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   In Defense of Scientism(quillette.com)

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   Evaluation of Scientific Publications(seanharrisonblog.com)

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   > How do you suppose we confront "the IQ problem"? - A "Manhattan project" to discover protocols, tools, medications, cybernetics, new modes of education, anything really, that can enhance general human intelligence.[
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   > Hsu's research doesn't hold up under review. I don't know what that statement means, but in good faith, I'll assume you can substantiate it. Instead, consider "Upward Intergenerational Mobility in the United St
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   The article you linked to is helpful but makes several important claims/conclusions that have been convincingly disproved/challenged in the time since 1996. For instance, it claims: > In fact IQ is a great example of a trait th
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   The paper says: > The question is whether the bimodality is symptomatic of a poverty trap, namely whether poor people do casual jobs and hold nearly no productive assets because they do not have the talent to do anything else or whether
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   > What part of my response led you to believe I inferred we shouldn't learn difficult things? The first sentence, and its emphasis on calling out elitism (and concomitant gate-keeping). > I'm simply try to show that people
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   > Be careful here. This is bordering on elitism. Be careful about the soft bigotry of low expectations. A generation has grown up thinking that skill/knowledge elitism is a real thing and that it's oppressive. Instead we should
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   Migration for the Benefit of All: Towards a New Paradigm for Migrant Labor [pdf](oit.org)

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    Video Games and the Future of Education(youtube.com)

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    Resonant Games: Design Principles for Learning Games(resonant.games)

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    > Honestly I DON'T trust my own reasoning. You should trust your reasoning, that is, the deliberate process/method by which you arrive at conclusions, but you should be constantly seeking score your levels of uncertainty, and
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    It's worth revisiting Thiel's, "You are not a lottery ticket" (2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZM_JmZdqCw , in which he outlines a compelling model for reasoning about the present world and the fut
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    Rebooting Justice(overcomingbias.com)

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    Fluency Without Fear: Research Evidence on the Best Ways to Learn Math Facts(youcubed.org)

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    > I've been a bit short with you because you've written long speculative comments without making any attempt to look up the numbers yourself. That's something to be embarrassed about. That's an assumption on your part
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    > The parent comment is explicitly discussing funding. Funding is relevant. Tenure, graduate students, postdocs etc, all cost money. That money has to come from somewhere. Money is intimately tied to the human labour/capital questio
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    Week of Inspirational Maths(youcubed.org)

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    The Wall(dev.theportal.dev)

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    > I work on small-scale experiments, a field that Sabine portrays as starved of funding because of string theory. But that's not at all how funding actually works. Generally, all of our boats rise or fall together. Please could you
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    How to become a Bayesian (2016)(alexanderetz.com)

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    > why not charge even more, and in doing so increase the assistance to those making closer to the median household income? Simple solutions like this readily suggest themselves. However, iiuc, in top-tier universities, tuition doesn&#x27
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    Conceptual Modeling in physics, mathematics and cognitive science [pdf](geocalc.clas.asu.edu)

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    > An issue with these things is that institutions and government make major decisions based on the output from these fields. Indeed, the mere proliferation of x-studies (where x is arbitrary) in universities is a ringing indictment. The
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    > Then you encounter the problem that there are no average humans [sigh] In statistical modelling at the population level, we don't make conclusions about "average humans". We derive conclusions based on distributions. And
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    > How can there ever be a disinterested party when it comes to matters of national or societal importance? The scientific method doesn't require that I be a disinterested party, but it does require that I evaluate evidence, to the b
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    Global Positioning System: The Mathematics of GPS Receiver [pdf](maa.org)

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    A Singular Mathematical Promenade [pdf](ghys.perso.math.cnrs.fr)

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    On Studying Mathematics(vnhacker.blogspot.com)

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    > I would argue the reason for all of these inventions is the increasing number of educated people (not only physicists) in the world. So maybe investing this money into education is better. This is an alarming statement. I'm not s