Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim - Reminds me of a "social science" type of book I sent back to the publisher years ago for a refund, along with a critique in the form of my own statistical formula: Comprehension = 1 / (MESS)squared where MESS stands for "Multifarious Effluent Syllabic Sum". Anybody wanta' talk about UV filters? Gary > From: Jim Brick > > 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 > >