Stephen Downes

I'm going to ignore the left-right dichotomy Hollis Robbins assumes in this critique of social scinces, bcause it's not that. But there is a valid criticism at the heart of this. "An entire field of study is broken even as credentials in it keep getting granted. (D)efenders of a wronged student seem not to want to touch the possibility that the credential she was working toward wasn't substantial. (Others) wants to assume the discipline has real standards and that the instructor was upholding them." The main point is that a study of 84 stiudents in a single school shouldn't be taken as evidence of anything, much less form the basis of an assignment in a psychology classroom.  (p.s. there's something a bit wrong about referring to your colleague's paywalled post as 'viral'. Trust me, it's not).