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by underpand 7y ago
It works best on recruiters, people actively looking for job seekers.
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by underpand 7y ago
This is not a genuine post. This is a thinly-veiled informercial. She is an angel investor and owns a fund that invests in the type of professional networks she is promoting. She is even an angel investor for a company that she directly pro
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by underpand 7y ago
Unfortunately, it's mostly non-eng and colorful SREs who are representing the supposed "tech worker" in these politically charged movements if you cross-reference the names that appear in public articles with LinkedIn profile
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by underpand 7y ago
> Students in the district who took Algebra 1 in eighth grade in 2014 (the last year it was offered as a stand-alone course to eighth-graders) had a repeat rate of 40 percent. By contrast, the first group of students who took Common Co
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by underpand 7y ago
I did a little digging into the source of that statistic. The statistic compares the number of 8th graders who failed Algebra 1 before the change to the number of 9th graders who failed Algebra 1 after the change. What we really want to
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by underpand 7y ago
The SF algebra change is NOT a success. Most of the stats are cherrypicked and misleading. > For instance, after San Francisco Unified de-tracked math, the proportion of students failing algebra fell from 40 percent to 8 percent and the
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by underpand 7y ago
It depends on your support system when you're a kid/teen. Facing stress and challenges when you're unable to handle them can cause irreversible trauma. Some people would be better off learning to face them when they are adult
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by underpand 7y ago
The bottom 10-20% (larger in 'inner city' schools) of people with behavioral issues will always ruin it for everyone else. Behavioral issues negatively correlates with intelligence and effort in school (by both the parents and the
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by underpand 7y ago
I always thought that it was illegal for private organizations to racially discriminate. I know it is illegal for them to racially discriminate for employment. Is discriminating against customers/users (students in this case) fair game
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by underpand 7y ago
I disagree with both you and OP on the race-based oppression Olympics. Class matters more than race. Class heals all past discriminations for educational and professional outcomes. Most affirmative action beneficiaries are middle and upper
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by underpand 7y ago
The difficulty of arguing the case is by design of Harvard Admissions and it's very problematic. The point of holistic admissions is to make it almost impossible to prove discrimination even if it clearly exists.
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by underpand 7y ago
These numbers are grossly misleading. US population numbers are meaningless. Harvard doesn't consider all US born students. They have an academic floor. Most of the US population does not meet the academic floor. Low achieving students
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by underpand 7y ago
> Would Google admit to treating their own employees in this way? Isn't this exactly what companies want to avoid doing? They need to treat employees and contractors differently or risk getting sued. https://www.reuters.
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by underpand 8y ago
How are they doing now? I think that the experiences diverge the most as adults actually. Kids don't have many responsibilities and most go to school. Minimum wage jobs as a teen can actually be fun. You're surrounded by coworkers
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by underpand 8y ago
What improvement in quality? I'd argue that most improvment is due to increased efficiency of information retrieval, content creation and content delivery, all driven by technological advancement. I agree that diversity of entertainmen
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by underpand 8y ago
I disagree with her premise that the government should fund people to have fulfilling creative careers. That's not how the world works. Creative outputs generally do not have 'efficienciecy' increases like other fields. Creat