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by jewayne 3y ago
Teachers absolutely should teach to the test. And individual teachers really shouldn't be in the business of deciding what to teach, either. Why is there an assumption that what is on the test is inherently worthless but every individu
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by jewayne 3y ago
Well, unless having the three percent get through makes it impossible to improve the condition of the other 97%. Survivorship bias is our favorite logical fallacy here in the US.
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by jewayne 3y ago
And I would say that 50% of parenting is getting your kid into the right school. I don't know about you, but suburban life as I know it is organized entirely around the importance of a good school district. And are you saying they have
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by jewayne 3y ago
I hate to say it, but recent history shows me that many of the people who are most afraid of the government are also the most enthusiastic about letting "their guy" do whatever he wants, "laws" be damned. They see the ot
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by jewayne 3y ago
Again, the "costs" are not the problem. The prices are. Please stop perpetuating the cost myth.
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by jewayne 3y ago
I'm trying to decide why we need to clutch our pearls because health care is 10% of global GDP? Is health care somehow an illegitimate expenditure?
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by jewayne 3y ago
There are good, well-meaning politicians out there. They are often the ones most vilified by the media. The chief enablers of bad politicians are people who refuse to discern between good politicians and bad politicians. Enablers like you.
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by jewayne 3y ago
I hope you don't actually believe that providing health care is exorbitantly expensive. Providing health care is absolutely not exorbitantly expensive. It just isn't. Paying the prices that our hospitals, insurance companies, and
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by jewayne 3y ago
But neither one specified a falsifiable hypothesis. Which, to this layman's mind, means that any general statement made based upon the data is itself a hypothesis.
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by jewayne 3y ago
> I agree, they are the largest impact but the scale of EV ownership that is being promoted will result in an insane increase in road wear. I mean, I just explained why it won't.
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by jewayne 3y ago
But doesn't that explain the reproducibility crisis, in a nutshell? If you work backwards from a dataset and look for correlations, doesn't that effectively set the p-value to 1?
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by jewayne 3y ago
Exactly. I feel like this is asking the biologists a trick question. The correct answer is, "I don't fucking know. Are you offering me a grant to study this?"
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by jewayne 3y ago
Non-scientist here. Isn't this just stating that "experiments", even those involving non-laboratory measurements, need to begin with a falsifiable hypothesis? From my understanding, you can't draw any real conclusions fr
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by jewayne 3y ago
I learned recently that road wear varies as the 4th power of vehicle weight. This means that every 20% increase in weight doubles the amount of damage that vehicle does to the road/street. This means the absolute vast majority of roa
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by jewayne 3y ago
false dichotomy
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by jewayne 3y ago
You just haven't been paying close enough attention. Our health care system in the US sucks. Are you going to try to defend the completely fictional numbers that end up on US hospital bills? And how those numbers drive the insurance pr
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by jewayne 3y ago
I mean, there's still a difference. The profit motive is now fully normalized in US healthcare. At this moment, just about every single hospital in the US is understaffed to the point of patient endangerment / harm. And nobody can
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by jewayne 3y ago
> I think many of the people objecting to taxes have a rather rosy view of the times when taxes didn't exist. I think they also don't know how long the history of taxation really is. Taxation is pretty much as old as civilizat
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by jewayne 3y ago
> you're issues They are people. They are not issues.
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by jewayne 3y ago
That's my point. I think the vast majority of adults have some amount of personal business that already isn't getting done. Shortening the week is going to make it worse.
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by jewayne 3y ago
> When do you get anything personal done? This is why my stomach drops when this discussion turns into "the whole organization should shut down for another day". That's what I need a day off for. To go to doctor's app
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by jewayne 3y ago
I'm all for a 4-day week, as long as we all get a different extra day off. I don't need most of society to shut down for another day a week. I need a day when everything's running but I don't have to work. A society-wide
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by jewayne 3y ago
> my grandparent's generation But what about the other 3 grandparents? Sorry, after you did it twice I couldn't help myself.
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by jewayne 3y ago
The problem is neither old people nor young people. The problem is the people who have amassed extraordinary amounts of wealth and truly think that it ALL rightfully belongs to them -- the social security / pensions of retired people a
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by jewayne 3y ago
Median age is also impacted by the birth rate, which keeps falling in the US. Why aren't we having a conversation about raising the birth rate?
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by jewayne 3y ago
If you actually look at it, the number of people who were actually able to carry on at a physical job until 75 was always small. That's why people had large families, after all -- they were your retirement plan.
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by jewayne 3y ago
Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system. Meaning it can and will pay out some level of benefits as long as there is the political will to do so. SS catastrophism is all about undermining that political will, and bringing about a self-fulf
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by jewayne 3y ago
Who will never retire.
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by jewayne 3y ago
> This is my schizo catastrophizing You misspelled psychopathic. Drastically increasing the retirement age only makes sense to us keyboard jockeys who rarely even see physical labor up close. Data shows that people in physical jobs start
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by jewayne 3y ago
Probably not, at least in the US. Life expectancy is falling.

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