And of course, it's an attempt to fudge the real problem -- multiple
tours of combat duty.
If we're going to fight two wars, we need a much larger army to
spread the load.
In other words, a draft.
On Aug 18, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Jim Clark wrote:
Hi
It appears to me that important evaluative steps are being ignored
or inadequately dealt with in this proposed program. They've
already decided that millions will receive the training when there
is limited reason to believe the program will be effective, unless
one thinks it is valid to generalize from middle and high school
students to soldiers in wartime. I use the DEOMI video in my
culture class (it's about the military's equal opportunity program)
and again wonder about the strength of the evidence for this
approach to changing race-related attitudes and behaviors. It is
not that they have ignored evidence, just they have looked for it
with weak (i.e., non-experimental) methods. Ironically, with so
many thousands to expose to programs, it would be easy to use
random selection to set up true evaluations for these programs.
Take care
Jim
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"Joan Warmbold" <[email protected]> 18-Aug-09 4:28:06 PM >>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/health/18psych.html?em
Thought this article reveals a relatively enlightened perspective
in some
in our armed forces.
Joan
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