Remember back in October, 2013 when Allen Esterson (where
is he these days?) posted links on sources that questioned the
validity of Barbara Fredrickson and Marcial Losada's "Positivity
Ratio"? There was a link to an article in the Chronicle of Heigher
Education as well as links to the paper on Arxiv that criticized
the ratio by the trio of Nick Brown, Alan Sokal and Harris Friedman.
Here is a link to the discussion on TiPS:
http://www.mail-archive.com/tips%40fsulist.frostburg.edu/msg10794.html
I bring this issue up now because I have come across an article
that appeared later that the Chronicle article (published in October
2013) which goes into more detail about the background
shenanigans especially with the APA in getting the comment by
Brown et al published in the "American Psychologist". See:
http://narrative.ly/nick-brown-smelled-bull/
For the comment that eventually was published (after the "revisions"
described in the Narrative.ly article were made), see:
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/68/9/801/
Just another resource for those who cover the "positivity ratio" in
their classes.
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
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