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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From: Mike Palij [mailto:[email protected]]
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
[email protected]
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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