Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts

Saturday, February 23, 2019

CORBETT REPORT: The Crisis of Science - Predictive Modeling Crap

And to think I have been calling it crap for all this time.

What I get a kick out of predictive modeling crap is when you actually question the authors about their data in child welfare, which is typically the point when everyone in the room turns and looks at you with blank faces wondering why I am always such a horrible person for humiliating persons of authority in a public setting.

You are not supposed to question child welfare because it is a secret that they use foster kids as lab rats and they will terminate your parental rights if you grieve.

I just adore federally funded consortia symposiums because they always have really good catering and corporate goodie bags.


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Sunday, September 27, 2015

What Happens After Foster Care.

This is an insightful, moving video about a, caveat, I guess you would call it, on Holocaust survivors.

When they were released from concentration camps, there was relatively nothing for them, similar to survivors of foster care.

My bucket list contains a strong yearning to hold consortia to open dialogue on what happens to parents and children who have survived foster care.

My focus would be on the economic implications.

Currently, there are no data.  There are no studies.  There are no voices.



More than a moving story: a true life lesson.Thank you Francine. #WhatMakesUsHUMAN
Posted by HUMAN on Friday, September 25, 2015
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Wake Up Harvard and Expand Your Dataverse

Institutional corruption should be examined much further than financial interests, alone. Institutional corruption desperately needs to be investigated from the perspective of its research publications and databases.

It seems Harvard is attempting to participate in the emerging field of child welfare with a neotenous authority in its approach to the MCH Data Connect Dataverse. Research methodologies in child welfare have demonstrated itself to be suspect in the lack of inclusion, or even the acknowledgment, of systemic fraud, waste and abuse, well documented by the States and U.S. DHHS OIG audits. Until efforts are taken to analyze child welfare policies through the lenses of economics and law, Harvard, including the inferior child welfare research activites of the National Academy of Sciences, will continue to perpetuate the institutional corruption of biased research publications, funded by the corrupt policies of lobbying institutions.

The audits may be laughable, but you have to understand, they are conducted through sampling methods, only providing a snapshot of what is going on as a way of triggering either full scale investigations or"suggesting" internal improvements. Also, the tools operationalized to conduct these audits were developed under the guidelines of GAAP and/or GAGAS, so, as to the ability to provide a clearer picture into what is actually going on in a public system, little is to be expected. Couple this with a lack of resources and abilities to properly conduct a full scale public investigation, you are only left with a public Kodak moment.

This is why we have the qui tam, the people's audit. Let's dust it off and use it for what it was designed to do.