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While this might well be correct, the argument is missing that academic qualifications conditional on growing up in the US (as supposed to in Afghanistan) are s
by conformist 3y ago
While this might well be correct, the argument is missing that academic qualifications conditional on growing up in the US (as supposed to in Afghanistan) are still a proxy for potentially useful skills. In other words, some of the enemies might have had comparable academic qualifications had they grown up in the US.
- hunglee2 3y agofair comment - thanks
- Supermancho 3y ago> are still a proxy for potentially useful skills. This is tautological. It's a good measure because it's a good (proxy) measure. This is not a truism, stated this way. > In other words, some of the enemies might have had comparable academic qualifications had they grown up in the US. Maybe they would have all been geniuses. This is a wild guess about what intelligence/behavior results in superior combat troops, on average.
- conformist 3y agoNo, eg (Corr(A, B) = 0) and (Corr(A, B) > 0 | f(A)) can say something nontrivial about f.
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