Curt Doolittle

Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

  • The reason children have difficulty in the classroom today is that present metho

    The reason children have difficulty in the classroom today is that present methods of teaching focus on the teacher, instead of information organized into simulations and games, and places undue burden on attention, working memory, and memorization without any reason to do so other than stress. THey fail because the methods fail, because the methods are either archaic or pseudoscientific.
    Group of Ed Masters candidates asked me to opinine on just the impact of court and legislation on the negative results of education despite the infinite money we throw at it.
    It wasn’t hard.
    Multiple premises teachers operate under, plus the combination of teachers with political or social agendas on one side, parents who disagree with them on the other, the use of the law to negate parental preference, the use of the law as an excuse for mediocrity, and the resulting weakness of the teacher to provide guidance that is competitive rather than ‘non conflict generating’ is another reason for the decline.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 21:58:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647721034043346945

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647715935946432513

  • The reason children have difficulty in the classroom today is that present metho

    The reason children have difficulty in the classroom today is that present methods of teaching focus on the teacher, instead of information organized into simulations and games, and places undue burden on attention, working memory, and memorization without any reason to do so other than stress. THey fail because the methods fail, because the methods are either archaic or pseudoscientific.
    Group of Ed Masters candidates asked me to opinine on just the impact of court and legislation on the negative results of education despite the infinite money we throw at it.
    It wasn’t hard.
    Multiple premises teachers operate under, plus the combination of teachers with political or social agendas on one side, parents who disagree with them on the other, the use of the law to negate parental preference, the use of the law as an excuse for mediocrity, and the resulting weakness of the teacher to provide guidance that is competitive rather than ‘non conflict generating’ is another reason for the decline.

    Reply addressees: @goodtroubless @terrilbruce @GregAbbott_TX

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 21:58:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647721033913303048

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  • We love women. We just don’t observe in the data that women are as systematic an

    We love women. We just don’t observe in the data that women are as systematic and empirical thinkers as men, and that in the aggregate the equality of our votes has produced a catastrophe by the incremental infantilization of the population to suit female sensibilities of…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 18:20:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647666319725060099

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647664206823686144

  • You clearly aren’t terribly literate then given Faulkner, Dickens, or even Linco

    You clearly aren’t terribly literate then given Faulkner, Dickens, or even Lincoln. Sentences place a burden on working memory, and working memory is a fair proxy for intelligence. One of the reasons to write in operational prose in long sentences is to state something meaningful that only capable people can understand, and in doing so filter out the ‘comments by the unwashed masses’ so to speak. The demand for short sentences is a postwar phenom, due to the military discovery of the practical illiteracy of the people, and the desire to sell newspapers to the working and laboring (lower) classes, in order to promote political agendas via them. Schools have dumbed down education severely over the decades. But then we are losing more than 1 point of IQ per decade and at the present rate will turn into a second world population within 25 years, and a third world population by the end of the century. History will ironically note that the great tragedy of the 20th was not the world wars themselves but the mistaken postwar anti-darwinian movement that reversed the prewar investment in soft eugeics. (if that doesn’t burn you up I don’t know what will).

    Reply addressees: @enfuegosmom @terrilbruce @GregAbbott_TX

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 18:18:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647665807671926790

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  • You clearly aren’t terribly literate then given Faulkner, Dickens, or even Linco

    You clearly aren’t terribly literate then given Faulkner, Dickens, or even Lincoln. Sentences place a burden on working memory, and working memory is a fair proxy for intelligence. One of the reasons to write in operational prose in long sentences is to state something meaningful that only capable people can understand, and in doing so filter out the ‘comments by the unwashed masses’ so to speak. The demand for short sentences is a postwar phenom, due to the military discovery of the practical illiteracy of the people, and the desire to sell newspapers to the working and laboring (lower) classes, in order to promote political agendas via them. Schools have dumbed down education severely over the decades. But then we are losing more than 1 point of IQ per decade and at the present rate will turn into a second world population within 25 years, and a third world population by the end of the century. History will ironically note that the great tragedy of the 20th was not the world wars themselves but the mistaken postwar anti-darwinian movement that reversed the prewar investment in soft eugeics. (if that doesn’t burn you up I don’t know what will).

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 18:18:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647665807789359104

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  • There is a discipline called computational linguistics. And what we can determin

    There is a discipline called computational linguistics. And what we can determine about your personality from only about one hundred words generally horrifies people when they discover it. I work primarily in epistemology, cognitive science, behavioral economics, and law, and this means I indirectly study sex, class, cultural and generational differences in lying. So by and large people are tediously transparent bots, running on randomly accumulated bias that justifies their genetic predispositions – all of us (or at least nearly all of us) unaware that we are, largely, bots, with a comforting delusion of self regulation.

    Reply addressees: @Elonlosthismind @terrilbruce @GregAbbott_TX

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 17:23:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647651878019186689

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  • There is a discipline called computational linguistics. And what we can determin

    There is a discipline called computational linguistics. And what we can determine about your personality from only about one hundred words generally horrifies people when they discover it. I work primarily in epistemology, cognitive science, behavioral economics, and law, and this means I indirectly study sex, class, cultural and generational differences in lying. So by and large people are tediously transparent bots, running on randomly accumulated bias that justifies their genetic predispositions – all of us (or at least nearly all of us) unaware that we are, largely, bots, with a comforting delusion of self regulation.

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 17:23:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647651878107242497

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  • I have the much harder problem of educating adults who teachers failed to educat

    I have the much harder problem of educating adults who teachers failed to educate, and whose professors failed to educate them in turn, whose professors were intentional trained to ‘undermine the institutions of cultural production’. And if you don’t know that then why do you…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 14:33:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647609259553705986

    Reply addressees: @Angelia_143 @terrilbruce @GregAbbott_TX

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647499356117913601

  • Much of my work is dependent on cognitive science of sex, personality, and matur

    Much of my work is dependent on cognitive science of sex, personality, and maturity differences and cultural influences on unknown presumptions, differences in group evolutionary strategy, supporting myths and ‘logics’ and variations in reasoning possible under them. And no you…

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 14:15:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647604531767681026

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  • This is because (as research has shown) you are teaching incorrectly. Whereas, f

    This is because (as research has shown) you are teaching incorrectly. Whereas, for example, most of the male world learns english playing video games. And there is nothing that can’t be taught through the dopamine rich experience of adversarial competition in games and simulations.
    Like I said your industry has failed, and the teachers, teachers unions, and the DOE, and the pseudocience that has evolved in granting the hierarchy of education degrees, have created resistance to reform that will require a purge if we can’t reform it politically.
    How do you know you’re not damaging children rather than improving them? We know. School is very close to prison.

    Reply addressees: @DiceCookPlate @terrilbruce @GregAbbott_TX

    Source date (UTC): 2023-04-16 14:04:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1647601856867188736

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