BA Chain of Command Onboard
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FDOS_UKParticipantPeterCoultas – 04/06/2016 20:46 BST
I thought you would be at least a nuclear physicist to deride psychology in such a way.
Psychology is a science, as it uses the hypothetico-deductive model to collect empirical data, analyses the results using statistical methods and accepts hypotheses as temporal and provisional, only when a rigorous statistical significance is attained.
Some psychologists do not feel that the scientific method is appropriate for fieldwork and prefer the humanistic approach – that does not render psychology non-scientific.
Now, a question for you; which species was the first species on earth? Surely a science can answer such a simple question?
5 Jun 2016
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FDOS_UKParticipantba747fan1 – 05/06/2016 02:23 BST
You must be very kwoss to post the same thing, three times 🙂
A little suggestion for you – note the thread title ‘BA Chain of Command Onboard’ and don’t open it again.
Your blood pressure will reduce and you will feel much better – others, who are interested, can then continue to follow the discussion.
5 Jun 2016
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travelworld2ParticipantWell, I’ve just flown from Heathrow to Glasgow and the BA safety video told me that “YOUR crew are now pointing out the emergency exits”.
So clearly I’M now in command of the plane…
I’ll get my coat…..
8 Jun 2016
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rfergusonParticipantHaha quite travelworld.
I think different people have different ways of conveying who does what. I listened intently to the Captains welcome on board PA last night. He introduced himself as that captain of the flight. Then he introduced the CSD before continuing ‘CSD XXXX is in charge of the cabin crew and her and HER crew will be doing their upmost to look after you tonight’. We all know who ultimately calls the shots onboard though 😉
8 Jun 2016
at 14:32
PeterCoultasParticipantFDOS: lovely to see your thread has returned…..impressed by your defence of an indefensible science….maybe not so dangerous as the current nonsense from economists pretending their “science” can be predictive…
Unfortunately clean hypotheses and quality data based ON EXPERIMENT are needed before statistics become really useful (though correlations can clearly be suggestive): mere stories of individual experience don’t easily fit this requirement. Medics & pharma have begun to learn this with double blind studies but there is still much doubtful data swishing around. Hopefully when psychology integrates with modern neuroscience it will move past the other “alternative approaches”.
As to “first species” then there is a question of your understanding here – species can be thought of as “pigeon holes” between which there is reduced genetic transfer so “A FIRST” is not possible (even a few billion years ago), there will always be more than one. Would love to expand but this is hardly on your topic of aircraft command !
8 Jun 2016
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SimonS1Participant@travelworld – when talking about ‘your crew’ maybe they had mistaken you for an member of staff resting before duty. You would know as certain passengers would be looking down their noses at you 😉
8 Jun 2016
at 15:46
FDOS_UKParticipantPeterCoultas – 08/06/2016 16:05 BST
Oh, there are lots of experiments in psychology, e.g. Milgram, Stanford Prison, in fact my daughter is designing one for her dissertation, at the moment.
Personal experience comes under the humanist banner, nothing wrong with it, but it’s not science.
In my area of psychometrics, instruments are not accepted until they have been subject to double blind testing, e.g. Myers Briggs Type Indicator, been around since the 1930s, but never double blind tested and thus not considered a serious instrument.
PS, whilst not claiming to be the world’s greatest scientist, I did get a MSc involving research, so I’m not unfamiliar with what it involves 😉
8 Jun 2016
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BigDog.ParticipantPeterCoultas – 08/06/2016 16:05 BST
Please attempt to become enlightened. Suggest starting with Daniel Kahneman – Thinking Fast and Slow – Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences.
It is a fascinating read and will, I am certain, change your perception significantly – as well as increasing your understanding of cognitive bias.
8 Jun 2016
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Brentford1977ParticipantAnother one here that has signed up after years of lurking just to reply and may well get instantly banned. What an inane load of drivel from somebody still banging the mixed fleet drum. For what it’s worth, I have given out two golden tickets in the last 12 months and both to members of mixed fleet crews. Personally I think they’re fantastic and can’t detect a difference in quality. Standby incoming question about my qualifications to opine on quality of service. Well other than around 60 BA sectors a year and a degree in common sense with a specialisation in observation of every day events, none. Theres one thing where I used to be accorded the status of expert witness by the courts when (previously) I worked as a police officer and that is my opinion of whether an individual is drunk. That doesn’t seem relevant here, but also in my time in the police, I developed a fair ability to spot a p***k when I see one…
8 Jun 2016
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