About
I’m Grant Coulson, Psychologist, born on April 12, 1940, less than a month before von Manstein’s right hook through the Low Countries. This blog is about psychology (Psychology is not rocket science–it’s much more difficult.) and other social sciences such as education, psychiatry and social work. There is a chasm between what we know works and what we do. I’ll only point out the useless and harmful to illustrate the useful. We all know we shouldn’t brush our teeth with a sledgehammer or pound fence stakes with a toothbrush so I’ll include the useful. All of the wrong usages are explained with a simple concept contained in the blog name, but I’ll develop this argument.
Cheerio and ttfn.
January 9, 2011 at 6:16 am |
Peer review. Surely you jest. You’ll get things like “world class”, “uncompromising integrity” and other silliness. Evaluation cannot be done on input, only output.As for teachers paid what they’re worth, only the real market can tell what something is worth. Government workers can never be valued properly except that most of them are overpriced. See my blogs on unfunded pension liabilities.
Cheers
Grant Coulson
June 6, 2011 at 10:19 am |
Wonderful to find you again, this time in cyberspace, Grant. 30+ years since you, Jack and I roamed the psych building at York University… Thank you for the enlightening blogs. You remain a source of inspiration.
June 6, 2011 at 12:22 pm |
Fill me in on what’s happened since then and, it’s been 40 years. Inside every old man there’s a young one asking, “What the hell was that?’
Cheers,
Grant Coulson
grantcoulson@rogers.com