Adventures in Ethics and Science 2008-05-22
Strategies for grading fairly.
I am in grading Hell. I expect to be here until at least Memorial Day (Monday), and possibly through Tuesday. (Does that mean I'm actually in grading Purgatory? Please advise.) Anyway, in a private communication, PhysioProf asked, As you get grumpier from grading, do you grade harsher? If I did, that would be an unfortunate situation for those whose papers I get to last, wouldn't it? Thankfully for my students, I make serious efforts to apply a uniform level of harshness (or leniency) across the whole pool I'm grading. Here are some of my strategies: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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- Friday Sprog Blogging: more science fair brainstorming.
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- Important advice for academic job-seekers at all levels.
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- Friday Sprog Blogging: science fair brainstorming.
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- The Monty Hall problem and the nature of scientific discourse.
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- The kind of thing that makes industry 'science' look bad.
- Science Debate 2008: It's not the candidates' answers that leave me cold
- Seeking advice from stargazers.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: spider silk.
- Garden update: day 52.
- Standards for industry-funded research.
- The Vegetarian's Hundred.
- Come celebrate copious commenting!
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- Animal poop identification.
- Clinical trials -- or not -- of chelation therapy.
- Earthquake weather?
- Data paparazzi.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: I owe my soul to the classsroom store.
- Random bullets of new school year.
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- Friday Sprog Blogging (bonus reader participation issue): circus detectives.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: overheard on a (buggy) nature walk.
- Dispatch from Wisconsin.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: preparing for Kids Day at SLAC.
- Objectivity and other people.
- Peer review and science.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: just add water.
- Garden update: day 18.
- ScienceBlogs survey, and an invitation to introduce yourself.
- When the tactics become the message.
- NYC bloggers/readers meet-up: venue changed!
- Friday Sprog Blogging: random bullets of sprog.
- Medical research with 'legacy samples' raises ethical questions.
- Details for NYC bloggers/readers meet-up.
- This food doesn't taste right ... or is it me?
- Girls, boys, and math.
- Garden update: day 8.
- Assorted hypotheses on the science-humanities divide.
- Update on NYC bloggers/readers meet-up.
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- Appropriate use of sources.
- Colleagues behaving badly: symmetry considerations.
- Classroom teachers: get a jump on the school year (and your DonorsChoose proposal)!
- Friday Sprog Blogging: thinking in three dimensions.
- Shameful songs in my music library.
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- Blogging my mammogram.
- Want to hang out in Manhattan on August 9?
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- Saturday Sprog Blogging: fish behavior.
- Minor epiphany about framing.
- This week, Friday Sprog Blogging ...
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- All that's left standing between me and my sabbatical.
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- Inescapable trade-offs?
- Friday Sprog Blogging: dramatic developments in gene splicing.
- Book review: Ethics for the Real World.
- Aetogate aftermath: paleontologists discuss the norms of their discipline.
- Quantum mechanics for fourth graders.
- Seeing is believing.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: the element of surprise.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: competing expertise.
- The system as it currently exists.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: silkworms.
- Book review: And the Band Played On.
- Considering an ethicist's 'questionable behavior'.
- Science, motherhood, and the Nobel Prize: have things gotten harder?
- Blogging and academic research.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: extinction.
- SVP Ethics Education Committee "best practices" for research, publication, and museum work.
- Work-life balance: not seeing integration as intrusion.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: where's the top?
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- SVP Ethics Education Commitee statement: lessons learned from 'Aetogate'.
- Why philosophy of chemistry?
- SVP Ethics Education Commitee conclusions on 'Aetogate'.
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- A few thoughts on female academics and children.
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- Friday Sprog Blogging: extra-terrestrial life.
- Sympathy for exam-takers (at least, in some cases).
- Strategies for grading fairly.
- Death is not an option: giving in to temptation.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: pond water.
- How hot was it?
- Connections.
- Ethical considerations in encouraging conservation.
- Why it's so hard to get that course you need.
- Death is not an option: end of semester edition.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: can we dissolve an avocado?
- Busy.
- Cult Book Meme.
- Passion quilt: a meme for teachers.
- Pop quiz.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: experimental results (milk + lemon juice).
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- Simon Blackburn on 'the myth of the scientist'.
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- Evidence that the kids might be getting too much public radio.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: weekend experimentation.
- A question for those who teach.
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- Considering the science world's 'massive communication problem'.
- Getting students to ask good questions.
