Stephen: This was not an attack on you. Did you see yourself in my comment? Did you take offense by dint of your membership in the intelligentsia?
I was actually referring to the authors and not to you who just passed it along to provoke comment. There is almost never anything of interest to argue about in an actual finding (hey, if r(255)=.753, I'm not going to argue that the p is not less than .001). It is always about the interpretation. It is always the possible extraneous variables and third factors. That is where the complications come in that I want my students to consider; the more third factors they can imagine, the better. I have to agree with Nancy Melucci, "The more the conclusions appeal to us, the closer we should look." I will often use correlational findings I believe my students will interpret to be supportive of their preferred causal link in order to get them to think critically in a way that is counter to their bias. This article could provide good practice for the liberal-atheist-monogamists among us to test their chops. Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3055 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu (479)524-7295 http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman -----Original Message----- From: sbl...@ubishops.ca [mailto:sbl...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 12:28 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent On 26 Feb 2010 at 12:32, Rick Froman wrote: > Next study...Is there a negative correlation between critical thinking and > intelligence or do people just > have great difficulty (no doubt due to some evolutionary mechanism) thinking > critically about things they > are predisposed to agree with? Hey, don't blame the messenger. I just report the news. Naturally, those who are liberal, atheist, and monogamous might find some joy in it. But the main point seems to be empirical. What is it about the reported finding, as opposed to its interpretation, which should invite challenge through critical thinking? Anyway, even-(Stephen) handedness being my middle name, I would have reported the results even had they turned against those misguided liberal-atheist-monogamists. The findings would be provocative either way. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: rfro...@jbu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5f8a&n=T&l=tips&o=909 or send a blank email to leave-909-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=910 or send a blank email to leave-910-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
