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I drive through Beverly Hills on the way to work and, as a car fanatic, am dazzled by what I encounter—multiple Phantoms a day (not my style but still…), Ferraris left and right, and a seemingly endless, silver stream of Mercedes and BMWs. But what you don't often see, even in this great car capital, are the little gems pictured above. (And they are little—the BMW measures 55 x 54 x 95 in.) Curator Stephanie Barron has installed them in the BP Grand Entrance for a limited, two week run, to introduce East and West German material culture to visitors before they enter Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, which opened yesterday.
The 1969 VW Beetle (called a Käfer in Germany) and the 1956 BMW Isetta were borrowed from our neighbors at the Petersen Automotive Museum. The East German Trabant was much harder to come by though, even in its time—the East Germans coveted the car and it had a very long waiting list. After doing a bit of research, we found one made in 1972 belonging to artist Richard Jackson, who kindly loaned it to LACMA. Take an especially close look at the Trabant when you're here; it's spattered with black paint as a result of being stored in Jackson's studio.


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The year certainly has flown by. Where have the 5 months disappeared to since I last put my virtual pen to paper. It is hard to believe that it was July since my last "goodbye and see you soon" post. Now it is the day before Christmas.
In this tropical summer climate the Poinciana tree is in full and glorious colour…
And the delightful, sweet scent of the frangipani drifts around the garden.
Have I done all I planned???
Well sort of.
I've let my creative juices try to flow, trying to connect to my right brain. I've spent a lot of time watching "how to" videos on you tube. Deciding I will never create that masterpiece, but having fun trying. I've always known I am a left hand brain person. So the latest craze of "Zentangle" suits me.
It has been a magnificent growing season and the garden is flourishing. So lots of time spent pruning and creating large heaps of steaming mulch.
I've read more books in 5 months than in the past 5 years.
One short 4 week house sit to satisfy my "gypsy genes", and a glorious weekend at the Grafton Jacaranda festival. (will post about that soon).
So I will wish all my "blogging buddies" a very happy and peaceful Christmas, where ever you are in the world.


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What are the Health Effects of Cheweing and Spitting out Food?
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I've been chewing and spitting out food as a way to manage weight. At first, I would do it every once in a while, when there was a special dessert or something, to get the taste without the calories. Now, I've started spitting more often. I eat regular, healthy meals three times a day — lots of fruits, lean proteins, vegetables, and healthy fats. I am on the swim team at school, so I get lots of exercise. I spit to get the taste of foods — mostly sweets (cake, cookies, brownies, etc.) and bread.
What are the health effects of chewing and spitting? I know it can't be good for me, even though I am getting a lot of good nutrition from the foods I actually swallow. Also, I read online that you start digesting sugars in the mouth so a lot of the calories are still being absorbed into your body without swallowing. Is this true?
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It's true that chewing starts the digestive process. Even if you spit a food out, your saliva has already begun to break down the sugars.
People who chew and spit out food can end up with dental problems, including cavities and gum disease. Chewing food also signals stomach acids to kick in, ready to do their job of digesting food. But without the actual food to digest, this may cause stomach problems.
Some calories in the food you chew will be absorbed into your body — how many depends on the type of food, how long the food is in your mouth, and how much you might swallow. What's interesting is that many people who chew and spit food end up gaining, not losing, weight. Why? Experts don't know for sure, but it's likely that people who try too hard to restrict calories or certain foods end up compensating by overeating later. And, depending on how often you chew and spit, your body may not be getting the nutrients it needs.
Chewing and spitting out food is a sign of disordered eating. A habit like this may not sound serious, but chewing and spitting out food can be the start of unhealthy attitudes toward food and may be part of a more serious eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia.
It's best not to think of certain foods as "forbidden." Instead, eat a food in moderation rather than eating lots of it but spitting it out. There's nothing wrong with treating yourself to the occasional indulgence — especially because you are so active and a healthy eater in general.
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Infectious Arthritis
What is infectious arthritis?
Infectious arthritis is an infection in the joint (synovial) fluid and joint tissues. The infection usually reaches the joint(s) though the bloodstream, although some joints may become infected due to an injection, surgery, illness (such as pneumonia), or injury. Different bacteria and viruses can infect a joint and usually are associated with a person's age, including the following:
Staphylococci (a common bacteria that often causes skin infections), Haemophilus influenzae (a bacteria that can infect the larynx, trachea, and bronchi), and gram-negative bacilli (a group of bacteria, including Escherichia coli, or E. coli) are usually associated with young children and infants.
Gonococci (the bacteria that causes gonorrhea), staphylococci, and streptococci (a group of bacteria that can lead to a wide variety of diseases) are usually associated with older children and adults.
Viruses, such as the HIV, tend to infect the joints of people of all ages.
What are the symptoms of infectious arthritis?
The most common joints affected by infectious arthritis are the knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, wrist, and finger. Most infections only affect one joint. The following are the most common symptoms of infectious arthritis. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
Joint pain
Joint swelling
The symptoms of infectious arthritis may resemble other medical conditions or problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
How is infectious arthritis diagnosed?
Prompt diagnosis of infectious arthritis is necessary to prevent permanent damage to the joint. In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for infectious arthritis may include the following:
Removal of joint fluid to examine for white blood cells and bacteria
Blood tests to detect bacteria
Phlegm, spinal fluid, and urine tests to detect bacteria and find the source of infection
Treatment for infectious arthritis
Specific treatment for infectious arthritis will be determined by your doctor based on:
Your age, overall health, and medical history
Extent of the condition
Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, and therapies
Expectation for the course of the disease
Your opinion or preference
Infectious arthritis usually requires immediate treatment with antibiotics, which can often improve symptoms within 48 hours. However, certain infections caused by fungi need treatment with antifungal medications, while viral infections usually have to run their course without treatment. To prevent accumulation of pus from the infection, which can damage the joint, the pus may be drained with a needle, tube, or surgery. Other treatment may include:
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The Boulder County commissioners on Monday night declined to sign an intergovernmental agreement with Denver Water, withholding their approval for a planned expansion of Gross Reservoir.
About 40 residents and environmentalists, in a public hearing that lasted three-and-a-half hours, urged the county commissioners not to sign the agreement, citing concerns that ranged from noise to traffic safety to Denver Water's need to conserve instead of expand.
"We get some useful things out of this intergovernmental agreement, but fundamentally it's not enough in protecting the residents," said Commissioner Will Toor.
