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On the importance of power31 January, 2013 at 17:20 | Posted in Statistics & Econometrics | Leave a comment
Did p values work? Read my lips – they didn't!29 January, 2013 at 21:36 | Posted in Statistics & Econometrics, Theory of Science & Methodology | Leave a comment
Jager and Leek may well be correct in their larger point, that the medical literature is broadly correct. But I don't think the statistical framework they are using is appropriate for the questions they are asking. My biggest problem is the identification of scientific hypotheses and statistical "hypotheses" of the "theta = 0″ variety.
Based on the word "empirical" title, I thought the authors were going to look at a large number of papers with p-values and then follow up and see if the claims were replicated. But no, they don't follow up on the studies at all! What they seem to be doing is collecting a set of published p-values and then fitting a mixture model to this distribution, a mixture of a uniform distribution (for null effects) and a beta distribution (for non-null effects). Since only statistically significant p-values are typically reported, they fit their model restricted to p-values less than 0.05. But this all assumes that the p-values have this stated distribution. You don't have to be Uri Simonsohn to know that there's a lot of p-hacking going on. Also, as noted above, the problem isn't really effects that are exactly zero, the problem is that a lot of effects are lots in the noise and are essentially undetectable given the way they are studied.
Jager and Leek write that their model is commonly used to study hypotheses in genetics and imaging. I could see how this model could make sense in those fields … but I don't see this model applying to published medical research, for two reasons. First … I don't think there would be a sharp division between null and non-null effects; and, second, there's just too much selection going on for me to believe that the conditional distributions of the p-values would be anything like the theoretical distributions suggested by Neyman-Pearson theory.
So, no, I don't at all believe Jager and Leek when they write, "we are able to empirically estimate the rate of false positives in the medical literature and trends in false positive rates over time." They're doing this by basically assuming the model that is being questioned, the textbook model in which effects are pure and in which there is no p-hacking.
Indeed. If anything, this underlines how important it is not to equate science with statistical calculation. All science entail human judgement, and using statistical models doesn't relieve us of that necessity. Working with misspecified models, the scientific value of significance testing is actually zero – even though you're making valid statistical inferences! Statistical models and concomitant significance tests are no substitutes for doing real science. Or as a noted German philosopher once famously wrote:
There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
Neyman-Pearson vs. Fisher on p values28 January, 2013 at 19:05 | Posted in Statistics & Econometrics | Leave a comment
Keep It Sophisticatedly Simple28 January, 2013 at 14:36 | Posted in Varia | 1 Comment
Arnold Zellner's KISS rule – Keep It Sophisticatedly Simple – has its application even outside of econometrics. An example is the film music of Stefan Nilsson. Here in the breathtakingly beautiful "Fäboden" from Bille August's and Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece The Best Intentions.
Fun with statistics27 January, 2013 at 00:08 | Posted in Statistics & Econometrics | 3 Comments
Yours truly gives a PhD course in statistics for students in education and sports this semester. And between teaching them all about Chebyshev's Theorem, Beta Distributions, Moment-Generating Functions and the Neyman-Pearson Lemma, I try to remind them that statistics can actually also be fun …
Austerity – this is what it's all about26 January, 2013 at 23:49 | Posted in Politics & Society | Leave a comment
Keynes on statistics and evidential weight25 January, 2013 at 19:04 | Posted in Statistics & Econometrics, Theory of Science & Methodology | 6 Comments
Almost a hundred years after John Maynard Keynes wrote his seminal A Treatise on Probability (1921), it is still very difficult to find statistics textbooks that seriously try to incorporate his far-reaching and incisive analysis of induction and evidential weight.
The standard view in statistics – and the axiomatic probability theory underlying it – is to a large extent based on the rather simplistic idea that "more is better." But as Keynes argues – "more of the same" is not what is important when making inductive inferences. It's rather a question of "more but different."
Variation, not replication, is at the core of induction. Finding that p(x|y) = p(x|y & w) doesn't make w "irrelevant." Knowing that the probability is unchanged when w is present gives p(x|y & w) another evidential weight ("weight of argument"). Running 10 replicative experiments do not make you as "sure" of your inductions as when running 10 000 varied experiments – even if the probability values happen to be the same.
According to Keynes we live in a world permeated by unmeasurable uncertainty – not quantifiable stochastic risk – which often forces us to make decisions based on anything but "rational expectations." Keynes rather thinks that we base our expectations on the confidence or "weight" we put on different events and alternatives. To Keynes expectations are a question of weighing probabilities by "degrees of belief," beliefs that often have preciously little to do with the kind of stochastic probabilistic calculations made by the rational agents as modeled by "modern" social sciences. And often we "simply do not know." As Keynes writes in Treatise:
The kind of fundamental assumption about the character of material laws, on which scientists appear commonly to act, seems to me to be [that] the system of the material universe must consist of bodies … such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of the total state being compounded of a number of separate changes each of which is solely due to a separate portion of the preceding state … Yet there might well be quite different laws for wholes of different degrees of complexity, and laws of connection between complexes which could not be stated in terms of laws connecting individual parts … If different wholes were subject to different laws qua wholes and not simply on account of and in proportion to the differences of their parts, knowledge of a part could not lead, it would seem, even to presumptive or probable knowledge as to its association with other parts … These considerations do not show us a way by which we can justify induction … /427 No one supposes that a good induction can be arrived at merely by counting cases. The business of strengthening the argument chiefly consists in determining whether the alleged association is stable, when accompanying conditions are varied … /468 In my judgment, the practical usefulness of those modes of inference … on which the boasted knowledge of modern science depends, can only exist … if the universe of phenomena does in fact present those peculiar characteristics of atomism and limited variety which appears more and more clearly as the ultimate result to which material science is tending.
