Short and sweet - and precise, thank you for taking the time to make these videos 🙏🏼

@PaulDuckett

14 күн бұрын

Short and sweet .... that reminds me of someone :) Thank you so much for your lovely feedback. I once worked with someone called Julie Rolskov. She was an amazingly smart, critical thinker who was an excellent researcher - ahead of her time. Sadly academia lost her as she went off to treat depressed horses by setting up the world's first equine-psychoanalysis clinic. Well, something like that. If you ever run into her, tell her I think she's fabulous!

This is wonderful - a glimpse of Dr Duckett doing his day job! I hope his real students count themselves lucky.

@julierolskov2449

18 күн бұрын

I've been so privileged to be taught by Dr Duckett, and I do consider myself very lucky 🤓

@MelanieRuck-dq5uo

18 күн бұрын

@@julierolskov2449 This is such a lovely response Julie. Thank you. Dr Duckett certainly comes over as a kind person as well as an excellent academic and teacher.

@PaulDuckett

14 күн бұрын

Ahhhh Julie. Thanks for saying that. ....[ now did we agree that I'd make the payment direct into you bank account for posting that comment, or should I drop it off in a brown envelope as usual]. Seriously though, it was my privilege to work with you. Good teachers are only made from, the trust of their students. Thanks for trusting me :) And, you were a brilliant student. One of the best I have ever worked with.

@PaulDuckett

14 күн бұрын

Melanie, that is such a lovely thing to say. Thank you so much for your encouragement. I really appreciate it. :) p

Thanks for the Semantic/Latent explanation. You hit the nail on the head on why I get frustrated with people calling themselves analysts. Also, just because you can create a chart or visual representation, doesn't make you an analyst.....no $**& Sherlock

@PaulDuckett

14 күн бұрын

So good to hear from you and I totally share your frustration. :) p

lol haha . I have to watch this again . Great video .

@PaulDuckett

14 күн бұрын

awwww, thank you. glad it made you smile :) p

You have a very gentle soothing voice and welsh what more can I say oh yeah really like your stripping down of all the post office scandals Keep up the good work 😊

@PaulDuckett

14 күн бұрын

Awwww, that's so kind. That explains why I put my students to sleep :) Really appreciate your encouragement. Thanks so much. :) p

@suebond1691

13 күн бұрын

@@PaulDuckett it’s a pleasure

Good video. Here in New Zealand we seem to have lots of people that do "policy advice" to government ministers etc. But it seems to be simply a collection of existing information with no "policy analysis". Its a skill that seems have died out slowly over the last 40 years. Its the variation of the sherlock issue and the result is poorer decision making.

@PaulDuckett

13 күн бұрын

Thanks so much. That sounds very familiar. I think a lot of advisors are like that - if you pay someone to advise a politician, they will often find a short cut that plays on the politicians' ignorance. :)

I would suggest though, that your choice of the phrase 'puppet master', a term generally understood to be perjorative, means that you have added your own negative slant to the original 'just a performance' phrase. OK, the words do, slightly, suggest a negative influence: 'just' a performance, but your 'puppet master' has very effectively reinforced this negative. You could equally read it positively, 'they' may very well be perceived positively, some 'good actors' trying to 'nudge' the public to a better understanding of climate change rather than 'puppet masters' manipulating people for their own ends.

I love your stuff.

@PaulDuckett

14 күн бұрын

That is such a lovely thing to say. Thank you. p

Thank for that explanation.

@PaulDuckett

14 күн бұрын

That's my absolute pleasure! :)

Interesting. I think I get it, but seeing summarising (description) as a necessary, logical, stepping stone to analysis. I'm just throwing that out there as a general comment, more than a question demanding a direct answer, BTW.

@PaulDuckett

14 күн бұрын

Ohhh, that is a really good point. Yes, I see what you mean. Description is a logical stepping stone to analysis. Nice work :) p

@TheStratpicker

13 күн бұрын

@@PaulDuckett Thank you.

No shhhh pmsl .. made me laugh out loud

@PaulDuckett

14 күн бұрын

Ohhhh, so nice to know I made you chuckle :) p

So, it’s not ‘almost’ as if they were talking about a puppet master, it’s that they were pretty much exactly talking about a puppet master. Who else 'pulls the strings'? With respect, that’s a rather weak explanation of the difference you’re trying to describe. A better one might be, it’s as if what they’re really talking about is manipulation (or maybe virtue-signalling), or left/right political bias (conscious or unconscious), according to which medium is being referred to, or just plain-and-simple control, something it might be said we all try to exert through language.

@PaulDuckett

14 күн бұрын

That is a very fair point stephen and I do like your analysis. I think it is much deeper than mine. I think, in my defence, I was pitching my analysis at a level that people could pick up and make sense of - so it was really just a means to illustrate what latent looks like. I didn't want to dig too deep because I worried I would have made it harder for folk to see the connection I was making. But that said, I really loved you deep dig and the themes you picked out. Nice work :) p

@stephenpowers51

13 күн бұрын

@@PaulDuckett dear Paul, I appreciate your replies very much, and admire what you do, and that you put yourself out there. I’m no analyst, much more used to being an analysand, and I hope I don’t come across as a know-all. I’m just endlessly fascinated by the mystery of this ‘being human’ business. I think that’s because I’m not very good at it! Best wishes always, and thanks again for your work.

Nice video - much needed for students ....and for UK civil servants and ministers it seems. In your interesting attempts to link current affairs to psychological concepts, I just wonder whether you might consider providing a video on Erving Goffman's concept of 'framing'. It's been around a long time I know but, for me, it helps understand how PO, Fujitsu and civil servants 'framed' information for those above them (e.g. ministers) in their briefings and other reports. A lot of the time they provided information but framed it in such a way as to minimise Horizon problems and thus not only influenced but almost predetermined the decision the decision maker/minister would take. You can see that going on all the way up the information chain. Information 'framed' (i.e. packaged) in ways that reinforced a particular narrative.