" A minus times a minus is a plus."
" Why?"--Stand and Deliver.
>You do what you do and the pshrinks do what they do. Why sneer at each
>other?
Because they act--on university committees-- as if they should be taken as our
intellectual equals. I am sick of having to pretend that they are. I am tired
of the smart being bossed around by the dumb.
>Certainly, there are dumb pshrinks in the world, but there are some very
>smart ones, too.
At the Jung Institute in Zurich, there were some really smart pshrinks. They
were not awarding PHD degrees for counting the number of times children read =
as +.
> I suspect neither of the types of intelligence is all
>that relevant to academic committee politics.
I would hope that social intelligence and an understanding of human motivations
and learning skills etc., would be of value in academic committee politics.
Hey, as specialists in all that, you might imagine that they would be running
things by now.
But, actually they are dumb as clams, and are an annoyance not an asset.
I agree.
My explanation for this is that it is possible to get away with BS in
social sciences,hence bad research proliferates.
James