....Hans Eysenck, the master Freud baiter (and don't leave out the "Freud" part) who never backed away from a good fight, has a wonderful anecdote. He says (Eysenck, 1992) that a large granting agency once offered a million dollars to fund a trial in which psychoanalytic therapy would go head-to-head with behaviour therapy. to see which was more effective. Eysenck says his colleagues and he welcomed the offer, but the psychoanalysts turned it down. And we know why they did.
Interestingly, we see some of the same 'logic' offered in regard to the assessment of educational practices: if it can be measured, then it's not important.
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"No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." -H. L. Mencken
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