Sorry to be picky, but since Posit Science claims millisecond resolution on their measure, I'm curious as to how their timing routine works. I realize that how fast a person clicks doesn't matter:
Note: You can take your time responding. It does not matter how fast you click your mouse.
However, as a response-time-oriented cog sci guy (not a neuroscientist), I know that there are two issues with timing routines. First, if the experimental control program uses the system timer then you only get 55ms precision. Second, and more difficult to handle, is the problem of having many participants running multitasking environments (Windows). Thus, whatever processes are running in the background could affect the precision of your measure.
Then again maybe you have some ingenious way of controlling for these problems due to the fact that how fast the participant clicks does not matter. I know that I would be interested in doing my experiments online if I didn't have to worry about these issues.
Even if you use Windows XP you are not affected unless you downloaded SP2. That is exactly why I haven't yet. The MS AntiSpyware is better than AdAware or Spybot though. The only thing it didn't fix was the hijacked favorites folder in IE.
According to a recent article in "The Economist":
"Mr. Kerry's ranting about outsourcing has irritated economists: a huge majority dismiss outsourcing as either a small or non-existent problem, and almost 60% give Mr. Kerry's trade policy a bad or very bad rating."
As an academic, I see some opportunities going to international students, but I don't really mind. I know I am on the international market myself, and I'm a good candidate to take a position overseas. Coming from a middle-class family, I have yet to know anyone in my family or community affected by outsourcing. Why is Kerry making this an issue? Do other people really have horror stories about this, or is the notion of outsourcing an encapsulated blurb that gets votes, because it sounds like the right thing to vote against.
Neuroimaging is only as good as the theory on which it bases the explanation of why a certain area of the brain lights up during a certain task. These data are framed in terms of Alan Baddeley's model of short term memory, and its subcomponent of a visiospatial sketchpad. Don't forget about the work in the 70s by Simon at CMU on chunking in a digit span task. They had a student who could recall 82 digits! He did this by breaking the number string components that were easier to recall, i.e. a string of numbers that meant something to him. If you really want to know "What memory is for" see Glenberg (1997).
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Note: You can take your time responding. It does not matter how fast you click your mouse.
However, as a response-time-oriented cog sci guy (not a neuroscientist), I know that there are two issues with timing routines. First, if the experimental control program uses the system timer then you only get 55ms precision. Second, and more difficult to handle, is the problem of having many participants running multitasking environments (Windows). Thus, whatever processes are running in the background could affect the precision of your measure. Then again maybe you have some ingenious way of controlling for these problems due to the fact that how fast the participant clicks does not matter. I know that I would be interested in doing my experiments online if I didn't have to worry about these issues.
They took err jobs!?! Your rebuttal, liberal hippie douche...
Paper beats rock!?! Does not compute.
I have to scan my butt cheeks to gain access to my pr0n collection.
Even if you use Windows XP you are not affected unless you downloaded SP2. That is exactly why I haven't yet. The MS AntiSpyware is better than AdAware or Spybot though. The only thing it didn't fix was the hijacked favorites folder in IE.
What about Bush's favorite search engine, Ask Jesus?
According to a recent article in "The Economist": "Mr. Kerry's ranting about outsourcing has irritated economists: a huge majority dismiss outsourcing as either a small or non-existent problem, and almost 60% give Mr. Kerry's trade policy a bad or very bad rating." As an academic, I see some opportunities going to international students, but I don't really mind. I know I am on the international market myself, and I'm a good candidate to take a position overseas. Coming from a middle-class family, I have yet to know anyone in my family or community affected by outsourcing. Why is Kerry making this an issue? Do other people really have horror stories about this, or is the notion of outsourcing an encapsulated blurb that gets votes, because it sounds like the right thing to vote against.
I think it looks more like evidence of Homo OompaLoompus
Neuroimaging is only as good as the theory on which it bases the explanation of why a certain area of the brain lights up during a certain task. These data are framed in terms of Alan Baddeley's model of short term memory, and its subcomponent of a visiospatial sketchpad. Don't forget about the work in the 70s by Simon at CMU on chunking in a digit span task. They had a student who could recall 82 digits! He did this by breaking the number string components that were easier to recall, i.e. a string of numbers that meant something to him. If you really want to know "What memory is for" see Glenberg (1997).
I wish I had a peer-reviewed BS detector.