Re: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?

[Mike Palij]

Don, thanks for the overview of the convoluted process
by which Canadian elect their Prime Minister.  I'm not
entirely sure it is better than direct election of a head of
state but it is interesting.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu

-- Original Message  -
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 07:48:39 -0800, Don Allen wrote:
Hi Mike-

You asked, " Don't you folks in Canada elect your Prime Minister through 
a

popular vote?"


No we don't. Most Canadians don't get to vote directly for the Prime 
Minister

because thy don't live in his riding. A riding is an electoral district.
Candidates compete against one another within ridings and the person 
with the
most votes (often a plurality not a majority as there are usually at 
least
three major parties represented) becomes the member of Parliament for 
that
riding. The party with the greatest number of seats in Parliament puts 
forward
their leader (assuming he or she has won their riding) as Prime 
Minister. The
advantage of this system is that you can't have the situation that you 
have
just endured where a Democrat President was constantly fighting a 
hostile
Republican Congress. In our system the government actually gets to 
govern! That
said, there will occasionally be a "minority government". Since we have 
three
major parties it sometimes happens that one party takes power with less 
than a
majority of seats. These are often good things because they prevent one 
party
from running roughshod over the others and usually result in good 
compromise

legislation.


Hope that helps. 



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Re: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?

[dhogberg]

Many thanks 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:47 AM, don allen <dap...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> Hi Mike-
> 
> You asked, " Don't you folks in Canada elect your Prime Minister through a 
> popular vote?"
> 
> No we don't. Most Canadians don't get to vote directly for the Prime Minister 
> because thy don't live in his riding. A riding is an electoral district. 
> Candidates compete against one another within ridings and the person with the 
> most votes (often a plurality not a majority as there are usually at least 
> three major parties represented) becomes the member of Parliament for that 
> riding. The party with the greatest number of seats in Parliament puts 
> forward their leader (assuming he or she has won their riding) as Prime 
> Minister. The advantage of this system is that you can't have the situation 
> that you have just endured where a Democrat President was constantly fighting 
> a hostile Republican Congress. In our system the government actually gets to 
> govern! That said, there will occasionally be a "minority government". Since 
> we have three major parties it sometimes happens that one party takes power 
> with less than a majority of seats. These are often good things because they 
> prevent one party from running roughshod over the others and usually result 
> in good compromise legislation. 
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> -Don.
> 
> From: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu>
> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" 
> <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu>
> Cc: "Michael Palij" <m...@nyu.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 8:50:59 AM
> Subject: RE: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?
> 
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:06:35 -0800,  Stuart McKelvie wrote:
> > https://www.concordia.ca/jmsb/faculty/gad-saad.html
> 
> Thanks for the link but I did searches on the interweb on him
> because some of the things he's posted on Linkedin are,
> well, interesting and not in a good way.
> 
> For an alternate view of the good professor, see the following
> discussion board "BadSocialScience" on Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/BadSocialScience/comments/3zl9is/oh_my_gad/
> 
> Needless to say, one conclusion that can be drawn is that his
> hype is greater than his substance and another conclusion is
> that he appears to overconfident in his opinions and not realize
> the tentative nature of his claims.
> 
> >Dear Mike,
> >
> >I attended a public lecture he gave here at Bishop's in 2008 (scroll
> >down in the link above to see the listing).
> >
> >From memory, it was fairly interesting, was data based, but perhaps a 
> >little
> >bit glib.
> 
> From what I read at the site above and elsewhere, I think the term
> "glib" is perhaps an understatement and add in an inability to
> know where the line is that separates serious discussion from
> glib statements, indeed, confusing the two.  But just my opinion.
> Take a look at this post that he made which can be described
> in a variety of ways but one might start with the question "What
> set this off?"  See:
> https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/2ff5bd00-a1a3-4f25-8631-9d7348e2fe14-original.png
> 
> I'm not sure who he is referring to when he says unidentified
> people are trying to "magically" win the Presidential election
> for Hillary Clinton through some "fudging process" (not sure
> but actual fudge might be involved; it seems to me that he
> doesn't really understand what the electoral college is or
> how it came about).  Don't you folks in Canada elect your
> Prime Minister through a popular vote?  If so, I'm surprised
> the Prof appears to be unfamiliar with the concept.
> 
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
> m...@nyu.edu
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu]
> Sent: November 16, 2016 8:48 AM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Cc: Michael Palij
> Subject: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?
> 
> I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in because of 
> former
> students sending me invites) and though I have tried to keep contacts on 
> a
> professional level, there are some folks that one might characterize as
> "interesting" (as in the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting 
> times).
> One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much time on his hands 
> and
> seems to be heavy into self-promotion.
> There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad
> The best I can figure out is that he started out 

