Featured White Papers
- Hosted CRM comparison guide (Inside CRM)
- Don't miss this enterprise mobility Webcast! (TechRepublic)
- Hosted CRM buyer's guide (Inside CRM)
Content provided in partnership with
What's cause, effect? - Letters To The Editor - Letter to the Editor
Skeptical Inquirer, Jan-Feb, 2004 by Frank D. Kirschner
The article by Losh, et al. ("What Does Education Really Do?" (SKEPTICAL INQUIRER September/October 2003) presented some interesting statistics regarding education and pseudoscientific beliefs, but it didn't answer the fundamental question of cause and effect.
Does education teach people to think better and so discriminate against nonsense, or are there two types of brains--those inclined to think rationally and value learning and education, and those inclined to think irrationally and to discount the value of education? The correlations don't tell us which is true. I suspect it will turn out to be some of both, with the emphasis on the latter.
Frank D. Kirschner
Alexandria, Virginia
COPYRIGHT 2004 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group
Find Research Guides for:
Most Popular Articles in Reference
- The importance of understanding organizational culture
- Credit card attitudes and behaviors of college students
- What factors attract foreign direct investment?
- Libraries Need Relationship Marketing - mutual interest marketing concept, ...
- How to set performance goals: employee reviews are more than annual critiques
- More »