Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Am I the only one that thinks this stuff belongs somewhere else? Jim At 11:34 PM 7/13/98 -0400, you wrote: >Eric Welch: > >Re: 1. Statistical Significance and 2, Control in examination of >photography and values. > >1. We will not achieve statistical significance because we will knowingly >violate the assumptions of the parametric T-Test and F-Test (statistical >models) (e.g., assumption of random sampling is violated). Statistical >significance is important here. One may violate the assumptions of a >statistical model providing one is up front and declares openly what one is >doing. Heuristic assessments and serendipidity are as imporant as scientific >methodology. Statistics is a product of natural science. My work embodies a >second science, a new science we call Value Science. The co-play and counter- >play of the two forms Unified Science and so I work in a world of three >sciences. > >2. Control Group: College Students reflecting the normative value vision in >our culture. > > (Note: The valuemetric procedure I use is based on a formal theory of >value whose hypotheses have been validated empirically by me over the years. >This is not a psychological test procedure, and its construction follows none >of the criteria of test construction promoted by psychology or psychiatry. It >is a new approach to values researach and goes beyond the behavioral sciences: >See: Edwards and Davis, Editors, "Forms of Value and Valuation"; University >Press of America, 1991. ) > >Leon >LP6@aol.com >Axiology6@aol.com >