Science according to Keynes should help us penetrate to "the true process of causation lying behind current events" and disclose "the causal forces behind the apparent facts." Models can never be more than a starting point in that endeavour. He further argued that it was inadmissible to project history on the future. Consequently we cannot presuppose that what has worked before, will continue to do so in the future. That statistical models can get hold of correlations between different "variables" is not enough. If they cannot get at the causal structure that generated the data, they are not really "identified."
How strange that writers of statistics textbook as a rule do not even touch upon these aspects of scientific methodology that seems to be so fundamental and important for anyone trying to understand how we learn and orient ourselves in an uncertain world. An educated guess on why this is a fact would be that Keynes concepts are not possible to squeeze into a single calculable numerical "probability." In the quest for quantities one puts a blind eye to qualities and looks the other way – but Keynes ideas keep creeping out from under the statistics carpet.
It's high time that statistics textbooks give Keynes his due.
Tobinskatt – ja tack!25 January, 2013 at 11:09 | Posted in Economics, Politics & Society | Leave a comment
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The sky's the limit?23 January, 2013 at 17:42 | Posted in Varia | 1 Comment
Yours truly launched this blog two years ago. The number of visitors has increased steadily. From having only a couple of hundred visits per month at the start, I'm now having almost 55 000 visits per month. A blog is sure not a beauty contest, but given the rather "wonkish" character of the blog – with posts mostly on economic theory, statistics, econometrics, theory of science and methodology – it's rather gobsmacking that so many are interested and take their time to read and comment on it. I am – of course – truly awed, honoured and delighted!
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Michael Phelps: Shirtless Pool Time in Miami!
A shirtless Michael Phelps shows off his horseshoe mustache while lounging at the hotel pool on Friday (January 20) in Miami, Fla.
"This weather is something you can't ever complain about… Sunny and 75 in the middle of jan? Sounds good to me!" the 26-year-old Olympic swimmer tweeted the day before with a photo of the beach.
Michael is reportedly newly single after splitting from his longtime girlfriend, Nicole Johnson, a former Miss California.
The NY Post reports the two broke up during the holidays and celebrated New Year's Eve separately.
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MADRID – Seve Ballesteros, who has been battling brain cancer for more than a year, has fully recovered after falling off a golf cart and banging his head on the ground last week in Pedrena, northern Spain.
The three-time British Open champion underwent hospital exams for four days before being discharged. The 52-year-old Spaniard banged his head on the ground when he fell out of the vehicle.
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New Zealand can clinch berth in Vuitton Cup finals
The last head-to-head race was a rout. Luna Rossa Challenge has a huge gap to close on Emirates Team New Zealand when they duel again Sunday.
If the Kiwis win the 12:15 p.m. race, they will clinch the round-robin phase of the Louis Vuitton Cup and earn a pass to the finals of the challenger series.
On Saturday, the Italian team closed New Zealand's points lead to 5-3 with a solo sail because Artemis Racing is still in the boatshed. New Zealand and Luna Rossa will each pick up points when scheduled to face the Swedish team through the rest of the round-robin.
Artemis is not expected to race until the semifinals.
"Obviously, we have lots of ground to make up on the Kiwis, and we knew it," Luna Rossa helmsman Chris Draper said. "We're sailing better, tacking better. Our upwind performance seems better, and the jibing is getting there. We're feeling more confident handling the boat, and hopefully we'll have bridged the gap when we're racing (Sunday)."
On TV: Contrary to earlier information supplied by the America's Cup, even the solo sails are being shown on Cozi TV, an NBC-owned cable channel available on Comcast channel 186. It is not available on satellite systems. The actual races also can be seen on the America's Cup YouTube channel.
A look ahead
All races at 12:15 p.m.
Sunday: Emirates Team New Zealand vs. Luna Rossa Challenge
Tuesday: Luna Rossa Challenge vs. Emirates Team New Zealand
Thursday: Luna Rossa Challenge, unopposed
Saturday: Emirates Team New Zealand, unopposed
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Grey Chatter: The Last DaySteve Marsi at . Comments
There were numerous underlying stories in the final days (and second installment) of this terrific two-part episode, "Six Days."
Along with dealing with a crabby boyfriend, Meredith is dealing with her ever-present father, who is still lurking about the hospital.
Meredith doesn't want to see any part of herself in Thatcher, but Cristina and Izzie gleefully point out her resemblance to him.
In fact, Meredith's medical career may be one of the only things she has in common with her mother. And maybe this glimpse into her father's life will catapult her into trying to build a relationship with him. She desperately needs a relationship with her father, even if he is a little bumbling and awkward.
