Sentences with phrase «professor nock»

By Professor Nock's standard, we would throw out a good portion of research in medicine that uses inferential statistics (e.g., all of those that conduct t - tests or chi - square tests for treatment effects on small non-probability samples).

Interestingly, this question does not remotely qualify as a question that could be investigated scientifically according to the sort of definitional and methodological standards advocated by Professor Nock.

Likewise, Professor Nock reluctantly acknowledges methodological strengths in studies by Flaks, Fisher, Masterpasqua and Joseph (1995)(Page 1582 - 1583) and by Green, Mandel, Hotvedt, Gray, and Smith (1986)(Page 1581 - 1582).

Apparently unaware of the many findings of statistically significant differences, Professor Nock (para. 104) argues that because the samples in various studies were small, researchers ought to increase their probability of rejecting the null hypothesis from.05 to.10.

Professor Nock also concedes in the Appendix that the Golombok, Tasker and Murray (1997) study «is an innovative project with some significant strengths,» one which «relied on very good measures of family functioning and psychological development, and in which «overall, the execution of the study was good.»

Moreover, the studies that meet or come close to meeting even Professor Nock's tendentious standards find at least equal parenting skills and child development outcomes in all of the areas of mental health and social and cognitive development with which the courts might reasonably be concerned.

Seven or more of 10 empirical studies in the November 2000 issue of the APA journal Developmental Psychology likewise would end up in Professor Nock's dustbin.

This is precisely the technique for eliminating spurious findings that Professor Nock suggests researchers are required to achieve (see his paragraphs 16 and 17, for example).

Thus, it is telling to note that the studies that Professor Nock credits with employing good measures and good research designs produce the same clear and reassuring results as the studies he purports to invalidate: children of same - sex parents achieve developmental outcomes at least

Second, the research on same sex couples — including some research not reviewed by Professor Nock (such as the study by Gottman and Levinson at the University of Washington and U.C. Berkeley)-- finds that same sex couples are, on average, better at managing anger and their disagreements and conflict.

of the effects of parenting practices on children's conduct - all of these studies and many more would be deemed unworthy of Professor Nock's seal of «good science.»

Not exact matches

«It is striking that nearly 50 % of the soldiers who attempted suicide made their first attempt before joining the Army, as history of suicide attempts is asked about in recruitment interviews and applicants who report such a history typically are excluded from service,» said Matthew Nock, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and lead author of this report on soldier suicidality.