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“other words, if you want to know the truth about the emperor’s clothes, don’t ask the tailors.”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
“Developmentalists who specialize in doing the kind of research I just described are called socialization researchers. Socialization”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
“Fortunately, the metamorphosis came too late to permit me to go back to graduate school. And thus I escaped indoctrination. Whatever I learned about developmental psychology and social psychology, I learned on my own. I was an outsider looking in, and that has made all the difference. I did not buy
into the assumptions of the academic establishment. I was not indebted to their granting agencies. And, once I had given up writing textbooks, I was not required to perpetuate the status quo by teaching the received gospel to a bunch of credulous college students. I gave up writing textbooks because one day it suddenly occurred to me that many of the things I had been telling those credulous college students were wrong.”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
into the assumptions of the academic establishment. I was not indebted to their granting agencies. And, once I had given up writing textbooks, I was not required to perpetuate the status quo by teaching the received gospel to a bunch of credulous college students. I gave up writing textbooks because one day it suddenly occurred to me that many of the things I had been telling those credulous college students were wrong.”
― The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
“Someone who thinks up a new theory is the last person who should be trusted with the job of testing it. A new theory should be tested by independent researchers who aren’t cronies of the theorist and who don’t have an axe to grind. It’s division of labor again: proposing theories and doing research to test them are jobs that should be carried out by different entities.
“A good theory should go in advance of the evidence,” the evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller said in a recent interview. “It should stick its neck out and say, this is how I think the world is, and leave it to other people to test it.”
Making a virtue of necessity, I will leave it to other people to test my theory.”
― No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
“A good theory should go in advance of the evidence,” the evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller said in a recent interview. “It should stick its neck out and say, this is how I think the world is, and leave it to other people to test it.”
Making a virtue of necessity, I will leave it to other people to test my theory.”
― No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
