I’m not sure it’s the non-verbal nature of the patient here that is the biggest issue. It’s his level of cognitive functioning. There are certainly disabled adults with age appropriate cognitive ability but communication limitations. But here we are talking about a man who interprets the world like a toddler. I don’t…

That behavior is infuriating. It used to happen to me all the time in academia.

This is still in the greys, so maybe that’s why no one has picked it up yet, but it seems like a really audacious claim to try to argue that minstrelsy was in any way an attempt by black performers — or white ones for that matter — to change stereotypes. Minstrelsy was at its height PRIOR to the Civil War and largely…

Clockworkandcameos has answered this, but what you are describing is the work of childhood, and even very young children practice the scientific method every day, though they don’t call it such. Having taught preschool for 12 years and now as a director, I see it every day — and as a parent. Kids make the…

Just to clarify, the example you cite is credited to Piaget, and refers to an experiment he performed with children for research purposes. It’s not necessarily a fact. Piaget pretty strongly theorized that there are discrete levels of cognitive functioning and you must pass through them developmentally. As with any…

This. I was about to add to my own comment that it reads like, “Chill out, the Jez editorial staff is going to publish whatever we want.” Which is fair enough, but then don’t allow comments.

Agreed. I may need to take a second whack at this article, because the thesis of it is obscure for me, and it really shouldn’t be.

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