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I've seen this argument that if outcomes of public services( like education) is not upto par then the problem is that there wasn't enough funding for these prog
by dominotw 8y ago
I've seen this argument that if outcomes of public services( like education) is not upto par then the problem is that there wasn't enough funding for these programs and solution is to increase funding.
is this argument is fundamentally unfalsifiable?
Is it possible to do estimations like we do for software projects. Improving education by x% will cost y$ or are there way too many moving variable to any sort of estimations.
- cheez 8y agoYes, but that's not really important. People will always want more money, not less.
- bena 8y agoI've discovered a term recently that I'm fascinated by: "wicked problem"[1]. Could education be a wicked problem? We know that the students didn't meet the standards. So there is a problem. But are the standards too high? Are the teachers not doing well enough? Are the materials not adequate enough? Etc. And we can't know what will fix the problem until we attempt the solution. And if the proposed solution doesn't work, we might not even know because the issue could have multiple causes. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem