The word sagittal (misspelled) was in quotes in the Pinker essay. So presumably it was misspelled by Gladwell not Pinker. I don't think the New York Times uses [sic]. I guess we would need to check the book to know for sure who misspelled it. Marie
**************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Kaufman 168, Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971 Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30 http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/psych/helwegm **************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Lilienfeld, Scott O [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:47 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Dropkicking Malcolm Gladwell: Steven Pinker Style Although I enjoyed Pinker's review (and think more highly of Pinker than does Chris Green), I did find it a bit ironic that in an essay devoted to Gladwell's factual errors, Pinker (a) misspelled sagittal (it's sagittal, not saggital) and (b) confused clairvoyance with precognition (an all too frequent mistake).... Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Professor Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) Emory University 36 Eagle Row Atlanta, Georgia 30322 [email protected] (404) 727-1125 Psychology Today Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/ The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his intellectual passions. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him – he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) -----Original Message----- From: Allen Esterson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:36 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Dropkicking Malcolm Gladwell: Steven Pinker Style ���Ken Steele advised me about my not understanding Marie's "Yes do watch for the igon values and don't gnaw on your Kindle": >Read the review by Pinker and the references will make sense. I had read Pinker's review, and should have rechecked it, thereby seeing he had written "The reasoning in 'Outliers,' which consists of cherry-picked anecdotes, post-hoc sophistry and false dichotomies, had me gnawing on my Kindle." I've no difficulty about Gladwell's "igon values", but I'm still none the wiser about "knawing on my Kindle". Am I missing something, or is this an Americanism that hasn't crossed the water? Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ken Steele <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Dropkicking Malclom Gladwell: Steven Pinker Style Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:33:37 -0500 Allen: Read the review by Pinker and the references will make sense. Ken Allen Esterson wrote: > Marie wrote: >> Yes do watch for the igon values and don't gnaw on your Kindle. > > Marie: Would you Kindly [sic] explain that cryptic comment for the > uninitiated! > > Allen E. > > ------------------------------------------------------- > RE: [tips] Dropkicking Malclom Gladwell: Steven Pinker Style > Helweg-Larsen, Marie > Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:51:36 -0800 > Yes do watch for the igon values and don't gnaw on your Kindle. > Great review. > Marie > > **************************************************** > Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. > Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology > Kaufman 168, Dickinson College > Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971 > Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30 > http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/psych/helwegm > **************************************************** > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Palij [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 3:36 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Cc: Mike Palij > Subject: [tips] Dropkicking Malclom Gladwell: Steven Pinker Style > > In this Sunday's NY Times Book Review, Steven Pinker reviews > Malcolm Gladwell's new book "What the Dog Saw and Other > Adventures" which is available at: > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html?_r=1&nl=book s&emc=booksupdateema1&pagewanted=all > or > http://tinyurl.com/ygpb9yd > > There is something of interest to both fans and player haters. > Just be careful and don't step on the Igon values. > > -Mike Palij > New York University > [email protected] > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth M. 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