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Class contribution: I hope to
      show up
      not talk too much
      be the advocate of everyone's success and happiness
      offer an authentic perspective 

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My goals for the class:

1) I registered hoping to tune up my anti-Big-5 arguments:

        Personal Intro:     https://tomveatch.com/temperament.php#myway
        General comments:   https://tomveatch.com/temperament.php#ocean
	Thought Experiment: https://tomveatch.com/MB.bad.php
	Bring Back MB N/S:  https://tomveatch.com/MB.NS.php

   The goal in this respect would be to produce a feasible and
   persuasive experimental design to potentially demonstrate the
   continuing significance of the Myers Briggs N/S dimension.

   The last section of MB.NS.php says, use psychotherapists as the
   subject population for a normal Big 5 study.  We'll see. 

   In particular the instrument, subjects, statistics and Pattern Match
   expectations to find one vs the other outcome, I would like to work
   out in enough detail to, for example, form the core of a grant
   proposal.

2) With the happy discovery that this is a Research Methods class, not
   necessarily restricted to Personality, the door surprisingly has
   opened for what may be the most important work of my life, a
   theory of cognitively down-regulated emotion, which I have called Bliss
   Theory, also the [I] Model. (pronounced, Optional I)

   	 An Abstract:    https://tomveatch.com/bliss/MathPsych.php
	 
	    		 [I]: an identification-bound model of (ir-)rational emotion
			 
   	 Bliss Theory:   https://tomveatch.com/bliss

   It is my goal that this class will help and inspire me to advance
   and improve this work.  A lot of related essays arose around it,
   and getting things in order and adding an experimental design, at
   least, to the spiderweb of issues and discussion, will help this
   move from some plumber's random thoughts to, perhaps, a set of
   experimentally-justifiable claims.

   In particular, the modulating variable relationship between
   situation and emotion of the optional action of identification, may
   be the way to empirically validate some of these claims.  Certainly
   there is a big fat natural category claim in my work, and I should
   like to see if it is experimentally testable in a sense that
   psychologists would accept, and perhaps move toward experimentally
   testing it.

3) My "N+V" Theory of Humor (Veatch 1998, A Theory of Humor, JISHS,
   https://tomveatch.com/humor) is, I believe, the dominant theory in
   the subfield of humor studies, and has had on the order of 10
   proper psych experiments conducted at UC Boulder (by Prof. Peter
   McGraw) each of which was said to have supported the claims of the
   theory.  I would like to write a review of these experiments to
   close the loop on N+V (and thank Peter), before I die.  I hope this
   class will help me to have the right, critical view of this work,
   if not to actually write the paper before Christmas.

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Grade:  Yes, judgements everywhere.

	But! as an ACCESS student this is officially a no homework, no
	admissions, no grades course.  Should that mean we can skip
	the question?  If skipping it meant I would become a passive,
	non-participant, let's NOT skip it.  However that is obviously
	unlikely, so I think we are okay.
	
	Therefore: I hope to remain unconscious of whether I indeed
	pass or fail.

	The real question is to track the variable of interest
	itself.  (namely, interest!)  I do hope, and indeed expect, to
	remain rather passionately interested, which is actually the
	most important metric of success.  This area is long
	established as a great interest of mine, it is unlikely to
	change that much.

	On the other hand I strongly desire to remain on everyone's
	good side, if possible, so every kind of feedback is
	solicited, don't let me talk too much, or be too opinionated.
	I won't be socialized into the new generation without some
	adjustments, no doubt, so feel free to adjust me, okay?

	Now in the matter of judgement, grades, and credit but
	conversely, I asked the registrar if you get credit for a real
	live student by having me in the class or not, and they
	thought you do.  I hope so!