Hi
Here is a link to a brief summary of one recent world-wide study showing no
overall difference in averages between males and females on measures of math
achievement:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100105112303.htm
However, Hyde's 1990 meta-analysis showed that gender
Hi
If you do the nonverbal expression version, you might want to look at
meta-analysis by Sporer et al (Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2007,
Vol. 13, No. 1, 1*34). There appears to be some discrepancy between
nonverbal cues theoretically or intuitively thought to predict lying,
and cues
Hi
One of the additional things this story brought to my mind when I read it this
morning was the challenge of even determining whether there was a correlation
given the many unknowns (e.g., how often my way is sung in Karaoke bars in
Philippines). Belief about an association, let alone
Hi
There are others who post here more capable than I am of addressing this
question, but Michael's (natural) response appears to be driven by emotion
rather than the psychological literature on sex offenders. A couple of
observations:
1. With respect to the 90 registered offenders who were
Hi
I think if you look for the history of this problem you will find reports of
many people with PhDs, including mathematicians, publicly criticizing reports
of the correct solution. So the authors may not be depending on data of their
own on mathematicians for their admittedly loaded title.
Hi
Best example that we have had of 2nd choices working out involved a
student who was rejected from clinical psychology programs, was accepted
into medical school, and was interning as a psychiatrist (now
practicising) probably before he would have completed his PhD in
psychology. Not to
Hi
For me the only it that is wrong is this article ... in many ways.
1. Is it really the case that replication is rare in the social sciences? I
don't think so ... or else the increasing number of meta-analyses that we have
are somehow a fluke. The authors do criticize meta-analyses (e.g.,
Hi
Like Stephen I am surprised by this comment. In the recent Gallop poll, only
8% of respondents agreed that The system doesn't need changing. So there
does appear to be some universality among even Americans to the belief that
something was/is wrong with the American system. And the USA
Hi
You might be interested in the on-line poll and comments at:
http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2009/09/academic_poll_black_or_white.php
Definitely a difference of opinion!
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Hi
I just saw How to Train a Dragon with my son and 3 friends. Not 3-D for the
time we went. Nonetheless, one definitely gets the impression of depth in lots
of the flying sequences or objects hurtling towards audience, albeit presumably
not as strongly as with polarizing glasses. As we
Hi
I have to disagree that the debate has nothing to do with the teaching of
psychology; that is, unless we do not plan to ever talk about race in our
classes. And if we do talk about race, there is definitely no unanimity that
Marc's brief summary is the correct scientific position to take
Hi
A NY Times article on the video of the military shooting of civilians from
helicopter, along with analysis by psychologists.
http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/world/08psych.html
A real split in the comments I read (there are many) about (a) the events
Hi
It is only my subjective impression, but in reading the comments about these
events on the NY Times, there seemed to be a striking difference in reaction of
civilians (for want of a better term) and people who self-reported having seen
action during military service. The latter seemed more
Hi
I've never understood the methods first rationale, and argued strongly about 20
years ago for stats first, which we have had since. My reasoning:
1. difficult to teach some methods concepts without stats (e.g., reliability),
and it helps for others (e.g., computing Ms for two randomly
Hi
Sorry ... no slight was intended ... I just referred to you as representing a
group and did not mean to imply that it ONLY worked for you.
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Hi
I haven't used minitab for teaching (or any other purpose) for many years. One
of the things I liked about it for teaching was the ease of implementing
formula because it allowed you to create constants from your computations and
use those in other operations. Some operators and functions
Hi
Perhaps a good foundation for a class exercise on the kinds of data that one
would need to demonstrate an association (correlation) between last name and
occupation. No quantity of anecdotes (examples) will do. Seems we would need
at least # matching and # not matching, to get some idea
Hi
Following SPSS simulation generates 1000 samples of 100 x y pairs with known
population rho (#r = .9 here), then dichotomizes x to create categorical
predictor c, which is then used to calculate rb, the biserial r (I had to track
down various algorithms for this, but it seems correct ...
Hi
In most of the examples given, I think people are being too harsh to say that
the results are ridiculous or meaningless. When one estimates some
hypothetical value there may be conditions where the underlying value is so
close to a maximum or a minimum that your estimate falls above the
to his steps.