Izzie donated money so a girl could walk upright, a gesture that proves to Bailey that she is still capable of forming attachments to her patients. However, in Izzie's eyes, this is not always a bad thing. In fact, her caring and compassion may prove to be what sets her apart from the other surgeons.
Addison is dealing with her abortion of Mark's baby eight months ago. She's sure Mark wasn't ready to be a dad, and she never wanted a baby with him at all. She wanted Derek, but now she fears she's ending up alone - which may be leading her into Alex's arms.
Alex and Addison are clearly feeling something for each other that neither one is sure he or she should feel. But how many interns can be dating attendings at once? Surely there's some kind of limit.
But the main story of the episode centers on George. His father's organs are failing and there's nothing left to do but hope. George's friends stand by him, hoping with him. But things aren't looking good.
Something clicks in George's mind and he realizes that the Chief and Bailey proceeded with the surgery because of his father's wishes. George breaks down, letting out all his built up emotions from the past few days in a heartbreaking scene in front of the whole hospital.
When George and his family decide to let his dad go, his friends are right outside waiting for him. We learn that Cristina lost her own dad when she was young, and so she can sympathize with George in a way that none of the others can.
Hopefully, the tragedy is over for George and he can start moving on, in the same way Izzie has. A lot of things are still left hanging, and we can only wonder what surprises are just around the corner.
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Mediterranean Dip
Makes about 13/4 cup dip. Recipe is by Corinne Cook.
¾ cup mayonnaise
1?3 cup sour cream
4 ozs. feta cheese, crumbled
3 to 5 pepperoncini peppers, seeds and veins removed, coarsely chopped
1 tbl. capers, drained
3 to 4 cloves fresh garlic, coarsely chopped
3 sprigs fresh parsley leaves or to taste
1 to 2 tsps. dried oregano
Pinch of thyme
Pinch of black pepper
½ tsp. Tabasco sauce or to taste
Vegetable strips (celery, bell peppers, broccoli florets, cauliflower florets)
Apple or pear slices
1. Place all ingredients in food processor and blend with on-and-off motion until almost smooth or until peppers, parsley and capers are chopped, about 1 minute. You will still see lumps of feta but that's OK.
2. Spoon into small serving bowl. Refrigerate covered, until ready to serve. Serve with veggies or fruit slices or crackers or as a spread on sandwiches.


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FIFA 16 Wishlist - 10 Things I'd Like To See
So as I've seen a few people start to share their ideas for FIFA 16, I've come up with a few ideas which I'd love to see featured in the next FIFA. Now I've created a YT video where I explain each of my ideas and say why I think they should be included and that video can be found here:
But I know the vid is a long one so I'll share my ideas in text form aswell:
1- Increased IRL Football and Fifa Link - Section of the game where FIFA players can catch up with the latest news, interviews and highlights. Also thought it'd be a great idea to have a TOTW Highlight Hub where EA compile the clips that show why players in TOTW actually earnt their IF cards.
2- Online Mini Games - I'd love to be able to play in a less serious way on FIFA with friends. If EA could create some unique game modes which are set in creative destinations where you could play schoolyard classics like heads and volleys or cuppies, I think that'd go down well.
3- Discounted FUT Items- Why can't 7.5k packs sometimes be on sale at 5/6k?
4- Mutual Forfeit - Both parties could vote to mutually forfeit (wouldn't affect DNF or record) due to lag or one person (probably a friend) had to leave the session.
5- Increased Customisation - An online creation centre (on the web) where you could design new kits and badges or slightly adjust colour schemes and patterns of existing kits/badges.
6- Buying Clubs Players - I think you should be able to buy players on Pro Clubs so you've got a better team surrounding your virtual pros.
7- Better Crowd Participation - Why can't we have pitch invasions or mexican waves or stewards separating home and away fans? Subtle touch but I'd like it
8- More EASFC Catalogue FUT Items- Think it'd be great to buy gameplay modifiers such as workrate cards or position changes which could only be acquired through playing the game itself. Bit of a scabby one but I'm sure many would make use out of two-time FUT season win on the catalogue.
9- More Stat Info- I would like to be able to see the full array of ingame stats of a player on the transfer market instead of having to head over to a site such as FUTHEAD.
10- FUT Practice Arena- A place where you could try out your team or new FUT signing before heading off into an online competitive game.
Thanks for reading (or watching)
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Charles M. Blow, of the New York Times, had an interesting set of tweets about tax justice over the weekend. The tweets provide helpful anchors for discussing the ins and outs of theories of tax justice. So that's what I will do here.
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Blow objects to tax rates over 50%, not because he thinks they hurt growth or something like that, but because he thinks they are unfair in and of themselves. This flies in the face of the more conventional liberal view on tax justice, which states that the entire enterprise of measuring tax justice by looking at tax rates is incoherent. That case is very persuasive and worth discussing in some detail.
A person's disposable income is determined by the following formula:
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Factor Income refers to labor income (wages and salaries) and capital income (interest, rents, dividends, and capital gains). Transfer Income refers to social income, such as old-age pension, disability pension, and food stamps. Taxes refers to taxes paid.