Re: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?

[don allen]

Hi Mike- 


You asked, " Don't you folks in Canada elect your Prime Minister through a 
popular vote?" 


No we don't. Most Canadians don't get to vote directly for the Prime Minister 
because thy don't live in his riding. A riding is an electoral district. 
Candidates compete against one another within ridings and the person with the 
most votes (often a plurality not a majority as there are usually at least 
three major parties represented) becomes the member of Parliament for that 
riding. The party with the greatest number of seats in Parliament puts forward 
their leader (assuming he or she has won their riding) as Prime Minister. The 
advantage of this system is that you can't have the situation that you have 
just endured where a Democrat President was constantly fighting a hostile 
Republican Congress. In our system the government actually gets to govern! That 
said, there will occasionally be a "minority government". Since we have three 
major parties it sometimes happens that one party takes power with less than a 
majority of seats. These are often good things because they prevent one party 
from running roughshod over the others and usually result in good compromise 
legislation. 


Hope that helps. 


-Don. 

- Original Message -

From: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> 
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" 
<tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> 
Cc: "Michael Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> 
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 8:50:59 AM 
Subject: RE: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad? 

On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:06:35 -0800, Stuart McKelvie wrote: 
> https://www.concordia.ca/jmsb/faculty/gad-saad.html 

Thanks for the link but I did searches on the interweb on him 
because some of the things he's posted on Linkedin are, 
well, interesting and not in a good way. 

For an alternate view of the good professor, see the following 
discussion board "BadSocialScience" on Reddit: 
https://www.reddit.com/r/BadSocialScience/comments/3zl9is/oh_my_gad/ 

Needless to say, one conclusion that can be drawn is that his 
hype is greater than his substance and another conclusion is 
that he appears to overconfident in his opinions and not realize 
the tentative nature of his claims. 

>Dear Mike, 
> 
>I attended a public lecture he gave here at Bishop's in 2008 (scroll 
>down in the link above to see the listing). 
> 
>From memory, it was fairly interesting, was data based, but perhaps a 
>little 
>bit glib. 

>From what I read at the site above and elsewhere, I think the term 
"glib" is perhaps an understatement and add in an inability to 
know where the line is that separates serious discussion from 
glib statements, indeed, confusing the two. But just my opinion. 
Take a look at this post that he made which can be described 
in a variety of ways but one might start with the question "What 
set this off?" See: 
https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/2ff5bd00-a1a3-4f25-8631-9d7348e2fe14-original.png
 

I'm not sure who he is referring to when he says unidentified 
people are trying to "magically" win the Presidential election 
for Hillary Clinton through some "fudging process" (not sure 
but actual fudge might be involved; it seems to me that he 
doesn't really understand what the electoral college is or 
how it came about). Don't you folks in Canada elect your 
Prime Minister through a popular vote? If so, I'm surprised 
the Prof appears to be unfamiliar with the concept. 

-Mike Palij 
New York University 
m...@nyu.edu 



-Original Message- 
From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] 
Sent: November 16, 2016 8:48 AM 
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) 
Cc: Michael Palij 
Subject: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad? 

I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in because of 
former 
students sending me invites) and though I have tried to keep contacts on 
a 
professional level, there are some folks that one might characterize as 
"interesting" (as in the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting 
times). 
One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much time on his hands 
and 
seems to be heavy into self-promotion. 
There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad 
The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian colleges 
and went 
on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: 
I'm not 
saying anything about that photo) 
https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9 
and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an 
endowed chair 
which always raises questions). 

Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that early 
on he 
seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive psychologist (even 
making 
some presentation a the meetings of the Society

RE: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?

[Mike Palij]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:06:35 -0800,  Stuart McKelvie wrote:

https://www.concordia.ca/jmsb/faculty/gad-saad.html


Thanks for the link but I did searches on the interweb on him
because some of the things he's posted on Linkedin are,
well, interesting and not in a good way.

For an alternate view of the good professor, see the following
discussion board "BadSocialScience" on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BadSocialScience/comments/3zl9is/oh_my_gad/

Needless to say, one conclusion that can be drawn is that his
hype is greater than his substance and another conclusion is
that he appears to overconfident in his opinions and not realize
the tentative nature of his claims.


Dear Mike,

I attended a public lecture he gave here at Bishop's in 2008 (scroll
down in the link above to see the listing).

From memory, it was fairly interesting, was data based, but perhaps a 
little

bit glib.



From what I read at the site above and elsewhere, I think the term

"glib" is perhaps an understatement and add in an inability to
know where the line is that separates serious discussion from
glib statements, indeed, confusing the two.  But just my opinion.
Take a look at this post that he made which can be described
in a variety of ways but one might start with the question "What
set this off?"  See:
https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/2ff5bd00-a1a3-4f25-8631-9d7348e2fe14-original.png

I'm not sure who he is referring to when he says unidentified
people are trying to "magically" win the Presidential election
for Hillary Clinton through some "fudging process" (not sure
but actual fudge might be involved; it seems to me that he
doesn't really understand what the electoral college is or
how it came about).  Don't you folks in Canada elect your
Prime Minister through a popular vote?  If so, I'm surprised
the Prof appears to be unfamiliar with the concept.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu



-Original Message-
From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu]
Sent: November 16, 2016 8:48 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc: Michael Palij
Subject: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?

I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in because of 
former
students sending me invites) and though I have tried to keep contacts on 
a

professional level, there are some folks that one might characterize as
"interesting" (as in the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting 
times).
One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much time on his hands 
and

seems to be heavy into self-promotion.
There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad
The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian colleges 
and went
on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: 
I'm not

saying anything about that photo)
https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9
and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an 
endowed chair

which always raises questions).

Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that early 
on he
seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive psychologist (even 
making
some presentation a the meetings of the Society for Computers in 
Psychology

which historical meets before the Psychonomics meeting; my mentor Doris
Aaronson was involved in SCiP) but somewhere along they way he appears 
to have
gone off the rails, focusing on evolutionary psychology and consumer 
psychology
(not necessarily bad things but raises certain issues). Not as bad as, 
say,

publishing article in the journal "Intelligence". ;-)

These days he seems to be more involved in doing podcasts (thank God 
these
things will die out soon), making appearances on TV shows, and making 
weird
posts to Linkedin.  Apparently trying to become a pop psychologist which 
always
pays better than being an academic. But for some reason he reminds of 
the
comedian Marc Maron, perhaps best known for his recent TV series on IFC 
(see

his Wiki entry) except Saad is not as funny a Maron.

So, what's is the story about Saad from Canadians who are familiar with 
him?

You can contact me off-list if you like but I would appreciate a public
discussion if possible.

Send me something.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu

P.S. It is "interesting" (see definition above) to be living in the same 
city
as Voldemort and all of the protests (some by students from NYU starting 
at

Washington Square Park and moving uptown).
To get some idea of how "popular" Voldemort is in Manhattan, see the 
following
which give a map of voting patterns in Manhattan at some surrounding 
areas but

with an emphasis on the Lower East Side:
http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2016/11/heres-how-many-voters-picked-trump-on-the-lower-east-side.html
I'm still trying to figure out who the 7% in the East Village who voted 

RE: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?

[Stuart McKelvie]

https://www.concordia.ca/jmsb/faculty/gad-saad.html

Dear Mike,

I attended a public lecture he gave here at Bishop's in 2008 (scroll down in 
the link above to see the listing).

