1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910793429803321

Autore

Toldson Achebe <1973->

Titolo

No BS (bad stats) : black people need people who believe in black people enough not to believe every bad thing they hear about black people / / Ivory A. Toldson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill Sense, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

90-04-39704-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 pages)

Collana

Personal/Public Scholarship ; ; Volume 4

Disciplina

370.8996073

Soggetti

African Americans - Education

Discrimination in education - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Advance Praise for No BS (Bad Stats) -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- No Bs (Bad Stats) -- No Bs (Bad Stats) -- The Happy Bell Curve -- More Black Men in Prison Than College -- Black Students Don’t Read -- Black Students Are Dropping Out -- Single Parents Can’t Raise Black Children -- Smart Black Students Are Acting White -- Black Male Teachers Are Missing -- Waiting For Super-Predator -- Why We Believe -- Why We Believe -- Believing in Black Parents -- Believing Black Students Are College Bound -- Believing in Black History -- Believing in Black Students with Disabilities -- Believing in Fair Discipline for Black Students -- Believing White Teachers Can Teach Black Students -- Believing in Black Colleges -- Believing in Black Students -- Back Matter -- About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

What if everything you thought you knew about Black people generally, and educating Black children specifically, was based on BS (bad stats)? We often hear things like, “Black boys are a dying breed,” “There are more Black men in prison than college,” “Black children fail because single mothers raise them,” and “Black students don’t read.” In No BS , Ivory A. Toldson uses data analysis, anecdotes, and powerful commentary to dispel common myths and challenge conventional



beliefs about educating Black children. With provocative, engaging, and at times humorous prose, Toldson teaches educators, parents, advocates, and students how to avoid BS, raise expectations, and create an educational agenda for Black children that is based on good data, thoughtful analysis, and compassion. No BS helps people understand why Black people need people who believe in Black people enough not to believe every bad thing they hear about Black people.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971604803321

Autore

Hollnagel Erik <1941->

Titolo

The ETTO principle : efficiency-thoroughness trade-off : why things that go right sometimes go wrong / / Erik Hollnagel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009

ISBN

9786612243349

9781315616247

1315616246

9781317033615

1317033612

9781317033608

1317033604

9781282243347

1282243349

9780754693499

075469349X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Disciplina

658.3

658.3/14

658.314

Soggetti

Performance technology

Performance - Psychological aspects

Industrial accidents

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Prologue; 1: The Need to Understand Why Things Go Wrong; 2: From Rationality to ETTOing; 3: Explaining Human Irrationality; 4: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off in Practice; 5: The Usefulness of Performance Variability; 6: ETTOs of the Past; 7: ETTOs of the Future; Epilogue; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Accident investigation and risk assessment have for decades focused on the human factor, particularly 'human error'. Countless books and papers have been written about how to identify, classify, eliminate, prevent and compensate for it. This bias towards the study of performance failures, leads to a neglect of normal or 'error-free' performance and the assumption that as failures and successes have different origins there is little to be gained from studying them together. Erik Hollnagel believes this assumption is false and that safety cannot be attained only by eliminating risks and failures. The ETTO Principle looks at the common trait of people at work to adjust what they do to match the conditions - to what has happened, to what happens, and to what may happen. It proposes that this efficiency-thoroughness trade-off (ETTO) - usually sacrificing thoroughness for efficiency - is normal. While in some cases the adjustments may lead to adverse outcomes, these are due to the very same processes that produce successes, rather than to errors and malfunctions. The ETTO Principle removes the need for specialised theories and models of failure and 'human error' and offers a viable basis for effective and just approaches to both reactive and proactive safety management."--Provided by publisher.