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Introduction: Ms. T, the School District No. 5, psychologists peddling junk science, and the vexing question of how many IQ points elementary school teachers have to have (if indeed it even matters)

By Dr. Bob Uttl (March 4, 2025) I met Ms. T in Fall 2015 at a small party. I learned that after many years of teaching in the School District No. 5 Southest Kootenay (SD5), Ms. T’s teaching was suddenly put under miscroscope. To cut a long story short, Ms. T was walked out of …

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Are Dr. Allan Mandel and his associates fabricating mentally disabled people by using outdated, obsolete, and irrelevant tests, norms, and data?

By Dr. Bob Uttl (March 3, 2025) state-of-the-art, adj., very modern and using the most recent ideas and methods dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/state-of-the-art Mandel & Associates Ltd. is a company established in 1997 by Dr. Allan Mandel, President and owner of Mandel & Associat. In Dr. Allan Mandel’s own words (Dr. Mandel’s Response to Ms. T’s Complaint, dated …

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The CAP Complaints Review Committee Did Not Read the Submissions and Falsely Stated That Ms. T’s Agent “provide[d] little substantive information”

By Bob Uttl (February 28, 2025) charlatan, n. a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than they possess; fraud; quack dictionary.com On March 12, 2024, the College of Alberta Psychologists” Complaint Review Committee (CRC) — Dr. Lorraine Breault, Dr. Ali Al-Asadi, and two community members, Mr. DD and Ms. BR …

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Multivariate Base Rates of Low Scores Are Percentile Ranks: True or False?

By Dr. Bob Uttl (February 17, 2025) It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. Mark Twain In elementary statistical textbooks, high school pupils are often asked to solve questions such as: What is the probability of rolling at least one 1 on a …

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Dr. Mary Westcott’s Apophenia: Seeing Meaning In Randomness

By Dr. Bob Uttl (February 14, 2025) apophenia : the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apophenia Dr. Mary Westcott, supervised by Dr. Allan Mandel, President and owner of Mandel & Associates Ltd., had her technicians administer Ms. T fifteen test/test batteries that yielded over 1/2 thousand scores. Among …

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What could possibly go wrong when incompetent investigate incompetent? Dr. Bob Acton’s investigations of Ms. T’s complaints against Dr. Mary Westcott, Dr. Braxton Suffield, and Dr. Allan Mandel

By Dr. Bob Uttl (December 20, 2024) incompetent, adj.lacking the qualities for effective action, unable to function properly, inadequate to or unsuitable for a particular purpose Merriam-Webster Dictionary (merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incompetent) Dr. Troy Janzen, Deputy Registrar and Complaints Director, assigned Dr. Bob Acton and his colleagues in Falcongate Ltd. to investigate Ms. T’s complaints against Dr. Mary …

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College of Alberta Psychologists: An informed consent, hallucinations of an informed consent, and/or sweeping things under the rug

By Bob Uttl (November 29, 2024) Psychologists are required to obtain informed consent prior to providing any professional services to any clients. For example, the College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP) Standards of Practice (2005) make it clear that psychologists must obtain “informed consent”, must provide all information that “a reasonable person would want to know …

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Did Dr. Mary Westcott plagiarize her Expert Report from Dr. Allan Mandel, her boss, and President of Mandel & Associates Ltd.?

By Dr. Bob Uttl (May 10, 2024) However, what happened in this case went well beyond collaboration, consultation, wordsmithing or editing. It was word-for-word copying of a technical expert’s opinions and conclusions on key issues before this Court, all done without any attribution. It is plagiarism pure and simple. Plagiarism is wrong whether it is intentional or not Justice Lafreniere, …

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Epic ethics fail? Dr. J. Braxton Suffield opined Ms. T was unable to do her job without ever meeting her in his October 19, 2011 Report

By Dr. Bob Uttl (April 26, 2024) Numerous ethics codes require that psychologists first meet a person about whom they intend to pronounce their professional opinion. For example, Canadian Psychological Association‘s Code of Ethics for Psychologists (2017) makes it clear that psychologists are required to seek “as full and active participation as possible from individuals …

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Two independent “experts” — Dr. Mary Westcott and Dr. John Braxton Suffield — swore nearly verbatim identical testimony/affidavits: Who plagiarized their sworn testimony from whom?

By Dr. Bob Uttl (March 26, 2024) On October 13, 2021, two “independent experts”, Dr. Mary Westcott, R. Psych. (Mandel & Associates Ltd) and Dr. J. Braxton Suffield, R. Psych. (J. B. Suffield and Associates) swore nearly verbatim identical affidavits (Dr. Mary Westcott’s Affidavit, Dr. John Braxton Suffield’s Affidavit) in support of the School District …

Two independent “experts” — Dr. Mary Westcott and Dr. John Braxton Suffield — swore nearly verbatim identical testimony/affidavits: Who plagiarized their sworn testimony from whom? Read More »

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