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> On Nov 17, 2016, at 10:47 AM, don allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Mike- > > You asked, " Don't you folks in Canada elect your Prime Minister through a > popular vote?" > > No we don't. Most Canadians don't get to vote directly for the Prime Minister > because thy don't live in his riding. A riding is an electoral district. > Candidates compete against one another within ridings and the person with the > most votes (often a plurality not a majority as there are usually at least > three major parties represented) becomes the member of Parliament for that > riding. The party with the greatest number of seats in Parliament puts > forward their leader (assuming he or she has won their riding) as Prime > Minister. The advantage of this system is that you can't have the situation > that you have just endured where a Democrat President was constantly fighting > a hostile Republican Congress. In our system the government actually gets to > govern! That said, there will occasionally be a "minority government". Since > we have three major parties it sometimes happens that one party takes power > with less than a majority of seats. These are often good things because they > prevent one party from running roughshod over the others and usually result > in good compromise legislation. > > Hope that helps. > > -Don. > > From: "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> > To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" > <[email protected]> > Cc: "Michael Palij" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 8:50:59 AM > Subject: RE: [tips] To Canadian Tipsters: Who/What is Gad Saad? > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:06:35 -0800, Stuart McKelvie wrote: > > https://www.concordia.ca/jmsb/faculty/gad-saad.html > > Thanks for the link but I did searches on the interweb on him > because some of the things he's posted on Linkedin are, > well, interesting and not in a good way. > > For an alternate view of the good professor, see the following > discussion board "BadSocialScience" on Reddit: > https://www.reddit.com/r/BadSocialScience/comments/3zl9is/oh_my_gad/ > > Needless to say, one conclusion that can be drawn is that his > hype is greater than his substance and another conclusion is > that he appears to overconfident in his opinions and not realize > the tentative nature of his claims. > > >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. > > From what I read at the site above and elsewhere, I think the term > "glib" is perhaps an understatement and add in an inability to > know where the line is that separates serious discussion from > glib statements, indeed, confusing the two. But just my opinion. > Take a look at this post that he made which can be described > in a variety of ways but one might start with the question "What > set this off?" See: > https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/2ff5bd00-a1a3-4f25-8631-9d7348e2fe14-original.png > > I'm not sure who he is referring to when he says unidentified > people are trying to "magically" win the Presidential election > for Hillary Clinton through some "fudging process" (not sure > but actual fudge might be involved; it seems to me that he > doesn't really understand what the electoral college is or > how it came about). Don't you folks in Canada elect your > Prime Minister through a popular vote? If so, I'm surprised > the Prof appears to be unfamiliar with the concept. > > -Mike Palij > New York University > [email protected] > > > > -----Original Message----- > 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! 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