[tips] Re: Theatrical irony: Study published in Pediatrics Today

[Michael Scoles]

A relevant Wiked Pedia link.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley       Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 >>> "Rick Froman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/7/2006 12:09 PM >>> All three appearances of"causa" are in the following paragraph but I don't know what the relevanceof that is. I am not sure if it was intended as criticism orpraise. "Our results suggest that therelationship between exposure and behavior may be causal in nature, because wecontrolled for teens previous sexual experience, as well as factors likeparental monitoring, religiosity, and deviance; however, our correlational datado not allow us to make causal inferences with certainty. If the relationship iscausal, listening to music with degrading sexual content may have importantpublic health and other societal consequences, because those who initiatesex early have more STDs and unplanned pregnancies. 5 It isimportant to point out, however, that at the time of the third survey, abouthalf of our sample had become legal adults (18 20 years); initiation ofintercourse in this group would not beconsidered early according to US norms and might be considered healthy." "Causa" as a search term misses other ways of communicating causalinference. Searching for "influence," for example, hits the following: " This suggests quite strongly that the influence ofsexual music content on teens sexual development is specific to content that issexually degrading." A search for "affect" will bring up, " Despite the fact that degrading sexual lyrics areparticularly demeaning in their treatment of women, they affect adolescent boysand girls similarly." They do, however, spend multiple paragraphs in the discussiontalking about possible alternative explanations of the results. Rick Dr. RickFroman PsychologyDepartment Box 3055 John BrownUniversity Siloam Springs, AR72761 (479)524-7295 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Pete, it's a fool that looksfor logic in the chambers of the human heart" - Ulysses EverettMcGill  _____ From: David Epstein[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 8/7/2006 10:44AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences(TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: Theatrical irony: Study published inPediatrics Today On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Stephen Black went:> The study ison-line at>< http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/118/2/e430 >>and I think it's available to all.>> It carries the standarddisclaimer buried in the Discussion, to wit:>> "Our resultssuggest that the relationship between exposure and> behavior may becausal in nature... however, our correlational data> do not allow us tomake causal inferences with certainty. " I noticed that, and then Inoticed that the text string "causa" (as in "causal" or "causation") appearsnowhere else in the paper. --David [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips& text_mode=0& lang=english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english