RE:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-08 Thread Mike Wiliams
I got the numbers from another Tipster and just plugged them in. I think they are correct now. Mike On 4/8/13 2:00 AM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest wrote: TIPS Digest for Sunday, April 07, 2013. 1. RE:Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16) 2. RE:Childlessness

Re:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-08 Thread Allen Esterson
Re DavidEpstein's sceptical post citing the Keele University Press release http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130403071957.htm andsubsequent posts: I emailedRobin Hadley, who undertook the reported research, asking for information abouthis methodology, how the subjects were recruited,

RE: Re:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-08 Thread Rick Froman
Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edumailto:rfro...@jbu.edu (479) 524-7295 http://bit.ly/DrFroman From: Allen Esterson [mailto:allenester...@compuserve.com] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 4:40 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest

RE: Re:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-08 Thread Shapiro, Susan J
From: Rick Froman [mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu] It appears the word, “broody” is commonplace in the British form of English (and evidently in biological studies of broodiness) but I don’t recall ever having heard it used in the US. [Shapiro, Susan J] I think it depends on if you have ever hung

RE: Re:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-08 Thread Mike Palij
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:58:30 -0700, David Epstein wrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Rick Froman went: As to the snowball technique, it is quite common in qualitative studies where the representativeness of the sample is irrelevant (and it is very difficult to find many participants so you rely on the

Re:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-08 Thread Allen Esterson
Rick Froman writes: As to the snowball technique, it is quite common in qualitative studies where the “representativeness” of the sample is irrelevant... All that matters is that you correctly communicate the experience of those that end up in your sample... and David Epstein: I want to

RE:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-07 Thread Jim Clark
Hi How can there be more depressed males (8) in the subset than in the full set (6)? Jim James M. Clark Professor Chair of Psychology j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R4 CANADA Mike Wiliams

RE:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-06 Thread David Epstein
On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Mike Wiliams went: I did the spreadsheet quickly and I hope there are no errors. http://www.learnpsychology.com/Men_Woman_ChildDepression_Example.xlsx It's a little less bad (less bad than the p = .57 on your spreadsheet) when you use the author's denominator, which is

RE:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-06 Thread Mike Wiliams
I updated the spreadsheet. It now includes an analysis for both samples. Mike Williams On 4/7/13 1:00 AM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest wrote: Subject: RE:Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16) From: David Epsteinda...@neverdave.com Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 12:58:25

RE:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-05 Thread Allen Esterson
TheKeele University report of the surveyconducted by Robin Hadley states: Mr Hadley conducted thesurvey using an online questionnaire among people aged 20 to 66, with anaverage age of 41. Just over 80% were white British, 69% had degrees, 69%worked full time and 90% were heterosexual. Mr

RE:[tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-05 Thread Mike Wiliams
I used this example in class today because part of my introduction to stats involves examples of why statistics makes you think better. It went reasonably well. I quickly made up a 2x2 chi-square example using the depression frequencies reported in the article. I also made a link to the

RE: [tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-04 Thread Rick Froman
The funny thing is, although most of the reports of this study done by a doctoral student and presented at a conference said that men were more affected than women (based on these non-significant results), this failure to reject the null hypothesis is cited in at least one source as providing

RE: [tips] Childlessness hits men the hardest (n = 16)

2013-04-04 Thread David Epstein
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Rick Froman went: Actually, the whole study with the online survey methodology, the small sample size and the questionable interpretation reminds me of studies done by my Research Methods undergrad students but at least they would have calculated the chi square results and