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by camelite 9y ago
> Please, read the current research. There's no need. How to teach reading has been a solved problem for at a minimum 30 years. It is not a research question. It does include phonics. The only thing with researching is why in the wo
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by camelite 9y ago
One part of the solution is to introduce exceptions early. The whole thing is a more complicated business than a one-to-one sound-letter correspondence. But it is a problem that has been solved for a long time now[1]. Cognitive science is n
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by camelite 9y ago
The fact that an act was passed after the greatest bubble pop since the great depression shouldnt be enough to convince you that dems as a whole arent beholden to wall street. they had zero choice but to do SOMETHING. look instead to what t
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by camelite 9y ago
> Speculative real estate investment is a direct result of restrictive zoning. By definition, it's not. It's a term coined to separate out the impact on prices of people buying-to-live vs people buying-to-sell/rent-and-pro
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by camelite 9y ago
You don't have to force them if the teaching is competent. It doesn't have to be a painful experience.
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by camelite 9y ago
Yes, I agree completely. Though I would emphasise that teaching universally bad only when compared to what is achieveable from tightly scripted presentations. I think the actual task of teaching flawlessly while "winging it" is ex
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by camelite 9y ago
I would reccommend looking into everything written by Siegfried Engelmann, particularly "Theory of Instruction". Honestly though, that might not be enough. Maybe you have the brains and drive to do it, for me the only unquestionab
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by camelite 9y ago
That's a myth. The real problem is that the average teacher (relative performance) is so far away from being close to maximally performant (as proved in studies which rigourously control teacher behaviour) that the impact of variation
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by camelite 9y ago
Writing the 900th SQL query is not hard science, it's engineering. And every engineering discipline, to my knowledge, has a large gender gap in participation. So, it is not necessary to "establish either that CS is somehow fundame
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by camelite 9y ago
If I am anti-x, and I profit from it, am I an extremist anti-x-er? Do I deserves to be put on a list with nutjobs and whackos? Does putting me on a list of extremist when my positions are not extreme reduce the credibility of the organisati
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by camelite 9y ago
> but how can Goldman's investment banking arm promise anything? Easy: they lie. Why is this so mind-boggling? > This is akin to my bank promising some third party that by Friday afternoon I'll have a certain balance in USD
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by camelite 9y ago
> f they engineered all these bubbles obv they would have had the foresight to be unscathed during crisis They did't need any foresight to predict that their bonus money would remain ing their bank accounts no matter what happened.
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by camelite 9y ago
> But most damning to the narrative Taibbi wants to sell, Goldman got in trouble with eToys --- for underpricing it. I think you're underestimating Taibi's argument if you think the IPO-ing firm being pissed off at a later date
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by camelite 9y ago
I will second that the moderators deserve credit for the change in "tone" as you put it. But it is not really a change in tone, but rather that the hold-on-a-seconders, whose "tone" is generally utterly anodyne in compar
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by camelite 9y ago
I can see you're trying to rise above your instincts here, and that is a good effort. However, you should have left out the parting shot about the axe.
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by camelite 9y ago
> I was commenting on the mindset one would have to take the positions you have, which is why I didn't address individual points. I guess that was lost on you. There's a word for that, you know. > Show your work. Why is that
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by camelite 9y ago
> This is really a stretch in logic It's not even a tiny weeny little stretch of logic. It is self-evident to anybody who is thinking clearly about the matter. > Parent comment was saying we should give a little more credibility
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by camelite 9y ago
OK. Should "anything go", or is there a limit to how low the burden of proof should go?
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by camelite 9y ago
My rhetoric has the advantage of being true.
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by camelite 9y ago
disingenous: lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically I'll do you the honor of not questioning your sincerity without even making an effort to address any specific thing you said. Seems like an almost...pus
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by camelite 9y ago
Meaningless rhetoric which skips the part where you determine who the victims actually are.
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by camelite 9y ago
Should "anything go" in the workplace? Your phrasing doesn't make it clear if that's what you believe.
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by camelite 9y ago
> Men hold the vast majority of power in our society. No cards are stacked against them. If you "believe women who report sexual harassment", and more specifically, if you believe women who report sexual harassment in "les
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by camelite 9y ago
As speakers of English, we ARE the experts in the field, and the vast majority of us don't agree with you.
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by camelite 9y ago
Should we believe men too when they're victimised by women, or is this a one way deal? What if it's a man and a woman accusing each other, or two men or two women. What if the dude is a historically oppressed minority?
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by camelite 9y ago
The relevance of that study is a massive stretch.
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by camelite 9y ago
Your links do not justify your confident tone. Two are about the 7 Supreme Court Justices and some Google guy. That's 8 people. The first is about a study involving 11 male-female interactions (19 now), and a study which noted that &qu
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by camelite 9y ago
> clearly it is not obvious enough It is very obvious though, if your basic working principle is that your fellow comments aren't sexist monsters. It's a good principle to work off.
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by camelite 9y ago
That's because they're different. "Over taxiing" won't deplete the population of taxi riders. Just because you know something about the economics of the taxi business doesn't mean you can indiscriminately apply
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by camelite 9y ago
I was actually coming back to delete the original comment as it wasn't very well thought through. I mean, sure, of course there was "content". There were chapter headers as so on and so forth. It would be better to criticise

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