Angua Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Saw this on Twitter this morning: -------------------------------- Dominic Packer @PackerLab Interesting dissociation in words used in research statements by highest vs lowest-ranked applicants to grad program. http://db.tt/SuXW7yuE --------------------------------- The link goes to a picture of two word clouds - one with the most common words used by his top 8 applicants, the other with the most common words used by his bottom 8 applicants. Actually, it looks like there is some overlap, but the best applicants more frequently used words like "moral", "cognition", "processes", and "group". Here's the blurb on his lab page about what he does (I wasn't terribly familiar with his work): "Our lab investigates the mental processes that allow for collective life, with a particular interest how they facilitate or inhibit social change. We conduct experiments to better understand the cognitive and neural processes that give rise to conformity and dissent, prejudice, and moral judgment." So, the successful applicants were more likely than the unsuccessful applicants to use specific words that related to his research interests. No big shock, but it's interesting to see "behind the curtain," as it were. fuzzylogician, lewin, gellert and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewin Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 (edited) Social psychologists loooooove the study of processes. "Mediation" is the magic word that gets you into JPSP. Edited January 9, 2013 by lewin00 Angua and Nausicaa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nausicaa Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 No! I can't see the graphic on that site.... I MUST KNOW THE WORDS OF DOOM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angua Posted January 10, 2013 Author Share Posted January 10, 2013 Okay, it took some wrangling, but here it is: This is missing the note at the end that indicates that the rankings are Packer's own. lewin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rufio Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Okay, it took some wrangling, but here it is: This is missing the note at the end that indicates that the rankings are Packer's own. I found this to be very cool; I wish profs from all psych fields could put out something like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nausicaa Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohgoodness Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 (edited) Pugh.. Fun idea but come on - illustrate the data properly... or is this some sort of mindgame?! Edited January 13, 2013 by cherub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewin Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 (edited) Hm? It's from the "wordle" website. You copy/paste the text into a box and it generates the word cloud. Edited January 13, 2013 by lewin00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veggiez Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 It makes me laugh that "also" and "like" are commonly used words by the worst applicants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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