Tax rates are typically defined as: Taxes / Factor Income. According to Blow, when tax rates so defined reach higher than 50%, that is some injustice.
The problem with that view is that it assumes Factor Income is some special thing that is deeply yours divorced from government policymaking. But this is simply not true. Each person's Factor Income is just as much a function of our publicly-imposed economic institutions as their Taxes and Transfer Income are. For it is government that creates and enforces things like property law, contract law, corporate law, bankruptcy law, securities laws, labor laws, employment laws, and every other economic institution that determines how Factor Income is distributed in the first place. Because the distribution of Factor Income is usually a result of government policy, it is an odd thing to fixate on as the baseline for determining whether another government policy, taxes, are just.
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The problem is that an individual's Factor Income is not any sort of indicator of what they "earned" through their "productive labor" or whatever. For one thing, capital income (which is around 30% of the nation's factor income) is totally unearned and is actually called "unearned" or "passive" income for this reason. Capital income is income you receive because of what you own not what you produce. Additionally, the great majority of the national income each year is attributable to breakthroughs in knowledge and technology that nobody alive had anything to do with. In what sense does anyone "earn" the large portion of their income that is owing to advances in engineering, electricity, and computers that were made by people long since dead? Because of their egos, rich people like to believe that their high factor incomes are totally self-made, but the reality is that they didn't build that.
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Instead of playing the tax rate game favored by Blow, what makes more sense is to say that you cannot define tax fairness in isolation, but that you must look instead at the relationship of the tax system to the overall economy. Taxes are but one institution among hundreds of economic institutions that collectively determine how income is distributed in society, not its own special thing deserving of its own special considerations. If you believe in equality, as liberals often claim to, then a just tax system is one that, in concert with other economic institutions, helps to create a fairly equal distribution of disposable income. In societies where the distribution of Factor Income is extremely unequal, like the US, "tax justice" may very well require high tax rates in excess of 50%. And that's fine.
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Hello everyone:
I teach a college-level course in Elementary Aikido. Every term I give a short take-home test to students. Since I get a fair number of returning students, I like to give different exam-questions, every semester, to keep them on their toes.
If you were teaching my class, what exam question would you ask of your students?
Some questions I've asked in the past were:
* Martial art, or dance? Some have stated that Aikido is more properly a dance, than a martial art. Comment, and give concrete examples.
* Describe what is Aikido, and how O Sensei's philosophy of nonviolence fits in with the practice, of Aikido.
* Write a short expository paper on the life of O Sensei. Include short descriptions of three major influences in his life. What was the significance of his three visions?
(One question I recently thought up, but I discounted for simply being too evil, is...
* Describe ki. Include several concrete examples.
yes, I know: I have an eevil mind. ;) )
Gilles D'Hoker
You give home test to students? How many students do you have?
Actually, we rarely discus the life of Osensei, the meaning of Aikido even the word ki... Probably b'cos our sensei is not a talkative man. All the info about Aikido I found was in books.
"Define 'kuzushi' and give several examples of how it is used in aikido."
What is the corect term for a practitioner of Aikido? Aikidoist or Aikidoka?
This has got to be the most ridiculous thing I have ever hear of (no offense)! Aikido is not about pencil pushing in a classroom. There grades should come from the mat, e.g., how they perform, how they carry themselves, their ki excercises, etc. But if you must give written exam for university procedures sake, here is my suggestion.
I take "elementary" to be "beginner of beginners" so, if this is the case, they should not be answering theoretical questions of depth at their level. Start them out on perhaps terminology questions such as: What is mushin? What is the importance of maai? Name 8 (or how many you want) ki exercises. Who is the founder of Aikido? In a brief description, what is aikido? What country did aikido originate? What is ki? Name the postion of high and low on the mat. What erm means "senior student"? What does kohai mean? Name the 5 postions of the bokken. etc etc.
Yoiu get the idea. These are some basic questions that I would ask at the end of a semester for a final, because some of your students could be new and you have to take that into account that they might need time to learn these.
Your best bet is to devise an exam fitting for each rank to be fair!!!!
Brad Medling
"What is Ki?"
Bl**dy hell! I thought you said not deeply!!!
BTW, the answer is the mastery of balance, not the mistical mumbo-jumbo! ;)
I know this association where they write an essay on 'How I understand Ki'
mmm...... I think they do it as a part of 3rd dan grading ;-)
Josh Bisker
I'm a university aikido student. I started out in the Elementary range and maybe i'm a tiny tiiiiny bit more advanced now, but esentially i think i'm in the same boat as the folks you teach. I want to respond to Brad's comment, that your idea is "the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard." I think it's an extraordinarily useful and practical thing you're doing, challenging your students to engage aikido on a cerebral level as well as a physical or even metaphysical one.
The statement that "Aikido is not about pencil pushing in a classroom" seems like an oversimplistic reduction of what's actually going on here. I know for instance in the UKA that certain dan exams require essays on aikido in addition to a physical exam. From what I hear those essays have motivated people to investigate the inside of their training and discover a new depth. From the folks i've trained with it seems that these essays have yeilded fabulous personal results for them, and a rewarding gain for the community.
