TraceWoodgrains

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by TraceWoodgrains 2y ago
Of course not. Multiple things can be (and are) factors at the same time. I'm not asking people to ignore COVID, I'm asking them to not ignore this.
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by TraceWoodgrains 2y ago
When the methods of selection aren’t selective at all (the “qualified” bar on the AT-SAT only eliminated some 5% of candidates), “qualifying citizens” is a bit misleading. Yes, academy attrition. I don’t disagree that the 2013 sequester pla
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by TraceWoodgrains 2y ago
This is really helpful. I take something different from it than you do (it looks like attrition starkly increases after 2014, in ways I'd strongly argue it's reasonable to attribute to the new hiring methods), but I'm gratefu
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by TraceWoodgrains 2y ago
To clarify, I picked those two questions not to imply a focus on bad academic performance but because they are both a) absurd/arbitrary and b) the highest-weighted questions by far.
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by TraceWoodgrains 2y ago
Hm, I'm disappointed that this was flagged. This is my third article that's been flagged here recently, after my FAA article a few months ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39184451 ) and my deep dive into t
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by TraceWoodgrains 3y ago
The author and I have discussed this elsewhere, but we had dramatically different experiences with competitive math, and I think part of the key is that he experienced it as a part of the college admissions grind, while I experienced it as
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by TraceWoodgrains 4y ago
He means this: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/please-just-fucking-tel...
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by TraceWoodgrains 4y ago
I’m always happy when my writing gets noticed here, but culture war–connected content has a natural edge in environments like this, so I respect the site’s commitment to manually deweighting things like this to keep the overall focus more t
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by TraceWoodgrains 4y ago
His name is public and visible on the archive page etc, but he is not prominent and at least deleted the thread rather than letting it continue to spread. I’d rather not unilaterally make this the defining moment in his public life long-ter
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by TraceWoodgrains 4y ago
He’s real enough to have appeared as the first author on a couple of apolitical peer-reviewed publications in his field. I don’t know what possessed him to do this but he definitely looks to be real.
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by TraceWoodgrains 4y ago
Author here. Many were! I noticed nothing original, and my direct question was only part of the picture. It was striking to me how quickly he started making things disappear after I asked, though, and so far as I can tell the timing is cons
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by TraceWoodgrains 4y ago
Context on why the Twitter thread was deleted: https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/15716489346947563... He nuked his account from orbit after confirming he copied from a reddit thread in response to closer
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by TraceWoodgrains 4y ago
He acknowledged his wording was taken directly from the story, then immediately deleted his acknowledgment: https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/15716306207442452...
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by TraceWoodgrains 4y ago
When I asked the author of the viral thread, he said he took the wording directly from a reddit thread a few days ago, then deleted his acknowledgment, hid my question, and locked down further replies within minutes. Something is very off a
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by TraceWoodgrains 5y ago
I did link the original piece coining the term and quote the specific definition given. I think that's a sufficient standard to meet when introducing an unfamiliar term.
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by TraceWoodgrains 5y ago
Hm? Would you mind expanding on why and how you feel my piece is hyperpartisan? I'm neither a leftist nor particularly sympathetic to them; my own economic preferences usually lie pretty firmly in the neoliberal camp. Your comment seem
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by TraceWoodgrains 5y ago
Author of the article here. The user above you is correct. My claim that Ford is indisputably the best representative of the space has nothing to do with its current user base and everything to do with its history. The user base shifted, bu
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by TraceWoodgrains 5y ago
Ha—yes, guilty as charged.
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by TraceWoodgrains 5y ago
Really, you’re objecting to rarity after the emphasis you presented? I went with 4 sigma because you claimed truly gifted kids would take care of themselves. As you note, you can’t get much more extreme than that. My point was to directly r
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by TraceWoodgrains 5y ago
This is incorrect. Their explicit goal is to remove fast tracking and options to take more advanced topics for gifted students. The vision is for uniformly paced classes for all same-aged students.
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by TraceWoodgrains 5y ago
It comes from a real place of privilege to claim schools holding advanced students back never happens. To name one specific example with the most capable, Miraca Gross ran a longitudinal study with children scoring above 180 on IQ tests an
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by TraceWoodgrains 5y ago
Reasonable advice; I'll see about applying it in the future. Cheers!
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by TraceWoodgrains 5y ago
Dismiss anything that sounds unusual outright? No. Apply extra scrutiny to things that sound unusual? Absolutely. If they had even googled /r/txbountyhunters, they would have found a rDrama thread early in the results talking abou
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by TraceWoodgrains 5y ago
Oh hey, cool to see my article here. If anyone has questions or wants further details on anything, I'm happy to stick around this thread for a bit. I've paid altogether too much attention to this saga; glad it's going to some
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by TraceWoodgrains 5y ago
There's been plenty of discussion on the Texas law, as indeed there has been on trans issues and the other bait they use. I'm much more interested in focusing on stories nobody else is covering, and "a bunch of low-effort tro
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by TraceWoodgrains 7y ago
Hm. It may have been as part of something temporary, but I definitely ran into that message recently. Good to see it's back.
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by TraceWoodgrains 7y ago
Have you tried using Translate for a web page recently, instead of just a couple sentences of text? Some time ago, they removed that functionality, instead instructing users to use a browser with native translation capabilities to translate
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by TraceWoodgrains 7y ago
One of the few add-ons I've installed that's been worth its weight in gold has been "Form History Control (II)", which passively saves every comment as I type it. It's saved me no end of grief in these scenarios.
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by TraceWoodgrains 7y ago
There are legal-related concerns, but not precisely due-process ones. Monica goes into it more on her blog, particularly in the comments of this post [1] where she discusses the possibility of taking legal action against the company. She fe
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by TraceWoodgrains 7y ago
This is mostly a definition game using "intelligence" to mean "reaching the peak of a narrow skill." That sort of peak takes a tricky-to-nail-down combination of innate ability, practice, and environment to reach. When p

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