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Timothy Shire, publisher of Ensign, was mentioning to me that the ongoing educational system doesn't provide the students with the skill to learn how to learn. And today, I was mentioning to my son James how we need to learn with our body and our mind. And in reading the StarPhoenix' articles on the survey "Taking the Pulse of Saskatoon and Saskatchewan(1)(2)" I shook my head and commented that these researchers ass-u-me too much in drawing conclusions from this survey sponsored and directed by the University of Saskatchewan and The StarPhoenix.

These researchers are so full of themselves that they have stopped learning; they don't know yet that snapshots of the social and economic conditions of people are meaningless, and only open loop researchers can make studies and conclusions out of the results of these surveys. No doubt, we are going to have more researchers studying these surveys and find statistical correlations between different phenomena without realizing that these correlations could have no causal relationships between each other at all(3).

In Saskatchewan, we have researchers who have sold their souls to their biggest sponsoring businesses and to our corrupted Government of Saskatchewan(4)(5). And it is no wonder that our social and intelligent fabric has been eroded(6)(7). As usual, I don't want to digress and assume to much about commenting on this additional dump of our researchers. But let me first express Winston Churchill's quote "We shape our buildings; thereafter, our building shape us" and next, let me quote what Allison Williams, a principal investigator of the survey, has said "by recognizing what we need to know, we can move forward to address these gaps" And I wonder, how you move forward if there is absolutely no mention of the social economic policies which contributed to the divide between the poor and the rich in the last nine years of this government.

This survey is another reflection of the state of dementia of our leadership and of our researchers. And my advise is that until these people don't close their thinking loops, they will make a contribution to the GDP with their researches as Stockwell Day did with his bigoted settlement(8).

References/endnotes

Relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

1. We're a happy lot: Optimism reigns despite disparity in incomes, poll finds. By Gerry Klein, The StarPhoenix, January 20, 2001, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

2. SP SPECIAL REPORT: Taking the Pulse of Saskatoon and Saskatchewan, Section G, The StarPhoenix, January 20, 2001Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

3. Causation versus Correlation, section 5.2.1 page 141 of the book "Business Dynamics", by John D. Sterman http://www.mhhe.com/sterman

4. The Incredible Abuse of Saskatchewan No-Fault Insurance, May 31, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis and reviewed by James deSantis http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2000/desantis173/nofaultPt1.html

5. Research, Reputations and Responsibility , by Timothy Shire, July 2, 2000 http://www.FTLCOMM.com/ensign/reality/Universitybecomesbusiness/undefendable/undefendable.html

6. A Dramatic Scenario Of Saskatchewan Changing Demography: The Aboriginal People Are Our Forgotten People, by Mario deSantis, January 18, 2001 http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_300/desantis311/aboriginalpeople.html

7. No-Faultland, by Timothy Shire, July 4, 2000 http://www.FTLCOMM.com/ensign/SGI/no-faultPAhearing/no-faultland.html

8. Stockwell Day's Settlement Increases The GDP, by Mario deSantis, January 19, 2001 http://www.FTLCOMM.com/ensign/desantisArticles/2001_300/desantis309/DaysSettlement.html