Please join the Heterodox Academy Campus Chapter at Stanford University for the inaugural Disagree with a Professor lunch event on Meyer Green on Tuesday, April 28th from 12:00pm - 1:15pm where you’ll be able to engage with different faculty about a variety of claims, including:
- Mail-in voting was a bad idea. Everyone should vote in-person on Election Day.
- Forget the Electoral College; we should abolish the Presidency.
- We are less prepared for the next pandemic now than we were before COVID, despite significant advances in our ability to detect, analyze, prevent, and treat infectious disease.
- Grading of students by the professor who teaches the class is biased. It should be eliminated or supplemented with evaluations by unaffiliated evaluators.
- The world is a safer place in the 21st century than ever before.
- Geography is the force that drives history.
Those sound like spirited topics! Naturally, however, I thought of this:
5 comments:
"Grading of students by the professor who teaches the class is biased."
I've been in a class or two where there was only one professor with the current background to teach or grade the material effectively. Not that the others couldn't have caught up, but it would take a chunk of time.
That’s a very good point.
I'll bite.
1. The one Prof is correct: mail-in voting is, in general, a terrible idea. I lends itself too much to ballot harvesting, which has been, empirically, primarily dishonest.
Mail-in voting also is too vulnerable to post office untimeliness and to mail thefts.
There are exceptions to mail-in voting: military personnel stationed or TDY outside their voting precinct, business traveler outside his voting precinct for the duration of his precinct's early voting period (which periods generally much too long, but that's a separate matter).
2. The second Prof is just trolling, and so not worth much trouble. Let him explain why the alternatives--a PM under the thumb of the legislature, or a committee in charge, or a dictator--are better alternatives. If those aren't his thoughts, let him state his alternative and defend it.
Eric Hines
An unaffiliated evaluator almost by definition has no qualifications for teaching, much less evaluating student performance of, the subject matter being taught.
Eric Hines
I think it's a good idea even if done badly.
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