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Re: Laws and Theories

At 08:19 3/4/00 -0800, Ray Rogoway wrote:
...Some background: BS in Physics, 27
years high school Physics teacher, MA in Clinical Psych, 9 years in
practice.
...
Psychology and Economics along with the other "social diseases
(whoops...sciences) are art forms not sciences.

... All
that Skinner proved was the pigeons could be trained....

Ray Rogoway

I'm surprised Ray is so dismissive.
It seems to me that one legitimate field of enquiry in
biophysics would be the sensitivity of the animal eye:
is it a one color, two color or three color system for various
animals?

I may have mentioned before - but a high school student with some
exposure to Skinner's experimental protocols may readily provide
definitive experimental results on the topic: that a goldfish has
functional color vision for example, is a topic not too advanced
for a Science Fair.

Should a physicist know this?



brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK