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
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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 evolutionary psychology and consumer
psychology
(not necessarily bad things but raises certain issues). Not as bad as,
say,
publishing article in the journal "Intelligence". ;-)
These days he seems to be more involved in doing podcasts (thank God
these
things will die out soon), making appearances on TV shows, and making
weird
posts to Linkedin. Apparently trying to become a pop psychologist which
always
pays better than being an academic. But for some reason he reminds of
the
comedian Marc Maron, perhaps best known for his recent TV series on IFC
(see
his Wiki entry) except Saad is not as funny a Maron.
So, what's is the story about Saad from Canadians who are familiar with
him?
You can contact me off-list if you like but I would appreciate a public
discussion if possible.
Send me something.
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
P.S. It is "interesting" (see definition above) to be living in the same
city
as Voldemort and all of the protests (some by students from NYU starting
at
Washington Square Park and moving uptown).
To get some idea of how "popular" Voldemort is in Manhattan, see the
following
which give a map of voting patterns in Manhattan at some surrounding
areas but
with an emphasis on the Lower East Side:
http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2016/11/heres-how-many-voters-picked-trump-on-the-lower-east-side.html
I'm still trying to figure out who the 7% in the East Village who voted
to
Voldemort.
.P.P.S Think that NYU is a bastion of "Liberal PC Hellfire"?
You are not alone as one of out faculty expressed these ideas though on
Twitter
under the pseudonym "Deplorable Professor".
Michael Rectenwald; a op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post can be
accessed
here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/campus-pc-culture-is-so-rampant-that-nyu-is-paying-to-silence-me/?utm_term=.c94cd6997e83
NOTE: Rectenwald at first implied he was forced to take a leave from NYU
but it
turns out that he had requested a leave -- see the updated Editor Note
at the
bottom of the WaPo piece and:
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/november/email-correspondence-between-professor-michael-rectenwald-and-de.html
So, what is the current status of the self-righteous anti-PC faculty
member?
He got a promotion; see:
http://nypost.com/2016/11/13/nyu-awards-promotion-and-full-time-gig-to-deplorable-professor/
Damn! Sound like being anti-PC really pays off! ;-)
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