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by kaitai 7y ago
Agree with sibling commenters that editors shouldn't be doing this themselves -- in my field, for instance, an editor is just the paid-in-prestige prof who agrees to look through articles submitted in a certain area, find referees for
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by kaitai 7y ago
Many smaller (<60 students) math classes, in my experience, have bimodal distributions of scores, so a bell curve by definition simply doesn't make sense. In addition, there's been a move to standards-based or mastery-based gra
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by kaitai 7y ago
Many places in the US, each grade covers 10%, so As (with plus or minus) go between 90 and 100, etc, with D from 60-70 and F below 60.
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Yep, I'm still using an old HP LaserJet too. Got it from a university discard, I believe, and it's over 14 years old and still cranking. Love it.
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And there's been media discussion of why her husband hasn't been charged, despite being on the phone calls & verbally approving the crime!
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And math equations, still a pain....
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For facial recognition I believe it's possible to use pre-trained networks and add extra layers for specific (visual) demographics. You're correct that for the engineering of soap dispensers an actually different method might be p
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How does this hurt the guy running the show?
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To be clear then, you're not actually talking about quality of education (tutoring, robotics teams, mock trial, great teachers, enrichment activities, science museum trips, history competitions). As you say, it's "ability to
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by kaitai 7y ago
It always gets ugly. I had a (well-off, white) friend use another friend's address to get into the high school I went to. He ended up at Princeton so I guess it worked well for him. No one did anything about it. The case in 2011 where
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by kaitai 7y ago
People are starting at different points. His parents were physically able to do what they did. If his dad had been disabled, or dead, he wouldn't have been able to commute for 4 hours. Would that make his dad less virtuous?
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That's why there are college essays! I gotta say, people in this discussion are acting as if suddenly colleges will totally forget that they need to admit for the lacrosse team and the rowing team and make sure they get the legacy admi
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Could you explain what the US system of de jure discrimination against white and asian men consists of? Genuinely curious.
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Can you spell out how it devalues the efforts of parents to improve their children's education?
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by kaitai 7y ago
Lots of great points to consider here and I'll boost number (2). I'm struggling not to say something unforgivably cynical here.... .... ...so let's say this: getting the 4.8% of Americans who are of Asian descent to spend the
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by kaitai 7y ago
There's no evidence for this -- from what the parent poster said, he probably lived in a well-off neighborhood and went to a well-off school. The article specifically says race is not a variable, so you seem to have a factual inaccurac
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by kaitai 7y ago
The stereotype evolved because Jews were forbidden by law from owning land in most of Europe and also forbidden from joining the guilds that ruled the professions. So if you can't own land and can't be a professional and also migh
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It's the gold star thing, folks. Gold star + Jewish evokes Judenstern, to use the historic name, not preschool accomplishments. It's definitely true that Harvard and other US colleges/universities discriminated against Jews u
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"Biased" still has real statistical meaning. It is unfortunate that people treat these problems with an aim to justifying their virtue rather than creating a product that works (not saying you are doing this, just commenting that
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This is a straw man argument. It's easy to find examples of algorithms that are biased -- let's just look at facial recognition. Sure, there are situations like what you describe, but are you going to argue then that dark-skinned
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by kaitai 7y ago
I have to say, parks and the environment are, ah, pretty impacted by climate... Why do you think that discussion of climate is "bolted on" to parks/environment unnecessarily?
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Mathematics is surprisingly useful. You've used your credit card online -- where'd that encryption algorithm come from? "Useless" math. You've booked a flight online -- where'd that schedule come from? Uh, math
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Life is a process of looking for palliatives until we die. Let's not be dishonest about that. Besides, the only people who promise cures for resentment, etc., tend to be religious.
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But what's untouched by religion? Veganism, fasting, wearing hats, wearing pants, not wearing pants, underwear, appreciating trees, eating bread, drinking wine, not drinking wine, eating fruit.... Religion has commented on every aspect
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Do you realize that most of us can't remove our breasts in the morning for work & put them back on for a date? Having a female body is not a mixed signal.
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But also, just experiment with your kid! Mine did not like loud noises or big movements. That's cool. When it was time for kid to sleep, we left kid to sleep -- and kid went to sleep with no mechanical aid. Kid hates white noise, as do
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by kaitai 7y ago
A very thought-provoking article, but one that still leaves me with questions. * The vast agricultural monocultures of the US have changed our climate on their own. Our fields of soy, wheat, and corn have decimated local ecosystems, led to
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by kaitai 7y ago
As a personal anecdote, vegetarian didn't work for me! Persistent anemia, hair loss, fatigue; adding back some meat just fixed it. Various diets are worth trying -- you never know until you try, and you learn a lot by trying. So for re
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by kaitai 7y ago
I'm not sure about that. Trying to find the article... but rabies shots, for instance, are very expensive and prescribed on a population level far out of proportion to the risks. Right, here's one such article (it's a county-
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by kaitai 7y ago
Wish I could upvote this more. This is on point. There never was $143k involved in that service.

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