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Here's how fads evolve in education:
1) Professor of ed takes one crackpot idea (w/o evidence) and turns it into a program.
2) Professor of ed writes papers on why it ought to work and runs small-scale, internal trials with multiple variables and poor measures of success, so the "research"... See more
Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform”x.comEpistemology
Carlos Esteban • 1 card
There are many misconceptions about where scientific theories are derived from. A popular one is Empiricism, that we derive theories from our senses. Another is Inductivism, that the future will resemble the past. Testability is also generally accepted as a defining characteristic of the scientific method. All of these are wrong - there are many... See more
Alex MacCaw • The Beginning of Infinity
This week I dropped a video challenging Loop Quantum Gravity, one of the few alternatives to String Theory. It ruffled some feathers, including one of the founding fathers of LQG. Tomorrow, I’ll share my 8 Step formula for settling science beefs with 11,622 readers of my newsletter. (🔗 in reply)
alive internet theory
wes • 2 cards
To try to study “women” or “men” under Theory is to miss the point. For the applied postmodernists, the topic of interest is “gender”—which they define as the behaviors and expectations that people considered men and women are taught to perform, which—though they cannot be entirely done away with—can be disrupted, confused, and complicated.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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anastasiya shuleva • 1 card