On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 06:44:15 -0800, Christopher Green wrote:
We'll make you rational in just four days! (for $3900)
What intrigued me about the four day marathon session is that this
is a "massed" learning situation in contrast to a "distributed" learning
situation which should lead to poorer long-term retention.
I wonder if any of the clinicians on Tips know what the long term
effects are of "marathon therapy sessions" versus distributed
therapy sessions? After 12 months, do the two groups show
the same or different benefits (or damage, as the case may be).
Sounds a lot like the same old pitch. (Revise central noun as dictated
by
fashion.)
Might be fun anyway, but it's beyond my price point.
Well, note that most of the participants are programmers and other
folks associated with the information technology industry, so they
probably can afford the fee. I'm sure that the people who run
this "enterprise" use "inability to pay" as an exclusion criterion.
Here's a question to ask students if you assign this as a reading:
to whom do the apparent results reported in this article generalize
to? The naive assumption would be everybody but given the
select nature of the participants, if this works it may work for
only a limited group of people.
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
P.S. Follow your bliss if you want to end up making bad decisions.
On Jan 16, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Mike Palij wrote:
Okay, so there is an article in the NY Times magazine for this
weekend about a group of people who are using behavioral
economics concepts in workshops somewhat reminiscent of
EST sessions but, depending upon your viewpoint, either are
much more rational or wackier (what with the whole Skynet
end of human civilization meme and cryogenics). Tipsters
may find it either interesting or terrifying or, simply, WTF?
You decide. See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/magazine/the-happiness-code.html?em_pos=large&emc=edit_ma_20160115&nl=magazine&nlid=389166&_r=0
Remember:
Think positive only when it is warranted by the facts.
And so on.
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
P.S. I think it helps if you have read Robert Heinlein's
"A Stranger in a Strange Land" -- it makes the article
easier to grok.
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