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George Parrott,<\/a> psychology professor at Sacramento State University, cancels class because no one remembered to bring snacks.<\/a><\/p>\n

Among the no doubt brain-numbing subjects taught by Prof. Parrott is is “Sports achievement and prediction.”\u00a0 Is that for coaches, sportswriters, or for bookies\u2014and who needs to go to university to learn it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Parrott, psychology professor at Sacramento State University, cancels class because no one remembered to bring snacks. Among the no doubt brain-numbing subjects taught by Prof. Parrott is is “Sports achievement and prediction.”\u00a0 Is that for coaches, sportswriters, or for bookies\u2014and who needs to go to university to learn it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,22],"class_list":["post-3487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Uf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":972,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=972","url_meta":{"origin":3487,"position":0},"title":""Sheer Terror"","author":"Chas S. 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