awl130

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by awl130 11y ago
the purpose of school is to train kids to get up on time, to endure an unpleasant commute to an unpleasant place where they engage in unpleasant activities all day for the better of society.
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by awl130 11y ago
defining well-being, and then measuring it, is as pointless as defining happiness, and then measuring that. happiness is a notoriously unreliable indicator of anything. it's based on an individual's perception of his/her st
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Does social class affect intelligence only in America?(drjamesthompson.blogspot.com)
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why do you ask?
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*The Birth and Death of Privacy in the Western World: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images
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by awl130 11y ago
characterizing being raised by a jewish father as 'raised jewish' is reasonable
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by awl130 11y ago
Good theory but the same cohort in Europe has not seen the same Effect despite even higher secularization
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by awl130 11y ago
yikes growing up in socal, i've never surfed anywhere without a lineup.
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by awl130 11y ago
more equivalent would be a tow line in the water out to the break. could totally happen. hopefully i wont live to see that day
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by awl130 11y ago
i live in socal but on second thought 2.7mm is pretty realistic i guess. hard to get a baseline. there are around 30mm golfers in the us; but for surfing, 1/3 of the usa lives on the coastline (123mm people); maybe 1/3 of that i
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by awl130 11y ago
the open secret about surfing is that most people only try surfing once--usually on vacation. this is because to be a "surfer", (a) you have to live within a 20 mile proximity of a very select area of coastline; and (b) it takes
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by awl130 11y ago
America's racial classifications follow a very practical application rather than some grand racial theory. this is a good thing, because as we know race is more a phenotype than genotype. thus arabs are grouped with whites because, a
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by awl130 11y ago
Saying europe has better race relations than america is misguided. you can't compare the two. america has 300 million people and is 70% white, 15% black, 12-20% latino and 6% asian. for comparison, the UK has 60mm (about the size of c
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by awl130 11y ago
do you know of any research applying this to females?
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you've entirely missed the point. the article is making a claim on an entire generation of students and using stanford merely as an anecdotal sample
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by awl130 11y ago
please don't post these asinine articles here. there is not even an attempt to furnish data to back up any of its claims, including: (a) are parents today more involved in student's lives? where's the data besides anecdotal