Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

Theories are right or wrong. Models can be right, but irrelevant. #science #DataScience

Egocentrism is grounded in the belief that everyone shares your beliefs and experiences. This characteristic disqualifies you from being an effective #educator #teachet #leader

Asserting a problem is solved helps avoid consuming disproportionate resources. #ResourceManagement #Efficiency Notice actually *solving* the problem is not a benefit.

Yes, some geniuses were ignored. If you are bing ignored, that does not mean you are a genius.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift

Um, yes, your instruments do determine the nature of your data. There is no such thing as an “objective survey.”

“Reality is not only stranger than we conceive,, but stranger than we can conceive.” J. B. Haldane.

Establishing competence is difficult. Establishing absence of competence even more difficult.

Seriously #educators. “Formative assessment.” “Summative assessment.” These terms are no longer meaningful... they are just part of the drone of buzz words. “Feedback” and “evaluations” have meaning. Yeah, and fewer syllables.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to
know one’s self.
—Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Improved Almanack (1750)

“Our brains continually search for discrepancies and seek to resolve them” and this is the foundation of #learning

Little of human interaction can be traced to a starting point. We all bring our history and contingencies with us always. To think one can start from a blank slate is to deny reality.

“To judge well, to comprehend well, to reason well, these are the essential activities of intelligence.”
Alfred Binet

One wonders what Binet would say about AI.

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

We are dismissing your ideas because they have been rejected for a very long time, not because you are being treated unfairly.

“The cure for the misuse of science is not censorship, but clearer explanations, vigorous debates, and making science accessible to everyone.” -Carl Sagan

“They passed the exam” is not a worthy goal, except in fields with certification exams. Those exams are gateway experiences, not culminating experiences.

“When they do adopt the technology, productivity goes down, and it can be one or two decades before they realize the benefits.” Refers to most any technology and business.

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“What gave Homo sapiens an edge over all other animals and turned us into masters of the planet was not our individual rationality but our unparalleled ability to think in groups.” -Yuval Noah Harari