On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Paul C. Smith wrote:
> Michael Sylvester wrote:
> > how esle can you assess development effects if you do not
> > ask the adults?
> > or better yet do a cross-sectional study:ask the children,teens, and
> > adults.
> > But again you may run into research contamination.
>
> Anyone still wonder why I don't believe that "Michael Sylvester" is really
> a teacher of psychology? This looks a lot like a troll from a bored
> undergraduate (and it's not the first time).
>
> Paul Smith
> Alverno College
> Milwaukee
what have you against self-reports?
Btw,those researchers who go to interview the serial killers in prison
are probably getting more valuable information about the minds and
motivation of those people than than all those supposedly objective
hypotheses about serial killers.
Time Magazine tried to blame some of the high school shootings in the
South on the Gun culture in the South. The students however said that
they did it because of being rejected by some of girls.
For you information,I expose my students to both the objective-
scientific and the subjective approaches in all topiucs coverd in class.
And what's wrong with this?
And of course,the Eurocentric and non-Eurocentric perspectives.
One does not get more critically thinking than this.
Michael Sylvester
Daytonas Beach,Florida
