John McCreery's Blog – July 2010 Archive (6)

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Ouch! Will you laugh? Or will you cry?

A friend encountered elsewhere on the Net has pointed me to…

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Added by John McCreery on July 19, 2010 at 4:27pm — No Comments

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Psychologists' generalizations are WEIRD.

Writing on his neuroanthropology blog,…

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Added by John McCreery on July 18, 2010 at 4:30am — No Comments

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Creativity Declining?

U.S. news magazine Newsweek…

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Added by John McCreery on July 12, 2010 at 3:00am — 2 Comments

There is no question about it, quantitative analysis requires that we count. But counting requires a sharp focus, a clear definition of whatever it is that we count. Proponents of qualitative analysis are then able to point to this or that anomaly or neglected part of the background and smugly assert, "See! There's something you just don't get." The annoying thing is that they're right. To which proponents of quantitative analysis,…

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Added by John McCreery on July 9, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

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Profound Contributions

In my previous post I wrote,

The major difference between Sunbelt and OAC is, of course, that most of the participants in the former are…

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Added by John McCreery on July 7, 2010 at 4:07pm — 4 Comments

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Reflections on Sunbelt XXX

I spent last week in Riva del Garda, a spectacularly beautiful Italian resort town that lies in what used to be part of the southern Tyrol, i.e., part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until it was ceded to Italy in 1918, at the end of WWI. I was there for the 30th annual Sunbelt conference, the annual meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), to present the latest findings from my ongoing research on…

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Added by John McCreery on July 5, 2010 at 6:23pm — No Comments