>From memory, it was fairly interesting, was data based, but perhaps a little 
>bit glib.

Sincerely,

Stuart




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-Original Message-
From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] 
Sent: November 16, 2016 8:48 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc: Michael Palij
Subject: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?

I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in because of former 
students sending me invites) and though I have tried to keep contacts on a 
professional level, there are some folks that one might characterize as 
"interesting" (as in the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times).
One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much time on his hands and  
seems to be heavy into self-promotion.
There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad
The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian colleges and went 
on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: I'm not 
saying anything about that photo)
https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9
and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an endowed chair 
which always raises questions).

Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that early on he 
seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive psychologist (even making 
some presentation a the meetings of the Society for Computers in Psychology 
which historical meets before the Psychonomics meeting; my mentor Doris 
Aaronson was involved in SCiP) but somewhere along they way he appears to have 
gone off the rails, focusing on evolutionary psychology and consumer psychology 
(not necessarily bad things but raises certain issues). Not as bad as, say, 
publishing article in the journal "Intelligence". ;-)

These days he seems to be more involved in doing podcasts (thank God these 
things will die out soon), making appearances on TV shows, and making weird 
posts to Linkedin.  Apparently trying to become a pop psychologist which always 
pays better than being an academic. But for some reason he reminds of the 
comedian Marc Maron, perhaps best known for his recent TV series on IFC (see 
his Wiki entry) except Saad is not as funny a Maron.

So, what's is the story about Saad from Canadians who are familiar with him?  
You can contact me off-list if you like but I would appreciate a public 
discussion if possible.

Send me something.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu

P.S. It is "interesting" (see definition above) to be living in the same city 
as Voldemort and all of the protests (some by students from NYU starting at 
Washington Square Park and moving uptown).
To get some idea of how "popular" Voldemort is in Manhattan, see the following 
which give a map of voting patterns in Manhattan at some surrounding areas but 
with an emphasis on the Lower East Side:
http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2016/11/heres-how-many-voters-picked-trump-on-the-lower-east-side.html
I'm still trying to figure out who the 7% in the East Village who voted to 
Voldemort.

.P.P.S Think that NYU is a bastion of "Liberal PC Hellfire"?
You are not alone as one of out faculty expressed these ideas though on Twitter 
under the pseudonym "Deplorable Professor".
Michael Rectenwald; a op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post can be accessed 
here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/campus-pc-culture-is-so-rampant-that-nyu-is-paying-to-silence-me/?utm_term=.c94cd6997e83
NOTE: Rectenwald at first implied he was forced to take a leave from NYU but it 
turns out that he had requested a leave -- see the updated Editor Note at the 
bottom of the WaPo piece and:
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/november/email-correspondence-between-professor-michael-rectenwald-and-de.html
So, what is the current status of the self-righteous anti-PC faculty member?  
He got a promotion; see:
h

Re: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?

[Mike Palij]

On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 05:57:08 -0800, Christopher Green wrote:

Mike,

Never heard of him. Thankfully, from what I can gather.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.


Chris, you are one of people that are my "go to" sources
for things Canadian, so, if you are not familiar with this
guy, that really does say something.  Maybe one of the
other Canadians know of him but it seems to me that he
is trying to be more like Dr. Phil (pop psych) than a
serious psychologist who is trying to popularize some
aspects of psychology (e.g., Stephen Pinker though
he too has his own problems beside needing a
haircut ;-).

Thanks anyway.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu


On Nov 16, 2016, at 8:48 AM, Mike Palij  wrote:


I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in
because of former students sending me invites) and though I
have tried to keep contacts on a professional level, there are
some folks that one might characterize as "interesting" (as in
the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times).
One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much
time on his hands and  seems to be heavy into self-promotion.
There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad
The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian
colleges and went on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named
Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: I'm not saying anything about that photo)
https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9
and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an
endowed chair which always raises questions).

Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that
early on he seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive
psychologist (even making some presentation a the meetings of
the Society for Computers in Psychology which historical meets
before the Psychonomics meeting; my mentor Doris Aaronson
was involved in SCiP) but somewhere along they way he appears
to have gone off the rails, focusing on evolutionary psychology and
consumer psychology (not necessarily bad things but raises
certain issues). Not as bad as, say, publishing article in the journal
"Intelligence". ;-)

These days he seems to be more involved in doing podcasts (thank
God these things will die out soon), making appearances on TV
shows, and making weird posts to Linkedin.  Apparently trying to
become a pop psychologist which always pays better than being
an academic. But for some reason he reminds of the comedian
Marc Maron, perhaps best known for his recent TV series on IFC
(see his Wiki entry) except Saad is not as funny a Maron.

So, what's is the story about Saad from Canadians who are
familiar with him?  You can contact me off-list if you like but
I would appreciate a public discussion if possible.

Send me something.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu

P.S. It is "interesting" (see definition above) to be living in the
same city as Voldemort and all of the protests (some by students
from NYU starting at Washington Square Park and moving uptown).
To get some idea of how "popular" Voldemort is in Manhattan, see
the following which give a map of voting patterns in Manhattan at
some surrounding areas but with an emphasis on the Lower
East Side:
http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2016/11/heres-how-many-voters-picked-trump-on-the-lower-east-side.html
I'm still trying to figure out who the 7% in the East Village who
voted to Voldemort.

.P.P.S Think that NYU is a bastion of "Liberal PC Hellfire"?
You are not alone as one of out faculty expressed these ideas
though on Twitter under the pseudonym "Deplorable Professor".
Michael Rectenwald; a op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post
can be accessed here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/campus-pc-culture-is-so-rampant-that-nyu-is-paying-to-silence-me/?utm_term=.c94cd6997e83
NOTE: Rectenwald at first implied he was forced to take a leave
from NYU but it turns out that he had requested a leave -- see
the updated Editor Note at the bottom of the WaPo piece and:
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/november/email-correspondence-between-professor-michael-rectenwald-and-de.html
So, what is the current status of the self-righteous anti-PC faculty
member?  He got a promotion; see:
http://nypost.com/2016/11/13/nyu-awards-promotion-and-full-time-gig-to-deplorable-professor/
Damn!  Sound like being anti-PC really pays off! ;-) 



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Re: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?

[Christopher Green]

Mike,

Never heard of him. Thankfully, from what I can gather. 
Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
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On Nov 16, 2016, at 8:48 AM, Mike Palij  wrote:

> I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in
> because of former students sending me invites) and though I
> have tried to keep contacts on a professional level, there are
> some folks that one might characterize as "interesting" (as in
> the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times).
> One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much
> time on his hands and  seems to be heavy into self-promotion.
> There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad
> The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian
> colleges and went on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named
> Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: I'm not saying anything about that photo)
> https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9
> and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an
> endowed chair which always raises questions).
> 
> Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that
> early on he seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive
> psychologist (even making some presentation a the meetings of
> the Society for Computers in Psychology which historical meets
> before the Psychonomics meeting; my mentor Doris Aaronson
> was involved in SCiP) but somewhere along they way he appears
> to have gone off the rails, focusing on evolutionary psychology and
> consumer psychology (not necessarily bad things but raises
> certain issues). Not as bad as, say, publishing article in the journal
> "Intelligence". ;-)
> 
> These days he seems to be more involved in doing podcasts (thank
> God these things will die out soon), making appearances on TV
> shows, and making weird posts to Linkedin.  Apparently trying to
> become a pop psychologist which always pays better than being
> an academic. But for some reason he reminds of the comedian
> Marc Maron, perhaps best known for his recent TV series on IFC
> (see his Wiki entry) except Saad is not as funny a Maron.
> 
> So, what's is the story about Saad from Canadians who are
> familiar with him?  You can contact me off-list if you like but
> I would appreciate a public discussion if possible.
> 
> Send me something.
> 
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
> m...@nyu.edu
> 
> P.S. It is "interesting" (see definition above) to be living in the
> same city as Voldemort and all of the protests (some by students
> from NYU starting at Washington Square Park and moving uptown).
> To get some idea of how "popular" Voldemort is in Manhattan, see
> the following which give a map of voting patterns in Manhattan at
> some surrounding areas but with an emphasis on the Lower
> East Side:
> http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2016/11/heres-how-many-voters-picked-trump-on-the-lower-east-side.html
> I'm still trying to figure out who the 7% in the East Village who
> voted to Voldemort.
> 
> .P.P.S Think that NYU is a bastion of "Liberal PC Hellfire"?
> You are not alone as one of out faculty expressed these ideas
> though on Twitter under the pseudonym "Deplorable Professor".
> Michael Rectenwald; a op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post
> can be accessed here:
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/campus-pc-culture-is-so-rampant-that-nyu-is-paying-to-silence-me/?utm_term=.c94cd6997e83
> NOTE: Rectenwald at first implied he was forced to take a leave
> from NYU but it turns out that he had requested a leave -- see
> the updated Editor Note at the bottom of the WaPo piece and:
> https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/november/email-correspondence-between-professor-michael-rectenwald-and-de.html
> So, what is the current status of the self-righteous anti-PC faculty
> member?  He got a promotion; see:
> http://nypost.com/2016/11/13/nyu-awards-promotion-and-full-time-gig-to-deplorable-professor/
> Damn!  Sound like being anti-PC really pays off! ;-)
> 
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[tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad?

