Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

The more we fix things, the worse they get.

“We need to do this…” is often said by leaders who have no idea what’s happening in the organization.

There are many who’d have no evidence if they didn’t cherry pick the data.

They are called coincidences. No other explanation is necessary.

I was asked I wanted a tarot card reading today. I politely declined without laughing.

Do you want frequent updates? You need your have text messaging. Sort folks, but it’s 2024.

“It is impossible….” Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn’t.

Those skills that make one successful in school (say solving math problems quickly) are often useless in adult life (say solving unsolved math problems).

Binet knew “intelligence” is complex, multifaceted, and not fixed. What don’t we?

I’m not sure we should quote folks who are wrong, even if we throughly debunk their argument. Some of our readers will forget us and remember them.

With remarkably few exceptions, there aren’t genes “for” specific traits.

Talent is motivation and effort, not genes.

We know that individuals from marginalized populations may be reluctant to contribute to group discussions. We know that WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic) perspectives dominate.

We have capacity to solve much more complex problems when working together compared to when we work alone, but we also have greater capacity to deceive ourselves.

Logic (including fallacies), foundational knowledge, and language skills, are among the skills that form a curriculum that prepares students for lives as critical thinkers.

Critical thinking emergences out of knowledge, skill, and dispositions that comprise its foundations.

When medical practitioners adopted the scientific attitude, health care improved.

"“To do science, we must be willing to embrace a mindset that our prior beliefs, ideologies, and wishes do not matter in deciding what can pass the test for comparison to evidence." - Lee McIntyre

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. ~ Steve Ballmer

Go into a classroom of students using computers. If you hear only clicks, the teacher is doing it wrong.