Re: Subject, No Participant, Yes!

[Paul Brandon]

Title: Re: Subject, No Participant, Yes!

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From: "Paul Brandon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:33 AM

Subject: Re: Subject, No Participant, Yes!

> This is the point.
> The APA (Association for Political Appropriateness?) is trying to
> blur the distinction between subjects and experimenters on the
> grounds that the distinction denigrates subjects.

I'm sorry. "Denigrates" is worse than "subjects" in the PC vocabulary. You
are implying that devaluing something is equivalent to saying that it is
"black". Tsk Tsk.

Bill Scot

Literally true, but the etymology has nothing to do with the "N-word".

That is the sort of thing that they have in mind -- very sinister (so lefties can now object too).

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