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Hi
We've used various versions of Pagano here for our one semester (12
Hi
I think it is possible to enhance powerpoint using some of its available tools.
I have, for example, often used text boxes and lines to essentially create
cognitive maps to outline course material. Somewhat limited compared to
cognitive mapping programs but allows one to represent the
Hi
I saw this a few weeks ago ... great graph! It has been many years so I cannot
retrieve the appropriate terminology, but data appears to have many properties
of quasi-experimental designs a la Cook Campbell. So a number of causal
conclusions appear likely (to varying degrees), including:
Hi
Moreover, is intelligent design a theological claim? I thought the whole
purpose of ID was to make a non-theological case for a designer? Doesn't that
put it in the purview of science, rather than religion? I suspect that the
number of purely theological claims made in the name of
Hi
Somehow my forwarding of David's TIPs posting to our internal psychology
distribution list (see psychlist in To: field) ended up back on TIPs ... not
clear to me why. The allusion to our Chair is there because he teaches several
courses on Freud to our Honours students.
Take care
Jim
Hi
Simulations might also help. That is, calculate Ms for random set of samples,
and then calculate SD for the Ms. I use SPSS for this, but it is also possible
to do it other ways.
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Great illusion. And here's one of my favorites ... Einstein's eyes following
you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiAyQ-p9HrQNR=1
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Hi
Neil Gross, a sociologist at U of British Columbia, has some nice
empirical papers on this topic, documenting both the extent of the
liberal leanings of academics and some (possibly explanatory)
correlates. One working paper can be found at:
Hi
If you follow Chris's posting on empathy, you will find a link to an empathy
quiz that actually includes several items of a cognitive sort (e.g., being able
to see both sides of an issue). Here's the link.
http://umichisr.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bCvraMmZBCcov52SVID
Dick Sorrentino at U
Hi
The second part of the learning outcome (realize that psychological
explanations are often complex and tentative) suggests one possible approach.
Give them a number of findings / observations and ask for possible explanations
for each.
Some academic disciplines contain a higher percentage
Hi
No, this is a common error. Even in the presence of a causal relationship
between X and Y, the relationship can be masked by some other factor Z because
of Z's relationship to X and Y. For example, the positive correlation between
amount of studying (X) and school performance (Y) is
Hi
It is amazing that earlier generations of children survived with daddy at work
from morning to night and mommy slaving away in the kitchen and rest of the
house to keep the home fires burning! Is it not probably the case that
children today generally have far more contact with their
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Jim Clark wrote:
Hi
It is amazing that earlier generations of children survived with daddy at
work from morning to night and mommy slaving away in the kitchen and rest
Hi
I forgot to mention to click PLAY on the gapminder graph to see the historical
change.
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At the same time, fertility rates and family size have
Hi
Speaking as a relative novice on psychopathy (some reading on it because of my
interest in inhibition and my wife being a psychologist with Correctional
Service of Canada), it appears from the actual papers (Skeem Cook original,
Hare response, and rebuttal) that the debate about the nature
Hi
The supplement to the PNAS article can be found at
http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2010/06/03/1000690107.DCSupplemental/sapp.pdf
Figures s5 and following show clearly the pattern, including the replication.
Findings were partly replicated in sense that both studies show effect of
Hi
The paper can be read at
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/653808
Although Chris has focused on the course evaluation part, the bulk of
the paper concerns learning in current and future related courses. Some
faculty promote learning better in current courses and some in
Hi
I think Beth's point might still apply (in principle). Consider
(implausible?) risk values in following cells (hopefully will align
ok).
Type
White Brown
Amount
1 10 10
1 0
Hi
I remembered vaguely one study that popped up when I used attitudes
toward psychology in PsycInfo. It was by Janda and colleagues.
Attitudes toward psychology relative to other disciplines. Janda,
Louis H.; England, Kelli; Lovejoy, David; Drury, Kathryn; Professional
Psychology: Research
Hi
Did the Maki's look at attrition? One thing that struck me about the
meta-analysis questioned by the researchers Chris pointed us to was that
many, many of the studies included in the meta-analysis showing no
difference between online and class had UNKNOWN in the attrition column.
