> From: Stephen Black > I was interested to see that someone remembered the Leon Kamin > incident. Leon Kamin was the chairperson of the psychology > department > at McMaster University when I was there.
> When the climate > improved, > he returned to the US (to Princeton) and initiated his famous > critique of Cyril Burt's data. I was mildly surprised by this, > because my impression when he supervised me was that his > knowledge of > statistics was limited, Kamin returned to give a presentation to the medical school at McMaster, during the time I was there as a postdoctoral fellow in Shep Siegel's lab (a lab that was supposedly made to Kamin's specs before he left). His presentation to the medical school was an attack on the research related to heritability of schizophrenia--parallel to some of his work in the area of intelligence. My thoughts are somewhat similar to Stephen's, although not directly related to Kamin's knowledge of statistics. I have wondered how a rat-runner interested in basic conditioning phenomena can pass himself off as an expert in these other areas! (Maybe the same way a rat-runner becomes involved in education reform.) ************************************************* Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D. Director, Arkansas Charter School Resource Center Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 voice: (501) 450-5418 fax: (501) 450-5424 ************************************************* --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
