The PSLE: Harmful social experiment?
Posted by: Dr Ashley Tan on: September 17, 2016
The video below highlights some research that would not pass muster today.
Today we are guided by the principle of “do no harm”, or at least “do the least harm”.
I wonder if the same could be said about social experiments that are a result of non-researchers tinkering with systems and policies.
For example, how much social experimental harm has the PSLE caused?
Make no mistake: The PSLE has been a very successful as a social experiment. It has become the operating standard, it shapes expectations, and we cannot seem to think outside it.
However, we need to ask ourselves if the PSLE embedded in our collective psyche is a good thing. Simply mentioning it as harmful begs disbelief in some quarters and helplessness to do otherwise in others.
Just because something is successful does not make it helpful or harmless. Pandemic diseases spread with us as carriers and our technologies as enablers. Often we do not even know we are helping the disease spread until it is too late.
This doctor is highlighting some symptoms of PSLE. Are you feeling OK?
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