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While I trust your story, and I believe it's somewhat taboo on HN to ask for this, I feel that it would be much more valuable if evidence was provided. That is

While I trust your story, and I believe it's somewhat taboo on HN to ask for this, I feel that it would be much more valuable if evidence was provided. That is an absolutely egregious act for a professor to commit and I feel like it should be reported to someone if substantiated..

dmd 10y ago
Oh, I made a huge stink about it (and this was just one example of many comments of that type). This was at Penn in 2007.
- DiabloD3 10y ago
  An upvote for outing her for clearly bad science and bad teaching, if she actually did this. There are few things that offend me, a teacher damaging impressionable students like this is one of those.
  - jacquesm 10y ago
    I think she mostly damaged herself there, the student seems to have come out all right (but there was a risk they wouldn't have).
- tgb 10y ago
  Not to question you, but I can't find any evidence that Fiske was ever teaching at Penn. Her CV [1] is quite exhaustive, but only lists giving colloquia at Penn. [1] http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/1605966/27061956/1465245429350/FISKE+VITA2016.pdf?token=g9VFTcMNi1O15oD6BnFsF27s9PI%3D http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/1605966/27061956/14652...
  - dmd 10y ago
    She was one of the people giving the Social Psychology prosem in Fall 2005, because John Sabini (who normally gave it) died: > September 21: The Self (Prentice) > September 28: Social Cognition (Fiske) > October 5: Attitudes (Cooper) > October 19: Social Inference (Pronin) > November 2: Prejudice & Stigma (Shelton) > November 16: Dissonance (Cooper) > November 30: Close Relationships (Fiske) > December 7: Social Influence (Prentice)
    - tgb 10y ago
      Thanks.
  - Lambdanaut 10y ago
    > Not to question you It's quite okay. That's exactly the kind of attitude that's being scrutinized here ;)