Even espousing a viewpoint shared by a majority of the public doesn’t make you safe from the anger of the mob. Professor David Abbot of the University of Chicago became the target for cancellation after suggesting that universities can uphold their standards and support underrepresented groups by ensuring a merit-based policy for hiring and admission. Today, he looks back on how he survived his cancellation to help academics in the same situation. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
