tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post4194127147088132930..comments2024-03-14T09:50:44.315+00:00Comments on Psychological comments: Advice to men caught unawaresAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-38195192905268855622014-11-14T07:13:33.307+00:002014-11-14T07:13:33.307+00:00I wonder if You would have replicate the same resu...I wonder if You would have replicate the same results with more representative group. testujemyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11182243613329134438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-55954482518723245622014-11-13T17:00:38.480+00:002014-11-13T17:00:38.480+00:00Yes, same evasive approach in the UK. The attitude...Yes, same evasive approach in the UK. The attitude is "Why would you be interested in that? Explain yourself."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-79025339823967365092014-11-13T16:47:37.015+00:002014-11-13T16:47:37.015+00:00Thanks for the interesting link. The point that co...Thanks for the interesting link. The point that convinced me most is that if a skill is revealed in babies it probably ought to be found in young children (not must). I intended to say, and then dropped it, that 4 babies were dropped for fussiness and one for tiredness.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09320614837348759094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-60717638752031101852014-11-13T15:50:04.242+00:002014-11-13T15:50:04.242+00:00some of the best data are held in abeyance & a...some of the best data are held in abeyance & analyzed for the public in mainly non-upsetting ways: military test scores/outcomes, & IQ/achievement test publishing company standardization data, no longer routinely released to the public b/c certain uncomfortable yet consistent patterns might affect sales. these are wonderful carefully collected large data sets, but sadly, only allowed to be used for certain things...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-70834667980983357302014-11-13T10:40:48.062+00:002014-11-13T10:40:48.062+00:00an intriguing study, but I do not put much stock i...an intriguing study, but I do not put much stock in infant looking time research. Small Ns are the norm (as here), along with many experimenter degrees of freedom, mountains of discarded data from fussy, uncooperative babies (how do these babies differ from the cooperative ones?), and a strong preference amongst journals for sexy, counter-intuitive findings (infants can add and subtract! And they have theory of mind!). It all adds up to a merry festival of p-hacking galore (either conscious or subconscious) - and I also hear nasty whispers of perfect experiments with results that seem too good to be true - and of course cannot be replicated (that, is fraud).<br /><br />Maybe best to stick to the old adage - never work with children or animals. Of course, animals should be more straightforward - but then look at what happened to Marc Hauser...<br /><br />This blog explores some of the issues with this line of research in more detail; http://fixingpsychology.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/what-is-wrong-with-infant-looking.htmlAndrew Sabiskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13017718231961934541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-89001590568776843082014-11-12T20:49:47.716+00:002014-11-12T20:49:47.716+00:00thanks for the link!thanks for the link!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-63836189264568458682014-11-12T15:39:29.038+00:002014-11-12T15:39:29.038+00:00Elementary cognitive tasks do not suffer from the ...Elementary cognitive tasks do not suffer from the "tossing out of sex-discriminating items" issue. They show somewhat higher "IQ point" differences-- around 4 to 6 points.<br /><br />http://www.csuohio.edu/business/academics/mlr/documents/pesta_08_paid_sex_iq.pdfBryan Pestahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08489662466643928790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624586630299165335.post-85680874206303292892014-11-12T15:08:17.588+00:002014-11-12T15:08:17.588+00:00“I was mentally rotating 3D arrays (of your best f...“I was mentally rotating 3D arrays (of your best friend & I)"<br /><br />if one had enough data, & if IQ tests didn't routinely throw out items biased against females (e.g., on vocab tests, males tend to do slightly higher on action-oriented verbs at most ages), the few point mean difference would be more pronounced. then, with enough data, it would be an easy parlor trick to show "IQ tests biased against females" IF you use the IQ to predict college grades/graduation (b/c females score lower on the IQ test, but higher on the criterion variable, GPA. i.e., the IQ test thereby underpredicts female performance on that "objective" criterion - making it "biased" against females). making it an example of using politically incorrect data to come up with a result/headline which the PC media/cathedral are happy with :) statistical parlor tricks can lead to tenure. enduring the PC academic setting takes a strong stomach (& much mental rotation of 3D arrays).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com