The project, known as the Moffat Collection System Project, would raise the height of the existing dam at the reservoir by 125 feet, allowing it to store an additional 72,000 acre-feet of water for use during droughts in the Denver area. Denver Water expects the project to require a two-year planning phase followed by two to four years of construction.
The intergovernmental agreement would have established a pool of at least $500,000 to compensate area residents and another $2 million the county could use to limit urban sprawl or pay out to residents. Another $4 million would have gone toward the preservation of land around Gross Reservoir.
Another $500,000 would have been contributed to use for forest treatments on private property, $1 million to assist the Coal Creek Canyon Parks and Recreation District with its master plan goals and $250,000 for recreation projects recommended by the Preserve Unique Magnolia Association.
Other conditions included requiring dust mitigation on gravel roads and improvements to Colo. 72 and affected county roads.
But, public speakers said, the limits were too vague and the amount of money that would be contributed much too low.
"Don't take the minuscule bribe that Denver Water is proposing," said Coal Creek Canyon resident Anita Wilks. "No amount of mitigation will be enough."
Residents' concerns included the potential for deadly accidents with construction trucks on narrow mountain roads and the environmental impacts, with people calling the project an "environmental catastrophe."
Others said Denver Water should better conserve water instead of expanding Gross Reservoir and noted that, based on climate change, there may not be enough water available from the Colorado River Basin to fill the expansion.
Residents also asked the commissioners to wait until the final environmental impact study is released — a point that the commissioners agreed with. The final impact study is expected to be out soon.
Todd Adelman, who lives in Nederland, said Denver Water is working from short-term thinking. He said he's concerned that the additional water will be sold to hydraulic fracturing operators, given that Denver Water plans to have the expansion complete by 2020 but doesn't need the water until 2030.
"It is a flawed plan," he said.
As Denver Water moves forward with obtaining permits for the project, the Boulder County commissioners may renegotiate an intergovernmental agreement or invoke their state-granted "1041 powers" — which give local governments say on projects that have statewide impacts.
County staff members, who recommended approval of the intergovernmental agreement, have said a 1041 permit denial likely would result in a legal fight.
County open space attorney Conrad Lattes previously said that Denver Water has contended that Boulder County's 1041 powers would be pre-empted by a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission permit that Denver Water is seeking. Although the county has not conceded that issue, he said the agreement would give the county more flexibility than the 1041 process and would avoid extensive litigation.


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In case you haven't seen my tweets, my co-teacher and I have been contributing weekly writing prompts to The NYTimes Learning Network blog this year. As we said on the blog earlier in the school year,
By reading the newspaper daily and writing in response to the paper's content, our students greatly improved both their critical thinking and writing ability. Using The Times to teach history and literacy this past year forever changed our approach to education.
We are now able to meet all Common Core State Standards for writing and reading informational text, while preserving the literature curriculum already studied in English class. As a result of our daily inclusion of The Times, our redesigned classroom is now filled with topical writing, lively debate and students making connections between what they are learning in their classrooms with what is happening throughout the world around them.
And the best part? Our kids LOVE reading the paper. They really enjoy it and beg to read more. Our former students, now sophomores, stop by during lunch and at the end of the day to pick up papers to bring home. The engagement is above and beyond anything we could have imagined.
It's been AWESOME so far. Seriously. We have to be flexible, because we choose the articles each morning when we get to school. Then, those articles sometimes lead to us throwing out our plans for the rest of the week as new projects and ideas rise organically from the work with the newspaper. Just last week we read a fabulous science article, Finding Zen in a Patch of Nature, and it led to an amazing project that we will be working on over the next few weeks. That project included a Skype chat with the subject of the article, Dr. David Haskell. He spent about 25 minutes with each of our classes on Friday and it was wonderful. You will learn more about our project in the coming weeks, as we will be chronicling it on the Learning Network blog.
You can see all of the prompts to date at this link.
Related articles
- David Haskell Finds Biology Zen in a Patch of Nature – NYTimes.com (spiritintheworld.org)
- Introducing……Full STEaM Ahead! (thereadingzone.wordpress.com)
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Mind the Gap: Comparing Genealogy Associations to Other Info-Based Groups
The SLA blog post that stood out to me was the recap of 2012 events and accomplishments put forth by the group. Here is the link. Please read the post, then come back here so we can talk. Go ahead, I'll wait:
SLA in 2012: Laying the Groundwork for an Essential Association
So...what do you think? Do the statements, observations and intentions made there translate to the major genealogy associations? I'm going to pull some sentences from the SLA blog post to tell you what I think...
"An Essential Association"
SLA knows its value and tells us so right in the title of this post. Do major genealogy associations view themselves as essential? Do they walk the walk? I've seen them exist. Provide some value. But be essential to my genealogical life? No.
"The vibrant associations of tomorrow will be the ones...that stop speaking in nouns like conference, magazine and Webinar and start thinking in verbs like transform, renew and inspire."
I often joke that if you want to see where genealogy as a field will be in five years, look at there the library field is right now. That humor never goes over well, but it's true. Genealogy just embraced Webinars in 2012, and they're already in the rear-view mirror at SLA. I'm not knocking the Webinar format, just saying that SLA has been using it for years. On the information highway, who is in the fast lane and who is traveling at 45MPH with their blinker on?
Does the genealogy community think in verbs? Do you want them to? You can probably guess my answer.
"(Our upcoming 2013 website) should be a go-to resource to help information professionals network, learn and collaborate...not a place to store items that are viewed and downloaded a handful of times each year."
I can think of some go-to/can't-live-without websites in genealogy, but none is an association website. SLA is making me want to be a member, because you know there will be some real treasures in that chest.
..."Our magazine, Information Outlook, (is transforming) from a printed publication to an online digital product that can be viewed on tablets, laptops and smartphones. (It) will be easy to bookmark, share and search, helping transform it from a static reference tool to a mobile resource for ideas and inspiration."
TAKE MY MONEY NOW! No, really. I'm still receiving printed genealogy publications in the mail with articles like, "Why you need an online presence." I've had an online presence since 1994. I want the digital product that will give me ideas and inspiration!
"The changes we're making are not one-off attempts to breathe new life into familiar products and services; rather, they are part of a comprehensive effort to redefine SLA, to change it from an association organized around a common profession and interests to one that enhances members' careers, their peer relationships, and their professional development."
