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Robert Rosenthal: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Robert Rosenthal, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• Telling teachers which students would 'bloom' made those students actually bloom

  In 1965, Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson gave elementary school teachers a list of students primed to show a sudden leap in ability that year — the names were picked entirely …

  — Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, Pygmalion in the Classroom

• For every surprising result you read about, how many failed tests never got published?

  In 1979, psychologist Robert Rosenthal named the 'file drawer problem': studies that fail to find an effect are far less likely to be submitted or accepted for publication than one…

  — Robert Rosenthal, The File Drawer Problem and Tolerance for Null Results

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