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Has James O’Keefe Accidentally Stung Himself Again?(newyorker.com)
2 points by DataWorker 9y ago|0 comments
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by DataWorker 9y ago
"Developing countries are egalitarian" I have to wonder what you think is meant by the words egalitarian and developing.
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by DataWorker 9y ago
Did you read the thing? You have the greatest gender balance in comp sci in the least egalitarian societies. There's a body of scientific literature you could consult if you wanted the diversity you claim to want.
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by DataWorker 9y ago
Compromise is useful and this was on point in that regard. A good counterpoint to Wojcicki's response. That said, compromise in this case may not be technically correct and talk of brogrammers won't get much traction with centrist
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by DataWorker 9y ago
And I think the quarterly reorting cycle helps exacerbate this problem. I would love to have my views altered if someone can point to cases where r&d benefits from the current state where quarterly reports seem to make or break companie
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by DataWorker 9y ago
I completely disagree. Recently did a factory reset on my nexus only to find out that without the password for the last sync'd google account, a throwaway I don't remember, it's bricked. I can report it stolen on the device p
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by DataWorker 11y ago
Disagree that people are 'pretty ok' with the two options. Ubuntu phone was a glimmer of hope for me, a very faint glimmer, but it was something. I remember people saying the compact disc was dead. History makes fools of many.
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by DataWorker 11y ago
It didn't defeat Tinder or any number of other major apps.
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by DataWorker 11y ago
Agree about Facebook being held accountable for the impact they have on the world. But I also agree with shaming people who use it. If you have an account you are actively subsidizing the impact Facebook has on the world. How frequently you
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by DataWorker 11y ago
I think the OPM data breach recently put about 10 million fingerprints and a ton of associated personally identifying information into the hands of people who have clear motivation to hack the cell phones of many of the people impacted.
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by DataWorker 11y ago
This is the truth. People can't do simple statistics, even with advanced degrees. In many cases advanced degrees make things worse. The ability to reason about data and have strong fundamentals in math statistics is what's need
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by DataWorker 11y ago
No. A phd in statistics or economics means almost nothing at this point. Even if it did, truly, signal mastery of the content, which it doesn't anymore, it would signal to most people who do this kind of work that you're way ove
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by DataWorker 14y ago
Given the extensive body of literature in education research perhaps you can provide a citation?
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by DataWorker 14y ago
A silly article by someone with an obvious bias. Those who opt for online courses at community colleges are: Those with childcare barriers (poor Moms) Those with 1 or more full time jobs Those who are intimidated by the coll
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by DataWorker 14y ago
You can ask question of the instructor in a MOOC setting and it's actually much more efficient. If several students have the same question, which is likely, then rather than having multiple individuals show up separately at office hours, a
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by DataWorker 14y ago
I tried it by teacher and got a correlation of .45. (I used unweighted average for each teacher/school/year.)
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by DataWorker 14y ago
One question would be whether or not to match the files on subject/grade/teacher, or just the teacher. You use subject/grade/teacher level, but you get a different answer if you use aggregated teacher level.
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by DataWorker 14y ago
A few come to mind: cheating (see Atlanta Journal-Constitution series on this) encouraging absenteeism amongst low performers damaging the test materials of low performing students to get their scores excluded getting low performers into IE
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by DataWorker 14y ago
Which is why we have objective measures for programmers.
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by DataWorker 14y ago
Using LOC to hire or fire programmers ignores important contextual factors, just as using test scores of students to hire or fire teachers ignores important contextual factors. What language is being used? How large is the project? Existing