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

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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

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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

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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.?

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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

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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?

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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 …

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Are psychologists able to correctly classify test scores? Can they create a reasonably accurate frequency table? Some can, some cannot, and some do not want to.

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By Dr. Bob Uttl (October 5, 2023) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli by Mark Twain In her response to Ms. T’s complaint against Dr. Mary Westcott to the College of Alberta Psychologists, on March 29, 2021, Dr. Westcott (from Mandel & Associates Ltd.) created a …

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Errors, falsehoods, and plagiarism in scoring and interpreting psychological tests: Minimally competent conduct?

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By Dr. Bob Uttl (September 9, 2023) plagiarize (verb): to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own : use (another’s production) without crediting the source merriam-webster.com On September 15, 2010, Dr. Westcott, from Mandel & Associates Ltd, issued her report on Ms. T (Westcott September 15, 2010 Report). Dr. …

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Using outdated, obsolete, and irrelevant test data to make disparaging statements about a client’s IQ, intelligence, and cognitive abilities: Minimally competent practice, unprofessional conduct, and/or malpractice?

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By Dr. Bob Uttl (August 15, 2023) Recently, the three registrants of the College of Alberta Psychologists — Drs. Mary Westcott, Allan Mandel, and J. Braxton Suffield — relied on several sets of decades outdated, obsolete, and irrelevant test data to make disparaging statements about Ms. T’s IQ, intelligence, and cognitive abilities. They claimed that …

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