Yet one
Hi
I wonder if bridge-jumping suicides are an example of impulsive suicides? What
are the odds one is walking across the Bloor bridge perhaps to get to the fine
Greek restaurants on the Danforth, and suddenly has an urge to kill one's self
and jumps? Isn't it much more likely that one goes
Hi
Article in Boston Globe about Mark Hauser and ethical issues about his research.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2010/08/10/author_on_leave_after_harvard_inquiry/
Unfortunately, allegations for which Hauser has accepted responsibility are
stated so cryptically as to be
Hi
And to add insult to injury, he forgot to mention me, who grew up in the
hometown of Guy Lombardo, London Ontario!
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Perhaps it was
Hi
Might also be relevant to how sensationalized news stories can lead to marked
misunderstandings about tools used in clinical and scientific settings ... the
plethysmograph in this case. Here's a link to CBC report and multiple
comments, the vast majority of which condemn the practice and
Hi
Looks nice! On a quick reading, I did wonder whether the referencing of
downloaded papers was sufficient to avoid students citing their library
databases when they have retrieved documents internally as pdfs? Library
specific URLs are not much good to others. In general should use of
Hi
I would find it a challenge with that small a class filling all the class time,
whether lectures or traditional seminars. I have had students in larger
classes do small exercises out of class and submit brief reports by e-mail. I
just credit them if they submit anything reasonable. But
Hi
I wonder if people know of any research or have experience with course
evaluations using different number of scale categories? It has been suggested
here for some purposes, to use just two categories: Unsatisfactory vs.
Satisfactory. I'm familiar with the general literature on number of
Hi
Reminds me of the movie The Boys from Brazil, in which Hitler was
cloned and then extreme efforts taken to reproduce his early
environment. I wonder if Lovaas would also have argued that he could
take any boy at 4 or 5 and turn out a Hitler?
Take care
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Hi
Here is same ranking (by EPPP) including more recent data
http://www.socialpsychology.org/clinrank.htm
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Annette, I am in the dark as well, but
Hi
Nice article, but with some caveats for me at least. I dislike the tendency to
(a) promote these ideas as deriving from or saying much about the underlying
brain processes (that seems gratuitous to me), and (b) many ideas about
effective studying, some mentioned in the article and some not
Hi
You could not be further from the truth, Michael, unless you are referring to
the $75,000 threshold mentioned in the article. Here is one summary of the
wealth-satisfaction relationship across and within nations. The slope of the
line through each country symbol indicates the relationship
Hi
At risk of being called racist and/or an islamaphobe, I thought
Kristof's article and others like it might be naive in so readily
declaring concerns about Islam to be irrational. Does irrational fear
or prejudice really explain the reactions against Islam in so many parts
of the world and in
Hi
It is not clear what Mike thinks are curious directions. Most of the
responses I have seen appear to be reactions to the Mike's characterizing what
was happening as madness and asking what critical thinking lessons
psychologists will teach about this madness. Perhaps it was not his
Hi
If you read the comments on the original posting, you will see that one
respondent actually mentioned the example of Nobel prize winners who published
much the same research in several different journals, without people objecting.
The rational was that different people read different
Hi
I'm often curious whether topics that come up here in a casual manner
have a psychological literature associated with them, attire being one
recent example. Indeed, clothing appears in the PsycInfo thesaurus
and there are over 1,000 entries on the topic. When I ask about
clothing and
Hi
There are innumerable sites documenting the many misinterpretations of
Evolution and Darwinian theory. See myth #6 at
http://www.toptenmyths.com/index.html
I would offer some other observations about what such nonsense indicates about
American politics, except that some members of our
Hi
We also have a higher threshold for what constitutes a dirty house (or else a
lower threshold for what constitutes a clean house).
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Hi Scott
I know you're the clinical psychologist here, but wouldn't it be narcissism?
Or perhaps both?
