Christian, Could you post the link to this article. I would like to read it. Maybe Ron Blue or some other mathematically inclined Tipsters would like to take a stab at it, too. -David
Christian Hart wrote: snip... > > I would like to ask your assistance in helping me to sharpen my > understanding of a new model and to suggest any particularly useful > analogies or examples I could use to teach my intro psychology students > about the model. I referring to the IQ model proposed by Dickens and > Flynn last spring in Psych Rev. Although my understanding is rather > basic, it seems to me that--if the models predictions are uphelp--the sort > of thing that should get a Nobel prize (if Nobel people gave them for work > in psychology). > > At least, that's how I read it; however, 1) it is a highly mathematical > model [and therein probably lies my achilles heel] and 2) I can clearly > feel the psychological hope for it to be accurate because it seems to > resolve so much of the vitriolic debate about race and IQ that most > recently erupted with the publication of Hernnstein & Murray's The Bell > Curve. > > I've checked the web, the original article (dense), spoken to colleagues snip... > Christian Hart > > Christian Hart, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor of Psychology > Department of Behavioral Studies > Santa Monica College > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -David Wheeler, Ph.D., PHR, CMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rmshrm.tripod.com Associate Professor, Psychology Robert Morris College, Pittsburgh PA USA http://www.robert-morris.edu Copyright 2001 All rights reserved. Permission is granted for redistribution in whole or in part providing it is not used for monetary gains and this signature file is included. Remember, the Earth is a place, earth is dirt. See how silly this looks: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, earth, Venus, Mercury. -- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
