海量汪涵

工作的時候，忽然明白「海量汪涵」的意思。如果心裡只有一杯水的容量，小小的風雨，小小的挫折，就會把你的空間用盡。但是如果你的心有比海深，比天空闊，平常的風雨，又怎會動你分毫？「海量汪涵」就是不計較雞毛蒜皮的小事，心境自然會保持平靜。無論困難有多大，也不及滄海之一粟。試問這又怎會有煩惱？說到底，還是修養功夫未夠。

同理，「有容乃大」，放得下很多東西的空間，才算是「大」。胸襟廣闊，要以天地為目標。

貴人

這兩天工作很重很忙，幸好得同事鼎力相助，才勉力完成責任。有些同事即使只通過電話，沒見過面，依然會盡力幫忙，不分親疏。想起郝明義說：「貴人是可能從上方拉你一把的人，也可能是從下方推你一把的人。」時候到了，你就會發現誰是貴人，誰反倒是絆腳石。平時廣結善緣，需要時自然會有人助你一把。「出外靠朋友」說的應該也是這個意思吧。

參考：郝明義. 貴人是怎麼出現的.” 郝明義的作品 . <http://www.rexhow.com/?p=192>.

明星的素質

梁文道：明星的素質到底是甚麼？

吳俊雄：明星的素質很講究文化裝備。黃霑不是唸音樂的，但他 讀了莊子、聽完Beatles就跑入錄音室，結果他無論創作廣告還是寫歌都很有成就。許多人說那是個群星燦爛的年代，不像現在誰是誰都認不出來，原因就在 於那年代每個人的背景不同，文化裝備也不同。你不一定要像黃霑讀詩詞，就算玩band的飛仔也自有一格，也有自己的文化裝備。呂大樂曾說過，「放生」的小 孩比溫室長大的小孩優勝，他們接受十幾年免費教育，讀的是一樣的東西，平時接觸相同的事，這種mass education、mass media，很難令人有獨特氣質，沒有獨特氣質就難以成為明星。

先天沒有性格，那麼你要不要裝備自己呢？吳雨（前華星娛樂總經理，現任英皇娛樂行政總裁）在這行做了三十年，他清楚 所有新人必須像許冠傑一樣，練好聲底才去見人，他跟我說現在的明星，莫說技藝，就是安排了兩個小時綵排，他們也根本不出現，沒有對紀律最基本的尊重。上一 代的人知道要當紅只得一條路，於是就做好所有份內事。何况今天造星與被造的星都沒了蠻力，沒有一種「唔知明天點樣，不如去試下」的實驗精神，一切依循既定 規則。

梁文道. “訪問吳俊雄 報答流行文化的奶水.” 讀書好 , 2008年４月 Vol 8:P. 22.

ANOVA

這幾天為同事的功課籌謀。同事要用統計學分析幾十份問卷，不知如何做起。見到參考期刊裡提到ANOVA，知道自己應付不來，便想找人請槍。不知怎的就找上我。說實話，我讀書時沒有學過ANOVA，但一直也想試一試。碰巧有另一位同事之前做過研究，懂得怎樣用。既然有人請教，我就大膽接受了這個挑戰。

雖然請槍的同事很麻煩，跟我的關係也不大好，但看在有得玩，又有參考資料，這次就算賣個人情，將來或許有用處。

找網上資料鑽研，讀到如下的內容，正切合現在的處境：

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Charles McCreery:

There are usually three complementary methods for mastering any new intellectual or artistic task; these are, in ascending order of importance:

1. reading books about it
2. observing how other people do it
3. actually doing it oneself

This tutorial focuses on the second of these methods. It is based on handouts that I developed when teaching first-year psychology students at Magdalen College, Oxford. The core of the tutorial is a worked example from an Oxford University Prelims Statistics examination paper. I have therefore placed this section in prime position; however, in teaching the order of events was different, and more nearly corresponded to the three-fold hierarchy of methods given above:

1. The student was invited to read one of the chapters on the Recommended Reading list, given in Section 5. He or she would also have been expected to attend a lecture on the topic in question at the Department of Experimental Psychology.
2. The student would attend a tutorial, in which we would go through the worked example shown here. He or she would take away the handouts shown in Sections 3 and 4, which were designed to give structure to the topic and help them when doing an example on their own.
3. They would be given another previous examination question to take away and do in their own time, which would be handed in later for marking.

I am strongly in favour of detailed worked examples; following one is the next best thing to attempting a question oneself.

Mccreery, Charles. “Charles McCreery.” celiagreen.com. 4 Apr. 2008 <www.celiagreen.com/charlesmccreery/statistics/chisquare.pdf>

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First-year Statistics for Psychology Students Through Worked Examples

1. The Chi-square test (PDF)
Oxford Forum, Psychological Paper No. 2007-1.

2. Probability and Bayes’ Theorem (PDF)
Oxford Forum, Psychological Paper No. 2007-2.

3. Analysis of Variance (PDF)
Oxford Forum, Psychological Paper No. 2007-3.

Tutorials devised for first-year psychology students at Oxford University.

http://www.celiagreen.com/charlesmccreery.html