Am I a Methodologist? (Asking for a Friend)

I Am Not a Scientist, I Am a Number

We suspect many of our readers will be familiar with the cult TV show The Prisoner, in which actor Patrick McGoohan had his identity taken away by unknown assailants for unknown reasons, and his pleas of ‘‘I am not a number, I am a person’’ (http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = 29JewlGsYxs&feature = related) were greeted with variants of ‘‘whatever you say, number six.’’ We would suggest that, as ...

I Am a Puzzle

When Foreign Domestic Helpers Care for and About Older People in Their Homes: I Am a Maid or a Friend

We examine the lived experiences of foreign domestic helpers (FDH) working with community-dwelling older people in Hong Kong. Unstructured interviews were conducted with 11 female FDHs, and thematically analyzed. The theme inescapable functioning commodity represented the embodied commodification of FDHs to be functional for older people in home care. Another theme, destined reciprocity of comp...

Why I am a Platonist

This is essentially Davies’ fi rst fl avor of Platonism, but in his article he isn’t content with my phrase “there is” a body of objects etc., but feels he must characterize this belief as existence in a realm outside or beyond spacetime. I think using these prepositions already implies certain philosophical, specifi cally ontological, assumptions. Hersh is more tolerant, merely adding the qual...

I am a personality psychologist

I am a personality psychologist, I study individual differences in affect, behavior, cognition, and motivation as they are affected by biological causes and environmental events. That is the answer I give when people ask me what I do. I do not say that I am a cognitive-psychologist, a social-psychologist, a neuro-psychologist, a behavior geneticist, a psychometrician or a methodologist, for alt...