On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:11:31 -0700, William Scott wrote:
Mike Palij points out:
In this review Mr. Roston notes the "10%" myth and actually
provides a link to a Scientific American article from 2008 on it;
here is the article:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/
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Do we need to de-bunk all of the scientific hokum that students
see in movies?
If Scott Lilienfeld is back from vacation, I'll let him answer this.
Here's a Scientific American site essay on how we should expose
more students to radioactive spiders in order to give them
super-powers.
Hey! No fair using NYU faculty in rebuttals! See:
http://www.psych.nyu.edu/skaufman/
I was going to add the adjective "metaphorically" in the previous
sentence but current usage might allow me to use "literally".
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/09/09/why-education-needs-more-radioactive-spiders/
Methinks that perhaps Dr. Kaufman has read too many comics
in his youth and young adulthood (it is possible that he still reads
them but I digress). But the Spiderman reference provides the
necessary hook to get a reader to read an article/blog entry
(because so many people have read the comic books and saw
the movies) instead of the somewhat more accurate title "valuing
people and increasing self-esteem".
I just wonder if someone has written a Scientific American blog
entry or elsewhere on "Why you are psychic like Professor Xavier"
written either by Daryl Bem or one of his PSI promoters. One might
want to say "you mean figuratively, right" but it would be more correct
to say "you mean literally, right? You really do believe this stuff?"
It's always a good idea to think about whether one is being metaphorical
or literal and the consequences of each.
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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