- Words of advice for new tenure track faculty.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: book review of 'Tentacles! Tales of the Giant Squid'.
- A dialogue on pseudonymity, personae, and interpersonal relations in the blogosphere.
- A tax-related question.
- It's news that a teenager is skeptical?
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- Some thoughts on 'Aetogate'
- Friday Sprog Cephalopod
- Friday Sprog Blogging: veterinary medicine.
- Trying to understand framing (III): the example of stem cell research.
- A few observations on the difference between ethics and the law.
- What kind of deception of human subjects is acceptable?
- Silly hypothesis, meet snarky retort.
- Help Kay Weber continue to pursue her case against Fermilab.
- Facts and their interpretation.
- Song chart meme: for two-two-two geeks in one.
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- Friday Sprog Blogging: do hatching grunion eggs really go 'pop'?
- Trying to understand framing.
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- Friday Sprog Blogging: psychoanimalists.
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- Science and belief.
- Movie screening expulsion: whose hearts and minds are up for grabs?
- What students need from their professors.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: are all traits adaptive?
- My world is collapsing to a singularity.
- The women who taught me science.
- Scenes from the science fair.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: there's *what* in the water?
- Recommended reads on women in math, science, engineering.
- If the science pipeline breaks, the rest of us get hurt, too.
- Why more racial diversity in the science blogosphere would be a good thing
- Happy birthday PZ!
- Friday Sprog Blogging: lizards on the rocks.
- A cool science and engineering challenge for curious kids.
- Science fair judges needed.
- Talking with kids about drugs.
- Should researchers share data?
- Should I be ABD before I have a baby? (and other questions about academic motherhood)
- Friday Sprog Blogging: graphic content.
- A moment of navel-gazing about writing a science blog.
- A desk of one's own.
- Basic concepts: scientific anti-norms (part 2).
- How committed are paleontologists to objectivity (in questions of ethical conduct)?
- Basic concepts: scientific anti-norms.
- The future of philosophical discourse.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: psychic visions.
- Senior scientists, give us some good news!
- Ask an ethicist: How can I stand up to misbehavior in my field?
- Book review: Intuition.
- Ask a Science Blogger, sort of: my life in half a dozen words.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: mutants.
- A tangle of controversy -- and a plea to start untangling.
- What's a disease?
- links for 2008-02-12
- Learning student names.
- Graduate students: NSF Debating Science program.
- Blogiversary programming notes.
- A (qualified) 'woo-hoo!'
- Friday Sprog Blogging: random bullets of critters.
- The project of being a grown-up scientist (part 2).
- Rules, community standards, and policing: Casey Luskin and ResearchBlogging.
- Two scientists ('we're not ethicists') step up to teach research ethics, and have fun doing it.
- The project of being a grown-up scientist (part 1).
- links for 2008-02-05
- Who has the biggest snakepit?
- Blogroll Amnesty Day
- links for 2008-02-03
- Superbowl parties, double dipping, and strategies for emerging alive.
- links for 2008-02-02
- Way to represent your professional community, dude!
- Peer reviewer behaving badly (and why it matters).
- Friday Sprog Blogging: explaining eggs.
- Paleontologists behaving badly.
- links for 2008-01-30
- Basic concepts: the norms of science.
- Why I teach.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: the mind-body-self question.
- Noticing class privilege.
- Tracking down a source.
- Help build the science blogging ethics wiki.
- A few thoughs on conferences.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: heat transfer.
- links for 2008-01-12
- Research with vulnerable populations: considering the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (part 2).
- Friday Sprog Blogging: rainy day planetarium show.
- Is a fake university a step up or down from a diploma mill?
- Ethical considerations in the development of a male birth control pill.
- links for 2008-01-10
- Research with vulnerable populations: considering the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (part 1).
- links for 2008-01-09
- Why ethics matter to science.
- links for 2008-01-08
- Random bullets and programming notes.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: who's being trained?
- New Year's Eve: fun with cover versions.
- 'Give one, get one' XO offer extended through December 31.
- On the slings and arrows of the philosophical job market.
- Anemones.
- From the annals of academic dishonesty: a bad way to fish for extra points.
- Eleven (sand)pipers (sand)piping.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: FSB year in review.
- Tradition takes its toll
- Not a creature was stirring
- Can you go home for the holidays?
- Spotted jellies.
- Green gingerbread construction.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: co-evolution
- Celebratory end-of-semester meme.
