Hi On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Al Shealy wrote: > If the letter of rec. is supposed to be our estimate of a student's > ability to perform in graduate school or as a professional, religious > beliefs should ONLY be relevant if they are indeed correlated with > graduate school performance or professional performance. Where is the > evidence that religious beliefs are correlated with either of these? And > where is the evidence that people who don't believe in evolution can't (or > don't) perform as well in non-theologically oriented counseling programs? > > Surely you have data to support such beliefs, right Paul?
A few people seem to have assumed that the controversial letters of recommendation concerned application to graduate school in psychology or counselling. They did not. It was application to medical school. The professor concerned argued on his site that non-belief in evolution compromised the ability to benefit fully from a contemporary medical education. Best wishes Jim ============================================================================ James M. Clark (204) 786-9757 Department of Psychology (204) 774-4134 Fax University of Winnipeg 4L05D Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark ============================================================================ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
