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From: "Allen Esterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: Quotes and readings


> Paul Okami wrote:
> > "Any data set may be badgered into submission."
> >
> > I thought Paul Meehl said that, but he denied it, although he told me
that he
> > wished that he had.
>
> Here's one that Meehl did write:
>
> "We clinicians should not deceive ourselves by denying that that the
> phrase 'clinical experience' is our honorific term for subjective
> anecdotal impressions as reported by people with MDs or PhDs."
>
> --Paul E. Meehl, "Credentialed Persons, Credentialed Knowledge", Clinical
> Psychology: Science and Practice (Oxford University Press), APA (D12),
> 0969-5893/97.
>
> Allen Esterson
> Former lecturer, Science Department
> Southwark College, London
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> http://www.human-nature.com/esterson/index.html
> http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=10
> http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=57
> http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=58
> http://www.psychiatrie-und-ethik.de/infc/1_gesamt_en.html
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