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by lthornberry 4y ago
My anecdata is that being labeled autistic is actually way better than being labeled weird/awkward/whatever.
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by lthornberry 4y ago
Not directly, no. A range of meds are prescribed for specific manifestations of autism, such as aggression or self-injury, though none are broadly effective. If there’s an industry making money here, it’s ABA therapy, not pharma.
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by lthornberry 4y ago
"Liberal arts" is not a synonym for "humanities." I am a college professor; the majority of students at all the schools I've been affiliated get a liberal arts degree. This includes math majors, physics majors, et
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by lthornberry 4y ago
In the US, law is a graduate degree. A significant majority of law school students already have a liberal arts degree. This is an entirely different case. On the other point, offering CS degrees as liberal arts degrees wouldn't meant
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by lthornberry 5y ago
No, that part is very unusual, and every academic on Twitter is talking about this ad right now.
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by lthornberry 5y ago
There's a pretty solid literature on math pedagogy, and it's clear from that research that students need some way to tell when their answers are right or wrong, so that they can learn from the mistakes. For homework, that could m
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by lthornberry 5y ago
I'm assuming the issue is that there isn't a math pathway for humanities students who want to take math electives. This is the closest thing she could find. This was the case at the Ivy I attended. There were classes designed t
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by lthornberry 5y ago
I don't know if it's true of all schools, but I had a very similar experience at another Ivy League school. Took the first semester of linear algebra, got a very respectable grade, but really didn't learn much because the cl
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by lthornberry 5y ago
This particular claim is just ludicrous, though. The idea that marriage is primarily about love and emotional companionship is an extremely modern idea. See Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage.
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by lthornberry 5y ago
Two biggest drivers are 1) massive declines in public support (for public universities, obviously) and 2) more administrators. Much of the growth in administration is driven by a significant rise in the costs to comply with federal regulati
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by lthornberry 5y ago
This is an interesting study, but it’s far from the conclusive answer to the question of how the gut microbiome relates to neurological conditions. Given the heterogeneity and complex etiology of autism, a study of this size is not suffici
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by lthornberry 5y ago
Housing has become significantly more expensive relative to wages, which is where the problem lies.
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by lthornberry 5y ago
Most of the area in those places still has significant zoning restrictions on density--the cap is higher than other places, but there's still a cap. That's why there are still brownstones in Brooklyn. Second, the economics of bui
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by lthornberry 5y ago
You clearly don't experience this phenomenon. I'm jealous! But no, the whole problem is that I'm staying up late scrolling my phone even though sleep would be much more satisfying. And I can tell you that, in the moment!
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by lthornberry 5y ago
You are correct that racism as we know it is a product of, roughly speaking, the post-1550 world. The response to homoerotic acts has varied extremely widely across time and space. "Same sex couples" were pretty uncommon in most
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by lthornberry 5y ago
HBOT is a widely used 'alternative' treatment for other neurological conditions. It's controversial, in part because there are very good reasons that it can cause neurological damage. This study is NOT a reason for anyone t
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by lthornberry 5y ago
This. There is basically zero chance that an ethics review would see this as a case in which a control group is unethical. I have been through plenty of IRB processes. Resource constraints are a much more plausible explanation - running t
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by lthornberry 5y ago
Certified lawyers/accountants have ethical compliance responsibilities. They should be doing meaningful review, not just "signing off." There are savings to be realized, but they are more limited than one might think. The
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by lthornberry 5y ago
Double yikes to "these Africans." Pretty sure misplaced belief in homeopathy is not a distinctively African phenomenon. But to the point: the major driver of the early explosion of HIV on the continent was almost certainly large-
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by lthornberry 5y ago
Yikes. This is actually a field that I do research in, and this analysis just really, really doesn't hold water. Of course there are sociological contributors to the spread of HIV on the African continent. But the idea that there&#
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by lthornberry 5y ago
It's not only not realistic, it's not good for kids. They need time that's not observed by their parents to grow and develop as autonomous individuals. Also, I find watching my daughter's dance practice boring, and I fe
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by lthornberry 5y ago
My rule of thumb: if the choices are A) "maybe I'm just not aware of the common verbiage in [technical] circles" that I'm not a part of or B) "a little sloppy for" the multiple layers of experts involved in cho
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by lthornberry 5y ago
It’s over a much longer period than that.
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by lthornberry 5y ago
Again, the severe reactions documented here are not all that bad.
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by lthornberry 5y ago
The risk of death from covid is low for this age group, but almost certainly much higher than the risk of death from the vaccine. The risk-benefit analysis seems to weigh pretty obviously in favor of vaccination.
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by lthornberry 5y ago
Long covid is also more likely to result from more severe initial cases.
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by lthornberry 5y ago
It’s important to be clear here—these “severe” side effects are not life-threatening. We’re talking about a really bad headache or bout of diarrhea. Unpleasant, for sure, but not likely to have any long-term consequences. As a parent, I’m
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by lthornberry 5y ago
I also think it's important to acknowledge individual differences. To give one relevant example, pairing sounds particularly challenging for people on the autism spectrum, which as a group is well-represented among software engineers.
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by lthornberry 5y ago
I'm an academic, and I do not think it's what he's looking for. Most Ph.D. and postdoc-level research involves much less flexibility and much more tedium than it sounds like he's looking for. The overall project should
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by lthornberry 6y ago
The social norm these days is really different. It's not about your friends suddenly starting a new, exclusive behavior; its about a slow migration of the people in your social world to a tech platform you don't have access to.

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