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Is this question intended to
Hi
I lecture about attractiveness and include the research on averaged faces
(i.e., morphed faces). I'm wondering if anyone knows of a dynamic display of
faces being morphed together ... ideally an accumulation of faces producing an
(in principle) more attractive face as number of faces
Hi
Thanks Jim ... both sites are very good. I think I'll use the faceresearch site, which allows you to select faces from a large collection (or upload your own faces) and then create the average. I'll do it for something like 2, 4, 8, 16, ...? faces and see if class detects
Hi
I tend to come down on Annette's side on this one. One problem with labeling
these actions hate and discrimination (versus ignorant and stupid) and
benefitting from support groups, on-line or otherwise, (rather than as life's
insults that we all need to learn to slough off a bit) is the
Hi
The allusion to internet research is doubly funny. About 10 min with
google did reveal the claims about black confederate soldiers, but also
revealed a substantial volume of material critical of this claim. At
the very least, the author Joy Masoff was highly selective about what
she chose to
Hi
Only by using the term knowledge in a quirky or loose way would it be
possible to say one has true knowledge without some sort of rational or
empirical justification (I'm not certain that falsifiability is the only such
criterion one can use). There is a discussion of this at
Hi
They don't taste anything ... as noted in the news release, the receptors are
NOT connected to the brain, although equivalent to receptors located on the
tongue that are connected to the brain.
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But would it beg for explanation in terms of mystical processes or in terms
of natural biological and environmental factors, as I mentioned?
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Hi
Before Mike leads us off into a pseudo-scientific Freudian explanation, how
about the more mundane hypothesis that most people in the west probably
associate termites with home structures, rather than mounds of dirt, with which
we normally associate ants? Actually it might be a fun
Hi
Sure ... it's not like the major problems of the world have to do with human
behavior and culture rather than some lack of technological knowledge ... and
just so Annette doesn't have any doubts, I am being sarcastic!
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Going just on Stephen's summary, some people just do not appear to understand
the impact of tiny differences on extreme scores for very large numbers of
people. The following SPSS program generates 500,000 female scores from a
population with mu = 0, and sigma = 1, and 500,000 male scores
Hi
Billions it is ... Chris undoubtedly made a typo. Here are Canadian university
endowments (see Table 4.3)
http://www.caut.ca/uploads/2010_4_UniversitiesAndColleges.pdf
Only U of Toronto breaks the $1B mark at $1.3B, although several others are
around the $1B level. So Harvard has
Hi
I remember lecturing years ago about someone spending extremely long periods of
time in a cave. I believe even much longer than the Chilean miners. My
recollection is that the individual gravitated toward a 25 hour sleep-wake
cycle, but I could be wrong in that.
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I remember lecturing years ago about someone spending extremely long periods
of time in a cave. I believe
even much longer than
Hi
I have no doubt that our conservatives (i.e., republican light) would LOVE to
emulate the more extreme policies of republicans in the USA. But the public
(right now at least) would never put up with it. Indeed, conservatives would
not even form the government (in all likelihood) except
Hi Colleen
Not exactly what you are after, but here are some links to on-line resources
(many out of date as I have not kept up the links). The Berkeley site and IDEA
papers are quite good on teaching, including engaging students.
http://ion.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark/acad/teach/uteach.html
Hi
Yes! That is, we should seek, acknowledge and interpret objective
evidence, even when it conflicts with our preconceptions or with what we
wish to be true. Are you thinking that we should NOT try to base and
revise our beliefs on objective evidence?
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Yes! That is, we should seek, acknowledge and interpret objective
evidence, even when it conflicts with our
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Read the book and you might learn something new.
Has the recent crankiness on TIPs gone viral?
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I wonder to what extent students who fail to adopt a strongly scientific
orientation to belief are simply reflecting the attitudes they are exposed to
from other faculty members who themselves are not well disposed to science
(i.e., research and its products) as a foundation for belief.
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Hi
Here's a little spss simulation that illustrates Goldacre's model. Assuming
coming out occurs uniformly between 10 years and age surveyed produces values
very close to those observed. Perhaps more reasonable to assume some sort of
non-uniform distribution (normal around some mu?), which
Hi
If you look at the science requirement in our calendar at:
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/cms-filesystem-action/pdfs/calendar/2009-2010-course-calendar.pdf
you will find that a number of psychology courses count for (natural) science
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Hi
I doubt that there is a technical solution to the problem of students
buying papers, except perhaps for the less alert students and services.
Here is one site that provides free software to change time and date
information.
http://www.smartcode.com/downloads/change-created-date-word.html
Hi
A NYTimes article summarizing some interesting behavioral science phenomena at
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/opinion/07brooks.html?_r=1nl=todaysheadlinesemc=a212
provoked a substantial number of depressingly negative comments. Perhaps they
are former students of Michael Smith's?