Neil, I will try to think up some questions for you and email them, if you'd like. An idea for you right now is to have your students each suggest a question for next semester at the bottom of their essay. Maybe the winner gets an extra koshinage, haha. Seriously though, that might be a good way to further engage their aikiminds, and also would give you a good view of the kinds of ideas that your instuction has been bringing about for them. It would give you get a good bead on where their experience is taking them.
Hi Neil,
Interested - how do your students react to questions like these? Do you find that such a short exposure to Aikido is a good enough basis for your students to answer these questions?
I agree with Daniel. I only said it was ridiculous because none of you students are Dan level! You said so yourself that most Dan test require written exams. While this is true, elementary folks are not ready for that.
I think I should back up where I think Brad was coming from. Traditional budo exams have not had a classroom style exam as part. If you could execute the technique, it did not matter how you perceive the art.
After all, maybe you had developed a superior understanding and create the next level of martia art, just like O'Sensei did.
Would we have had Aikido if O'Sensei had been required to write essays on Daito Ryu Aikijutsu and why it is the way it is. That requires you to justify the way things are done, not how they can be done better!
Brad, clarification: I was asking on student's reaction to the questions, not claiming they can't be able to do it. FWIW, I remember participating in arguments of the sort "martial art vs. dance" soon after I began training. I'm sure my "insight" was extremely naive. However, I can see how such assignments may motivate certain students to a deeper exploration of the art. Others would probably prefer a "shut-up-and-train" attitude - just a matter of taste, IMHO.
This is why such a concept as shugyo exists. Shugyo is the only way to deepen you understanding of aikido, not sitting in some corner theoreticizing about it. Do that on your on time!
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"Shugyo is the only way to deepen you understanding of aikido, not sitting in some corner theoreticizing about it."
It didn't work that way for me. I improved a lot more quickly when I abandoned just trying to soak things up during class, and started going home and doing pencil-and-paper work to back it up. With my learning style -- I don't claim this as a general truth -- stuff sticks better if I have to write about it.
The first time I saw sankyo I had about eleven months of experience, but just training, no 'homework'. Couldn't make heads or tails of it. The second time, about fourteen months but the last three had been spent working on remembering/describing/
naming/comparing stuff at home. Clicked right away.
I don't personally find the general "how is aikido different from dance?" questions helpful, but I learned a heck of a lot from tackling "what's the difference between style X and style Y?" after having been exposed to both. And I can easily imagine students for whom the more general questions are just the thing to get them thinking.
I'd figure that any sensei planning to do this knows his own students well enough to know if they'll find this useful or not--or at least can observe the results and find out.
Mary Kaye
There is a long tradition of mental study alongside physical practice in Budo. You are required to think about what you do and why you do it. This is true with respect to both gendai and koryu.
One question per term is not at all inappropriate even for mudansha.
Possible questions
What is Shu Ha Ri?
What is Shugyo?
What is the relationship of Aikido to other modern Budo.?
Correct answers to all three can be found on the web, if not a library. To save yourself a headache limit the length of response.
Hi Mary!
I agree that writing facilitates learning. This was the only way I survived biochemistry!I was mainly referring to beginners. Its just that for beginners, they really don't understand the concepts enough to verbally write about it. I suppose they could write about what they think is going on but remember, Practice makes perfect only if practiced correctly. So I would cross reference my notes with a knowledgable source before I started committing to memory, for beginners that is.
Me personally, it is nearly all mental. When I travel to study under an aikido great, I take notes during lunch/night for things that are new or concepts in a new light. When I am not on the mat, I get in this state of mind where I can visualize things. On occasion, I go through the movements to aid this process.
Brad Medling
In our dojo everyone, from first test to last, is required to write out a pre-test interview. We have a list of questions that have to be answered in an essay. The questions never change but as understanding and ability increase the answers will. Dan grades must also write a paper on a book, usually your choice but sensei may choose if there's one in particular he feels may help you.
Questions like:
What is the most significant thing you've learned since your last test?
What do you feel are your strongest and weakest aikido arts or skills?
Why should you be considered for promotion?
Have you used aikido outside the dojo? Give examples.
We also have questions as part of our actual test:
What is aikido?
What is shodo o seisu?
What are the principles of aikido?
What are the principles to Unify Mind and Body?
What is Masakatsu agatsu?
Explain Range of Effectiveness.
Explain Circular Motion and how we use it.
Explain The Spirit of Loving Protection for all Things.
Just some examples of our "mental" part. I find the pre-test interview to be very helpful in getting me to solidify a lot of the random thoughts about my training that I've got bouncing around in my head.
Neil Mick
Wow, good responses, all. Thanks for the input.
To elaborate on some of the questions about my class: its an "activity" course, worth 1 college credit. I normally fill up to the maximum # of students (40) by the first week, and then it slacks off to about 25 or so, by the end.
All students in activity courses (other examples of courses are wrestling, yoga, badminton, etc) are expected to write a short paper, at some point in the course. I to tow the line between posing an easily-researchable question, and one that makes them think, a little.
