An entry from yesterday’s Slashdot discussions- Accountability of the Scientific Stimulus Funding- tipped me off to hunt for a mention of the NIH grant to the Center for Science Outreach and, tacitly, our work with it.
Sure enough. Just a little while ago, I went the the federal government site mentioned, ScienceWorksForUs, clicked on the [...]
“Joinery” refers both to the craft of a joiner, someone who makes things by joining together pieces of wood, and to the premises from which the craft is practiced.
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Government site lists our work with CSO as part of science stimulus spending
Decision-making & behavioral biases: How are you affected?
Here’s the list from Wikipedia. It has grown since I studied them years ago in speech com at West Virginia University. I more or less specialized in what was called then, “receiver” biases. If we do have four “systems” operating in our brain and, as Kahneman suggests, we lean toward the intuitive first in making [...]
The lost evaluation/planning tool: Logic-of-action model
The following is a rekeyed copy of a paper presented by Norman Webb at the 1999 AERA annual meeting in Montreal, Quebec. As I recall he was part of a session on new ideas, new something on evaluation. I was there at his session and I was taken by the “tool” of logic-of-action. Theory of [...]
Intuition plays a major role in making decisions in a parallel process
We are getting closer to finding out how our mind (in the broadest sense) operates in making decisions. And intuition plays a major role. For sometime now we have had Epstein’s dual processing model of rational and experiential cognitive systems and now we have a summary of the three decades or more of research by [...]
advocacy-oriented think tank studies have better odds of making the news
From an email I received Monday from the folks at the Education and the Public Interest Center (EPIC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Education Policy Research Unit (EPRU) at Arizona State University:
BOULDER, Colo., and TEMPE, Ariz. (July 27, 2009) — University and government research gets the most play in two of [...]
“Even the scientist’s eye is not innocent”- Hermeneutics & the natural sciences
What we see is shaped by what we believe, or what we want to believe. Here’s a look at making “science” with hermeneutics in the forefront. These paragraphs are on Page 327 in Kevin Vanhoozer’s First Theology: God, Scripture & Hermeneutics (Downers Grove, Il: InterVarsity Press, 2002).
The extension of hermeneutics beyond its original home in [...]
This “is your brain on magnets- or maybe not”: from yesterday’s slashdot discussions
conspirator23 writes “Jon Hamilton of National Public Radio brings us a story about [0]‘voodoo correlations’ in fMRI studies that seek to learn more about emotional states, personality, and social cognition in the human brain. Many of us outside the scientific community have been treated to fascinating images of brain activity and corresponding explanations about how [...]
“Secrets of Schizophrenia and Depression ‘Unlocked’”: From yesterday’s slashdot discussions
[0]Oracle Goddess writes “According to the US National Institute for Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, scientists have discovered a remarkable similarity between the genetic faults behind both [1]schizophrenia and manic depression in a breakthrough that is expected to [2]open the way to new treatments for two of the most common mental illnesses, affecting millions of [...]
Will revelation of “science bought & sold” effect “evidence-based practices?” I doubt it
Notre Dame professor Philip Mirowki has long written about how money sways science and how science is bought and sold. Here’s another example, again from George Siemens’ current newsletter:
The big lesson of our wikipedia-era is not that amateur information is potentially false, but rather that all information must be questioned. The last week as produced [...]