On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:12:51 -0500, Rick Froman wrote: > Mike Palij wrote: > > "it is clear that one had to actually read the article to make the driving > connection". > > Competing hypotheses: > > Hypo 1: Newspaper reporter who either subscribes to Attention, Perception, & >Psychophysics or hits the academic library for story ideas every month, comes >across a story titled, "Cognitive pitfall! Videogame players are not immune to >dual-task costs" and reads it carefully to find the connection to >multi-tasking while driving. > > Hypo 2: Reporter at newspaper in North Carolina near where study was done >(at Duke) reads a PR writeup of the study as published by the university at: > > http://dibs.duke.edu/news/research-findings/2012/06/14/videogamers-no-better-at-talking-while-driving/ > > The PR writeup includes the headline: "Videogamers No Better at Talking While > Driving". > > Parsimony rules.
Curses! I am wrong again! Damn you Froman! ;-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=18536 or send a blank email to leave-18536-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
