I realize that pediatricians are not bound by American Psychological Association ethics guidelines but I like the fact that APA guideline 1.01 is "If psychologists learn of misuse or misrepresentation of their work, they take reasonable steps to correct or minimize the misuse or misrepresentation." I just wish that either a) more researchers took that to heart or b) the media didn't prevent more researchers from taking those steps.
Rick Dr. Rick Froman Associate Professor of Psychology John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (479) 524-7295 http://www.jbu.edu/academics/sbs/faculty/rfroman.asp -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 7:43 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Re: AAP Blame Game Again On 5 Apr 2004, Wallace E. Dixon, Jr. wrote: > All over the news today is a claim that, by implication, watching > TV in infancy basically causes attention problems in children. Of course, > the AAP doesn't say this, but that doesn't matter since the press is > splattering ITS understanding of the claim all over the place, and > this is the message people will take home with them. The authors do make some interesting statements in their article, however, including: "We have not in fact studied or found an association between television viewing and clinically diagnosed ADHD". "We relied on parental report of television viewed". "We cannot draw causal inferences from these associations". (from the Pediatrics article, all on p. 711 at http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/tvapril.pdf) I wonder how often those statements get reported in news summaries of the research. And I wonder how often the authors stress these points to journalists when they discuss the implications of their work. Sigh. Stephen ___________________________________________________ Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm _______________________________________________ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
