Monday, May 26, 2014
First noticed?
Item from NecroPhiliac Radio.
But a one huge potential flaw in all this research: kids who skew the results by making stuff up for a giggle. "Mischievous Responders," they're called. Joseph P. Robinson-Cimpian, the author of the new paper, is an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He says he first noticed this phenomenon, and coined the term "mischievous responder," in a 2011 paper with Dorothy L. Espelage.Needless to say, the surveyers were only interested in "LGBTQQ2A35JYOWJTONOJWNOTJKL individuals." This is the only topic. Not the only interesting topic or the only important topic, the only topic. Nothing else exists. Aside from that, what's with "first noticed the phenomenon" that teenagers are unreliable? World Metrology Day was last week, so this is an appropriate time for a reminder. Understand what you're measuring. Know your baseline, which in this case includes ALL the natural characteristics of adolescents. Rebellion, contrariness, unpredictability. Those aren't "mischief" or "confounders", those are an integral part of the object you're measuring. Builders of surveys and tests used to understand baselines. The old MMPI, for instance, included all sorts of questions designed to tease out the important variables when the responder was faking. The degree of faking was itself one of the scores that popped out when you graded an MMPI. Modern social "scientists" have obviously missed those old lessons along with every single aspect of science and logic. Total wild-eyed stupidity and insanity beyond insanity beyond insanity beyond insanity beyond insanity are the cardinal virtues for a "scientist" now.
Labels: Metrology
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