The Special Libraries Association knows its members. It knows that they want. It knows what they need. It knows what to give them in order to become indispensable in their lives. They do speak in verbs. They continuously move forward. They are all about improving and ensuring that their members do, too. Collaboration is everywhere there.
How does this compare to the major genealogy associations? What do their end-of-the-year blog recaps say? Do they even have recaps? Do they even have active blogs? Do you see where I'm going with this?
Here's where I'm going with this:
1. It's time for professional genealogists to learn from other types of information professionals. There's much more in common than you realize. You can go outside the genealogy community to enhance your skills and development. You can also bring back to the genealogy community and share with them what you've learned.
2. There are significant gaps between major genealogy associations and those catering to other information professionals. Brand identity, self-awareness, technology adoption, forward thinking. Even the use of verbs.
3. Major genealogy associations, societies and individual professionals can all benefit from the examples in the SLA blog post. Really. I see so many takeaways that can be applied to genealogy. I hope you see them, too.
4. It's ok if you think I'm a nut job for the opinions I've expressed in this post. Just understand that Curt Witcher gave a fabulously inspirational keynote on innovation and meeting the needs of others at the 2011 RootsTech Conference. D. Joshua Taylor also gave a powerful speech on the need for genealogy organizations to be indispensable in their own communities at the 2012 Federation of Genealogical Societies conference. They used many of the action verbs also included in the SLA blog post. So if I'm crazy, then they're crazy, too. I'm taking everyone down with me.
I might be talking to a wall here. Maybe what I need and expect from an association when I hand over my membership dues is not what others need and expect. If so, that's ok. It's just that this SLA blog post really showed me the differences between A and B. There's a big gap there. Maybe it doesn't bother others as much as it does me.
Genealogy is part of the information highway. There are also lots of other subjects, fields and people on the same information highway. We are all going the same direction, but at different speeds and angles. Which lane are you in? Which lane do you want to be in? Me? I'm going to mingle with some associations and colleagues that speak in verbs and push my professional development into the high-occupancy vehicle lane. Beep beep.
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Words cannot express how much I love this post. Let's stop patting ourselves on the back for what a great job we're doing with helping professionals develop, helping newcomers enter the field, share information amongst ourselves, and all of the other things that we say we're great at. Because when it comes down to it, we are not walking the walk. But you already knew that...ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Amy. I've felt this way for a while and seen the gap myself, but I could not find the words to convey the message to others. SLA's 2012 recap blog post was the perfect benchmark to illustrate the differences.Delete
Your post made me go and read the original post. I'm not sure what I am missing that you are seeing. Please bear with me.ReplyDelete
For all the talk of "walking the walk," what did SLA actually *do* differently, and what can (for example) APG *do* differently?
They designed a new website that no one has seen yet. I think it best to reserve any assessment until the site debuts.
They turned their magazine into a digital publication. I don't see how the format affects the content. Good content does not depend on an electronic over paper format (nor does bad content depend on the reverse). And, I might add, the APG Quarterly has released online issues for the past couple of years, with back issues going back even further.
They introduced panel discussions at their conference. APG and similar organizations have sponsored panel discussions and luncheons at national conferences for years.
To a certain degree, all change does begin with lofty words and phrases--but it has to be backed with action. While the SLA blog post uses a lot of visionary language, I must be missing what actual changes have occurred.
As a member of the APG Board of Directors, I would love to learn a lesson from another organization as to how to better serve the needs of the members. Aside from inspirational catch-phrases, though, I don't see where SLA has offered any solutions.
What actual *actions* can APG or any other genealogy organization take--based on the SLA model--in order to better meet the needs of the organization?Replies
Michael, thank you for the comment. I'm still trying to gauge my point of view on the spectrum of others, so I appreciate the commentary.Delete
I wasn't specifically talking about APG, but since you brought it up, we'll go with that.
I liked the SLA post because it talked about accomplishments and vision. If I'm going to hand my dues over to a group, I want to know where it's going with my money. Where is APG's 2012 recap? What's on tap for 2013?
Why is APG membership essential to my development? The directory is free to view. Also my clients and jobs come from elsewhere, so a listing in said directory doesn't entice me. I loved the addition of webinars in 2012, but again I can view those live as a non-member. I don't think the website has changed in years and it's clunky on the navigation end. Why is it essential to members?
The PMC is nice...if you can get there. What about the majority of members who can't? Where is the value in the PMC for them?
If there are exciting things happening, then tell us. Often. Use all those social media channels APG has, but usually keeps quiet.
You're right, "lofty words" should be backed with action. I want to see action in the genealogy community. Not just keeping the machine going every year, but improving it, tweaking it and trying new things.
I'm not going to reserve judgement until I see the new SLA website. I'm thrilled they're doing it. Even if it needs improvement, it's action. Movement. Forward. I don't see APG walking the walk but instead standing the stand.
Please know that I'm not one of those who complains but won't work for the change. I've tried on several attempts to volunteer but my requests were not answered. That's fine, but no one can say I didn't try.
I suspect that I have different needs and expectations out of a professional-level organization than most members of APG. That's ok, and that's why I'm extending my network to meet my own professional genealogy needs.
Judging by the feedback I've received, however, there are many other people who want their own associations to be "essential" in their lives. They want to hear those lofty words that describe the ambitious plans ahead. They want board members and leaders to give them a reason to hand over their dues year after year, not just send a reminder and demand payment. In terms of your own group's members, you'll just have to decide of APG does that for them.
What can APG do? Offer a streamlined website. Offer a blog with inspiration and real examples of great professionals.Delete
When I was a member of APG (I no longer am) I never once got a speaking engagement from APG. All of my clients come from my blog or from word of mouth. I also maybe read one or two articles by George Morgan in the APG Quarterly that I found truly insightful, helpful, and engagement. And I am not surprised that it was George Morgan that wrote the articles - cause George Morgan is AMAZING and I love him.
The only thing I truly get from APG is the chapters - but each chapter is differently. I love the SL chapter and feel that I've gotten a lot from them and truly been able to improve my webinar speaking skills (which is SO different from in person speaking).
I've never attended the SoCal chapter because the meetings are a bit of a drive from my house.
But the bottom line is, I don't see what APG gives me. I see what the individual chapters have given me, and I'd be happy to put my money there. But with APG as a whole? I don't see it.
Going to the PMC is difficult. The webinars are free for live viewing. The APGQ is so-so in my opinion. And I never got clients from the database.
But just because APG doesn't fit my idea for an investment of my limited dollars, that doesn't mean that it doesn't work for others. Clearly, it does, because there are lots of members. But it just doesn't work for me.
