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When similar standards of diagnosis are used across countries, they find similar rates of ailment. The difference is that the criteria for diagnosis in the US catches a much larger percentage of the population. Moreover, the US is also much
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You're conflating "not medicating" with "not treating", which is exactly the sort of thing that feeds the criticism that U.S. overdiagnosis rates are being driven by the pharmaceutical industry. Behavioral therapy i
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One thing that has definitely changed is the level of academic expectations for young kids. Working with educators, it's apparent how much expectations have changed even in the last 10-15 years. Things that children were once expected
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We simply don't know what the impact is of administering powerful amphetamines to children upon their development. Is there a population of children that would "age out" of the ADHD spectrum and develop coping mechanisms, if
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The thing is, diagnosis rates in the U.S. are something like 3-4 times as high as in most countries in Europe, which are themselves 3-4 times as high as a country like France, which is averse to ADHD diagnoses. The main treatment for ADHD i
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by panglott 10y ago
The article was fine, but what an unhelpful headline. It's like saying "Depression is a warning sign that you need to start being happier." The time in my life where I most struggled with loneliness, I had just moved to a new
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I started taking college classes part time at 12, dropped out of high school my junior year, and graduated college at 19. Socialization was the main reason my parents kept me in high school. But it meant I had to deal with the high school a
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What real argument for age-based grades can there be?
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Stereotypes are a form of information, just so low-grade that it more resembles misinformation. Most Americans don't have stereotypes about, say, Mongolians, because most Americans have had zero contact with Mongolians. Maybe something
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This strikes me more as a success of science journalism (people are inspired to improve their understanding of physics) and a failure of science education (intelligent, motivated amateurs receive no support outside of formal education). Alo
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Perhaps I should have said just "terrible practices". The brand is about perception, and lots of liberals perceive Chik-fil-A as materially supporting regressive social values. Too bad the chicken is fantastic. With Uber you have
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Sure, but when I was new to Lisp, I mentally read it as "add one to one". The first element of the expression is a verb, not a preposition. This might be good thing to discuss in a tutorial aimed at kids.
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I have always found polish notation simple because it is so consistent. The problem seems like the problem with Clojure (instead of say Racket) would be the uninformative error messages.
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Lyft, has a name that is not distinctive from the English word "lift", which may make for a nice pun, but it's harder to express in conversation that you'll use a ride-sharing service rather than just calling a friend. &
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I thought at first this was for consumer endorsement of the publisher's ads. There are some times when advertising is uninteresting and intrusive. There are some times when advertising introduces products/services that I wouldn&#x
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Full text: https://www.academia.edu/8739624/A_Galilean_science_of_langu... What a great burn.
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I mentioned in another comment that linguistics is a multi-paradigmatic field, with different paradigms having different conferences and professional networks. this is the consequence: generative linguists are increasingly out of step with
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The simple critique of the poverty of the stimulus argument is that there's no poverty of the stimulus: children receive ample, rich linguistic input as well as useful feedback. Children receive a lot more negative evidence than Chomsk
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by panglott 10y ago
Linguistics is a multi-paradigmatic field. Chomskyian/generative linguistics completely dominated a generation of young linguists in the 1970s and 1980s: it provided a research program for writing dissertations. But the results were of
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There are still a ton of pages in Blogspot. Closing Blogspot would be a Geocities-closure-level event, or bigger.
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Despite the clickbaity headline about "musical tastes", there is some real information here. "In their experiments, McDermott and his colleagues investigated aesthetic responses to music by playing combinations of notes to th
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Not ad-free, but the ads are not intrusive. Pledge week is still annoying of course.
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The difference is that smartphones have a lot higher penetration than Gameboys did.
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"the game is pretty objectively bad. ...I am having fun." Doesn't that mean the game is good? Lots of people enjoy Uno, not every game can be Go (nor should it). If you're having fun, you're doing it right.
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Walking around my neighborhood last night on two occasions at different times of the day, I encountered a dozen or more players both times: people of all ages out in the park or walking their dog. I live in an urban area half a block from a
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Pokemon Go reminds me of nothing so much as the Macarena in 1995. It's a fad that will run its course. But a game getting that level of cultural penetration will be a real watershed.
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That's not democracy.
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Elections and legislative bodies do not constitute democracy, in and of themselves. Democracy requires, foremost, a strong civil society, the rule of law, and the protection of individual and minority rights.
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"the use of a standard language is undeniably helpful in educating the poorest and helping them engage with broader development trends in the country and across the world." This is what the powerful say every time they're try
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The value of iconocity in the more pictographic characters is more of a mnemonic tool. It's much easier to remember the meaning of the more pictographic ones.

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