what was The Hawthorne study about??
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i dont know about the study, but i know the study had a measurement bias, like u know, the subjects he studied, changed their behaviour styles becos they knew they were being watched. hope that helped.
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Have you conducted research on this? May we have the research paper reporting your results? Or a reference to your sources? Personal experience with all black men?
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After reading the article you linked to I can only say that one would probably need to read the research to really understand where the study is coming from. I really have to challenge some of the assumptions that are made such as Britain being a secular society and US being a religious one. My personal experience is exactly the opposite so I wonder what they based that assumption on?\n\nUntil I know exactly how they measured what societies are religions and what are not it is impossible to comment on their conclusions. But one thing I can say is that nowhere in the article do them mention any native religions or non-western ones so that would be a bias that invalidates the study anyway.\n\nNeed to read more on this.\n\nPeace and Blessings,\n\nSalim
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Double blinding a study helps to determine the actual effect of the drug, or whatever is being tested.  If neither the participant or the investigator knows which treatment the participant is receiving, there will be less interference in the data due to placebo effects etc.\n\nThe investigator may treat the participant differently if he knows which treatment the participant is receiving.  Likewise, if the participant knows they are getting the active treatment, they may psychologically feel it is working better.
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Notes on the Philadelphia Experiment\nThe Philadelphia Experiment, otherwise known as Project Rainbow, has been a subject of long controversy and debate. It was an attempt by the Navy to create a ship that could not be detected by magnetic mines and-or radar. \n\nThere was also talk of invisibility projects and mind control experiments. The truth behind this project will never be known to the public. It is just one those triggers that we encounter that propels into awareness as who we are on a soul level. \n\nHowever, results of these experiments became far different and much more dangerous than the Navy ever expected. Although the story itself seems too bizarre to be true, far too many coincidences have occurred for it to not be based upon some small iota of truth. The technical data that has also been presented upon the subject hold far too much credence to be ignored. Many of the stories associated with this infamous experiment are wild: whispers of men 'freezing' in time for months, rumors of men traveling through time, and horror stories of men becoming stuck in bulkheads or even the floor of the ship itself. (In the movie of the same name - the visual of the men being part above the deck - and part buried in the deck - is amazing. This sort of things has been done on 'X-Files' as well when they did a storyline about temporal anomalies. \n\nIn the 1930's Nikola Tesla got involved with a group with was experimenting with moving through the Time/Space continuum. In the early 1930's, the University of Chicago investigated the possibility of invisibility through the use of electricity. \n\nIn 1939 this project was moved to Princeton's Institute of Advanced Studies - this is not far from Philadelphia. There they were able to make small objects invisible. They presented this technology to the government. The military, because we were at war wanted to pursue it in their direction. \n\nTesla had come to the same conclusion that Einstein did that this technology if developed would not be used for the benefit of mankind. \n\nIn 1943 the government conducted a test using domestic animals on a ship. The ship that was eventually used for the experiment, the USS Eldridge, was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on August 27,1943 (Department of the Navy). The animals were placed in metal cages on the USS Eldridge. The ship became invisible but when it materialized many of the animals were missing on had radiation and other burn marks on them. Humans were not to be tested. \n\nYet on August 12, 1943 the USS Eldridge with a full crew aboard reportedly underwent the Philadelphia Experiment. The men did not know what was to happen. The generators were fired up. The switches were thrown. The ship disappeared and all seemed well. \n\nHowever, others claim that the experiment took place on October 28, 1943. Substantial evidence points to the October date as being more accurate. The Navy has released the Eldridge's deck log and war diary and at no time was the Eldridge in Philadelphia. However, the records could have easily been changed. \n\nThe Eldridge's war diary reads as such: The Eldridge remained in New York and the Long Island Sound until September 16, when it left for Bermuda. From September 18 to October 15, it underwent training and sea trials. On October 18, it left in a convoy for New York and remained there until November 1. From November 1 to the 2, it went on a convoy to Norfolk and on November 3 left in a convoy for Casablanca. The Eldridge arrived in Casablanca on November 22 and stayed there until November 29, when it left for New York again in another convoy. The Eldridge arrived in New York on December 17. \n\nFrom December 17 to December 31, it traveled to Norfolk with four other ships (Department of the Navy). Although this is not the entire war log, it is the log of the ship during the suspected time the experiment took place (October 28, as mentioned above). \n\nIt would seem that t
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Recently, the National Academy of Science and Department of Justice reviewed more than forty years of research on gun control.  Their conclusions can be read one of two ways:\n\n1) The entire body of prior research is so thoroughly horribly flawed that it is useless.  This is a statement that there are so few quality research papers that no conclusions can be drawn.  There have certainly been many studies performed, though their results do differ from study to study.  Whether they differ because of methodology, sample, or design is something researchers should be able to sort out as long as some research is of high quality.  The panel does not mention any particular criteria or studies as being better.\n\n2) There is neither consistent nor convincing credible evidence that gun control laws reduce crime rates.\n\nIt is possibly of interest that all but one of the members of the panel is known to favor additional restrictions on possession and ownership of firearms.\n\nGiven the panels composition, and that it excluded the foremost researcher on this issue, (Dr. Gary Kleck, whose books should be available in your local library), I am inclined to believe the latter (particularly after having read several of his books).\n\n"...Consequently, when medical journal authors report that there is little evidence on a given topic, it may often really mean only that they made no serious effort to find any or chose not to report what they found.  For example, in an article published in 1996 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Douglas Weil (research director of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, affiliated with Handgun Control) and a colleague claimed that "there is little published research on the effectiveness of gun laws" (Weil and Knox 1996:60).  In fact, there were, at the time this article was published, at least forty-five empirical studies of the impact of gun laws on violent crime, suicide, and gun accidents (Tables 8.4 and 11.1).  Weil then proceeded to inaccurately claim that "with little dissent, these studies are generally supportive of the thesis that well-tailored gun laws can have a beneficial impact" (ibid.:60), when in fact the studies have generally indicated that gun laws, whether "well-tailored" or not, have no measurable impact on violence rates (Chapter 11; Point Blank;Chapter 10)...." Page 42, Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns, (Aldine de Gruyter, NY, 1997)\n\nI think the strictest possible Federal gun control is already on the books.  But that law remains unenforced.  That law is the Second Amendment.  The Federal and State governments have studiously ignored it and the courts have been derelict in resolving the issue.