- The ethics of performance enhancing drugs in academe.
- Department of poetic justice.
- Year-in-review meme.
- Caroling mice: words of advice.
- Moon jellies.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: random bullets of December.
- Tenure decisions.
- A science debate, not a science exam.
- In defense of 'flip-floppers': attention to reality matters.
- Santa's scientific credentials.
- A question someone ought to study.
- Questions for the presidential candidates: where do you stand on science?
- Hungry flowers.
- Climate change driven movie pitch.
- Obeying the sign(s).
- Friday Sprog Blogging: nighthawks.
- The Pharyngula Mutating Genre Meme.
- Kids today!
- The line between chemistry and physics during the chemical revolution.
- Brain-Friendly Giftables, 2007: the 'Hanukkah starts tonight?!' edition.
- Advice for academic job seekers: do some homework on your prospective students.
- Drawing lines between chemistry and physics.
- Follow-up: why did the cheating poll for frosh engineering students have those answers?
- InaDWriMo: how it went.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: academic integrity for first graders.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: eyes and empiricism.
- There are days when having a body is inconvenient.
- What freshman engineering students think about cheating.
- Not letting your high morals turn you into a cheater-pants.
- Look out, children! There's an ethicist!
- Questions I have for Paul Davies after reading his NYT op-ed.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: seasonal art projects, and questions they raise.
- Are certain forms of address ill-suited to academe?
- What people know about animal care at my university.
- Temptations that might become irresistable
- Friday Sprog Blogging: did it have to be fish?
- A bit of holiday shopping that brings a laptop to a child in the developing world.
- Does valuable information want to be free?
- The Stemwedel Index of Luddite nature.
- Blogger Challenge 2007: how we did
- Friday Sprog Blogging: humans and animals
- A plea to vote in the Weblog Awards poll
- What I'd really like one of these semesters
- Quick thoughts on the Writers' Guild of America strike.
- InaDWriMo: help me get writing!
- How not to make the case for animal rights.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: you learned *what*?
- Getting involved with more than your wallet: strategies for supporting science and math education.
- Rudy Baum responds to questions about C&E News.
- Waiting for the last minute to donate to the Blogger Challenge?
- The ethics of science blogging: help set the agenda.
- In earthquake country, familiarity breeds ... yawn.
- Ten challenges met, ten still in play.
- Don't miss your (very good) chance at today's drawing!
- Blogger Challenge 2007: how's your team doing?
- In case your need for nerd poetry today is not fully satisfied ...
- Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art + poem: reptiles.
- Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art + poem: the brain.
- Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art: insects.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: matter matters we need to pursue.
- Dispatch from SERMACS: surreal moments.
- An open letter to the ACS.
- The "I rank number one on Google" meme (and dark mutterings about technology).
- Blogger Challenge update (day 23): where we are now, and where we can go.
- Checking in from ASIS&T 2007: brief comments on our session.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: scaling problems
- Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art + poem: rainforest.
- Blogger Challenge 2007 sprog thank-you art: seascape.
- Blogger Challenge 2007: the halfway mark.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: talking and listening
- Blogger Challenge progress report (day 11) plus prizes from Seed!
- Breaking news on the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge.
- A quick Blogger Challenge update (day 6).
- Arcane nerd knowledge revealed: a nice way to solve Rubik's Cube.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: more about matter.
- Fun with numbers: Blogger Challenge update (day 4).
- I know there's a saying about ignorance not being a defense, but who has time to look it up?
- Fifty years after Sputnik.
- Is the NCAA encouraging academic fraud?
- Another ScienceBlogger enters the Blogger Challenge!
- Other bloggers offer (better?) incentives for Blogger Challenge donors.
- Special incentives for your donation to my DonorsChoose challenge.
- Raising money for classroom projects to create a more scientifically literate society (DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge 2007)
- Six Apart encourages your philanthropy with gift certificates.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: circuitry.
- Memo to the FSU Athletics Department: 'learning' and 'cheating' are not synonyms.
- Do you self-report lab mishaps?
- Does specifying one's guilty pleasures require an analysis of 'guilt' and 'pleasure'?
- A postcard from academe: my tenure dossier.
- A little ditty about a fertile object of scientific study.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: random bullets to start off the school year.
- Facebook needs to hire the ghost of Potter Stewart.
- Ask a Pirate Blogger.
- Are imaginary friends a prima facie disqualification for a judge?
