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Matt Ridley

The illusion of leadership

2018-10-12T17:36:26+01:00June 8th, 2018|Featured|

Everyone knows what's needed to turn around a struggling school: strong leadership. In order for it to be deemed necessary for school to be consigned to 'special measures,' something has to have gone badly wrong. It's more than likely true that poor leadership will be at the heart of the problem. So, the school is taken over and a new 'strong leader' is parachuted in to turn it around. This tends to be fairly straightforward. Very bad (and very good) schools conform to the Anna Karenina principle: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” [...]

Two fallacies to avoid

2020-02-18T16:19:14+00:00August 14th, 2017|research|

Avoiding logical fallacies can be tricky and, as responses to some of my recent posts has made clear, anyone who spends time debating evolutionary psychology, behaviour genetics or science in general will find themselves having to hack through thick swathes of them in their attempts to get a little closer to truth. Two particularly prevalent and egregious fallacies we must strive to avoid are the naturalistic fallacy and the moralistic fallacy. The naturalistic fallacy, first coined by the philosopher G.E. Moore, is similar in construction to Hume's 'is/ought problem'. The fallacy, in essence, confuses what's natural with what's good and leads [...]

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