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I did the same study myself last semester and didn't find much either.  If you have something specific you are looking for, Wikipedia may have it.  Also, if you don't mind looking at scientific literature try google scholar or your local university library journals.  That is where I had to get most of my stuff.  Sorry...  and Good Luck!
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"It has been said several times that Hawthorne is a reference to the author Nathaniel Hawthorne and Heights refers to transcendentalism. A slightly more plausible explanation is that the name is a portmanteau of "Hawthorne Hill" and "Huber Heights", names of two areas around the band's hometown of Dayton, OH."
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The correct answer is Nathaniel Hawthorne who wrote The Scarlet Letter, a story of a young girl accused of adultry and forced to wear a scarlet letter "A" so everyone would know her sin. I remember reading the book in high school as part of a required reading program. A long time ago.
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This definitely seems to be a myth resulting from suppositions not based on any credible scientific studies. The Framingham study, a thirty year study of a group consuming coffee, came up with no such finding.
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The most current and destructive form of the misapplication of psychological research is within the United States Military. Young men being taken in the formative years of their life and following six weeks at Paris island are equipped with weapons of destruction and sent into an environment where every single step they take may very well be their last.\n\nI was 18 years and 3 months old when with my squad; we came face to face the enemy. After about 40 minutes of a firefight, I had killed two men who surely would have taken my life instead. This reality didn’t hit until the next day. I found myself numb to all external feelings, and it went on for weeks. We continued our almost daily routine of 12-hour treks into the surrounding jungle seeking new engagements. A few weeks later, a young native girl crossed a large downed tree that stretched a ravine. As she cross to our side, an improvised explosive device blew sending shrap metal into my chest. It missed my heart and vitals by only centimeters. But physical recovery was months out.\n\nIn that time span of about 9 weeks, I had killed two human beings and watched a young girl blow herself to bit before my very eyes. To this day, over 35 years later, I still wake with vivid dreams of this. My country saw it fit to have me speak with professionals on this issue, who helped me to understand what I did and saw and felt was all a part of war.\n\nTo this day, the last words of my military therapist ring in my head. “You have done your duty, You are cured”! Talk about misapplication!
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Just curious: If I gave you two studies without showing you who did them, would you be able to distinguish the "pseudo-religious studies that don't pass statistical muster" from the ones you claim you'd consider valid?\n\nPersonally, I think there's a lot of political baggage that is clouding the issue for both pro-gay and anti-gay people. The only way to sort through it is to be able to review both sides and take each study on its own merits.\n\nAs a generalization, I know that Dean Hamer and Simon LeVay (?), both probably the most famous homosexuals with research credentials, have both gone on record stating that psychosocial factors are partly involved and that at least half of the condition is not inherited. \n\nAnd they were never able to concretely locate a root biological source, although they found some interesting (but small) anomolies in brain structure that might or might not have bearing on homosexuality.\n\nJust the fact that there's a higher incidence of homosexuality in identical twins -- but only about 50% -- suggests that there are both biological AND environment/social components... which is what I certainly would expect.\n\nI'm not sure why people keep insisting that everything is genetic... and why that should either validate/invalidate the orientation. \n\nPeople seem more interested in justifying their political/religious viewpoint (either direction) rather than actually understanding the cause(s) of homosexuality.
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Yesterday I heard a story about this on NPR. It was on All Things Considered called "Study: Estrogen Protects Some From Breast Cancer." It sounds like it is individual for each woman depending on past family history and overall current health. Check out the link.
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I did a quick search for it and found a snipped at megaessays.com\n\nOf course my personally recomendation would be to read the book and do it yourself, but if you need a start this may be a place to help.
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What study do you have that proves this?
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Hi Meredith,\n\nExcellent topic. The keyword you are therefore looking for on the Internet is "eugenics", i.e.  the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding. (Remember the name of one of the protagonists in the movie : Eugene - rings a bell? )\n\nThere are a lot of articles on that topic according to google. Try this one for example: http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/vol4no1/toq-editnote4-1.html \n\nGood luck !
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The study of man or mankind