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by devinhelton 9y ago
Why hasn't the past half century been filled with at least trying new things? What happened to laboratories of democracy? Although I admit I have a slight repulsion to the thought of a few billionaires being able to wield almost compl
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by devinhelton 9y ago
In the last few months of the presidential campaign, a BuzzFeed analysis concluded, fake news stories got more Facebook engagement than the most widely read stories from major news outlets. Isn't there a problem with this Buzzfeed an
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by devinhelton 9y ago
It paints a vivid picture of the media consistently doing the government's bidding by painting our mass murdering allies as heroes, while massively amplifying minor crimes committed by those we consider enemies (e.g. Communists).* We
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by devinhelton 9y ago
I think the biggest thing forums and comment systems need to do is to ban tedious comments. On subjects that have been debated to death, it is really annoying to see all the comments for a new article just be repeated talking points that I
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by devinhelton 9y ago
Integrated schools help to reduce racial achievement gaps. In fact, the racial achievement gap in K–12 education closed more rapidly during the peak years of school desegregation in the 1970s and 1980s than it has overall in the decades th
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by devinhelton 9y ago
To save people from litigating busing, there was a thread on this earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13902960 (I cited evidence saying that busing did not close the gap).
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by devinhelton 9y ago
Every generation is wrong. Except the elders in the late Roman empire who complained about how citizens would rather cut off their thumbs than fight in the Roman army. Their decadence did actually doom them. In general in history, decline
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by devinhelton 9y ago
Peter Moskos, a criminologist who spent a year on the Baltimore police force while doing his PhD, has a good post up about what happened -- http://www.copinthehood.com/2017/07/thats-quite-days-work.ht... It seem
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by devinhelton 9y ago
If players have a union and collectively bargain, and the owners collectively bargain, then the fans/cities should also collectively bargain. Create a union of the cities that host the leagues, and have them bargain for rules such as n
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Introducing Idyll: Interactive Document Language(idyll-lang.github.io)
6 points by devinhelton 9y ago|0 comments
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by devinhelton 10y ago
There are other countries who went much further in their support for the poor, with much better outcomes. This was the line taught in my freshman sociology class, but I have since been convinced that money spent on social welfare does not
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by devinhelton 10y ago
Common sense would say that if you give someone money or vouchers, they would be immediately materially better off to the extent that you gave them money. I don't dispute that. Common sense also traditionally held that any public chari
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by devinhelton 10y ago
From the wikipedia article you link to: "Desegregation efforts of the 1970s and 1980s led to substantial academic gains for black students; as integration increased, blacks' educational attainment increased while that of whites re
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by devinhelton 10y ago
The better critique is that math requires homogenous data points. In sociology, every policy implementation is different in a million ways. A welfare program in Sweden is different than one in Chicago. The charter school program in Boston a
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by devinhelton 10y ago
That was never the idea. Desegregation came about because the white schools often had better funding, thus better teachers, better facilities, and an overall better experience. From my reading of a lot of the literature, this was not exac
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by devinhelton 10y ago
Sociologists have had a very large impact on policy in the last century. For example, the hundreds of billions spent on public housing was based on ideas that came out of sociology -- https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/dv
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by devinhelton 10y ago
It should be comforting, though, that so far they have always turned eventually - as the evidence for Watergate became overwhelming, the public made it clear there were some lines that could not be crossed. Nixon did not really do anythin
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by devinhelton 10y ago
Immigration laws were already being enforced vigorously. Obama administration set the record in deportation and was often called the "Deporter in Chief" These statistics are hopelessly confounded by changes to the definition of
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The Invented History of 'The Factory Model of Education' (2015)(hackeducation.com)
1 points by devinhelton 10y ago|0 comments
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by devinhelton 10y ago
It's a slippery slope to anti-intellectualism but I feel myself slipping. Au contraire. You may be being truly intellectual for the first time. Do you know the motto of the Royal Society, the organization most responsible for the bir
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by devinhelton 10y ago
What I wrote is what I wrote, and what argued is what I argued. Boston did not have a Jim Crow system whereby all blacks kids went to black schools and all white kids went to white schools. Schools were assigned by neighborhood, (with some
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by devinhelton 10y ago
For whatever reason though, busing led to miraculously improved outcomes. This is asserted in episode 562, but no evidence was cited. I did a deep dive on this myself, reading numerous studies and various books, and in my opinion any link
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by devinhelton 10y ago
" Your view on tribalism as described here is fine, but the tone of the article is not "tribalism is an unfortunate reality", it's "tribalism is normal and healthy". " It's the same thing. Compare aga
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by devinhelton 10y ago
This worldview has caused so much pain and suffering that I can't really believe you would write it with a straight face. You're basically describing the Cold War as the most stable and peaceful state of geopolitics. You're
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by devinhelton 10y ago
Are you really arguing that desegregation created these problems? Seems a bit backwards to me. I think it's incredibly obvious that race relation issues existed long before the desegregation of schools. Did you read my post? https:&
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by devinhelton 10y ago
Section 4 describes how racism (or tribalism or whatever you want to call it) is really natural and healthy, with no references except your own "common sense". My view on tribalism is similar to my view on "greed" or &
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by devinhelton 10y ago
The most moving and informed coverage of the US education system I've heard have all been through This American Life What makes you think it is the most informed coverage? These episodes only give you one side of the argument. If you
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by devinhelton 10y ago
I think the way to understand IQ scores is that they are proxies for measuring general intelligence (general intelligence being ability to solve novel, abstract cognitive problems). The art of designing an IQ test is in making it as good as
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Who Said JavaScript Was Easy?(hackernoon.com)
16 points by devinhelton 10y ago|3 comments
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Sane Thinking About Mental Health Problems(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
140 points by devinhelton 10y ago|103 comments

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