323 research outputs found
Failing the future: Three unsuccessful attempts to replicate Bem’s ‘retroactive facilitation of recall’ effect
No full textNine recently reported parapsychological experiments appear to support the existence of precognition. We describe three pre-registered independent attempts to exactly replicate one of these experiments, ‘retroactive facilitation of recall’, which examines whether performance on a memory test can be influenced by a post-test exercise. All three replication attempts failed to produce significant effects (combined n = 150; combined p = .83, one-tailed) and thus do not support the existence of psychic ability
The Atlanta Inquirer, April 22, 1961
No full textThe front page of The Atlanta Inquirer is dated April 22nd, 1961. The newspaper issue features seven front-page articles:: "Attorney General Tells Inquirer: SIT-INS NOT BAR TO FEDERAL JOBS," "Pool Creek Pigeonholed Again," "Transit Co. Preps Negro Drivers," "Negro Lawyers To Hear Sec. of State Rusk At Biltmore," "Symposium At Clark College Honors Faculty Author," "Lockheed Council Reports Job Forms Pouring In," and "Poole Creek Civic League Prest Ousted." 1 page
"The Inquirer Speaks", by M. Carl Holman, December 31, 1961
No full textAn article in the Atlanta Inquirer by M. Carl Holman urging for "open lines of communication" to support a more collaborative decade ahead, including communication between students and teachers throughout the institutions of the Atlanta University Center. 1 page
Correspondence to the Atlanta Inquirer from Johnny Parham on Prejudice, circa 1960
No full textThe handwritten document is a letter to the Atlanta Inquirer accounting for prejudicial practices and how prejudice strikes minority settings and communities. Parham describes the nature of prejudice as being unpredictable, and that it cannot be singularly directed. The letter begins with a reference to an incident of anti-Semitism and the bombing of a synagogue by Neo-Nazis and describes the prohibition of the entry of a young Jewish man into a social invite because he was Jewish. The author connects it to the plight of negroes and establishes that there is ineffective legislation to protect others from such prejudiced acts against African Americans and other minorities. 4 pages
How Strong is the Confirmation of a Hypothesis by Significant Data?
No full textThe aim of the article is to determine how much a hypothesis H is actually confirmed if it has successfully passed a classical significance test. Bayesians have already raised many serious objections against significance testing, but in doing so they have always had to rely on epistemic probabilities and a further Bayesian analysis, which are rejected by classical statisticians. Therefore, I will suggest a purely frequentist evaluation procedure for significance tests, that should also be accepted by a classical statistician. This procedure likewise indicates some additional problems of significance tests. Such tests generally offer only incremental support of a hypothesis, although an absolute confirmation is necessary, and they overestimate positive results for small effects, since the confirmation of H in these cases is often rather marginal. This phenomenon leads in specific cases, for example, in cases of ESP-hypotheses, such as precognition, too easily to a significant confirmation. I will propose a method of how to evaluate and supplement significance tests so that we can avoid their epistemic deficits
Correspondence to the Atlanta Inquirer from Johnny Parham, circa 1960
No full textThis is a handwritten letter to the Atlanta Inquirer from Johnny Parham. The letter is about a proposed agreement about ceasing the non-violent protest to desegregate schools. Parham describes his apprehensive sentiments about the agreement and its integrity. He is concerned that the movement would be in vain if the agreement was signed. The agreement is a compromise invalidating African Americans' legal entitlement to equal rights. Parham mentions the student movement, and African Americans have moved passed compromises but are in a stage of demanding their equal rights. 2 pages
Ineffectiveness of the Pre-trial Investigation as the Basis for Removing of the Inquirer from the Сonduct of Сriminal Proceedings
No full textУ статті аналізується законодавчий термін «неефективність досудового розслідування» (п.8
ч.2 ст. 36 КПК), що виступає суперечливою підставою для відсторонення слідчого від здійснення
кримінального провадження. Розглянуто наукові підходи, прецеденти Європейського Суду з прав
людини, слідчо-прокурорську практику. На ґрунті проведеного дослідження зроблено висновок, що
тільки комплексний аналіз результатів роботи слідчого по розкриттю злочину, викриттю винних осіб,
відшкодування шкоди потерпілим, а також суттєвих особливостей конкретного провадження (його
обсягу, складності, специфіки методики та тактики розслідування, кількості та поведінки учасників),
часової тривалості та стану процесуальних строків дозволяє об’єктивно визначити, чи є
розслідування ефективним. The article analyzes the legislative term
«ineffectiveness of pre-trial investigation» (Item 8, part 2, Article 36 of the Criminal Procedural Code of
Ukraine), which serves as a discretionary basis for the removing of an inquirer from the conduct of criminal
proceedings. The scientific approaches, precedents of the European Court of Human Rights, investigative
and prosecutorial practice are considered. On the basis of the research, it was concluded that only a
comprehensive analysis of the results of the inquirer's work on the disclosure of a criminal offense, the
identification of guilty persons in his commission, the reimbursement of injuries to victims, as well as the
essential features of a particular proceeding (its volume, complexity, specifics of the methodology of
investigation, the number and behavior of participants), the length of time and the state of the procedural
time-frame allows you to objectively determine if the research is effective. Depending on this conclusion, the
head of the pre-trial investigation institute, the issue of the application of removal of the inquirer from the
arbitrary proceedings is being resolved. According to the author, there are grounds to reconsider the
statement of paragraph 8 part 2 of Art. 36, Clause 2, Part 2, Art. 39 of Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine,
supplemented the grounds for removing the inquirer from the investigation by indicating that the inquirer
was obliged to carry out his activity legally and in a timely manner, replacing the phrase «ineffective pre-trial
investigation» on «violating the investigator's duty to conduct procedural actions legally and in a timely
manner, ineffective pre-trial investigation
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