Thank you for the comments, Amy & Elise. I note that they mostly concern what APG is doing "wrong" (maybe too strong of a word) with what we are doing.Delete
You asked what makes APG essential. To my mind, it is not any of the activities that APG sponsors or accomplishes--though I do greatly appreciate these.
What makes APG essential to my business and my professional development is the membership.
When my work takes me to a new area (whether geographic or otherwise), I reach out to members who work in that area. In some cases all I need is advice; in other cases I may hire them to find something onsite for me.
Inversely I have gotten a number of clients--not through the APG directory, but either directly from members or through referrals from other members.
Discussions on the APG Members-only Mailing List often touch on very important subjects about being a professional genealogist. Not just the research side, but such business topics as marketing, taxes, etc.
To me, a professional organization can provide very little from the top down. The rest is up to us as members to reach out and network with other members.
From this perspective you can only get out of it as much as you put in.
Elyse --Delete
You and I are on the same page about the web site and APGQ, and we're working to turn them around. I would be interested in your thoughts on the last two issues of the magazine.
The Q does have a regular feature profiling 2-4 professionals "up close and personal." I would be curious how those fell short for you of the inspiration you would find from a similar feature in a blog. George Morgan is a real workhorse of a contributor, and I've benefited from his columns as a speaker. You didn't mention that the Q in the past has had occasional articles from Elizabeth Mills and Tom Jones that aren't available elsewhere.
I think it is fair for professionals to ask what APG gives them. But as professionals it is also fair to ask what our professional members are contributing to it. Our dues are *much* lower than SLA's dues. We depend immensely on volunteers -- officers, board members, and committee m embers -- most of whom are crazy busy in their own lives as well (especially since few of us have actual old-fashioned jobs). In the past APG has not been as open to volunteers as it should be (I have my story and others have theirs). That is changing. As one board member I would be very interested to see a proposal for a revitalized blog. We do have a new monthly newsletter to speed up communication and hopefully to let people know what's going on at the national level and where they could help. Oh, I almost forgot -- we do have a revitalized chapter-support committee, and several new chapters, so hopefully that situation will be improving too.
My jaw is dropped. This was *AMAZING*! I think I've had an epiphany: The reason I don't get all excited and enthusiastic about genealogy societies and associations. It's because they don't light my fire. They don't inspire me. They don't make me feel like I'm truly learning.ReplyDelete
And honestly, I don't want to have to convince people that having a website with good information is vital and critical. I want people that get it. Cause if they get that, then they get me.
This post is amazing! Totally exactly what needs to be said (and heard) right now.Replies
Thanks, Elyse. Like I told Michael above, your comment helps me define the spectrum. Some desperately want vision and forward-thinking, some do not. I'm still trying to figure it all out to see where I land in the forest of others.Delete
I think the same can be said of 'non-professional' genealogy societies and even (I hate to say it) Family History Centers outside of Utah. The genealogy blogging network and Google searches are my source of inspiration, education, and more. I don't see the point of joining some society to get a discount on local research or access to books that can be obtained elsewhere. I'm not a professional genealogist, but I'm fairly certain I wouldn't join an organization that didn't effect my bottom line or wasn't essential to my personal development. Money is tight and if there is no tangible value for an association, I'm not giving them my dollars or free time (to read/be involved).Delete
I agree with Elyse... if something doesn't light your fire, it's not worth your time.
Amy -- Thanks for introducing us to this organization, which I had never heard of. I agree that we don't learn as much as we could from allied groups, and I'll watch the SLA site and see what they actually *do* that could apply to APG, BCG, or ICPAGen. I'm not sure whether they would have the recipe for general-purpose genealogy societies. Heaven knows they are slow (trust me, I'm on the board of one!) but their constituency is not primarily professionals. Keep us posted. -- HaroldReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Harold, general purpose societies can glean more than you think. Societies are like businesses. The have a product and they need to be out there marketing it to their customers and potential customers. Tell them the plan for 2013 (which means you have to come up with a plan for 2013). Promote the "products" of the society and dazzle members with new offerings. Professional or not, all groups have members and a need to keep the numbers up. This is not a revelation on my part. It's been the essential theme for the last two FGS conferences. I just showed how another group outside of genealogy used the same approach.Delete
Amy --Delete
If you tried to volunteer at APG and got no response, I think that's inexcusable. Period. As long as I'm on the board, if this should happen again let me know and I'll get you an answer. (If this happened within the last year or so, as a board member I would appreciate learning -- privately -- who you tried to contact.) APG has been stodgy that way -- I had the same problem a few years ago. The new administration under Kenyatta Berry has opened a lot of things up but we have a ways to go yet.
I agree that a review of the past year and a look ahead would be great. The people I know who could do them are overwhelmed, so right there we need a knowledgeable volunteer! This is the kind of thing I would imagine in the Quarterly, and hopefully we will have a new editor there soon. But the Quarterly is too slow for a lot of things, and now we have a monthly newsletter that can be a lot more responsive.
We have discussed a good bit whether webinars should be for members only or not, and which ones. Would you join if we made them all members-only?!
As for collaboration, I'm not sure we're so bad on that. People share problems and knowledge on the members-only list all the time. Our members-only LinkedIn presence is new but it already has some lively discussions. We'll see how it goes. Do these count as collaboration? Or are we just not using the right buzz words about them?
And sometimes being "essential" is something that's not in our hands. The Transitional Genealogists Forum serves some of the same purposes of collaboration, and it's open, not part of any organization at all. But APG can't make it go away just because we would like to be essential.
Just some thoughts -- and I didn't want you to think that APG is totally complacent about these things.
My sense is that professional genealogists adapt pretty well to change, as do a percentage (perhaps 20%) of non-professionals. One significant problem is that boards of local genealogy societies are usually the ones who don't want to change. Many of the local society leaders and members have no clue about technology - they struggle with email. They don't do seminars, conferences, webinars, online searches. They go to local society meetings for the social time and to hear the speaker.ReplyDelete
Transform, renew and inspire are great words...I've been struggling to do this at my local society for 10 years, and it's pretty much the same 20% every month who at least attend and share and learn.
