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by tpudlik 9y ago
Please note that the study defines any office space shared by more than 6 people as "open plan". Also, although there's a (statistically) significant difference between 1 person offices and "open plan", there is no
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by tpudlik 9y ago
I think both you and the original commenter agree that the "intangibles" make a significant (perhaps decisive) contribution to the heritability on outcomes. But that's where you both disagree with the article, which argues f
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by tpudlik 9y ago
It sounds like you agree not just with the overall premise, but with the article's specific recommendation, which is to "start with a serious cost benefit analysis and then require localities to refrain from any new regulations wi
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by tpudlik 10y ago
Very few self-taught people contributed to research in the 20th century. I can't speak with authority about mathematics, but in my own field (physics) the only self-taught researchers I can think of were people trained in allied fields
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by tpudlik 11y ago
When I'm learning a subject for myself, I buy the previous edition from Amazon (if I can't get it from the local library). I rarely pay more than $25 for a book.
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by tpudlik 11y ago
Total compensation is base salary plus stock/options. If your stock grant goes down by enough, total compensation may fall even if base salary went up.
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by tpudlik 11y ago
This is just one, relatively small experiment. For comparison, the construction cost of ITER (which is still unfinished) are $14 billion so far. The US Fusion Energy Sciences program is over $400m a year (source: http://science.
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by tpudlik 11y ago
Reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/863/ On a more serious note, it sounds like writing nonfiction is your dream job! (Or maybe teaching?)
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by tpudlik 11y ago
I don't think the Economist's ranking can be used for choosing which school to attend. It tells you how good a job schools do at boosting the earnings of the people who attend there---conditioned on who attends. In other words,
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by tpudlik 11y ago
The data used here does not come from the universities, but from the government. Specifically, from matching federal student loan applications (from the Department of Education) to tax returns (from the IRS).
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by tpudlik 12y ago
tl;dr: 1 in 20 would be a better estimate than 1 in 10, but even this underestimates the skew. Across all VC-funded startups which received first-round funding between 1985 and 2009, 55% were terminated at a loss, and only 6% returned more