Kibber

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   by Kibber 9y ago

   > I think Scott Alexander makes one rather poor argument towards the end of his debate with Grant. The way I read it, Grant claims that the decline can't have a biological explanation, Scott agrees but counter-claims that it does no
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   by Kibber 9y ago

   For anyone who hasn't read the actual memo yet, what he did say was "Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate". That's not anywhere near "
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   by Kibber 9y ago

   You might also want to read this fully-sourced response to Grant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge... (and also Grant's response to that response in the comments).
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   by Kibber 9y ago

   While that 2013 study [1] did show that both boys and girls prefer faces to objects at that age, the results seem to support boys having lesser face/object preference than girls. Unfortunately raw data wasn't provided so we can on
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   by Kibber 14y ago

   What if we fill the whole tube with carriages, without any space between them and very little space between the carriage wall and the tunnel wall? That would leave much less room for turbulence and perhaps reduce friction. If that works, yo