WHAT KIND OF PROFESSOR DOES THIS pic.twitter.com/ACtQ0FCwRm
— shahanye (@shaunhin) July 1, 2015
Exceptionally dense:
… The “evil genius” behind the twisted question? Dr. Dylan Selterman… Selterman says the exercise was originally published in a psychology journal 25 years ago and has since been adapted by a number of his colleagues. He says it’s intended to illustrate the tragedy of the commons…
Selterman says only one class — his fall 2011 group — has received the extra credit since he first implemented the exercise in 2008….
Rafikian — whose tweet has since been shared more than 6,000 times — told USA TODAY College: “I honestly wasn’t expecting this tweet to go viral. It was really interesting though to see how people would respond to the question and what they thought was the ‘right’ choice.”
He adds that he was shocked to discover that he was an outlier in the exercise.
“I was surprised and disappointed — surprised by not only how 20% of the class chose six points but also by how many responses on Twitter said to take the six points.”
But Selterman says he was unsurprised by the results, adding that he hopes his students at least walk away from his course with a sense of mindfulness…
This story is popping up all over the ‘tubes, and it will probably surprise none of you how many readers are outraged that a psychology professor for an upper-level course should use “trick questions” to inculcate “our kids” with suspicious liberal ideas like community, personal sacrifice, and predicting results from evidence…
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