Saturday, July 14, 2012

So there …

… Keep Psychology Out of the Science Club - Newton Blog.

4 comments:

  1. Hi Frank,

    Thanks for the link.

    I responded.

    Yours,
    Rus

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    1. Either there is a glitch at that blog today, or all the comments have been deleted, leaving only the terribly mistaken article to sit there by itself unchallenged.

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    2. It was a glitch or something. The comments are back.

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    3. Here's what I just posted there. The cool thing about the reference psychology experiment is that a NASA scientist flipped over to psychology to have some science fun:

      Oh I hope I can post a link here: Roadkill Experiment Shows That Six Percent of Drivers Are Sadistic Animal Killers. That experiment was conducted by NASA scientist Mark Rober, who works on the design of Mars Rovers.

      Apparently SUV and truck drivers are more sadistic. I'm thinking we will need to do further experimentation if we want to find whether the hot sun had anything to do with the sadism, and whether Californians are more sadistic than Texans.

      But there you are. An elegant application of the scientific method as applied to psychology.

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