By the end of the course, students are expected to demonstrate a series of moves roughly corresponding to 5th kyu, at most dojos.
Hi Neil,
Interested - how do your students react to questions like these? Do you find that such a short exposure to Aikido is a good enough basis for your students to answer these questions?
I have yet to encounter a student who complained about the exam, or wrote a negative comment about them on the evaluations. Also, the grade-scale is such that if they totally opted out of doing the exam and did well in all other areas (attendance, etc), they could STILL expect a B- (yes, most of them get letter-graded. The rest go for credit/no-credit grades).
Thanks again for your feedback: I'll consider all your ideas for upcoming exams. Any other ideas? I'll try to check in on this thread a bit more, than I have...apologies.
Nick Simpson
Why dont we have aikido college courses over here? Would be a lot more fun than the crap I have to study :p Be an uchi deshi for three years and get a degree at the end, Id be up for that.
Neil Mick
Why dont we have aikido college courses over here? Would be a lot more fun than the crap I have to study :p Be an uchi deshi for three years and get a degree at the end, Id be up for that.
Lol, what a good idea. :) If I had my way: I'd be offering a whole curriculum in Aikido: "Aikido and Asian Philosophy (co-taught);" "Advanced Aikido (weapons-practice);" "The Life of Morihei Ueshiba," etc.
Unfortunately, CA-funding for education is being cut to the bone, and I am fortunate to even have a job there, at this time. My class is set to run in the Fall, but after that my chances of teaching Aikido there become very slim. Many other activities classes were cut.
the question that pops into my mind that you may want to consider asking them is "What are some of the root systems of Aikido" ex. daito ryu ext.
Jessie Brown
I'm a college student and philosophy major. The Aikido club head instructor (who is also a professor) taught a class called "Conflict Theory in Aikido." The title gives a pretty good idea of the focus.
I absolutely think that Aikido must be practiced while conscious of its general principles. Although I agree that beginners wouldn't get the intricacies, it's no different than your sensei demonstrating a technique. When you try it out for the first time, it's kinda sketchy but then improves with practice. Especially as a philosophy major, I found it fascinating to analyze the differences between different students' responses.
I don't remember the actual essay questions, but it would be useful to think about Aikido in the context of philosophy. Some of the earlier suggestions were quite good, like thinking about mushin, ma'ai, masakatsu agatsu, etc. Perhaps read a couple Aikido theory and compare them. The depth to which one is mentally self-conscious in training is essential to progress in my personal experience.
If nothing else, having students think about broader questions while on the mat made them reexamine what they're doing.
Joe Bowen
If you go back to the original post you will see that Neil is talking about a college level class. When I was attending the college I happened to take a Yoga class as well as a Fencing and Archery class. All classes including Physical Education electives where required some degree of classroom lecture, some type of text, and some type of written exam or paper to fulfill academic requirements. Thus the final grade was not wholly dependent upon the individuals physical performance. If I understand Neils posts correctly that is why he instituted his take home exam. Complete understanding of Aikido can not be achieved solely by academic study; however, there is a plethora of sources that can be used to facilitate academic inquiry. Out of curiosity, Neil, did you use a text book? And if so, which book did you select?
It seems to me that the class is for a grade on the students academic record and not as a specific member of an Aikido dojo. So, another curiosity question for you, Neil, is do you run an Aikido club or dojo at the school and how many of your students in the class continue on in their Aikido?
I think it's ridiculous.
I would have a hard time taking such an assignment seriously.
Peter Goldsbury
I do not think that many university and college courses in aikido are taught here in Japan. In my own university students have to take sport and physical education as part of their liberal arts education before they proceed to their majors. This involves practical training on the pitch or mound and also much desk study.
The Aikikai requires a paper as part of the examination for 2nd dan 3rd dan and 4th dan. For 2nd and 3rd dan the paper is a 'kansoubun' ´z¶ that sets out what one feels about the art. for 4th dan the paper is a 'shouronbun' ¬_¶ short thesis, that deals with issues and presents some reasoned argument.
As Peter R has mentioned, this is fully in the samurai/bushi tradition of having a good blend of bun ¶ and bu .
Best regards,
Why dont we have aikido college courses over here? Would be a lot more fun than the crap I have to study :p Be an uchi deshi for three years and get a degree at the end, Id be up for that.
Hold that thought Nick, it may be available just around the corner!
We've been linking our aikido study to various courses for a few years now.
Overall its been pretty successful and the general aikido knowledge of students has been greatly enhanced.
The courses are pretty much activity based eg. Basic Aikido links to the first 6th kyu exam.
For this one we ask a number of general questions...off the top of my head..
describe the dojo.
describe a traditional dojo - explain differences,
describe ura, omote, kamae, maai.
who are main parties within aikido practice, sensei, tori, uke...explain their roles.
on top of this we ask them to maintain a dojo diary, we ask them to describe the techniques in english that are within their syllabus and to make notes on each.
To be honest the results can be distinctly low level...students do the bare minimum to get through although most that complete it really enjoy it and some produce War and Peace.
Everyone does them - even instructors.
