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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:02:27 -0500
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- Subject: Not scientific enough
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- But Kathy...you missed my point...for those competent, skilled psychologists
- doing research which must meet certain guidelines the goal is to meet
- those specific standards...if those standards are met and the research
- happens to be in psychology which others doubt is a science then so
- be it...I recently submitted a proposal (and received a grant ...ahem...)
- to NIH to study the relationship of right hemispheric functioning,
- etiology of deafness and socioemotional functioning...one of the comments
- I received during the nearly year long review for merit and funding
- process was "well at first when we saw this we thought it was just
- another one of those behavioral things in psychology then we looked
- at it more carefully and realized it had some scientific merit after
- all"...well it was accepted, the funds have been disbursed and I'm
- happily running my little subjects...I'm funded for the next three
- years and couldn't give one hoot if someone doesn't consider it
- REAL science...evidently those on the funding committe had enough
- scruples to consider the project on its merit and not paint it with
- a nonscientific brush just because it came from "one of those psychology
- types" interepreted "not a real scientist"...back to my point in the
- first vax (re: doctors, paramedics and saving lives)...who cares what
- the label is so long as quality work is getting done? I know, I know
- you don't agree...n'er the twain shall meet?
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- Sybil
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