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- From: Steven Zikopoulos <szikopou@CCS.CARLETON.CA>
- Subject: Re: Ethics
- In-Reply-To: <9301281835.AA05286.5286@alfred.ccs.carleton.ca>; from "barry" at
- Jan 28, 93 11:58 am
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- barry writes:
- >
- > Publish or perish, per se, is not the problem. As I see it, the problem
- > is composed of two (perhaps inseparable) components. First there is the
- > p & p component. But compounding the problem significantly is the fact
- > that the journals and other avenues refuse to publish non-significant
- > results. Seems to me that the development of a "true science" is as much
- > predicated on wide dissemination of what doesn't work as it is on the
- > wide dissemination of what does work.
- >
- > Another $.02
- >
- > barry
- >
- I agree. I didn't know how far to take my initial response. There's
- no guarantee that modelling psychology after the natural sciences will
- yield useful information. "Hard sciences" ( or NSERC stuff) holds a
- degree of respect among granting agencies and the general public.
-
- Taking an interpretive approach is probably the kiss of death. Who's
- going to fund projects of a hermeneutic nature (in North America) ?
-
- Cognitive science is quite a lucritive academic business as this allows
- industry support.
-
- thanks for your thoughts barry
- Steve
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