Comment on Week in review 1/27/12 by HR
sort of related,t there is a great discussion (audio) of the Scientific Method on the BBC Radio 4 program “In Our Time” that your readers might enjoy....
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/27/12 by NW
Joshua, that’s pretty much what I thought: Generalizability and transferability of virtually all taught skills to other domains is usually weak. Most of the evidence I know of suggests this is true of...
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Comment on Week in review 1/27/12 by David Young
There are certain subjects that if taught correctly will lead to learning critical thinking. One of these is philosophy if taught say from Russell’s History of Western Philosophy or Kaufman’s Critique....
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/27/12 by Joshua
NW - Sure. It isn’t easy, and the aspect of transfer needs to be an explicit component (one of the biggest misconceptions is that the skills always transfer automatically). Contrary to what many...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/27/12 by NW
My own basically silly opinion, based as it is on my own uncontrolled observations of my own teaching and my own students, follows. For informational purposes, I regularly get high ratings from...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/27/12 by Joshua
David Y - There are certain subjects that if taught correctly will lead to learning critical thinking. One of these is philosophy if taught say from Russell’s History of Western Philosophy or Kaufman’s...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/27/12 by Joshua
NW – I have to disagree. Yes, the motivational component is huge – but it is in no way mutually exclusive with teaching “critical thinking” in ways that can transfer. Again, I will go back to the...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/27/12 by manacker
lolwot Thanks for explaining your opinion. It still doesn’t make sense to me, as a rational person. It appears to me that you are totally frightened, i.e. suffering under one of the strongest and most...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/27/12 by Joshua
NW – FWIW, I think of it this way: If a student walks out of my classroom at the end of the semester without having a better understanding about him/herself as a learner, then I haven’t fully done my...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/27/12 by markus
For purity of science, can we please refer to trace gases in our atmosphere, by their correct name. That is; Atmospheric regulation gasses. Please, no more GHG’s, as there is no greenhouse. Markus...
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/27/12 by WebHubTelescope
No context in the linked blog post. The year 1878 was a positive temperature spike in a sea of negative numbers.
View ArticleComment on Week in review 1/27/12 by manacker
Joshua "Crock of the Week" started off with Newt Gingrich responding to a question by an Iowa primary voter that he would not include in a new book a chapter on "climate change" written by "climate...
View ArticleComment on Keith Seitter on the ‘uncertainty monster’ by Bad Andrew
For those slow on the uptake…this quoted statement isn’t science. It’s poetry. That such a self-contradictory statement comes from a scientist is well, indicative of where the AMS and Climate Science...
View ArticleComment on Keith Seitter on the ‘uncertainty monster’ by Donald Rapp
In “The Karate Kid” Misogi says: “Answer only matter if ask right question”. The issue is NOT whether there is “evidence that anthropogenic climate change was occurring”. It seems highly likely that...
View ArticleComment on Keith Seitter on the ‘uncertainty monster’ by incandecentbulb
“too much concern” is “too much” but otherwise political correctness is okay, is that it?
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Comment on Keith Seitter on the ‘uncertainty monster’ by Peter317
Anteros, Yes, those cricket scores were more like those which we associate with football
View ArticleComment on Keith Seitter on the ‘uncertainty monster’ by Jim D
Regarding the discussion about convinced and unconvinced, I think Seitter’s definition of convinced is too broad, as mentioned by Anteros, because it does include many skeptical of IPCC’s estimates....
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