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Commentary on Training Behavior Analysts
Richard W. Malott
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In Response to Johnston
(1992)
Data?
I agree with Johnston: We should do an analysis of the system. (a)
What are we producing in what proportions (scientists, practitioners,
Bas, MAs, PhDs)? (b) What needs to be produced? Furthermore, ABA might
be the agency responsible to address these questions. We probably
need much more emphasis on training Bas and MAs in applied behavior
analysis, with coherent programs to do so. But I am less optimistic
than Johnston is about the likely hood that data will have any significant
control over our current institutional and professional behavior.
My impression is that Johnston’s main concern with my recommendations
is that I did not address all of the related issues he raised. True,
I did not; but I do agree with essentially everything he said regarding
those issues. My recommendation that we should all teach whatever
we do best was only a compromise; I consider that a big improvement
over most of us teaching what we do worst.
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