Gems

[Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith]

On behalf of the late and much regretted Elizabeth Bates, you ought
to know that the CDI ("MacArthur parent response stuff" that you deem
to be worse than anecdotes) was carefully validated in the laboratory
and on hundreds of children in nearly 40 different languages and
cultures.
Annette Karmiloff-Smith

At 4:00 pm +0100 5/8/04, r.n.campbell wrote:
>Surely in psychology we ought to know by now that 'no bread is much
>better than half a loaf'. It's a difficult enough subject without
>muddying the waters with dodgy data. This GEM collection sounds
>almost as bad as the MacArthur parent-response stuff.
>
>Besides, isn't there an unfortunate whiff of baby-hugging about it?
>
>Robin
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