Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-05 Thread WJhonson
Or perhaps you are misunderstand what I requested. Being flip and hyperbolic isn't an effective way to argue. I am not stating that *some* psychologists aren't saying that publishing the (effective) answer-sheet is harmful. I am stating that Psychologists are not saying this. That is, where is

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-04 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Insufficient. Being rude isn't going to win converts to the cause. You're making a highly disingenuous request. Professionals who want the pictures removed don't claim it's because of money. They give other reasons, which have already been repeated.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-03 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, David Gerard wrote: That's a more obvious dodging of the question.  You're basically saying I'm not going to tell you if this argument could possibly be productive, which is fundamentally dishonest. Refusing to answer a hypothetical is hardly dishonest. The hypothetical is

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-03 Thread wjhonson
I haven't yet seen convincing evidence that psychologists are complaining, at least not a sufficent percentage, maybe a few. However I've seen that a for-profit company is complaining since it obviously cuts their income stream if what they had previously licensed is now freely available. So

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-02 Thread Ray Saintonge
Ken Arromdee wrote: The same argument can be made about any issue which just involves privacy and not even danger to lives. If you search for Brian Peppers on the Internet, you can still find all the information you want; that's not an excuse for Wikipedia to have the article. But then

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-02 Thread Ray Saintonge
Ken Arromdee wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: I think that AGF requires that we take the psychologists at their word when they claim that they want the pictures removed because they cause harm, rather than to help their income. Methinks that posting was a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-02 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Ray Saintonge wrote: So what if there have been tens of thousands of papers on the Rorschachs! The geocentric universe was impervious to criticism for much longer. the incomes of those psychologists who are in denial about their game of follow-the-leader. NPOV is

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-02 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Ray Saintonge wrote: That's a strange dodging of the question. If you were convinced that showing the blots causes harm to potential patients, rather than to psychologists' self-esteem, would you then support the removal of the blots? The fact is that I'm not

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-02 Thread David Gerard
2009/8/2 Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net: That's a more obvious dodging of the question.  You're basically saying I'm not going to tell you if this argument could possibly be productive, which is fundamentally dishonest. Refusing to answer a hypothetical is hardly dishonest. - d.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-01 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net wrote: So what if there have been tens of thousands of papers on the Rorschachs!  The geocentric universe was impervious to criticism for much longer. If the tests are truly scientific they will be just as scientific when exposed

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-01 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Ken Arromdee wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Ray Saintonge wrote: So what if there have been tens of thousands of papers on the Rorschachs! The geocentric universe was impervious to criticism for much longer. If the tests are truly scientific they will be just as scientific when exposed

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-01 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net wrote: Steve Bennett wrote: So, can someone fill me in on why we're laughing at this? From the article: That seems like a pretty reasonable concern to me. To destroy the effectiveness of a test that has that kind of research

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-01 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: I think that AGF requires that we take the psychologists at their word when they claim that they want the pictures removed because they cause harm, rather than to help their income. Methinks that posting was a smiley facey wanting. I

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-08-01 Thread WJhonson
Harm is gray, not black and white. Almost anything we publish could *cause harm* in some way. However the Rorschach images are not BLPs. I'm sure publishing details to day about President Wilson's adultery might cause harm to his descendents if any, but it's already been published in a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-31 Thread FastLizard4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The concern is legitimate, if for no other reason than Wikipedia is usually in the top ranks of any Google search. But, Wikipedia is one site out of God-knows-how-many on the Internet, and /someone/ has to take the top search ranking on Google. If

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-31 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, FastLizard4 wrote: The concern is legitimate, if for no other reason than Wikipedia is usually in the top ranks of any Google search. But, Wikipedia is one site out of God-knows-how-many on the Internet, and /someone/ has to take the top search ranking on Google. If it

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-31 Thread Sage Ross
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Ken Arromdeearrom...@rahul.net wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, FastLizard4 wrote: The concern is legitimate, if for no other reason than Wikipedia is usually in the top ranks of any Google search.  But, Wikipedia is one site out of God-knows-how-many on the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-31 Thread Ray Saintonge
Steve Bennett wrote: So, can someone fill me in on why we're laughing at this? From the article: To psychologists, to render the Rorschach test meaningless would be a particularly painful development because there has been so much research conducted — tens of thousands of papers, by Dr.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-31 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Sage Ross wrote: This is very different from Brian Peppers. The rich body of research on these tests (too much for anyone to easily digest) actually points to the need for a Wikipedia-style summary of the relevant data. It's one thing to say that the general public

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-31 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Ray Saintonge wrote: So what if there have been tens of thousands of papers on the Rorschachs! The geocentric universe was impervious to criticism for much longer. If the tests are truly scientific they will be just as scientific when exposed to open criticism. It's not

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-31 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Ray Saintonge wrote: So what if there have been tens of thousands of papers on the Rorschachs! The geocentric universe was impervious to criticism for much longer. the incomes of those psychologists who are in denial about their game of follow-the-leader. NPOV is contrary

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-30 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Ray Saintonge wrote: Ken Arromdee wrote: It's too bad that the people saying that publishing the inkblots is harmful are professionals instead of New York Times editors. If it was the New York Times, they would have been unceremoniously deleted without even a WP:OFFICE. Does

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-30 Thread Ray Saintonge
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: Ray Saintonge wrote: Ken Arromdee wrote: It's too bad that the people saying that publishing the inkblots is harmful are professionals instead of New York Times editors. If it was the New York Times, they would have been unceremoniously deleted

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-30 Thread Marc Riddell
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: Ray Saintonge wrote: Ken Arromdee wrote: It's too bad that the people saying that publishing the inkblots is harmful are professionals instead of New York Times editors. If it was the New York Times, they would have been unceremoniously deleted without

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-30 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, geni wrote: It's too bad that the people saying that publishing the inkblots is harmful are professionals instead of New York Times editors. If it was the New York Times, they would have been unceremoniously deleted without even a WP:OFFICE. Not really. In

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-30 Thread geni
2009/7/30 Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net: Huh? Did I ever say he was? The New York Times reporter information was, as far as I know, deleted using normal user editing abilities. (Which did not prevent it from becoming a fait accompli.) You can't delete images with normal editing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-30 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, geni wrote: You can't delete images with normal editing abilities and the initial clash as it were was on commons. You can remove them from articles. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-30 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Ken Arromdeearrom...@rahul.net wrote: Huh?  Did I ever say he was? The New York Times reporter information was, as far as I know, deleted using normal user editing abilities.  (Which did not prevent it from becoming a fait accompli.) And the deletion backed up

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-30 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Gwern Branwen wrote: The New York Times reporter information was, as far as I know, deleted using normal user editing abilities.  (Which did not prevent it from becoming a fait accompli.) And the deletion backed up with protection, mind you:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-30 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, FastLizard4 wrote: Has anyone pointed out to these people that the plates (and the answers) are probably available elsewhere on the Internet and only need a simple Google Images search to bring them forth? No, it's been discussed for months and nobody's thought of this simple

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-30 Thread Steve Bennett
So, can someone fill me in on why we're laughing at this? From the article: To psychologists, to render the Rorschach test meaningless would be a particularly painful development because there has been so much research conducted — tens of thousands of papers, by Dr. Smith’s estimate — to try

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-29 Thread Ken Arromdee
It's too bad that the people saying that publishing the inkblots is harmful are professionals instead of New York Times editors. If it was the New York Times, they would have been unceremoniously deleted without even a WP:OFFICE. ___ WikiEN-l mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-29 Thread geni
2009/7/29 Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net: It's too bad that the people saying that publishing the inkblots is harmful are professionals instead of New York Times editors. If it was the New York Times, they would have been unceremoniously deleted without even a WP:OFFICE. Not really. In this

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-29 Thread Ray Saintonge
Ken Arromdee wrote: It's too bad that the people saying that publishing the inkblots is harmful are professionals instead of New York Times editors. If it was the New York Times, they would have been unceremoniously deleted without even a WP:OFFICE. Does this dispute put us in league

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-29 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, geni wrote: It's too bad that the people saying that publishing the inkblots is harmful are professionals instead of New York Times editors. If it was the New York Times, they would have been unceremoniously deleted without even a WP:OFFICE. Not really. In this case

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-29 Thread wjhonson
Does this dispute put us in league with the Scientologists? Please report to Re-education Camp #41 -Original Message- From: Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, Jul 29, 2009 3:16 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-29 Thread geni
2009/7/29 Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net: On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, geni wrote: It's too bad that the people saying that publishing the inkblots is harmful are professionals instead of New York Times editors. If it was the New York Times, they would have been unceremoniously deleted without

[WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-28 Thread Gwern Branwen
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/technology/internet/29inkblot.html Has Wikipedia Created a Rorschach Cheat Sheet? ' Yet in the last few months, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been engulfed in a furious debate involving psychologists who are angry that the 10 original Rorschach plates

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

2009-07-28 Thread Biblio
LOL. Can you say scapegoat? biblio --- On Tue, 7/28/09, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com Subject: [WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 9:58 PM http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07