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by knzhou 7y ago
Because the Senate is over 90% white, and most of the rest are at least half-white. To people in this country, that's what leadership looks like, so if you grade based on leadership, that's what you're going to get. Not playi
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> By the way, isn't depending on SAT for years and everyone bitching about SAT is a gross failure of our education system? Take any serious test, be it STEM competitions, JEE, or NCEE, multiple-choice questions are the easiest part.
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Sorry, but I write tests and I have absolutely no idea how you propose to measure these things objectively and automatically, without producing exactly the kind of "convergent" test you said you didn't like. For example, take
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Exactly. If you look at the comments on the linked article, or the ones that were on top here when I wrote mine, people are making comments that aren't specific to the SAT subject test at all -- "this is great, because I bombed th
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I'm sure the writers of the SAT are well aware of this, but full IQ tests just don't scale. How are you going to provide the same test ten million times a year, when the test has to be administered one-on-one by a trained professi
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You're just bragging that you hit the ceiling on those tests. That doesn't mean tests don't work; if you wanted to, you could have found much harder ones. (That's what I did, out of necessity. They wouldn't have giv
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> an articulate, socially well-adjusted person who can communicate their values and opinions in an intelligent way Yes, that's me. > and who is comfortable making connections with others And that will never be me. Leadership is i
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Absolutely! I have a lot more faith in grad admissions than undergrad, because there's so much more good signal. Unfortunately nothing like this is available when people are in high school.
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The bribery scandal especially depresses me, because a lot of the colleges impacted had official bribery systems in place -- you're supposed to donate to the "Development Office" to get on the "Dean's List",
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Standardized testing is a natural monopoly -- if you have every college making their own, it's a crazy duplication of work, will produce a lot of substandard tests, and will put tons of strain on the students. Might as well ask everybo
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If the reason is benign, I'm guessing it's just because AP tests have gotten so watered down that they're just a stand-in for the SAT subject tests at this point.
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Not only that, but these prep courses tend to assign practice SATs that are harder in the beginning and easier at the end, to give the impression of rapid progress.
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Anybody cheering the exclusion of some test or other, because it was a pain to study for in high school, is simply not noticing the frog-boiling secondary effects going on. Every bit of emphasis taken out of objective results mean more adva
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by knzhou 7y ago
I'm a Stanford newbie. This is completely believable, but of the stories The Fountain Hopper breaks, what's the accuracy rate?
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China's case fatality rate is half Italy's -- if anything, that tells us the Italian numbers are too low.
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How is anybody still making this argument? "It stopped in China, so we don't need to do anything." It stopped in China precisely because they did something. Diseases don't magically stop themselves. This is on the leve
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by knzhou 7y ago
As with most of what Sabine writes, the book is very one-sided, in that it gives the reader the impression that a free-thinking person can only come to one reasonable conclusion, i.e. complete agreement with the book. It also gives the fals
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by knzhou 7y ago
> A prominent microbiologist is forced to apologize Uh, from the literal headline of the article itself, the apology is probably because he blamed it on, quote, "inferior Chinese culture". And obviously you already knew that. S
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Just as Tom Cotton (Senator from Arkansas) declared on Fox news that it was a Chinese bioweapon. All governments have wingnuts.
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This thinking actually causes me to post more , and get into more flamewars, because it bothers me when something obviously wrong is going to be seen by hundreds of people.
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This is extended in the post/article "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People" [0]. > The 1% rule is of course just another way of saying that the distribution of contributions follows a Power Law
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by knzhou 7y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I just have to add one thing: just like you, all ordinary people I've met have treated me just fine. I'm not worried about the couple nutjobs in every city going around beating up Asians, they&#
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Look, do you think the 4 links I posted (which are in turn a small selection of many more) indicate credible opposition or not?
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And lo and behold, again: Madagascar has just closed their borders. https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/14/world/africa/14re... > "To prevent the outbreak entering in Madagascar, al
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You could also listen to the Harvard epidemiology department: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidem... Or the British Society for Immunology: https://www.immunology.org&
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At this point, hospitalization basically implies ventilation. Hospitals are crowded. If they were just going to give you a bed and some pills, they'd have you do that at home. France reports that half their patients in critical care ar
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I was trying to make this argument yesterday and got piles of comments responding exactly this way: "oh, that's only 300 signatures from UK scientists in opposition", "oh, but some of the people who agree with you don&
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I'm posting this because of the narrative on this site that all experts agree with the UK's plan. To the extent that there is a consensus, it's a consensus against it.
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Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavirus plan “was satire”(theguardian.com)
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by knzhou 7y ago
In the UK, "maths" is a very broad category. It includes my field of theoretical particle physics, as well as mathematical disease modelling. All of us would be called mathematicians. Yes, not everybody signing is a specialist in

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