I know, Randy, believe me I know. Every FGS conference has the same tales of woe. I just wish people understood that 1. change is good and 2. change doesn't always mean technology. A change could be a new type of genealogy program, reaching out to a different population, adding a new column or layout to the newsletter. There's just something about the word "change" that shuts folks down.ReplyDelete
Thanks for taking the initiative to spread your ideas Amy. I'm inclined to agree with Harold that there's a significant difference between SLA catering to full time professionals and most, not all, genealogical societies with mostly an amateur/hobby membership. Change, needed, must take place in a way as to gently encourage along, not alienate, those who are more set in their ways and look to our societies as a socialization opportunity as well as a genealogical one.ReplyDeleteReplies
Though the audience is different between SLA (full-time and part-time professionals) and a local/state/regional genealogical society (mix of professionals and hobbyists), the goal for each to be a thriving, growing, active organization is still the same. The only way to grow your society is to understand your members *and* your potential members. Too few societies, IMHO, really they know who their members are and what they want; even fewer societies have any clue about what potential members want. If you can't figure out both of those, your society is doomed.Delete
JDR, I think you're getting hung up on the word "professional." Change is necessary in all groups and organizations, especially ones that depend on dues. Change does not have to alienate people. If you see my response to Randy above, I offered several no-tech ways to improve and make positive changes.Delete
While it's true you don't want to upset current members with change, how many potential members have you lost out on because there is no change? How many potential members don't join because they think the word "society" is intimidating and for someone other than a hobbyist? You'd be surprised at the losses that accumulate when you focus on a small group who might be upset and ignore a larger group with more dues for the pot.
Upon a suggestion by Harold Henderson I drove my roving eye over to this blog to view some of the comments. Some I find most interesting while others are not quite so interesting. I have been a very active member of APG for about 20 years and have supported it 100%. I have never gotten a speaking engagement from APG mostly because I have not been pressing to get a speaking engagement. My desire is to be a good quality genealogical researcher and I have realized that goal.ReplyDelete
Keep up the good work goes out to Michael Hait, Harold Henderson, and Amy John Crow.
Harold wrote: "If you tried to volunteer at APG and got no response, I think that's inexcusable. Period. As long as I'm on the board, if this should happen again let me know and I'll get you an answer. (If this happened within the last year or so, as a board member I would appreciate learning -- privately -- who you tried to contact.) APG has been stodgy that way -- I had the same problem a few years ago. The new administration under Kenyatta Berry has opened a lot of things up but we have a ways to go yet." To this I write, "You have to be Kidding!" I don't think I need to elaborate. The problem that I see and that a few have tried to convey is that the organization caters to beginning or non-professional genealogists. That's ok, but professional genealogists need more and that is what Amy is referring to in my opinion. Other than the local chapters, there is not a lot of need for what is in the APGQ, at the Practice Management conferences, etc. The lectures at national conferences are mainly for beginners. They are not geared towards those who make their total living from genealogy and genealogy-related businesses. I appreciate Harold for letting the APG Members' list know about Amy's comments. I realize that Harold and Michael don't see the need for anything more than what is already being done. I find that interesting. Organizations of any type need to have greater vision for the good of the whole rather than assume that there is no need for improvement or new blood running the organization. Having an organization that is essential to the members is a great idea to me. How to do that when the group is so diverse will mean having to expand the focus of APG to make it essential to all.ReplyDeleteReplies
Michael Hait and I both believe that APG needs to change and improve, as should be clear from our posts on this blog, including the portion quoted by Jeannette.Delete
Jeanette, As usual you have misrepresented what others have said. Neither Harold nor myself said that APG doesn't need to do more. We have asked "what more can be done?" I agreed to serve on the Board of Directors of APG specifically so that I can help to make positive changes.Delete
Michael, there has been a misinterpretation. The point is to make the organization an essential organization to all. It will be interesting to see what new ideas the APG Board comes up with to be more inclusive to the entire spectrum of genealogy and genealogists. Since the APG group is for multi-specialties within genealogy, there will need to be a broader range of focus - rather than just catering to beginning genealogists or those making the transition to become professional genealogists. Catering to those groups is good but there does need to be more for the long-time professionals.Delete
Thanks for your thoughtful blog post, Amy. While I hadn't thought of noun vs. verb before, that really helps describe why a couple of my best genealogy learning experiences of the recent years are stand-outs:ReplyDelete
- CGSL (Calif. gen. society & lib) seminars - encourage interaction and "doing", e.g. "Stump the Panel" sessions where a panel of 3 experts do real-time online searches and suggest offline research ideas, and all attendees can learn from and ask questions about process, as well as add to panel's suggestions. Or German research seminar, where instructor contacted each registered attendee a month before session, and via email with each individual, did a THOROUGH review of what already known and sources, then suggested and assisted in research for a month, capped by 15-minute one-on-ones preceding seminar for specific questions, then seminar recapped general German research tips and each participant added tips from their experience, which generated a couple of further assists from other attendees.
- Thomas MacEntee's explorinars and tools webinars - Thomas has a great style and pace to allow webinar attendees real-time to download or register for each tool and try out features as Thomas presents, as well as get thorough answers from Thomas to any questions. Along with many others, I joined Blogger and created my 1st blog, signed up for Dropbox and created auto backup, and registered for Evernote and created first notes and notebooks, thanks to these interactive sessions provided by Thomas. (And having set up Dropbox and Evernote when I only owned a PC, was in great shape when later purchased an iPhone, then an iPad).
Would love to hear from others of any "verb" vs. "noun" experiences!
I'm going to enter into the comments ring here by saying that I've seen strong, positive change at APG and change that has momentum to continue making APG relevant to professional genealogists in the 21st century.ReplyDelete
Thanks to the hard work of many volunteers, I've noticed big changes since I came on the scene as a professional almost five years ago. If you had asked me even two years ago if I'd see some of the features like webinars, online discussions and more at APG, I would have say an absolute "no."
This isn't to say that everything is perfect and that more change isn't possible. I think that APG experiences the same challenges as any other large genealogy organization - and this includes FGS where I serve as a Director.
I want to thank Amy Coffin for incubating and fostering this exchange of feedback and ideas - this is what we need more of, in my opinion. I'd love to hear about other organizations similar to SLA or AAIP from which we could bring ideas to genealogy organizations.
Thank you everyone who has read this and commented here, or even privately to me. I do want to make one point that this piece was asking general questions to all genealogy associations.ReplyDelete
APG members latched onto it for discussion, which is fine. However, I don't want people to think my post was directed toward a specific group.
In a comment above, Michael Hait asked how the ideas in the SLA blog post could be applied to APG, so I answered with specific suggestions. This should not be construed as things I feel are wrong with APG or any group. They were merely suggestions based on the ideas of a similar group of information professionals.
