Comments by "Liam" (@1495978707) on "My Comments Section is a Dumpster Fire (Harvard Fake Data Scandal)" video.

@profdc9501 Oh yes, this was quite the shock when I went into grad school and got a better look behind the curtains. Professors generally receive zero education on how to effectively teach, and ability to teach is generally not even really a question. At least in my department, feedback from grad students talking to prospective professors is taken into account, but that doesn’t help a whole lot because we also don’t get educated on science informed teaching and what that looks like, so you only have a few overachiever grad students that go out of their way to learn how to teach effectively. And for the professors, they have plenty on their plate from research alone, and the university only cares about their about your ability to get grants. Students don’t avoid going to a university because of bad professors, they’re choosing based on status and location more than anything else, so actual quality of teaching is left up to the discretion of the professor
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6:00 I mean, it’s pretty simple. Don’t convince people that there’s nothing wrong with being obese. Why should they do anything about it if there’s nothing wrong with it? It is so simple to lose weight, it is just not easy to for many people, and people who don’t want to do things generally look for excuses to not do them. It’s like any other addiction, and we as a society are acting as enablers in some misguided attempt to be compassionate
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