[Mike Palij]

I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in
because of former students sending me invites) and though I
have tried to keep contacts on a professional level, there are
some folks that one might characterize as "interesting" (as in
the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times).
One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much
time on his hands and  seems to be heavy into self-promotion.
There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad
The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian
colleges and went on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named
Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: I'm not saying anything about that photo)
https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9
and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an
endowed chair which always raises questions).

Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that
early on he seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive
psychologist (even making some presentation a the meetings of
the Society for Computers in Psychology which historical meets
before the Psychonomics meeting; my mentor Doris Aaronson
was involved in SCiP) but somewhere along they way he appears
to have gone off the rails, focusing on evolutionary psychology and
consumer psychology (not necessarily bad things but raises
certain issues). Not as bad as, say, publishing article in the journal
"Intelligence". ;-)

These days he seems to be more involved in doing podcasts (thank
God these things will die out soon), making appearances on TV
shows, and making weird posts to Linkedin.  Apparently trying to
become a pop psychologist which always pays better than being
an academic. But for some reason he reminds of the comedian
Marc Maron, perhaps best known for his recent TV series on IFC
(see his Wiki entry) except Saad is not as funny a Maron.

So, what's is the story about Saad from Canadians who are
familiar with him?  You can contact me off-list if you like but
I would appreciate a public discussion if possible.

Send me something.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu

P.S. It is "interesting" (see definition above) to be living in the
same city as Voldemort and all of the protests (some by students
from NYU starting at Washington Square Park and moving uptown).
To get some idea of how "popular" Voldemort is in Manhattan, see
the following which give a map of voting patterns in Manhattan at
some surrounding areas but with an emphasis on the Lower
East Side:
http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2016/11/heres-how-many-voters-picked-trump-on-the-lower-east-side.html
I'm still trying to figure out who the 7% in the East Village who
voted to Voldemort.

.P.P.S Think that NYU is a bastion of "Liberal PC Hellfire"?
You are not alone as one of out faculty expressed these ideas
though on Twitter under the pseudonym "Deplorable Professor".
Michael Rectenwald; a op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post
can be accessed here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/campus-pc-culture-is-so-rampant-that-nyu-is-paying-to-silence-me/?utm_term=.c94cd6997e83
NOTE: Rectenwald at first implied he was forced to take a leave
from NYU but it turns out that he had requested a leave -- see
the updated Editor Note at the bottom of the WaPo piece and:
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/november/email-correspondence-between-professor-michael-rectenwald-and-de.html
So, what is the current status of the self-righteous anti-PC faculty
member?  He got a promotion; see:
http://nypost.com/2016/11/13/nyu-awards-promotion-and-full-time-gig-to-deplorable-professor/
Damn!  Sound like being anti-PC really pays off! ;-)


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