I agree with Thomas that APG is on the rise and doing good things. I had the fortune and pleasure to interview APG president Kenyatta Berry at RootsTech 2012. She's all energy and good fit for the association.
I brought the SLA blog post to the table in an attempt to foster discussion on vision (or lack thereof). I believe I succeeded in that endeavor (or endeavour for my international homies).
Thank you for this thoughtful and thought-provoking post and comments. I currently serve on the BOD of the National Genealogical Society. Like APG and many other groups, we are aware of the accelerating pace of change and the need to respond, while at the same time we cannot completely leave a significant segment of our membership behind.
We need this kind of continued dialog - one thing that jumped out at me in the SLA article was the amount of input, interaction, and feedback the SLA sought from its members. In my opinion, that is what should drive the changes in any organization.
Jean Atkinson Andrews
One of the differences between SLA and organizations like APG and FGS is money. The dues for SLA are much higher, and that's because they're catering to a crowd of mostly salaried professionals. I paid a lot more for dues to my old professional organization too, because I made way more money from that profession. Genealogy doesn't pay much, so dues are lower.ReplyDelete
Lower dues mean few (if any) paid staff. I think APG has one paid person, and I'm not sure whether FGS has any. When things are run by volunteers, they're not as robust. Even the most dedicated volunteer is going to do his/her paying work first, and is going to have periods where they forgo volunteer work due to work pressures, family stuff, health stuff, etc.
I have learned over the past few years to temper my expectations, because I'm not sure there's enough money in genealogy associations to be able to do all of the awesome things I'd like to see done. I think we're getting what we pay for, but if we want more, we'll need to pony up (and given the complaining about things like Ancestry subscription fees, I'm not holding my breath).Replies
The individual dues for SLA are both higher and lower than APG, depending on your income.Delete
I'm going to assume the CEO is a paid position, because she's been there a while. There's probably an office staff, too. However, officer positions, all division and caucus heads are all elected volunteers. They do this to advance their careers and their field while giving back. The Texas Library Association is the same way. I was one of those people once upon a time. Maybe the drive to serve is stronger in that field? I don't know.
As for the financial difference, money can buy pretty things. But honestly, a lot of genealogy associations just need some basic honest-to-goodness introspection, better dialog with members and a plan for the future. That's entirely affordable.
Also, Kerry, it's never too late for library school. I can hook you up with a distance program. You wouldn't even have to take off your jammies.
(I have to add, though, that this discussion is rekindling my I-wanna-be-a-librarian fantasy. Librarians are cool, and this forward-thinking-ness is one of the reasons why.)ReplyDelete
Love it Amy, always great with the analogies.ReplyDelete
"Which lane are you in?" From my view, there are quite a few groups who are those awful people at the end of an on ramp who cannot commit to getting on the highway. Harsh? Probably, but it is how I feel sometimes.
APG: basically a listing service. Sorry guys, been with you six months. Found the articles in the quarterly dishearteningly simple for a publication catering to 'professionals'. Will I renew? Reserving judgment simply because folks like Michael and Harold are involved. Hoping for better days ahead.
FGS2012. An incredible let down for my first national conference. The lectures billed as intermediate were hardly that. The 'talk at you' format is beyond old. This is not a technology grip. 50 minute lectures leave little time for discussion. What discussion does happen is centered on an individual trying to get help with their one little research issue. How about interactive forums? What about Idea session? What about help sessions? What about real Q&A formats about where the field is going? I will be attending FGS2013 because it is what I can afford. But I will pay the extra price to participate in workshops rather than lectures.
Societies. One of the major grips I here from society members is about declining membership and a lack of new blood. Yet these same folks resist attempts at modernization and reaching out to the new members they claim to seek. The lament is often that younger folks just aren't interested. Yet they tend to alienate those younger folks who try to engage them. Either with their incredulity or their condescension.
I get it. Not everyone is web savvy. Again, this is not strictly a technology grip. But my learning these days comes from the blogosphere, both personal and professional, rather than from societies and associations. I am part of a younger generation of genealogist who have grown up in this field on the web.
If you cannot find a way to speak to me in my language that also respects the legacy genealogists then eventually, you will lose us both.
Oh my, I see the philosophies of SLA and Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy have a lot in common!ReplyDelete
I have been sitting here, trying to keep my fingers off the keyboard. Well, that didn't work. I hope you will indulge me.ReplyDelete
It was a little challenging to think in the abstract about verbs and nouns and societies and associations. I couldn't get my head around "national organizations" because I don't have the experience. So I placed the comments into a framework that I could understand. I reviewed it through the eyes of a board member of the Southern California Genealogical Society.
SCGS was dragged, kicking and screaming, into the technology of the 1990s in 2002 or 2003 when people learned the society was using the president's personal Ancestry account for patrons. [Let's hope the statute of limitations has expired.]
After about two years, much pain, hard work and too many hard feelings, SCGS began to accept the Internet. All it took was money, guts, and someone to blame it on if it all went wrong.
In the intervening years, we evolved. First moving the newsletter online, revamping a website to be more than a single page with notice of a meeting that was held eight months earlier. Baby steps into blogging and being involved with the blogging community.
Then a big step. In 2010, when GoToWebinar software became affordable through TechSoup, SCGS became the first society to produce a regularly scheduled webinar series. Sessions are still offered free to the general public, with access to the webinar held as a member benefit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what.
- Since it first embraced technology, membership has increased about 38 percent.
- Over 10,000 email addresses receive updates by mailing through Constant Contact. Our open rate var exceeds industry standard.
- Attendance at the annual conference, the Genealogy Jamboree, has increased 183 percent. Jamboree's reputation for drawing a younger crowd is well deserved.
- Streamed videos from Jamboree were offered free of charge (thanks to sponsors) and viewed by over 2500 genealogists and family historians.
- Webinars have introduced SCGS to family historians throughout the US and beyond and sparked our sixfold growth in digital membership.
Here's my disconnect. I read the article, Amy, and I kept thinking ... the verbs are really great, directed, powerful. But the nouns - webinars, courses, websites, blogs - are how those verbs are implemented.
Genealogy probably is behind the curve in adopting technologies and methods that have been de rigueur in corporate circles for several years. I'm okay with that - when I left the corporate world, I swore never to use the phrase "core competencies" again.
Genealogy organizations have so many ways to improve, to visualize those verbs that will evolve into the next whatever-it-is that we will become. I like verbs. I like verbs like "deliver" and "involve" and "promote." Those are action verbs, too.
