Critical Thinking And Ethics: The Pat Tilman Case

2010-08-21 Thread Michael Smith
P.S. I can't believe I'm having this argument with a Canadian. Well, I'm not really having an argument eh...it's often pretty funny reading your responses... but I'll try to cut it down... really. -- (still laughing) Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To

Re: [tips] Critical Thinking And Ethics: The Pat Tilman Case

2010-08-20 Thread Michael Smith
When information about a war comes from a government eager to promote and justify it, how can we know which parts to believe and which to reject as propaganda?...An avowed atheist...opposed the war in Iraq after serving a tour of duty there. How does one know whether it is the first Tillman

Re: [tips] APA Con San Diego: College Students With More Psychopathology

2010-08-15 Thread Michael Smith
Yes, I expected an emotionally based reaction to my Quite simply, it's impossible that a physical disability can be the cause of any form of crime for example (murder, rape, robbery, etc.), but a mental disability very easily could be. To clarify: It is logically impossible for a physical

Re: [tips] APA Con San Diego: College Students With More Psychopathology

2010-08-14 Thread Michael Smith
For me, this brings up the question of whether clinically disturbed individuals should be attending college. Should the professoriate be required (i.e. forced) to deal with disturbed individuals in a classroom setting if the probability of behavioral problems is increased? Are they trained to do

Re: [tips] APA Con San Diego: College Students With More Psychopathology

2010-08-14 Thread Michael Smith
Well, I suppose it's similar to requiring a doctor's note to miss an exam...that is, we have the right to ask for that condition to be met since the result of not taking the medication is intolerable for the classroom experience of everyone else that's paying to be there. Given that instructors

[tips] Modern society...ah!

2010-08-13 Thread Michael Smith
When adult children fail, parents suffer too (http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/12/adult.children.struggle/index.html?hpt=T2) Here's a wee quote from the article at the end... The study findings may be explained in part by the changing structure of American families, Bernstein suggests. To the

Re: [tips] Re:We are no.12 (Depending Upon How Count Things)

2010-08-11 Thread Michael Smith
American students are pre-occupied with media and technological crap and tacky inventions. Let us bring back the slide rule. I'd love to have a slide rule...but failing that you can use a virtual one :) (http://www.taswegian.com/TwoHeaded/UniVirtual/UniVirtual.html) --Mike On Wed, Aug 11, 2010

Re: [tips] DSM and grieving

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Smith
Perhaps this is a teachable moment. But then again, perhaps not. What I try to do with a popular article is view it as an ordinary person who came across it might---I do not assume it is directed at the academic community (that's what peer-reviewed journals are for). And I assume that this

Re: [tips] DSM and grieving

2010-08-05 Thread Michael Smith
, Psychology Instructor Barstow Community College From: Michael Smith [mailto:tipsl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wed 8/4/2010 7:47 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] DSM and grieving Thank you Scott for the info which directly

Re: [tips] DSM and grieving

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Smith
I think the main point of the article is that the bereavement exclusion was dropped and an additional point is that this is the result of one person's decision...gives one such faith in the scientific process. To the effect that, if you grieve longer than 2 weeks, regardless of the cause, then

Re: [tips] DSM and grieving

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Smith
, or posttraumatic stress disorder. -Original Message- From: Michael Smith [mailto:tipsl...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 11:33 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] DSM and grieving I think the main point of the article

Re: [tips] Correlation vs. Causation: The Importance of Your Kindergarten Teacher Edition

2010-07-28 Thread Michael Smith
It certainly seems useless...but perhaps that's just because it's in the New York Times. Nevertheless, I'm sure with current cutbacks in the US there will be a whole slew of research which will show how wonderfully valuable all grade school and high school teachers are, and how they are

Re: [tips] Interested in trying out my new iphone/ipod app?

