Chris, I clicked in your YouTube links but I received this message: "The url contained a malformed video id". I'd especially like to see the graphic presentation of research results. Can you send those links again?
Michael Michael Britt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Psych Files Psychological theory in everyday life. http://www.thepsychfiles.com On 6/10/07 12:00 AM, "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest" <[email protected]> wrote: > TIPS Digest for Saturday, June 09, 2007. > > 1. YouTube - Graphic Presentation of Research Results > 2. Re: States Found to Vary Widely on Education - New York > Times > 3. Re: States Found to Vary Widely on Education - New York > Times > 4. TheStar.com - News - Failure is not an option > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: YouTube - Graphic Presentation of Research Results > From: "Wuensch, Karl L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:47:56 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 1 > > Another YouTube video possibly of use in class when discussing > effective means of displaying data. No gorilla in this one. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DwUiGGzym_uQ=20 > > Cheers, > > Karl W. > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 3:23 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: [tips] YouTube - colour changing card trick > > Check out the amazing colour-changing card trick: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DvoAntzB7EwE > > Hint: watch out for other color-changes as well. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: States Found to Vary Widely on Education - New York > Times > From: "Joan Warmbold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:27:49 -0500 (CDT) > X-Message-Number: 2 > >> NYT article on how drastically high school standards differ from state >> to state. >> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/education/08scores.html?_r=1&ref=education&; >> oref=slogin >> >> >> Chris Green > > And what about the psychology of our media that allows candidates get away > with lies, lies and more lies?! Chris, would/could this happen in Canada? > > Joan Warmbold > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > > June 8, 2007 > Op-Ed Columnist > Lies, Sighs and Politics > By PAUL KRUGMAN > In Tuesday‚s Republican presidential debate, Mitt Romney completely > misrepresented how we ended up in Iraq. Later, Mike Huckabee mistakenly > claimed that it was Ronald Reagan‚s birthday. > > Guess which remark The Washington Post identified as the „gaffe of the > night‰? > > Folks, this is serious. If early campaign reporting is any guide, the bad > media habits that helped install the worst president ever in the White > House haven‚t changed a bit. > > You may not remember the presidential debate of Oct. 3, 2000, or how it > was covered, but you should. It was one of the worst moments in an > election marked by news media failure as serious, in its way, as the later > failure to question Bush administration claims about Iraq. > > Throughout that debate, George W. Bush made blatantly misleading > statements, including some outright lies ˜ for example, when he declared > of his tax cut that „the vast majority of the help goes to the people at > the bottom end of the economic ladder.‰ That should have told us, right > then and there, that he was not a man to be trusted. > > But few news reports pointed out the lie. Instead, many news analysts > chose to critique the candidates‚ acting skills. Al Gore was declared the > loser because he sighed and rolled his eyes ˜ failing to conceal his > justified disgust at Mr. Bush‚s dishonesty. And that‚s how Mr. Bush got > within chad-and-butterfly range of the presidency. > > Now fast forward to last Tuesday. Asked whether we should have invaded > Iraq, Mr. Romney said that war could only have been avoided if Saddam „had > opened up his country to I.A.E.A. inspectors, and they‚d come in and > they‚d found that there were no weapons of mass destruction.‰ He dismissed > this as an „unreasonable hypothetical.‰ > > Except that Saddam did, in fact, allow inspectors in. Remember Hans Blix? > When those inspectors failed to find nonexistent W.M.D., Mr. Bush ordered > them out so that he could invade. Mr. Romney‚s remark should have been the > central story in news reports about Tuesday‚s debate. But it wasn‚t. > > There wasn‚t anything comparable to Mr. Romney‚s rewritten history in the > Democratic debate two days earlier, which was altogether on a higher > plane. Still, someone should have called Hillary Clinton on her > declaration that on health care, „we‚re all talking pretty much about the > same things.‰ While the other two leading candidates have come out with > plans for universal (John Edwards) or near-universal (Barack Obama) health > coverage, Mrs. Clinton has so far evaded the issue. But again, this went > unmentioned in most reports. > > By the way, one reason I want health care specifics from Mrs. Clinton is > that she‚s received large contributions from the pharmaceutical and > insurance industries. Will that deter her from taking those industries on? > > Back to the debate coverage: as far as I can tell, no major news > organization did any fact-checking of either debate. And post-debate > analyses tended to be horse-race stuff mingled with theater criticism: > assessments not of what the candidates said, but of how they „came > across.‰ > > Thus most analysts declared Mrs. Clinton the winner in her debate, because > she did the best job of delivering sound bites ˜ including her > Bush-talking-point declaration that we‚re safer now than we were on 9/11, > a claim her advisers later tried to explain away as not meaning what it > seemed to mean. > > Similarly, many analysts gave the G.O.P. debate to Rudy Giuliani not > because he made sense ˜ he didn‚t ˜ but because he sounded tough saying > things like, „It‚s unthinkable that you would leave Saddam Hussein in > charge of Iraq and be able to fight the war on terror.‰ (Why?) > > Look, debates involving 10 people are, inevitably, short on extended > discussion. But news organizations should fight the shallowness of the > format by providing the facts ˜ not embrace it by reporting on a > presidential race as if it were a high-school popularity contest. > > For if there‚s one thing I hope we‚ve learned from the calamity of the > last six and a half years, it‚s that it matters who becomes president ˜ > and that listening to what candidates say about substantive issues offers > a much better way to judge potential presidents than superficial character > judgments. Mr. Bush‚s tax lies, not his surface amiability, were the true > guide to how he would govern. > > And I don‚t know if this country can survive another four years of > Bush-quality leadership. > > > >> >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: States Found to Vary Widely on Education - New York > Times > From: "Christopher D. Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 16:01:18 -0400 > X-Message-Number: 3 > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------070503080402050205080200 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Joan Warmbold wrote: >>> NYT article on how drastically high school standards differ from state >>> to state. >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/education/08scores.html?_r=1&ref=education >>> &oref=slogin >>> >>> >>> Chris Green >>> >> >> And what about the psychology of our media that allows candidates get away >> with lies, lies and more lies?! Chris, would/could this happen in Canada? >> >> > If you're asking me whether politicians lie in Canada, of course they > do. It's part of the job description, isn't it? :-) > > Canada may not have quite as much disparity between rich and poor in > education and health care as the US does, so the lies may be ever so > slightly less egregious in those areas, but that just gives Canadian > politicians more "room" to tell real whoppers in other areas. > > Best, > Chris --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
