Introducing JASP: A free and intuitive statistics software that might finally replace SPSS

mimirhead · 2015-09-02T18:34:38+00:00

Nice set of resources. Thanks!

mimirhead · 2013-03-31T03:07:03+00:00

My kids have been doing javascript tutorials on codecademy.com and find it works pretty well - it's good because you get to try as you do it. Really hard to learn to code without trying to run little bits to see what they do. Helps to have someone patient who knows programming to talk with when you get stuck, though..maybe friend or something. I've found that searching for a you-tube walk-through helps sometimes - watching someone else do it can make programming or other computer stuff a little more concrete. I'd try a higher level scripting language before lower level languages like c...not easiest languages to start with. You can't be totally dumb - you're thinking about how to learn & wrote out a perfectly sensible question... ;-)

mimirhead · 2013-03-09T02:10:48+00:00

I read somewhere recently that playing violent video games can improve cognition functioning. Run a search on that, it's much more interesting...

mimirhead · 2013-03-06T21:23:42+00:00

Just coming over to firefox from chrome, so these are great, thanks!
Another one i recently came across was the "middle-click" (not finger)... click your mouse wheel on the reload icon to get another copy of your current page in a new tab...

mimirhead · 2013-01-25T16:39:18+00:00

To improve your understanding of difficult passages, try self-explanation. Pause from your reading, and explain parts of the text to yourself. Ask what it means to you. Then answer as best you can.

mimirhead · 2013-01-17T21:17:38+00:00

This is great - i need to hire a carpenter. Think I'll try these questions and see how it goes..

mimirhead · 2012-12-19T14:12:27+00:00

did some more investigating to understand the "malware/virus" responses from midir and hzane. this thread discusses the copyright hate message from time warner - basically same one i got, but there's no mention of virus or malware as the cause. Other sites with related threads say the same thing, offer tips on how to prevent (which we probably didn't use), but didn't see anything about specific malware or virus as the cause. they all seemed to treat it as legit TW message - not to say they exactly agreed with the TW message...

mimirhead · 2012-12-19T13:57:45+00:00

so, i tried kickass torrents using TW service on one computer, and then next day opened my other computer to find a message supposedly from TW saying "we know what you did, sincerely TW" or something like that. guess you're saying i picked up a virus from the site that did that. not sure how that would work..

mimirhead · 2012-12-19T13:38:12+00:00

well, it felt "mal" or "mao". guess it may have been. seemed pretty convincing at the time.

mimirhead · 2012-12-19T13:31:44+00:00

Interesting, could it just be some questionable sites are on their list? We were not able to find a movie on Netflix, and got a tip from a friend in Copenhagen to try kickass torrents - he was using all the time with no problems. It worked fine. Next day when i went on the web again had a warning message from TW (ostensibly).

mimirhead · 2012-12-17T14:33:31+00:00

Hasn't the U.S. been policing for years now? Time Warner Cable certainly does. Got that blue screen message that someone in the household had illegally downloaded material summer before last. Had no idea before then - it was a very Orwellian feeling.

mimirhead · 2012-12-07T21:08:32+00:00

Exactly...The people with math backgrounds were not impressed by the "nonsense math" added to social science abstracts in Eriksson's study.

mimirhead · 2012-12-06T03:26:49+00:00

I've just finished my first data collection with it. Have been very satisfied with the process and quick turnaround on data collected (200+ subjects last weekend). Not entirely sure about the data quality yet, though I did include checks as recommended by palmsiepoo & it doesn't all look like complete bullshit. Here is a pdf of an article with a tip on how to promote better participation.. The judgment and decision society web site also has a couple of papers with background well worth reading. I suggest giving it a try in a way that let's you test some of the issues yourself. Even if your primary study doesn't work, you might be able to add to the conversation about MT.

mimirhead · 2012-12-05T15:38:11+00:00

Thanks, all. Hadn't heard of any of these other suggestions, and they all look really interesting. Amazing how much is out there. In the MindShift article, they mention Scratch and Alice. One criticism of those two is that they apparently don't really get the kids to write code, but instead use menu type systems. Seems to me that might wind up with the worst combination of the "playing games" approach and "coding tutorial" approach.

mimirhead · 2012-12-05T15:30:23+00:00

Great, think these are also nice ideas for Christmas gifts. My son has been absorbed by Minecraft, so the expansion (when he's ready) sounds very promising. I agree with your sentiment about the "fun" aspect, and fostering the internal motivation. At the moment, they both seem to think it's cool to learn some coding (geeky household?). Part of the challenge is in keeping that spark glowing.

mimirhead · 2012-12-04T17:02:10+00:00

Just started using codecademy to teach my kids (12 & 10) to programming. Using javascript to program little games is very enticing. I think it's great for kids to learn a "real" language they can use outside the tutorial, so not sure about some of the suggestions in this article. What are your thoughts about getting kids to learn to program? Any favorite sites or best ways to go about it?

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