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Smith
This seems much like the already existing iPad Flipboard, which I think one can add RSS feeds etc., and pulls together all of the information in magazine format including pictures, links, etc., especially if you use facebook and twitter --Mike On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Michael Britt

Re: [tips] The Importance of Forgetting

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Smith
A good advertisement that people should eschew such social media. It seems to me that one would have to be some kind of plebeian to post to the world one's latest naked escapades, antics while in another of one's drunken stupors, or how much one hates so-an-so, etc. Why people think their

Re: [tips] When the scientific evidence is unwelcome, people try to reason it away

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Smith
...I was up in Tobermory :-) with no internet so happily couldn't respond to Mike P's deeply insightful reply (lol). The funniest was the insights and understandings part, especially considering Mike P here: Ah, irony! I love it when it comes so think one can cut it with a knife. Quoting from

Re: [tips] When the scientific evidence is unwelcome, people try to reason it away | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian

2010-07-13 Thread Michael Smith
I wonder if scientists are people too. I hope the implication of the author of the article isn't that science can address all issues, which it clearly can't...especially the social sciences which just aren't on par with the physical sciences. --Mike On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Christopher

Re: [tips] Is there freedom of speech in Canada?

2010-07-05 Thread Michael Smith
I think the most probable reason is his racism and more generally a prejudicial disposition. Such attitudes scream to be heard and probably need little to no reinforcement from others to keep going. Just the existence of the perceived enemy is reinforcement a plenty. --Mike On Mon, Jul 5, 2010

Re: [tips] Stand alone displays

2010-07-03 Thread Michael Smith
--- Michael Smith wrote: Hi all. Does anyone know of stand alone software (that is, software that can be run on a computer without an internet connection) for such things as: Mapping your blind spot Eliza (is there a better version?) participative Illusions. E.g

[tips] Stand alone displays

2010-07-01 Thread Michael Smith
Hi all. Does anyone know of stand alone software (that is, software that can be run on a computer without an internet connection) for such things as: Mapping your blind spot Eliza (is there a better version?) participative Illusions. E.g. the Müller-Lyer illusion perhaps (that is, you make your

Re: [tips] law school grade inflation

2010-06-23 Thread Michael Smith
I noticed a distinct lack of any moral concernbut perhaps that's just indicative of the moral bankruptcy of civilized society. --Mike On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Horton, Joseph J. jjhor...@gcc.edu wrote: Perhaps we can eliminate the ruse and have students pay tuition based on the GPA

Re: [tips] What Academics Are Writing About These Days...

2010-05-11 Thread Michael Smith
Well, if there was an AHA! moment, at least we know it originated near your right ear...ehsort of. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/books/08creative.html :-) --Mike On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010 12:18:19 -0700, Christopher D. Green

Re: [tips] Whatever happened to pilot studies?

2010-05-11 Thread Michael Smith
I don't know about Chris,Mike,Stephen,Bill,John,Scott,Peter,Paul, and Mary, but I think most labs run pilot studies...it's just not called that. Nor is it especially demarcated with the PI proclaiming... Very well,beginthe Pilot Study! Rather,

Re: [tips] Freud's birthday songs

2010-05-10 Thread Michael Smith
And I thought Freud was dead ! --Mike On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Allen Esterson allenester...@compuserve.com wrote: ?On 8 May 2010 Michael Sylvester wrote: Since Allen reminded us of Freud's birthday… […] For the record, I didn't. :-) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science

Re: [tips] Tweeting Habermas

2010-05-09 Thread Michael Smith
I was observed by someone that most of what is written isn't worth reading. If that is so, then it probably follows that 99.999 % of what is twittered, facebooked, and blogged isn't worth noting either. One couldn't be twitterjacked, faceviolated, and bloggjammed if one didn't have such accounts.

Re: [tips] News: Applying the Liberal Arts - Inside Higher Ed

2010-05-06 Thread Michael Smith
I vote for downgrading since the liberal arts part will be subordinate and in service to the applied part. --Mike --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=2475 or

Re: [tips] Unintelligent design and theodicy

2010-05-05 Thread Michael Smith
Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Paul Brandon paul.bran...@mnsu.edu 04-May-10 1:00:26 PM Because they might embarrass someone? On May 4, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Michael Smith wrote: ..another good example of why science writers

Re: [tips] Unintelligent design and theodicy

2010-05-04 Thread Michael Smith
..another good example of why science writers shouldn't comment on theology --Mike On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:38 AM, sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote: What a shoddy piece of work is man. http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100503/full/news.2010.215.ht ml or http://tinyurl.com/shoddy-man Stephen

Re: [tips] belated response to critique of Susan Clancy book

2010-04-29 Thread Michael Smith
I'm glad Scott took the time to respond and enjoyed reading his reply. I'm also glad Scott's review made it to Amazon. The reviewer's comments may not be a scientific review, but they would be the ones read by people considering the book, and perhaps the only comments general readers may be

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