September 21, 2020
MTC: The Cultural Revolution: Coming to a Campus Near You
John Staddon
Higher education has begun a transformation similar to the Chinese “Cultural Revolution” of 1966. This claim may sound extreme, but look at the similarities for yourself. Like the Cultural Revolution,......
March 23, 2020
Academic Questions: Facts vs. Passion: The Debate over Science-Based Regulation
John Staddon
Historian of science Naomi Oreskes’s attack on a proposal to raise the scientific standards utilized by federal regulatory bodies—and on the National Association of Scholars, which support......
January 2, 2020
Academic Questions: College Admissions Ride the Equality Roundabout
John Staddon
America’s institutions of higher education face an intractable problem: excellence and equality—the two principles college admissions offices are ostensibly committed to—are mutually......
May 31, 2019
Academic Questions: Object of Inquiry: Psychology’s Other (Non-replication) Problem
John Staddon
Psychological science, currently embroiled in a “replication crisis,” has a more difficult problem concerning the use of statistics. Psychologist John Staddon points out that deducing the......