Take
Hi Michael
I wonder if you ought not to get your institution to remove the mention of
psychology as a science?
http://www.taylor-edu.ca/tayloruc/academics/pdfs/Program%20Brochure%20-%20Psychology.pdf
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Hi
I cannot answer why the difference between the two scales, although it has
been shown in a number of domains that bipolar scales (- to +) produce
different distributions of responses than unipolar scales (0/1 to #). One area
is happiness, I believe. People are less likely to use
Hi
I was struck by the avoidance of the word homeopathy in the article. A
little googling revealed Harriet Hall's excellent piece on why Montagier's
earlier research contradicted rather than supported homeopathy.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=2081
The article also explains the
Hi
One issue I would have with the article is the mention of 79,000 PAIRS of
articles with duplicate text, which gives an impression that appears to be
wildly out of line with the demonstrated instances of duplicate publication. I
think the large number is a product of at least two factors:
Hi
There is a great book by Charters and Waples (1929) which asked students (among
others) about the qualities of good teachers. It is actually on-line if one
wants to wade through its 700 pages.
http://www.archive.org/details/commonwealthteac027990mbp
Here's a brief idea about how Allan
Hi
I have been doing this for a number of years for my honours data analysis
class. The course tends to fall between undergraduate and graduate texts, so I
ended up writing my own chapters, which have evolved into a relatively complete
manuscript covering a review and multiple regression for
Hi
Isn't there a conflict of interest in the university administrators
having such a policy, since they and the university benefit from the
redirected funds?
Does anyone know of evidence that absent such policies, faculty
assigned irrelevant books/readings for their courses just to earn
money?
Hi
Rosling has been doing a great job not only of presenting results, but of
making massive amounts of statistical data widely available in accessible form.
I've used his website at
http://www.gapminder.org/
for a class exercise in my culture and psychology course the past few years.
The
Hi
Just a small point ... the GDP axis is NOT linear ... it is a logarithmic
scale. Note the 3 values given at equal intervals are 400, 4000, and 4, the
logs of which are 2.6, 3.6, and 4.6. It is this transformation that makes the
relationship appear linear. In fact there is a marked
Hi
It is not just sociology that suffers from excessive ideological promotion /
criticism of non-experimental research. Psychology as well has many issues
(theories, models, whatever, ...) that will only or primarily be examined
non-experimentally. It behooves us as scholars / researchers /
Hi
I agree with Claudia ... it is fun and informative. One thing to watch
is capitalization, depending on what one is searching.
Searching terrorist, terrorism shows how these terms have markedly
increased in use in past few decades.
Searching Psychology, Biology, ... and some other sciences
Hi
I believe that Phil Rushton DOES attribute his ordering Asian - White - Black
largely to genetic differences. Plus, wouldn't one have to say that there are
many more psychologists quick to attribute group differences to environmental
factors? The probably correct answer, of course, is
Hi
Set the smoothing to 0 and it clears up this problem. The default smoothing
from your link was 10 years, which would carry backwards into 1990s. Playing
around with different smoothing ranges and end of time period produces some
variability in end pattern.
Take care
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Hi
The google database does not lend itself to item selection in the way described
by Annette as do numerous other smaller datasets. I think it is perhaps
primarily useful for seeing the historical use over time of different terms.
Entering repressed memory, recovered memory, false memory,
Hi
The effect could be related to several other phenomena in psychology. One is
obviously the phantom limb effect and the other is surviving spouse's imaginary
hearing of voices and noisy activities of their dead partners. Both of these
phenomena, and perhaps the imagined vibrations, can be
Hi
I'm not sure if this is new or not ... but it tickled my fancy!
http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8030825/
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Just a couple of observations, not directly on Joan's interesting
question about individual areas.
1. The decline effect is nothing to worry about as it should disappear
with replication!
2. There are some truly egregious examples included here ... really,
Rhine and ESP illustrates the
Hi
Ken, that was VERY culturally sensitive of you, speaking as a Canadian and a
former Londoner (Ontario), home town of Lombardo!
All the best for the new year, everyone.
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Hi
I believe you would have to say British cultural insensitivity in Allen's
case, although generally it does seem common to lump all those Eurocentric
types together.
As for the question of being forced into marriage as a possible explanation
for the girl's distress, personally I would tend
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