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From: tjhorton@utai.UUCP (Timothy J. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,news.groups
Subject: Choice between sci.psych and sci.cog-sci
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Date: 31 Jan 88 04:01:51 GMT
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Regarding the vote on "time for sci.psych???":

Several people have posted support for a cognitive science newsgroup.
But as it stands, the current vote is only for/against sci.psych --
a general psychology newsgroup.  There appears to be an unaddressed
issue then;  should it be sci.psych or do we really want sci.cog-sci?

Is the majority of support for cognitive science or is it for general
psychology?  If most people voting in favor of a group would prefer to
concentrate on cog sci (ie. reasoning and memory and mental models and
cognitive neuroscience and results from Linguistics and Artificial
Intelligence etc) rather than all of general psychology (including
Rogerian psychology and social adjustment and peer pressure and group
therapy and affect etc), then perhaps voting should be split:

- votes for either group without a preference,
- votes with a preference,
- votes for only one or the other of the groups,
- votes against

Perhaps this requires a second vote.  If Todd doesn't need the hassle, I'll
volunteer to collect them.  Please let me know if there is a perceived need.

I for one have voted for either, with a strong preference for a cog-sci group.

Tim

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