RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-08 Thread Marc Carter
ofessor of Psychology Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences College of Arts & Sciences Baker University -- From: Carol DeVolder [mailto:devoldercar...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 1:24 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Googl

RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Stuart McKelvie
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RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Jim Clark
-786-9757 4L41A From: Tim Shearon [mailto:tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 2:47 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology       Two things- One, is everyone else getting a large blank space at the

Re: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Carol DeVolder
d at my spelling of “appauled”. J > > Tim > > > > *From:* Tim Shearon [mailto:tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu] > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 05, 2013 1:43 PM > *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > *Subject:* RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology >

RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Tim Shearon
Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology Carol As an experiment I once did a google search for something I'd never searched for before and never usually buy. I think it was something like toothpaste for sensitive teeth. I had a separate tab open

RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Tim Shearon
sychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology Something I find most disconcerting is how products I've looked at online (e.g., using a company's website) end up showing up on Facebook as specific suggestions. I understand how gmail puts

Re: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Claudia Stanny
That happened to me recently. It is spooky. The ads on Facebook reflect a search on google in less than 24 hours. Now if we could only get that kind of responsiveness from a company on matters that we really care about! :-) Claudia _ Claudia J. Stan

Re: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Carol DeVolder
Something I find most disconcerting is how products I've looked at online (e.g., using a company's website) end up showing up on Facebook as specific suggestions. I understand how gmail puts ads across the top and sides of the page, but the connection between looking at a product without the "help"

RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Tim Shearon
Ken, and others The algorithms Google uses are proprietary and secret but it's pretty clear they are snooping our searches (among other things). Clearly it's not just search history on the computer but also between the different search engines as the answers I get, Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. are

RE:[tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Annette Taylor
This is fabulous! I am moving into the social psych chapter soon and this will make for a great activity in class! I have 'flipped' my intro class and sometimes I find myself challenged coming up with meaningful activities that the students can relate back to the content. This is a good one for

RE: Re:[tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread rfro...@jbu.edu
Allen Esterson noted: "There's an important case to be made here, but I'm not happy about dubious methodologies being used to promote a good cause (for me it comes close to "lying for truth")." I agree completely (and teach my students also) that lying, or representing research or statistics "

RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Helweg-Larsen, Marie
.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html -Original Message- From: rfro...@jbu.edu [mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 8:40 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology Ken Steele wrote: "It would see

RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread rfro...@jbu.edu
ent man gives thought to his steps." -Original Message- From: Ken Steele [mailto:steel...@appstate.edu] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 7:01 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology One of the issues here is that

Re:[tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Allen Esterson
In responseto the article in the Guardian cited byChris Green, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/22/google-autocomplete-un-women-ad-discrimination-algorithms Rick Fromanwrote: >Idon't begrudge someone advertising for a good cause to use a current trend >like Google autocomple

RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-04 Thread Jim Clark
; Chair of Psychology U Winnipeg Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax From: Stuart McKelvie [smcke...@ubishops.ca] Sent: November-04-13 7:09 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology Ken S

Re: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-04 Thread Blaine Peden
google autocomplete should yields google autocomplete does not work --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=29783 or send a blank email to leave-29783-13090.

RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-04 Thread Stuart McKelvie
Ken Steele wrote: "It would seem that the results obtained from such a search using Google autocomplete is an insight into the search history of the person who uses that computer." Google is a psychodynamic test! __ "Recti Cultus Pectora Roborant" Stuart J. McKelvi

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] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-04 Thread Helweg-Larsen, Marie
7.245.1971 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html From: rfro...@jbu.edu [mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 5:52 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology I think Google autocomplete is fairly u

Re: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-04 Thread Christopher Green
On 2013-11-04, at 5:51 PM, rfro...@jbu.edu wrote: > When you put in "women should", it starts to go negative. And what would you > expect? What sentence that starts out saying that a whole class of humanity > "should" or "shouldn't" do anything is going to end well? If you do "men should" you do

RE: [tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-04 Thread rfro...@jbu.edu
I think Google autocomplete is fairly unreplicable in many cases. I don't doubt that putting "women should" into a Google search in Dubai might turn up those suggestions (the UN ad agency was in Dubai), but I wasn't able to replicate it here. I don't begrudge someone advertising for a good ca