Re: Frequency analysis

Posted by Rose, Fred on Apr 19, 2012; 5:28am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Frequency-analysis-tp5650112p5650928.html

Wow.  What an incredibly condescending comment.  Thank you for enriching everyone’s life for it, especially since you know little to nothing about what I do, who I am, or why I am asking the question.  I spared the list the irrelevant details regarding the background of the question and focused more on a desire for some insight on statistical analysis of nonparametric data and boy am I glad you were here to school me.

As to the paper you mentioned...yes, I have it and have read it.  And others.  They don’t address the question that I asked because those numbers all relate to norms of the DRM lists and I was not asking how to determine whether the rate of false recall in one study differed from the rate in another using the same lists.   Perhaps I didn’t express it clearly, or perhaps I should be faulted for not having read every single paper on false memory (shame on me – there probably aren’t that many) but thank you for informing me that the SPSS list is not the place to ask questions of a statistical nature.  Imagine my surprise, given that I’ve been a subscriber to this list for 7+ years and have read countless questions of this type, all answered by other subscribers.  Apparently, things have changed.

If you don’t mind, Rich, take a look in the upper right corner of your keyboard.  You’ll see a key that is probably marked “Delete”.   Should I ever choose to post to this list again, daring to ask for information about the application of SPSS to a statistical problem, feel free to use that key so that you might be spared my stupidity.

To the rest of the list – I appreciate your insights and thank you for taking the time to answer a question that at least one of us feels was beneath him.  I feel (somewhat naively, apparently) that it is an interesting question on probability but fear there may not be an easy answer.


On 4/18/12 6:10 PM, "Rich Ulrich" <rich-ulrich@...> wrote:

I Googled on <Roediger and McDermott False Memory>
and found, immediately, an article on "Factors that
determine false recall..."
  http://memory.wustl.edu/Pubs/2001_Roediger.pdf

And the intro mentions rates from 0.01 to 0.65.

If you are going to start into doing research, you really
need to do a large amount of reading to prepare yourself,
both in general (when you know little about research)
and on your specific topic.

--
Fredric E. Rose, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Palomar College
[phone] x2344
frose@...