- Ask a Science Blogger: what should I pack for the collapse of civilization?
- My mug has a disclaimer.
- Survey on the impact of blogs about science on the world outside the blogosphere.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: why school?
- A code of ethics for scientists.
- Freedom in the classroom.
- Question of the day: Is extra credit fair?
- I probably should have paid more attention to non-standard logics.
- A good way to spoil free wifi at the coffee house.
- Requiem for a landline.
- Finding cash to make learning happen.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: adaptive strategies.
- Memo to whom it may concern.
- C&E News on writing journal articles.
- This seems backwards to me.
- What the scientists don't talk about in their papers tells you something, too.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: FSB goes CSI.
- Doing the math: how plausible is the claim that changing what you eat makes more difference to global warming than changing what you drive?
- Reacting to PRISM and publishers' concerns about 'scientific integrity' (the short version).
- How do you think we ought to deal with information about bad actors?
- Discomfort with the gray areas in animal research.
- Monday brainteaser.
- DVD review: Physicians - Speaking for Research.
- On the perils of choosing a T-shirt on s Friday that includes a committee meeting.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: fixing a hole.
- Three cheers for Dr. May!
- Thursday night RBOC.
- Temptations for engineering students.
- Why a Luddite like myself likes teaching an online course.
- Audience participation: help me flag good posts for non-scientists trying to understand science.
- Thoughts on the passing of Leona Helmsley.
- What are we *really* like? (Thoughts on meeting people you know from online in real life.)
- Piecing together what happened in New York last weekend.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: thoughts while hiking.
- How big a risk is my laser printer?
- Passing thoughts about conference presentations.
- Answering my email in a post.
- Brian May submits thesis; defense still ahead.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: summer outings in review
- Does analytic philosophy give you Asperger's Syndrome?
- If you pay us to put your name on our college, what are you expecting us to give up in return?
- Some light reading on animal research regulations.
- UCSF sued by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine over treatment of lab animals.
- Pushing the juggling metaphor a little further.
- Balance is a nice idea, but my reality is closer to juggling.
- Brief remarks on 'physics first' and high school science.
- Fun with paper chromatography.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: hear hear!
- The ScienceBlogs page on Wikipedia needs your input.
- Is a shift away from peer review cause for concern?
- Lessons from the Ward Churchill case.
- The other ScienceBloggers will be back soon.
- Murphy's law of conferences?
- Opening lines of communication between universities and the FBI.
- A resolution for the Tripoli six.
- Book review: The Canon.
- Basic concepts: refrigeration.
- Some questions about the cadaver calculator.
- Happy Caturday!
- Online source for hands-on chemistry (for kids).
- Friday Sprog Blogging: scare-owls.
- Book review: Storm World.
- Studying the ubiquitous (a puzzle about experimental design).
- Science in the courtroom: is 'made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar' false advertising?
- Science blogger (and soon to be former academic) shares Gruber Prize.
- Soon to be a major motion picture?
- Does writing off philosophy of science cost the scientists anything?
- A branch of learning that 'need not be learned'?
- Some of our language needs an update.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: field trip to the Exploratorium.
- Why does Medawar hate the scientific paper?
- Does thinking like a scientist lead to bad science writing?
- OpenWetWare
- Book review: The Ethical Chemist.
- Clarity and obfuscation in scientific papers.
- Is it science envy, or science gluttony?
- Basic concepts: phase changes.
- Programming note.
- Friday Sprog Blogging: pest management.
- Is medicine an art or a science?
- Book review: Generation Rx.
- Ka-BOOM! (A few words on fireworks.)
- A singularly bad way to respond to an ethical problem.
- All I want from science fiction.
- Kept all my notebooks; what good are notebooks?
- Discretion, deception, and communication between scientists and non-scientists.
- Lab notebooks and graduate research: what should the policy be?
- I think Google Maps are bad for me.
- Chem 2.0
- Friday Sprog Blogging: wild animal sightings.
- Real-life encounters with online persons.
- Fine-tuning an analogy.
- Apocalypse preparedness.
- A pair of keyboard related questions.
- Book review: Scientific Misconduct and Its Cover-Up - Diary of a Whistleblower.
- Stuff worth reading.
- Tenure-track faculty and departmental decision making.
- Extra benefit of the growing 'green chemistry' movement.
- Birth order, familial environment, and 'intelligence'.
- Scientific plausibility of Never Let Me Go.