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by scarmig 4y ago
Thank God we have Twitter to protect us against Evil Ideas like the lab leak hypothesis. Only an evil Trump supporter would oppose such a policy.
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by scarmig 4y ago
American educational researchers are surprisingly uninterested in this topic; I managed to find recent studies on it out of France, Italy (from last week!)[0], the UK, Sweden, Denmark, and the Czech Republic, but none out of the US. In fact
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by scarmig 4y ago
Another possibility: men have higher variation in performance than women. Even if the male mean were lower, a greater standard deviation would swamp that effect at the high end.
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by scarmig 4y ago
> Any pattern of arbitrary grading against male students and not female students would provide a basis. https://mitili.mit.edu/sites/default/files/project-documents... This has been well studied and is a p
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by scarmig 4y ago
SATs are predictive of college completion rates. Deemphasizing them in favor of another predictive metric (that women tend to do better on) exacerbates the disparate graduation rates that are adversely affecting men. If we knew SATs are mor
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by scarmig 4y ago
I'd be interested in seeing if there's a gender effect on how predictive SAT scores are on college completion rate. A quick survey indicates that this isn't an area education researchers have thought is a good use of their ti
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by scarmig 4y ago
> I'd expect people to get sued/fired left and right over this if it's truly widespread. The attribute of being labeled male is not a protected class (maybe legally, definitely de facto) in the same way that of being label
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Far more courses in college rely on one or two exams over coursework. To be more precise, men tend to do better on tests of mastery of material over evidences of participation.
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Classwork isn't some static thing; historically, boys had higher GPAs than women, and I suspect you can find some subfields of study today where boys consistently outperform women as far GPA goes. The choice of what subject matter goes
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by scarmig 4y ago
Another reason GPA is problematic: it's sexist. Male students face structural barriers when it comes to college acceptance, to the point where a woman is ~50% more likely to get a college admission. Male students tend to both score hig
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by scarmig 4y ago
> Those roots tend to be attached to green stuff that's above ground and very visible. Why should that be any less legible to tax collectors than wheat or rice? It's a combination of factors. Cereals like wheat and rice tend t
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It'd be interesting to see if the initial windmills when introduced were more efficient, post-tax and capex, than traditional methods. There's a parallel with grains: staples like rice and wheat are more legible to states than oth
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by scarmig 4y ago
I wonder if there's a name for this phenomenon. Eggcorns aren't quite right, as they're more about mishearing a word or phrase in a way that still makes sense in context (e.g. Alzheimer's disease -> old-timers' d
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by scarmig 4y ago
Hint: a suboptimal but positive EV strategy: You flip the first card. If it's red (50%), you immediately stop and take your winnings (+$1). If it's black (50%), you draw down the entire deck ($26 - $26 = $0). That gives you a guar
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by scarmig 4y ago
A good use of Excel particular to users here: dynamic programming. E.g. set up the base cases on the first row and column, and then experiment with the recursive case in the first empty cell, filling out the rest of the table. Recently did
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by scarmig 4y ago
"husband stitch" ngrams: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=husband+stitch... Appears that its use really took off with the story, but was something known and at least sometimes practiced before th
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Solving Gambling Problem #14 Fast(gwern.net)
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Nonvictims who display victimhood are overrepresented in media, government, and the corporate world compared to actual victims, because (almost by definition) they don't face the same barriers of access that actual victims do.
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by scarmig 4y ago
There's an interesting opposite effect at the university level: undergraduate institutions have been dropping SAT requirements, and then their average score goes up, as students who did or would do relatively badly on it don't sub
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by scarmig 4y ago
Andrew Gelman had a good post[0] about the blind orchestra auditions: > I think they’re talking about the estimates of 0.011 +/- 0.013 and 0.006 +/- 0.013. To say that “the impact . . . is about 1 percentage point” . . . that’s
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by scarmig 4y ago
https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...
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by scarmig 4y ago
AFAICT crypto's solution to getting screwed by a trustless entity is "screw you, you deserved it for not doing due diligence."
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by scarmig 4y ago
Are there any relational systems which store persistent shared state at the edge, with some kind of automatic geopartitioning?
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Gender Gaps at the Academies (NBER)(nber.org)
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I'm going to take an unpopular position: there's no harm being done. It's not putting people in positions they would rather not be in, but putting their likeness into those situations. It's a key difference: if someone m
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by scarmig 4y ago
Contemporary popular feminism treats women as reactive objects; slightly more sophisticated takes grant that women contribute to their own oppression, but usually through the lens of being duped by the patriarchy. And it has frighteningly l
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by scarmig 4y ago
Note I said contemporary popular feminism. Obviously feminism contains multitudes, but what dominates the mass and social media is much less sophisticated take that doesn't do justice to the thinkers who conceptualize it.
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The inconsistency is when someone complains that their career is considered secondary to their partner's, when they intentionally sought after a partner with a more developed career.
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The critical flaw in contemporary popular feminism is the inability to acknowledge both that women have agency and that women use that agency to enforce gender roles. E.g. the pay gap. The pay gap opens up only after marriage and especially
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by scarmig 4y ago
I heard from Zuckerberg's wife's niece that it's in preparation for a merger with Alphabet and Amazon.

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