Re: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?
Many thanks Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:47 AM, don allen wrote: > > > > Hi Mike- > > You asked, " Don't you folks in Canada elect your Prime Minister through a > popular vote?" > > No we don't. Most Canadians don't get to vote directly for the Prime Minister > because thy don't live in his riding. A riding is an electoral district. > Candidates compete against one another within ridings and the person with the > most votes (often a plurality not a majority as there are usually at least > three major parties represented) becomes the member of Parliament for that > riding. The party with the greatest number of seats in Parliament puts > forward their leader (assuming he or she has won their riding) as Prime > Minister. The advantage of this system is that you can't have the situation > that you have just endured where a Democrat President was constantly fighting > a hostile Republican Congress. In our system the government actually gets to > govern! That said, there will occasionally be a "minority government". Since > we have three major parties it sometimes happens that one party takes power > with less than a majority of seats. These are often good things because they > prevent one party from running roughshod over the others and usually result > in good compromise legislation. > > Hope that helps. > > -Don. > > From: "Mike Palij" > To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" > > Cc: "Michael Palij" > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 8:50:59 AM > Subject: RE: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad? > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:06:35 -0800, Stuart McKelvie wrote: > > https://www.concordia.ca/jmsb/faculty/gad-saad.html > > Thanks for the link but I did searches on the interweb on him > because some of the things he's posted on Linkedin are, > well, interesting and not in a good way. > > For an alternate view of the good professor, see the following > discussion board "BadSocialScience" on Reddit: > https://www.reddit.com/r/BadSocialScience/comments/3zl9is/oh_my_gad/ > > Needless to say, one conclusion that can be drawn is that his > hype is greater than his substance and another conclusion is > that he appears to overconfident in his opinions and not realize > the tentative nature of his claims. > > >Dear Mike, > > > >I attended a public lecture he gave here at Bishop's in 2008 (scroll > >down in the link above to see the listing). > > > >From memory, it was fairly interesting, was data based, but perhaps a > >little > >bit glib. > > From what I read at the site above and elsewhere, I think the term > "glib" is perhaps an understatement and add in an inability to > know where the line is that separates serious discussion from > glib statements, indeed, confusing the two. But just my opinion. > Take a look at this post that he made which can be described > in a variety of ways but one might start with the question "What > set this off?" See: > https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/2ff5bd00-a1a3-4f25-8631-9d7348e2fe14-original.png > > I'm not sure who he is referring to when he says unidentified > people are trying to "magically" win the Presidential election > for Hillary Clinton through some "fudging process" (not sure > but actual fudge might be involved; it seems to me that he > doesn't really understand what the electoral college is or > how it came about). Don't you folks in Canada elect your > Prime Minister through a popular vote? If so, I'm surprised > the Prof appears to be unfamiliar with the concept. > > -Mike Palij > New York University > m...@nyu.edu > > > > -Original Message- > From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] > Sent: November 16, 2016 8:48 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Cc: Michael Palij > Subject: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad? > > I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in because of > former > students sending me invites) and though I have tried to keep contacts on > a > professional level, there are some folks that one might characterize as > "interesting" (as in the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting > times). > One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much time on his hands > and > seems to be heavy into self-promotion. > There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad > The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian colleges > and went > on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: > I'm not > saying anything about that photo) > https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9 > and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an > endowed chair > which always raises questions). > > Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that early > on he > seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive psychologist (even > making > some presentation a the meetings of the Soci
Re: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?
Hi Mike- You asked, " Don't you folks in Canada elect your Prime Minister through a popular vote?" No we don't. Most Canadians don't get to vote directly for the Prime Minister because thy don't live in his riding. A riding is an electoral district. Candidates compete against one another within ridings and the person with the most votes (often a plurality not a majority as there are usually at least three major parties represented) becomes the member of Parliament for that riding. The party with the greatest number of seats in Parliament puts forward their leader (assuming he or she has won their riding) as Prime Minister. The advantage of this system is that you can't have the situation that you have just endured where a Democrat President was constantly fighting a hostile Republican Congress. In our system the government actually gets to govern! That said, there will occasionally be a "minority government". Since we have three major parties it sometimes happens that one party takes power with less than a majority of seats. These are often good things because they prevent one party from running roughshod over the others and usually result in good compromise legislation. Hope that helps. -Don. - Original Message - From: "Mike Palij" To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" Cc: "Michael Palij" Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 8:50:59 AM Subject: RE: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad? On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:06:35 -0800, Stuart McKelvie wrote: > https://www.concordia.ca/jmsb/faculty/gad-saad.html Thanks for the link but I did searches on the interweb on him because some of the things he's posted on Linkedin are, well, interesting and not in a good way. For an alternate view of the good professor, see the following discussion board "BadSocialScience" on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BadSocialScience/comments/3zl9is/oh_my_gad/ Needless to say, one conclusion that can be drawn is that his hype is greater than his substance and another conclusion is that he appears to overconfident in his opinions and not realize the tentative nature of his claims. >Dear Mike, > >I attended a public lecture he gave here at Bishop's in 2008 (scroll >down in the link above to see the listing). > >From memory, it was fairly interesting, was data based, but perhaps a >little >bit glib. >From what I read at the site above and elsewhere, I think the term "glib" is perhaps an understatement and add in an inability to know where the line is that separates serious discussion from glib statements, indeed, confusing the two. But just my opinion. Take a look at this post that he made which can be described in a variety of ways but one might start with the question "What set this off?" See: https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/2ff5bd00-a1a3-4f25-8631-9d7348e2fe14-original.png I'm not sure who he is referring to when he says unidentified people are trying to "magically" win the Presidential election for Hillary Clinton through some "fudging process" (not sure but actual fudge might be involved; it seems to me that he doesn't really understand what the electoral college is or how it came about). Don't you folks in Canada elect your Prime Minister through a popular vote? If so, I'm surprised the Prof appears to be unfamiliar with the concept. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu -Original Message- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] Sent: November 16, 2016 8:48 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad? I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in because of former students sending me invites) and though I have tried to keep contacts on a professional level, there are some folks that one might characterize as "interesting" (as in the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times). One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much time on his hands and seems to be heavy into self-promotion. There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian colleges and went on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: I'm not saying anything about that photo) https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9 and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an endowed chair which always raises questions). Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that early on he seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive psychologist (even making some presentation a the meetings of the Society for Computers in Psychology which historical meets before the Psychonomics meeting; my mentor Doris Aaronson was involved in SCiP) but somewhere along they way he appears to have gone off the rails, focusing on evolu
