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by csa 5y ago
Choice quote which does a good job of summarizing what I have seen: “In addition, the differential direct and indirect effects of income on high school achievement and, in turn, high school achieve-ment on SAT scores may also be explained
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by csa 5y ago
Thank you for the charts. That said, I think two charts that try to summarize the data should probably combine the two if they actually want to measure SES rather than just SS or ES. I like this study and summary: https://www.res
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by csa 5y ago
> Well, once you stop trying to get people into exclusive clubs, you start asking crazy questions like "why don't we just educate everybody to a high level rather than place arbitrary cutoffs based on century old social clubs t
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> Are these people who are living in the "midwest" like Chicago or midwest like some rural town of 10,000 people that is hours away from any major city? Off the top of my head, with provincial city being something like Akron, O
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by csa 5y ago
This part of the thread is about alleged discrimination in elite school admissions against folks in 4H, FFA, and ROTC. These researchers say that they normalize for all other variables other than participation in these activities, and I sug
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by csa 5y ago
> You know a lot of people who went to elite schools! That happens in certain circles. I will add that the list above easily does not include the 10 most interesting people I know who got into elite schools. The “dirty little secret” tha
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by csa 5y ago
> the admissions department should not be assuming what an applicant wants to do beyond what they say in their application It almost seems like you may have created a straw man here. 1. I’m not an admissions officer. 2. Of course admissi
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> You're assuming that someone who grew up in a rural area is destined to be a farmer no matter what Not at all. I live in an area where 4H is big. Many of those people go to Davis and seem to be very happy with their choice, and it
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> That’s exactly what I said. My wife went to high school in Iowa and was involved in FFA. If someone is involved in 4H or FFA in a way that would be compelling for an elite school like Harvard or Stanford, I wonder why they would want t
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> Regional isn't true. Actual examples I know of people who got into elite schools: - First chair violin in city youth orchestra - Winner of regional ice-skating competitions, but not nowhere near Olympic competition-level. - Winner
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> yet this doesn't explain why these folks focus primarily on race In my experience: - Race-based arguments seem to be easier for folks in general to understand than SES-based arguments. Race-based oppression is something that all A
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> I've asked similar questions to people who hold this view of "standardized testing is racist" The most defensible explanation that folks who claim standardized tests are racist is that the range of scores are not approxi
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> yet somehow asian americans being discriminated at ivy leagues even with good standardized test score is not seen as systematic racism. People throw this out as though it is fact, when in reality: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&
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by csa 5y ago
> Yet if a student defines "success" as "playing a musical instrument really well" you'll think that he is well-rounded and deserves to get admitted. East Asian female at my high school. - 1st chair violin in the
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Competitions (when they exist) and/or impact. Usually if someone has an impressive extracurricular that is tough to document, one of their recommendations will mention it in a compelling way. As a simple example, a relative of mine was
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> Harvard doesn’t care about the extra curricular activities offered in midwestern high schools—sports (unless good enough to be recruited), 4H, playing an instrument, etc. I beg to differ. Anyone who does any of these things at a region
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> It's important that people, especially immigrants, can get into these schools based solely on their test scores This is very unlikely to happen for East Asians or Indians. > and not have to do any of the other trivial stuff tha
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by csa 5y ago
Maybe? When searching for something on HN, I get much better results using Google and site: rather than using the embedded algolia search. I would have to think that this would be true of a corporate data set as well. Their api might be wha
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by csa 5y ago
I guess HN missed the attempt at a joke here. This just seems to be a way that the government can point to an “expert” and say it was nothing, thereby alleviating the need for the government to comment on the “nothing”. I’m guessing the cla
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> Camera glare my friend, case closed I came here to say this. There will be no further discussion.
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by csa 5y ago
> Why is it hard to find even 1 person? I’m going to paste from another reply I made in this thread: “Knowledge documentation and transfer in reality is hard. Very few people read docs, even when they are told to and those docs are criti
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> train 2-3 other people to understand the software back and forwards, inside and out I think you grossly underestimate how hard it is to find one person, much less two or three people, who can and will actually do this task diligently.
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> In reality, if you are depending on one employee to make your business that is a huge risk. This is extremely common in many/most SMBs. > That employee needs to document and transfer his knowledge and relationships out to the c
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by csa 5y ago
I see. If he got into another major school (e.g., Yale or Princeton), the admissions folks or the school counselor may have decided that he was a better fit at one of those. Good for him for getting into other elite schools.
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by csa 5y ago
> Even paying customers get ads piled on them. Often times more… they have demonstrated that their wallet is open. If you want an example of this in the US, make a small political donation. The amount of money that will be spent coming a
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> How does a low interest rate affect investment? More capital is looking for returns and is effectively willing to take more risk (like funding VC startups) to find those returns since “safe” investments return almost nothing.
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> A close friend of mine had perfect scores in basically everything and Harvard turned him down on the basis of "we already accepted your older brother and it wouldn't be fair of us to take two of you". I will go out on a
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by csa 5y ago
> So, an individual Asian student needs to score much higher to have a chance at Harvard, compared to students of other ethnicities. That's very blatantly racial discrimination. A little late to this, but… 1. Your quotes refer to re
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> I wonder why didn't he raise a Series A for a recruiting startup yet though. If you know about some of his pre-stripe past, this is a very funny comment on multiple levels.
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Not op, and I don’t know his answer, but… The most interesting stuff falls into the “almost!” category.

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