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by lutorm 19y ago
Another view would be that it is everyones responsibility in a democratic society to vigourously (but respectfully) debate how that society should be structured.
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by lutorm 19y ago
As usual, the truth is probably somewhere in between. There will be people who freeload, and there will be people who seize the opportunity to get themselves out of poverty. There are surely hard working people who can't improve their situa
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by lutorm 19y ago
I agree, it would be nice with some empirical data instead of just opinion (not that most other opinions are better supported).
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by lutorm 19y ago
People afflicted by stereotype threat don't just give up. (If anything they try harder.) It's a physiologically measurable effect . Think of it as an added level of anxiety that non-afflicted people don't have to face. Studies have sho
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by lutorm 19y ago
"Stereotypes may contribute slightly to group differences, but they are not the primary cause of them." No, they are probably not the primary cause. The proximate cause is probably bigotry, imho, with societal structure as the ultimate caus
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by lutorm 19y ago
I think you missed the point. It's not that "people give up a little when others tell them that they are bad..." The effect is self-afflicted, you just have to think that there is a negative stereotype that affects you, and your performan
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by lutorm 19y ago
Stereotype threat is such an interesting concept. It's closely connected to the idea of malleability of intelligence as explained in e.g. this article: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-sm... It raises interesting
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by lutorm 19y ago
I checked this out since I wanted to release code I wrote for my research under the GPL: Where I work (UCSC), the employee owns the copyright to code he writes, unless the code was part of a deliverable for some grant (in which case it gene
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by lutorm 19y ago
Here's a very interesting article in Scientific American about how how you think about intelligence and what it means to be smart affects your performance. And it's actually based on science: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-
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by lutorm 19y ago
That concept has a name, the "zone of proximal development", which is "the level of difficulty ... that is neither too hard nor too easy, and is the level at which optimal learning takes place": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proxima
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by lutorm 19y ago
If you read that article, you'd think that drugs are the only way to enhancing brain performance... I enhance my brain all the time, but with exercise instead of drugs. The article seems to be based on the premise that unless you take drug
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by lutorm 19y ago
While people raised in the US are being told they can have it all, if they work hard enough, reality isn't so. Social mobility in the US is lower than in most European countries. The correlation between your income and that of your parent
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by lutorm 19y ago
Sure hope you're not too old, because I'm 37! I just decided to leave my academic career in astrophysics and get a "real" job instead, mostly because of the sacrifices academic life demands in terms of relocation (the bad pay doesn't help
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by lutorm 19y ago
Very interesting. Must be the first article I've read that used the word "cybernetic" seriously!