Those outside university departments may not realize that very few psychology academics are fully into the critical social justice thing (woke). Some are to a degree, some conform which is sad, some like DEI because they think it will protect or promote them, but psychological scientists are generally good critical thinkers. Especially since DEI no longer wins grants in the USA. In no way are they like the school of education department at Cambridge. I don't want to give the untrue impression that wokeness dominates faculty meetings in universities in 2026. It doesn't quite like it wasted time in 2019 or 2020. Woke-affected policies do continue to do harm, years after, though. Eg the defacto removal of in person exams. It's complicated, and not what you would imagine from what one sees on social media.

Could not disagree more completely. There has never been a better time to learn, make, to create, to be alive. A lot needs disrupting. What's embarrassing is the studious "looking the other way" shown by University academics and leaderst he last 5 years: They should be ambitiously adopting and enabling improvement to learning: AI in the classroom, interactive re-writing of learning materials based on student answers. The equivalent of the 1-on-1 model for every kid. Their validity is threatened: They have shifted back entirely to invigilated in-person exams. Instead they are doing the opposite, *shutting down exams*!! Academia should be making classes adaptive and responsive to the personalized proofs of knowledge enabled by AI: Infinitely variable tests, given without preparation to validate student knowledge, and ingesting what we know about memory and spaced testing to build useful knowledge. The demotivation, if such exists, is down to people saying loudly look at me: the world is ending. The same line has been pervasive for a thousand years: The usual anti-education "educators" BS'ing about "don't learn anything it will be out of date" now they insert "AI will do it". It's sickening. Always has been. Kids must ignore these people: calle them what they are "Always wrong: just do the opposite of what she says" Academics should demonstrate to kids that cheating, as it *always has*, will mean the student will learn nothing (except perhaps to think of themselves as nothing but a cheat). Assign the homework, set take-home problem sets, and the term papers. Get AI to grade them if it helps set more. Just make the exams *in person* and make them count 80% - students who cheated will fail. If they don't, then there was nothing to worry about. For the real output: the products and research, just rate it on how amazing it is. It should never have been about the person or the grant. The idea we can't take 'smart glasses' phones off students during an exam is capitulation. That too has always been around. Wokeness denies the very existence of intellect and truth. AI makes it more available at lower cost than ever in history. AI is a serious threat only to those who – like the computer, before that the pen, or machines – who refuse to use it: It's a tool. AI is probably the greatest tool people have ever invented. Salaries are not falling, unemployment is not rising, plumbers, electricians, radiologists are all in work on salaries higher that we will see. For conservatives, students in particular, this is a *fantastic* time to converse live, for hours a day, for maybe $1 with the equivalent of the best personal tutors in history. And on every topic from Aristotle to CRISPR to Space to art. The real threat, the ever present threat for all of conscious history, is people banning this tool in the pretense that not having AI will "empower" those who have it wrested from their hands. It won't. Banning AI also won't cause people to read, write, learn, or practice a skill development. Anyone who uses it know their own knowledge and skills are going through the roof. Feels their capability expanded beyond their ability. Feels the ability to answer, and then to do, better and more than ever in history. I can barely sleep it's so exciting drinking from this fire hose of possibilities.

Most students in the quantitative sciences are forced to start their education with statistics, which is a grave mistake, with deep harmful consequences on the way students view science and reality. The next generation should start with causation, to get a scientific view of reality and, only then, take stat-101, for students who want to decorate their papers with p-values and regression analysis. Not sure the imperial forces of statistics would welcome this commonsensical transformation. @soboleffspaces @f2harrell @DagobertIX

lawandcrime.com/high-profile… Excellent article that @Zigmanfreud did that EASILY debunks the 1970's Jerry Sandusky accusers! #PennState #WithTheBenefitOfHindsight #JoePaterno