In the meantime, don't discount the nouns. They are the mileage markers on the road to verb-niccisitude.
It's a word, I swear. I saw it online.Replies
Paula, thank you for the comment. SCGS is, in my opinion, well ahead of the curve. They use those verbs to make nouns. This is not the case for many associations.Delete
Love nouns, hate verbs, pick apart to vision of another group that deals in information. I don't care. What's frustrating is the general push back and "oh that will never work" auto response that seems to generate when a new idea is tossed on the table. Even here in these comments and discussion elsewhere, folks can't help but knock what's different.
Again, please understand I'm not talking about SCGS. I'm talking about the field in general. The problem is that many associations have been using the same nouns for years or even decades. What would new car purchases be like if the models never changed or improved? Why is it ok for genealogy societies, associations, businesses, education or anything else to do the same?
- Heather K.January 16, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Amen, let the choir sing! Thank you librarian sista! There is a lot of great information useful through many professional library, archives, and history organizations.ReplyDelete


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[Update Jan. 26, 2009: Halse Anderson won the Margaret A. Edwards award for lifetime achievement today, not the Newbery.]
The latest in a series of occasional posts that predict the winners of major awards to books for children or adults
Jan the Hungarian predicts …
Laurie Halse Anderson's Chains will win the 2009 Newbery Medal, which the American Library Association will award on Monday to "the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." Why? It's a good book, but others I haven't read may be better. So I'm going mostly on instinct honed by years of covering the Newbery and Caldecott medals for the Plain Dealer and this blog. But I'm not alone here: Halse Anderson was a 2008 National Book Award finalist for this historical novel about a 13-year-old slave in New York City who hopes to win her freedom by exposing a plot to kill George Washington on the eve of the American Revolution. A review of and reader's guide to Chains appeared in separate posts on this site on Dec. 5, 2008.
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Daniel Weiss has a fantastic essay, titled "What Would You Do?: The Journalism that Tweaks Reality, then Reports What Happens," in a recent edition of the Columbia Journalism Review. His essay surveys a broad range of journalistic experiments—ranging from the sensationalistic to the profound, some executed in collaboration with social psychologists and some by journalists flying solo—and argue that they are essentially homages (conscious or not) to experiments conducted by such "golden age" social psychologists as Stanley Milgram and Situationist contributor Phil Zimbardo. Weiss also explores the appeal and scientific merits of those journalistic experiments. The essay is well worth reading in its entirety. For those interested in a sampler, we offer some representative excerpts below.
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On a Friday morning last January, a group of Washington, D.C., commuters played an unwitting role in an experiment. As they emerged from the L'Enfant Plaza metro station, they passed a man playing a violin. Dressed in a long-sleeved T-shirt, baseball cap, and jeans, an open case for donations at his feet, he looked like an ordinary busker. In reality, he was Joshua Bell, an internationally renowned musician. The idea was to gauge whether Bell's virtuosic playing would entice the rushing commuters to stop and listen.The experiment's mastermind was Washington Post staff writer Gene Weingarten, who had dreamed it up after seeing a talented keyboardist be completely ignored as he played outside another metro station. . . .
For three-quarters of an hour, Bell played six pieces, including some of the most difficult and celebrated in the classical canon. Of 1,097 passersby, twenty-seven made donations totaling just over $30. Seven stopped for more than a minute. The remaining 1,070 breezed by, barely aware of the supremely talented violinist in their midst. [See video below.]
When Weingarten's account of the experiment ran in the Post's magazine three months later, readers followed the narrative with rapt attention that contrasted starkly with the indifference of the commuters. The article was discussed on blogs and other forums devoted to classical music, pop culture, politics, and social science [For a previous Situtionist post on this experiment, click here.]
Weingarten said he received more feedback from readers than he had for any other article he had written in his thirty-five-year career. Many were taken with the chutzpah of disguising Joshua Bell as a mendicant just to see what would happen. Others were shocked that people could ignore a world-class musician. Still others argued that the results were insignificant: rerun the experiment outdoors on a sunny day, they said, and Bell would draw a massive crowd.
I was one of those rapt readers, but I wasn't quite sure what to make of the piece's appeal. Was it just a clever gimmick or was there something more profound going on? At the same time, the story felt familiar. Indeed, Weingarten's experiment was a recent entry in a journalistic genre with deep, quirky roots.
Working on a hunch that begs to be tested or simply struck with an idea for a good story, journalistic "experimenters," for lack of a better term, step out of their customary role as observers and play with reality to see what will happen. At their worst, these experiments are little more than variations on reality-TV operations that traffic in voyeurism and shame. At their best, they manage to deliver discussion-worthy insights into contemporary society and human nature. The very best, perhaps, serve up a bit of both. In any case, the growing number of journalists and news operations who do this sort of thing are heirs to a brand of social psychology practiced from the postwar years through the early seventies. During this period, considered by some the golden age of the discipline, experiments were bold and elaborately designed and frequently produced startling results. Many were conducted outside the laboratory and often placed subjects in stressful or disturbing situations.
These experiments also have roots in forms of investigative, immersion, and stunt journalism that have been practiced for more than a century. In 1887, while working on an exposé of asylum conditions, muckraker Nellie Bly demonstrated that one could feign insanity to gain admission to a madhouse—and when she began to insist that she was in fact perfectly sane, doctors interpreted her claims as delusions. In so doing, Bly anticipated psychologist David Rosenhan's classic 1972 experiment in which "pseudopatients" claiming to hear voices were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and then kept for an average of several weeks despite reverting to sane behavior.
It's difficult to pinpoint when the genre shifted, but by 1974, when New York City's WNBC-TV asked its viewers to call in and pick the perpetrator of a staged purse snatching from a lineup of suspects, the journalistic experiment had attained its modern form. The station was flooded with calls and, after fielding over 2,100, cut the experiment short. The results: respondents picked the correct assailant no more frequently than they would have by guessing.
Over the last decade, as best-sellers such as The Tipping Point and Freakonomics have lent social science a sheen of counterintuitive hipness and reality television has tapped into a cultural fascination with how people behave in contrived situations, journalistic experimentation has become increasingly common. In addition to The Washington Post Magazine, it has been featured in The New York Times, Harper's, and Reader's Digest. Its most regular home, however, has been on network-television newsmagazines.
