Peter,
I'd say, "No worries" about your typo. The sense of your post made it obvious
what you intended to write.
Beth Benoit
Plymouth State University
Granite State College
New Hampshire
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From: Harzem Peter
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 12:41 PM
Subject: [tips] Fwd: Re: Presidential IQs and Political Leadership
Oooops! Awful typo! Please see below:
On Jun 3, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Harzem Peter wrote:
On Jun 3, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Dear Dean,
I am afraid that you have fundamentally misrepresented (and
perhaps misapprehend) my objection. It is easy to dismiss your
critics as incomprehending, fuzzy-thinking humanists. I am not
here, however, to defend qualitative methods against quantitative
ones. (I respect both, when properly executed.) Nor am I ignorant
of the quantitative methods you use. (For what it's worth, my MA
thesis was a factor analytic study. My PhD dissertation involved
my writing computational simulations of logical reasoning. The
course I teach most often is statistics.) None of that is at
issue. My objection is that the numbers you take as your basic
data are not, IMHO, extracted through a method reliable enough
for your statistical conclusions to be credible. It is not that I
think Galileo's methods to have nothing to offer human
knowledge... even to the study history. It is, rather, that I do
not find your approach to approximates Galileo's closely enough
to engender the same level of confidence in the results.
Corrected version:
In this universe of uncertainties, there is one thing for sure: Chris is
an outstanding scholar, and does NOT have to list his
credentials. The circumstances that led him to do so were unfortunate, out of
place in a list such as this one.
Peter
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