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Showing posts with label Straw man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Straw man. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

7-38-55 = Men Are Tone Deaf

Men Are Tone Deaf:  
Why teaching English privately will  always be a stable thing 
(as long as the K-12 institutions insist on doing things their way)

I. 
 
The Thai-trained pugilist-PhD in anthropology-with-a-quick-memory-who-liked-to-talk told a story. The young Dr. Kickass told a story about how one of his peers, who was probably also qualified as a linguist, recalled objectively eavesdropping on an exchange of words between two female students.  The gist of it was that they, the women, didn’t really say anything. There was no data exchange. 
“Breaking down what they said,” he observed, “they made no sense at all. It was just noise.” *

Uh-huh.

Dunning-Kruger Effect