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by bokonist 17y ago
I wasn't assuming that it was true or wouldn't have methodologial flaws. It's basically impossible to find a study of any real-world sociological study whose methodology is beyond dispute.. Well yes. And in general, the flaws are pretty
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by bokonist 17y ago
It seems there are way too many variables to look for clear examples. Indeed. The social science method of finding truth through regressions is an intellectually bankrupt exercise. My overall views are these: a) I suspect that developed
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by bokonist 17y ago
Did you read any of the actual studies cited? The modus operandi in social science is to throw in enough variables into your regression (or leave out a few key ones) until you get the result you want. Just throwing a lot of "[Nunn et al 2
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by bokonist 17y ago
This article is behind a $31.50 paywall. Did you actually read this article? Or are you just assuming that just because some academic wrote it an abstract that its true? I used to browse my college's social science library for fun. The
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Yet, when countries like Brazil copied the European-style welfare state they failed to get the same result. And neither Britain, the U.S. nor China had a welfare state during their industrial revolution. Correlation != causation
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Yes.
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Consider socialized education, medicine, or early childhood education - all have shown to have strong impacts on social mobility, and hence, wealth creation. Evidence? Sources?
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I'm surprised this has so many up votes because it is so factually incorrect. In 1690 Gregory King made an made a primitive economic census of the English population. Out of a population of 5.5 million, 1.3 million were "cottagers and pau
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Anti-poverty policy (especially foreign aid) over the past five decades has consisted mainly of giving away food, healthcare, etc. For a while, this decreased death rates substantially in the third world. But the problem was that when the
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I tried it about 8 months ago. It definitely was not production ready. There are some memory leak issues, plus there is no good way to actually embed it as a servelet.
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Secondly, it would be naive to think that NASA does not have an obligation to provide benefit to their stakeholders by providing jobs. Well, that's exactly the problem. The goal of any organization should be its mission. "Organize the w
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It will be interesting to see how long the population decline lasts for. At some point, ethnic/cultural/religious segments of the population with the highest birthrates will begin to be a large portion of the population. As that happens,
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I think kids should be encouraged do productive things they enjoy. That might mean school, that might mean work. Nor would getting a job at 14 preclude a career in physics. Most people who discover an interest do so in their own free time.
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I don't. But the best way to figure out what you want to do is to actually do it. School does not help in this process. I'm three years out of college. Most of my friends had no idea what they wanted to do in graduation. They picked a jo
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by bokonist 17y ago
High school works decently enough for the rest of the 95%. Funny. If you listen to the political-sphere, the argument is that high school sucks for most people, but works brilliantly for the well-off. But if you actually ask the well-off
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Or how do you think that cross-country runners got so skinny? My guess is that the causation is reversed. Skinny people find running more enjoyable. I used to enjoy running cross-country when I was younger. As I've gotten older, I've f
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A kinder, gentler philosophy of success(youtube.com)
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There are people in jail for drug selling and production, but very few for casual use. The U.S. is the same way: http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/demand/speakout/10so.htm "The Michigan Department of Corrections just finished a study of their in
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Neither Singapore nor China allows drugs, yet their crime rate is much lower and their prisons much less crowded. Most European countries also outlaw drugs.
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If you really don't see anything wrong with having the largest prisoner population in the world The U.S. also has a very high crime rate compared to China and the European countries. More criminals means more people in prison. The Americ
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by bokonist 17y ago
The police report states that Whalen said "two black men". In reality, Whalen said "two larger men, one looked kind of Hispanic, but I'm not really sure, and the other one entered, and I didn't see what he looked like at all.". The "black"
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by bokonist 17y ago
I hit the same wall the library. If you want a new injection of novel intellectual thought, I highly recommend the blog Unqualified Reservations ( http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/ ). Read the entire archive, plus all the bo
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by bokonist 17y ago
Depends on the libtertarian. Some libertarians believe limited government is an end and then derive policy recommendations from that. But the libertarian work that you are criticizing does not do that. Hazlitt's arguments do not start fro
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by bokonist 17y ago
No, much of libtertarianism is about "is". Many libertarians would like to help the poor. They just argue that the minimum wage will not do what people want it do.
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I don't think you can just blame it all in poverty. People in poor countries (Philippines, Vietnam, Mexico) are much less obsese than Americans. And America had much less obesity when we were poorer as a country. Being poor doesn't somehow
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The Flynn effect mostly appears in only certain puzzle tests. There is no Flynn effect in vocab and numeracy, despite far longer hours spent at school. This indicates to me that we have gotten better at certain abstract puzzles, perhaps b
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What percentage is Person B offering? Person A really does not deserve any shares. If you had signed documents, it would have been proper to vest shares, and it does not look like Person A has done enough work to warrant vesting. So Pers
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Why not? I've come to believe that the actual field of programming matters much less to job satisfaction than the way it is done. Some "sexy" areas of programming (data mining, high scale apps) can be an enormous grind. Some CRUD busines
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Because the United States conquered the world. I'm just disappointed there was no cool end sequence.
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If that's true, then yes, a reboot seems about as likely as the Pope declaring his atheism. Well, maybe less likely, because the Pope is just one person. Well, the reformation did happen. And the Soviet Union did fall. And Deng Xiaoping

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