Re: First Solid Evidence that the Study of Music Promotes Intellectual Development

[Donald McBurney]

Martin J. Bourgeois wrote: ¨  -----Original Message----- From: Ken Steele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon 8/23/2004 1:24 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Cc: Subject: Re: First Solid Evidence that the Study of Music Promotes Intellectual Development I made these two points (and others) in a commentary that I submitted to Psych. Science.¨  The Editor declined to publish the commentary but did compliment me on reading the article closely. Ken PS - I am shopping for an alternative outlet.¨  A friend suggests American Psychologist :-) Hmmm... I submitted a commentary to Psych Science about improper use of statistics in an article showing that dogs resemble their owners (they don't when you analyze the data correctly), and the editor declined to publsih that one too. I sense a pattern here. Interesting. I also had a commentary rejected by Psych Sci after I showed that the major conclusion in a paper on sex differences number of preferred sexual partners was unsupported by the data.(The authors had proved the null hypothesis.) The editor agreed that I was right (men prefer more sex partners), but that paper in another journal had shown that already. He was unmoved by my suggestion that the journal had an obligation to correct errors in its own pages, or by the fact that I had drawn considerably more information from the data than any author on the subject.¨  (The paper is now in press in an excellent journal.) ¨ ¨  Don Donald McBurney ¨  Marty Bourgeois University of Wyoming b????.????\????&?v?-???g???¨˜???nN?????r??z¨§u??jy?????^j?9?i?.??????u=== --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]