tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5485236030082659520.post7540679892970038713..comments2023-09-01T04:12:42.611-07:00Comments on Teaching High School Psychology: Bad Psychology?Chuck Schallhornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09702026786146260724noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5485236030082659520.post-15266672447712112592011-02-08T13:27:41.039-08:002011-02-08T13:27:41.039-08:00Bad psychology, well the media is just full of it!...Bad psychology, well the media is just full of it! Off the top of my head the book "The Bell Curve" by those Harvard professors (both in fields unrelated to intelligence) is probably the worst example of psychology, and science at that! Also, most media coverage of animal psychology, especially with regards to teaching animals language is laughable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5485236030082659520.post-78433376340722396102009-06-02T13:01:06.013-07:002009-06-02T13:01:06.013-07:00Good idea (bad psychology site). I have created a...Good idea (bad psychology site). I have created a sort of "bad science" site in which I have collected headlines of articles that sometimes correctly but often incorrectly confuse correlations with causal relationship at <br /><br />http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/100/correlation_or_causation.htm<br /><br />There are also some assignment ideas on the site.<br /><br />JonJon Muellernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5485236030082659520.post-8215038193596529022009-06-02T09:10:45.865-07:002009-06-02T09:10:45.865-07:00Another example is the widespread misuse of standa...Another example is the widespread misuse of standardized testing to make conclusions about students and teachers. Howard Gardner pointed out many years ago about the fact that they had reached their point of utility and we needed to move to other instruments (see the Discovering Psychology program, Testing and Intelligence with the excerpt here: http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/16/e16expand.html)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5485236030082659520.post-44303971648097593342009-06-02T09:06:54.508-07:002009-06-02T09:06:54.508-07:00If you want an example of misuse of psychology how...If you want an example of misuse of psychology how about personality testing?<br />There really aren't any good personality tests ---well, maybe one or two---yet they are in use throughout our culture.<br /><br />Annie Murphy Paul explores the issue in her book:<br />http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Personality-Testing-Miseducate-Misunderstand/dp/0743280725Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com