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> OK, I've now admired Ken's exhibit A, and it's impressive. It deserves
> the Nobel Prize in confusing students. How something as tangled as
> that ever slipped through is a major mystery, and I pity the poor
> student who comes on it without warning.
I suspect that some of the "slipping through" is market driven. That is,
the pittance that publishers pay reviewers of textbooks can't really be
considered to be "positive reinforcement". When I agree to do textbook
reviews, I always reduce my cognitive dissonance by considering it as a
service to academia with hopes to prevent just the thing to which we are
referring (i.e., blatant mistakes).
Steven M. Specht, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Psychology Department
Utica College of Syracuse University
1600 Burrstone Rd.
Utica, NY 13502
(315) 792-3171
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