Frank Scott wrote:
>
> -"... Perhaps
> it's because we have so much experience with
> "getting the
> facts out there" and seeing how easy it is for
> students to
> ignore or misinterpret any information that
> challenges their
> preexisting assumptions"
>
> only students? how does that differ from any
> human being's "preexisting assumptions"? is it
> only poor, overworked , suffering academics
> who have to deal wit this tendency among most
> of the human race?
Come on Frank. Read the whole sequence. The main topic was _not_ about students _or_ professors. Academics were brought in not for their own sake but as an example of something else.
EVeryone -- even you -- is cooperating to demonstrate Miles's point.
Carrol