At the moment I'm doing one entitled "weapons techniques in traditional aikido - level 1 - Bokken" which request such things as demonstrate the 7 suburi, show an understanding of bokken awase - outline reasons for awase, explain principles behind awase and their relation to aikido ...and finally to demonstrate this.
I've seen quite a few negative reactions to this concept, even in the posts here there are those that just want to bash away in the dojo.
But before you totally dismiss the idea...all it really does is encourage you to provide evidence that you have understood aikido to a level commensurate with your grade.
I've always kept a diary of my practice...I've always made notes...for me this hasn't really cost me any extra effort since I did this stuff anyway. I'm sure many others do to.
As for research...well this forum for starters provides a shedload of background info. Lots of students read aiki books and they hold loads of discussions with seniors and friends...Everyone reasearches aiki anyway..who really turns up at dojo then dosn't think about aiki until next class? sometimes I wish I could :D
Any one that says the can't be bothered with writing about aikido they just want to do it...what are your posts here if they aren't writing down your thoughts on aikido?
I also know I've worked a lot harder at aikido than I ever did in school or college. So some form of accreditation for something I'd do anyway is a big bonus.
Anyway - good luck with it Neil.
Okay, here's a test question (it's actually from my 2nd kyu test):
Name and describe the four prinicples of mind-body unification (Tohei's four basic ki principles).
Naming them:
1.Keep One Point
2.Relax Completely
3.Keep Weight Underside
4.Extend Ki
The rest of the essay would be a description of each. If I were the instructor, I'd limit the paper to two-three pages.
I think it's ridiculous.
I would have a hard time taking such an assignment seriously.
(Shrug) Then you'd fail any class of mine. I test hard.
I believe very strongly in approaching education from both a physical and mental direction. Knowing how to do something is important, but knowing why is much more valuable in the long run. In my mind, why? is the most underused word in the English language - it's the 'why' which forms a framework; a foundation of understanding on which to hang the 'how's'.
Beginners, right?
Ask them which is their left foot & which is their right.
It will probably change every 5 minutes for the first 6 months or so.
More often when they actually get training.
Questions about the life of O'Sensei? Sheesh.
There's a great line in Angry White Pyjamas about 1 of the guys getting a buzz cut in prep for his shodan, to the effect of: "You have it the wrong way around. Don't cut your hair and think of training. Train and think of cutting your hair."
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Four years ago, my mother was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer. A few months later she sat me down and ordered me to "find someone." Ideally, he'd be a "rich, bald man," but any decent member of the opposite sex would do. She didn't want me to be alone anymore. At 40, I had calcified my role as the Quirky Single Childless Lady who nobody bothered to offer plus-one invitations to. I spent my free time boring holes into my salsa shoes or waiting around at comedy open mics for a three-minute spot, surrounded by 23-year-old males and an endless supply of jokes about porn, masturbation, and marijuana.
"It's your fault," I told my mom.
She had raised me with the feminist sensibility of the '70s. When I was 10, I bought myself a T-shirt with a slogan that read, "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." I loved that shirt, and I've believed that message ever since.
A few years after I bought that shirt, my mother got pregnant. She was 42. No IVF or hormone injections, just plain old irresponsibility. Her boyfriend moved in, and I was miserable. I couldn't believe that she traded in her feminist values for a marriage with an alpha male. My mother had made a grave mistake, I thought. However, since women outlive men, I reasoned, some day she'd move back in with me, and I, the "spinster," would share tacos and back issues of The New Yorker with her while I continued to date recovering alcoholics and unemployed actors. Forever single, I would at the very least have my mother back.
A few months after the "Rich Bald Man" conversation, I decided to make the trip from Los Angeles to the Bay Area, where I had grown up (and where my father still lived), for a long weekend in August. Since my mother's move to New Mexico, I had stopped visiting home, and I missed my family and friends from childhood. Unlike me, most of my friends were married with children. I looked forward to meeting their families. I was not looking forward to being in the same town as my father.
I hadn't spoken to my real father in several years and had no plans to see him. I guess you could call our relationship "estranged." He had recently married a woman four years younger than myself, and they had a new child, and a part of me was happy for him. Seventy might seem old to start a family, but I thought, "You go, Dad... Make your own grandchildren!"
On the way to Berkeley, my car broke down on I-5, right outside Los Baños. Giant semi-trucks whizzed by while I waited for AAA and pondered my aloneness. As I waited, I felt inspired — you know, as one does — to text my on-again/off-again love interest, Carl, an unemployed actor, about my predicament. (He told me to watch the sunset. I felt comforted.) Once my car was towed, I found a motel and settled on a bed of dubious sanitation. After some soul-searching and armed with lonely bravado, I decided to confront Carl about our relationship. I was too old to be in a harem, I told myself. To my surprise, he agreed to get serious. The irony was that I was stuck in a motel in Los Baños. Why couldn't he have confessed his love for me in Los Angeles?!
Lesson: Never trust romantic texts when you're not within reasonable driving distance from the sender.
