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by kaitai 9y ago
In the US, breech babies (4%) are automatic C-sections almost everywhere regardless of maternal condition. This is not true elsewhere. There are also a fair number of purely elective (mother-chosen) C-sections in the US. Obesity is a factor
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by kaitai 9y ago
The US is soooo good at the medical save for babies! Thank you for the cite, rayiner, as it illuminates something done relatively well here. The Finnish baby box system has received a lot of press in the US. Americans think, oh, safe sleep,
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by kaitai 9y ago
I don't think this is accurate. First, "choosing to give birth" is a little biased. In a state like Texas, 96% of Texas counties have no clinics that provided abortions. 43% of Texas women lived in those counties in 2014. Abo
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In an order that does not correspond with the article: Very high C-section rates, born out of OB/GYN training that concentrates on the abnormal and generally emphasizes an interventionist approach, shift mortality burden to mothers fro
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by kaitai 9y ago
Moms dying of high blood pressure is pretty different than a healthy kid with Down Syndrome being born. The percentage of Down Syndrome kids who don't survive to age 1 is less than 7% in the US. Down Syndrome is not a contributer to ma
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by kaitai 9y ago
This is what makes middle America laugh at SV... meanwhile, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15305086 about funding for breast pump startups (a product actually used by millions that people expect to pay money for,
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by kaitai 9y ago
While this comment has been downvoted at the time I write this, it has some good points. First, malnourished women still make pretty decent breastmilk, although there's a point at which that is no longer true. Second, it is abusive to
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That's not entirely true. Philando Castile, for instance, would not have been helped out by simply believing he was not a victim. In situations like job interviews and office experiences, it's certainly optimal on an individual le
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It is very important to be nuanced and honest in this discussion of "victimhood culture," as while there are legitimate arguments to be made it can also be used as another way of avoiding substantive discussion and derailing effor
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Right, it "seems to be supported." There's a lot of just-so storytelling going on here. Take a look at American football in 1940. No black players! Hm. Black people must be bad at football, perhaps more suited to being airmen
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by kaitai 9y ago
To go back to the post under discussion here, how does your comment interact with Aaronson's Amendment to his Law? His Law is he will work to discover & share the truth, no matter what, while his Amendment is that he'll go to
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by kaitai 9y ago
My brother and parents were quite upset one year when he failed his 6th grade standardized test. 20% -- so low! They were talking about his study habits etc etc and I asked to see the results. Perfect 20% in each topic. How many choices for
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by kaitai 9y ago
Your second paragraph is spot on. These tests are not very accurate, and students who see a bunch of remediation rather than progress in front of them often quit or switch majors, rather than gearing up and doing the math that is required!
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by kaitai 9y ago
I think this is not fair. First, many college remedial courses don't achieve their aims. They have high DFW rates (D means you can't progress, as C or better is usually the prerequisite, F is fail, W is withdraw). Their graduates
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by kaitai 9y ago
It is soooo hard to design a good multiple choice math test. I am trying to do exactly that right now, and resign myself to knowing that it will just be one non-comprehensive piece of evidence. I did not-so-well on the math subject GRE myse
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by kaitai 9y ago
Agree that Common Core is good as a set of standards and as a set of teaching methods. However, I know how some ed companies put together their "common core" materials -- just permute existing crap and relabel. There is a lot of b
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by kaitai 9y ago
Another factor: I know several people who went into math because it could not be politicized. There was not a party line to toe.
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The US should strive to have better standards -- but it seems that there are interests that aim to have a less-educated population. There are strong forces thwarting the establishment of a well-paid and well-educated teaching profession in
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80 years ago all vets were men. How can men's biology change so fast? 150 years ago elementary school teachers were men. In 1984 more than 35% of CS majors were female. Not long enough for genetic change.
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by kaitai 9y ago
Women elect into different fields in large part because of social factors. If a company like Google decides that it doesn't like those social factors, what's wrong with that? Why should social convention rule? A lot of clumping ha
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by kaitai 9y ago
The "actual facts" of what he said are not uncontroversial. They aren't even facts. Cordelia Fine's "Delusions of Gender" has an extensive bibliography of studies disputing the statements he claims are facts.
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by kaitai 9y ago
I wish the guy had written what other people had written. This stuff has been hashed, rehashed, refried, deep fried... and he got all the biology research wrong. It just seems that he did no research, instead thinking about his feelings a l
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by kaitai 9y ago
I know New Math from the 1960s; the sibling comment to my post indicates that ghettoCoder is talking about Common Core today and I disagree with his characterization of Common Core. New Math as practiced in the 1960s is a fascinating and ve
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by kaitai 9y ago
> The quality of those courses depends on the prof. Entirely. In theory they are great :) The one you listened in on sounds interesting!
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Disagree. If you read the common core standards, they are very sensible and make no curricular or pedagogical recommendations. "Calculate and interpret the average rate of change of a function (presented symbolically or as a table) ove
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by kaitai 9y ago
The sibling commenter is right re: bachelors and certifications, but due to shortages in the US often teachers with no certification in a subject are teaching. See Table 2 in [1] and find that 70% of high school math teachers have a math ma
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by kaitai 9y ago
You're totally right... but the previous poster is too. I encounter many students who really freak out at f(t) = y vs f(t) = x vs f(x) = y. Obviously they don't understand very well. I go back and forth between using notation as a
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by kaitai 9y ago
Many other commenters have pointed out how great examples and ties to the real world are; the love of applications is well-represented in this discussion. But I'll throw out beauty as an underrated motivator! I love math because it&#x2
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by kaitai 9y ago
This is compounded in the weird American class called "precalculus," which is just a random grab bag of math crap that might maybe needed before calculus but might not. In most precalc classes I've encountered, not only is th
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by kaitai 9y ago
Accelerated math could have been a solution -- I know that when I was bored in math I did worse, and when the problems got more interesting I did better. Now I have a math PhD, even though I got so bored in one class earlier on that I had t

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