Yes - I agree: it's hard to find any "treatment" that someone won't
ardently adhere to. So in your demonstration what do you say the
"Ganfeld treatment" actually "cures"? I like the memorable visual
component of the demonstration.
Michael Britt
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On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:00 AM, William Scott wrote:
You're going to have trouble finding an "actual" treatment out there
that isn't believed in by somebody in your audience or someone in
their immediate family. I have done the same thing you are proposing
by inventing a treatment that I demonstrate on myself in class. It's
called the "ganzfeld treatment" and works well because it is a real
term from perceptual psychology and it is easy to generate a
therapeutic/pseudo-scientific rationale for its application
(patients need to clear the sensorium, experience perceptual re-
birth, etc.) It involves wearing two half ping-pong balls (easily
available at most campus area convenience stores around here for
some reason) over my eyes while I speak. The image is entertaining
and the students tend to remember the class in evaluations. I then
go through the methods of testing the effectiveness of the
treatment, as you are planning to do.
Also, it is fun to demonstrate the ganzfeld effect with the ping
pong balls as a real phenomenon.
Bill Scott
Michael Britt <[email protected]> 02/09/09 10:26 AM
>>>
I wonder if anyone had any suggestions for me. I'm planning an
episode in which I want to talk about research design and various
confounds and threats to validity (a la Campbell) and I want to use an
example of a treatment (the "X" in Campbell's terminology) that we
know doesn't work. I was going to use teaching methods that attempt
to incorporate learning styles, but that's a hot topic, upon which not
everyone agrees so I'd rather not use it because I don't want the
treatment that I use as an example to distract from the topic of
research design. I suppose I could just make something up but
thought I'd check to see if anyone had any ideas.
Appreciate it,
Michael
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