ABC's Primetime has staged a series of experiments in recent years under the rubric "What Would You Do?" which enact provocative scenarios while hidden cameras capture the reactions of the public. Chris Whipple, the producer who conceived the series, refers to it as a "Candid Camera of ethics." Starting with a nanny verbally abusing a child, the series has gone on to present similar scenarios: an eldercare attendant ruthlessly mocking an old man; a group of adolescents bullying a chubby kid; a man viciously berating his girlfriend, seeming on the verge of violence; etc.
The sequences tend to begin with the narrator pointing out that many pass right by the incident. Several witnesses are confronted and asked to explain why they didn't step in. One man, who gave the fighting couple a long look before continuing on his way, reveals that he is an off-duty cop and says he determined that no laws were being broken, so there was nothing for him to do. The focus shifts to those who did intervene, and the camera lingers over the confrontations, playing up the drama.
These experiments are, in a sense, the flip side of the reality-TV coin: rather than show how people act in manufactured situations when they know they're being watched, they show us how people act when they don't. . . .
In the world of print, Reader's Digest has come closest to making such experiments a franchise. Over the last two years, the magazine has pitted cities around the world against each other in tests of helpfulness and courtesy, to determine which city is most hospitable. The first round used the following three gauges to separate the rude from the solicitous in thirty-five cities: the percentage of people who picked up papers dropped by an experimenter; the percentage who held the door for experimenters when entering buildings; and the percentage of clerks who said "Thank you" after a sale. When the scores were tallied, it was clear that Reader's Digest had hit the counterintuition jackpot: the winner was New York City. . . .
The notion that New Yorkers are more polite than commonly believed was also at the center of a 2004 experiment conducted by The New York Times. Reenacting an experiment originally performed by graduate students of social psychologist Stanley Milgram at the City University of New York in the early seventies, two Times reporters asked riders on crowded subway cars to relinquish their seats. Remarkably, thirteen of fifteen did so. But the reporters found that crossing the unspoken social boundaries of the subway came at a cost: once seated, they grew tense, unable to make eye contact with their fellow passengers. Jennifer Medina, one of the reporters, says that she and Anthony Ramirez, her partner on the story, found the assignment ludicrous at first. "It was like, 'What? Really? You want me to do what?'" she says. "We made so much fun of it while we were doing it, but we got so much feedback. It was one of those stories that people really talked about." And papers around the world took notice: within weeks, reporters in London, Glasgow, Dublin, and Melbourne had repeated the experiment. [To read the Times article, click here.]
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The appeal of the best journalistic experiments . . . runs much deeper than their entertainment value. Medina [the Times reporter] came to see her role in the subway experiment as that of a "street anthropologist or something, which is essentially what [reporters] are supposed to be doing every day." . . .
In that quirky, postwar "golden age" of the discipline that informs today's journalistic experimenters, researchers captured the public imagination with bold, elaborately choreographed experiments that frequently drove subjects to extreme behavior or confronted them with seemingly life-or-death situations.
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Given the dramatic nature of these experiments, it's little wonder they've provided such inspiration to journalists. Bill Wasik, an editor at Harper's, started the flash mobs trend in 2003 as an homage to Milgram, whom he considers as much performance artist as scientist. Flash mobs were spontaneous gatherings in which participants showed up at a given location for a brief period and did something absurd, such as drop to their knees en masse before a giant Tyrannosaurus Rex at Toys "R" Us. In a piece published in Harper's, Wasik explained that he saw the mobs as a Milgram-esque test of hipster conformity. Like a hot new indie band, he hypothesized, the mobs would rapidly gain popularity before being discarded as too mainstream and, ultimately, co-opted by marketers, which is more or less what happened.
Wasik argues that the popular resonance of experiments by Milgram and others of the golden age derives from the compelling narratives they created. "It's like a demonstration whose value is more in the extremes that you can push people to and the extremes of the story that you can get out of what people do or don't do," he says. . . .
Due in part to the rise of ethical concerns, contemporary social psychologists rarely do experiments that take place outside the laboratory or that involve deception or stressful situations. This has left journalistic experimenters as a sort of lost tribe of devotees of the golden-age social psychologists. . . .
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Journalistic experiments have been criticized far more consistently for their scientific, rather than ethical, shortcomings. Robert Cialdini, an Arizona State University social psychologist, believes strongly in the value of communicating psychological insights via the media, but he has found that journalists don't always value the same material that he does. For a 1997 Dateline segment on conformity, he conducted an experiment showing that the number of people who donated to a New York City subway musician multiplied eightfold when others donated before them. A fascinating result, but even more fascinating to Cialdini was that people explained their donations by saying that they liked the song, they had some spare change, or they felt sorry for the musician. These explanations did not end up in the finished program. "To me, that was the most interesting thing, the fact that people are susceptible to these social cues but don't recognize it," says Cialdini. "I think that's my bone to pick with journalists—they're frequently interested in the phenomenon rather than the cause of the phenomenon."
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So maybe journalists can and should be more careful in how they design experiments, but that debate, in many ways, is beside the point. The best examples of the genre are undeniably good journalism, and the lesser lights, for the most part, amount to innocuous entertainment. Indeed, my hope is that some enterprising reporter is even now hatching a plan to find out whether Joshua Bell really would draw such a big crowd outdoors on a sunny day in D.C.
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To read the entire essay, click here. For related Situationist posts, see "Busker or Virtuoso? Depends on the Situation" and "The Milgram Experiment Today?"


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That's what we get for being more in touch with how we feel — we notice it, we admit it to ourselves and others. And we get attention because of it. If men were/are sad, who would know? Who would care?
But the linked blog post, by Meghan O'Rourke, asks — assuming it's really true that women are less happy than men and less happy than they were 35 years ago — why would this be so?
[T]he drop in happiness is pegged to an anxiety caused by the plethora of choices available (Barry Schwarz's paradox of choice) and women's feeling that they have to perform well across more categories. This is not exactly the same as struggling to balance so-called work and life (i.e., children): The study's authors are quick to point out that the decline in happiness is consistent across many categories, irrespective of marital or employment status or whether you have young children....Oh, how I loathe this liberal meme about choice and happiness! Though liberals believe fondly in "the right to choose," they also love to say that choice makes us sad — but they only seem to mean that choice in the economic sphere is bad. (Notice how it softens you up to accept the crappy car the government wants you to drive and the good-for-everybody health care system it would like to provide.)
Anyway, why are women so sad? I think it's because we think about our feelings so much and care so much about being happy.