Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Coding Reliability Made Easy?
I just found a new blog: The Social Science Statistics Blog. And in that blog I found a post about calculating reliability for coding referring to something called The Coding Analysis Toolkit produced by the Qualitative Data Analysis Program at the University of Pittsburgh. I haven't checked it out, but it looks like they have some add-ons for Atlas.ti to aid in the calculation of reliability and validity of coding. Something about not using a mouse. I'll have to check it out sometime.
Monday, January 14, 2008
On the other hand
The Society for Applied Anthropology seems to have figured out the usefulness of a blog. They even put podcasts up for papers given at the most recent SfAA conference last year.
It's nice to see some anthropologists making good use of technology. On the other hand, I would expect that of applied anthropologists.
It's nice to see some anthropologists making good use of technology. On the other hand, I would expect that of applied anthropologists.
Friday, January 11, 2008
As I thought
The AAA never did add another post to that NEW BLOG. There are now 162 comments. The last comments are mainly from the same people arguing with each other. Now that I know more about the HTS, their arguing is very silly because they don't know what they are talking about at all and seem very comfortable debating this issue in the abstract instead of trying to find out more about what is really going on. But I guess anthropologists arguing about theoretical concepts and neglecting to collect empirical data to test these concepts is nothing new.
To make things worse, far far worse, the AAA Ad Hoc Commission released it's report investigating the employment of anthropologists in the military and, to "facilitate public discussion" on the report, they...hold for dramatic effect...created a new blog! That's right, an entirely new blog in addition to the blog with one post with 162 comments.
The orginal blog, AAA News and Information , states this as its purpose:
The new blog, the AAA Executive Board Blog, gives this as its purpose:
Neither blog has been given a second post. I think the Executive Board Blog had its comments shut off when it created the first post (later turned on), so the one post only has 4 comments.
Thanks for thet service! I sometimes think I'm too hard on anthropologists for their technological foibles, but then I realize I'm not hard enough on them.
The following video (warning: scary music!) convinced me to completely ignore anthropologists from now on regarding the Human Terrain System. There isn't a hint of critical thinking in this video, it uses the same tactics that I can't stand in political debates where one side is just trying to demonize their opponents, and the main anthropologist interviewed knows nothing about what he is talking about yet flat out calls the HTS anthropologists murderers. He made me want to puke.
Enjoy!
q
To make things worse, far far worse, the AAA Ad Hoc Commission released it's report investigating the employment of anthropologists in the military and, to "facilitate public discussion" on the report, they...hold for dramatic effect...created a new blog! That's right, an entirely new blog in addition to the blog with one post with 162 comments.
The orginal blog, AAA News and Information , states this as its purpose:
The American Anthropological Association has set up this blog as a service to our members and the general public to provide news and information to the anthropological community.
The new blog, the AAA Executive Board Blog, gives this as its purpose:
The American Anthropological Association Executive Board has set up this blog as a service to our members and the general public to provide news and information to the anthropological community.
Neither blog has been given a second post. I think the Executive Board Blog had its comments shut off when it created the first post (later turned on), so the one post only has 4 comments.
Thanks for thet service! I sometimes think I'm too hard on anthropologists for their technological foibles, but then I realize I'm not hard enough on them.
The following video (warning: scary music!) convinced me to completely ignore anthropologists from now on regarding the Human Terrain System. There isn't a hint of critical thinking in this video, it uses the same tactics that I can't stand in political debates where one side is just trying to demonize their opponents, and the main anthropologist interviewed knows nothing about what he is talking about yet flat out calls the HTS anthropologists murderers. He made me want to puke.
Enjoy!
q
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