The next day, I met a woman at the local breakfast diner who offered to give me a ride to the nearest BART station. My high school friend Emily picked me up in Oakland with her twin baby girls in the back seat. She had already committed to attend a People With Babies Dinner Party and I accompanied her as her plus-one. When her friends asked, "Where's your baby?" I explained to them that I had forgotten to have children.
As we were leaving the dinner party, one of the mothers mentioned that her younger sister had been born when she herself was 9 years old. I took that as my opening and announced, "My mom had my sister when I was 15, and that was the best birth control anyone could hope for!"
I spent the following few nights at the home of my friends Jessica and Dan, who I have known since we hosted "Purple Rain" slow-dance parties in the 7th grade. Jessica and I had smoked pot with budding drug dealers and coined the genius tag name for our group, "Ladies of the Night." (We eventually learned that it's a euphemism for prostitutes.) Unlike me, both Jessica and Dan now had two children, a beautiful house, and real adult responsibilities. One night, I cajoled Jessica into going with me to an Uptown Sound concert, where I lost my debit card. Between my drama with Carl, abandoned car, and lost debit card, I failed to leave an adult impression on Jessica, who observed in complete sincerity that my stay was "like living with a teenager."
My response: "I got a text from Carl!"
I spent the last days of the trip at the home of my aunt Linda and uncle Joe, who lived near my old junior high school. One day, I went running on the track at King Junior High. While I ran, I thought about all the places where Jessica and I had hung out when we cut classes or smoked pot or made out with 13-year-old boys while our parents remained blissfully ignorant of our actions or whereabouts. I was deep in my nostalgia when I spotted a pair of cyclists about to pass me on the sidewalk. One of them made lingering eye contact.
That looks like my father, I thought as I ran past them.
A few minutes later, the cyclist pulled up beside me.
"Hi, Solange!"
It was, indeed, my father.
"Hi!" I said. And I kept running. I didn't stop. I didn't even say "Hi, Dad." I just said "Hi!"
I felt weird calling him "Dad" now that he had just married a woman younger than myself. It seemed maybe appropriate that I start calling him "Steve." It didn't feel as weird to say, "I'm hanging out with Steve and his wife" or "Steve and his wife had a baby."
"How are you?" Steve asked, while biking alongside me.
"Good," I said.
Steve followed me on his bike for at least a mile. I kept running the whole time.
"I'm having people over for dinner tonight. Would you like to come?"
Did I want to go to Steve's house for dinner? Not especially. But he lived 10 miles from the street where our paths crossed and the confluence of events that led to this chance encounter seemed to belong to a divine intelligence. I would rather have kept running until a Los Baños mechanic fixed my car, and then driven home, and then run, run, run. But I decided that the universe wanted me to have dinner with Steve.
That night, I drove my uncle Joe's Ford Jeep to Steve's house in Oakland, where I met Steve's wife and my second half-brother, both for the first time. Also in attendance was my first half-brother, the son from Steve's second marriage, then 23 and preparing to leave for Afghanistan. It should have felt like a family reunion. It did not.
I had spent most of my adult life feeling rage toward Steve. It was because of him that I could not attract a healthy partner. I spent years thinking that I had to work to win the admiration of men in order to keep them interested. A life of running toward or away from prospective men had left me catching my breath on the sidelines.
A few days later, my Los Baños mechanic called me and told me my car was ready. My mother's other sister, my aunt Elva, and my uncle Bill drove me to Los Baños pick up my car. I returned to Los Angeles only to find Carl "really busy."
Now he was the one running. But I was too tired to chase him.
Over the following two years, my mother got sicker and eventually moved back to the Bay Area. My stepfather took care of her, staying up all night while she hacked up fluids, cooking, cleaning, and driving her to endless doctor's appointments during the day. I came home every few weeks to do what I could: massage her feet, put lotion on her back, unload the dishwasher, or sit through Castle with her.
Because of my stepfather we never put her in a hospital or a care facility. I realized that marriage vows exist for a reason. And he abided by them. Gradually, I stopped hating him. By the time she died we had built trust and a friendship.
My mother died in February of 2015. I never imagined I would be stuck with John and Steve as my only parents. However, I also didn't imagine that I would call my stepfather weekly to check in on him and ask him about investments or relationship advice. I never imagined that Steve would rally his friends to come to my stand-up comedy shows and not only laugh at my jokes about him but claim that he wrote them. "You stole all my lines," he said to me one night after a show at San Francisco's Punch Line. "I am so proud of you." Maybe he had told me that before, but I heard it for the first time.
Three years ago, I had drinks with a comic who became my boyfriend. This was a miracle, partly because I would never advise any woman to date any comic. He supported me throughout my mom's illness and death. I told him that he didn't have to come to the funeral — I mean, seriously, what a drag — but he said he didn't want to leave me alone. On my mother's birthday 1-800-FLOWERS called and asked me if I wanted to place an order. When I told him, he brought me flowers the following night.
On her deathbed, my mother commanded multiple times that I "get married, buy a house, have a child, and be happy." I don't believe the first three equal the third item, and I don't think she believed that I need a man to be happy. But she did want me to stop feeling angry toward men and be happy. I desperately miss my mother. But now I have a man with me when I meet the men who made me not want to have a relationship with any man. And that is a miracle.


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