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by usaar333 4y ago
Nope. Sex is exempt from discrimination protections by law to allow same-sex colleges. (Public colleges cannot consider sex, however). See https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2891107
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by usaar333 4y ago
> $400k is a 98% percentile income in San Francisco metro, DC metro, and NYC metro. You care about household income, not individual. https://dqydj.com/income-by-city/ gives 95th, not 98th in SF Metro area for househ
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> It costs <$5 to charge a Model Y. Is that typical of North Carolina? Seems cheap. At $0.24/kWh (that's my off-peak EV rate in the Bay Area), it's over $18 to charge a 75 kwh battery.
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There is little evidence universal preschool would reduce academic variance later on. On cognitive measures (though not necessarily social/emotional), randomized trials of such programs tend to show fade-out (no difference between con
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by usaar333 5y ago
Anecdotes are anecdotes. Everyone I know thinks it's dumb. Also, millions of people would not die from covid if China did nothing. If you go by UK data and extrapolate, it's somewhere in the range of 400k. Assuming an average of 1
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> The larger picture is that China by pursuing these policies has stopped millions of deaths, probably tens of millions of cases of long term disabilities, and overall kept the economy going. Alright, so if we go by Shanghai's own r
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Are we talking capable or the very top? It's going to be a small minority of that top cohort where Bay Area COL is an issue.
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That's a standard clustering within America. (The bigger problem is that they are applying US definitions/etc. to international companies)
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> Does being in one of those groups give you an advantage when applying, a la affirmative action? Probably not. What's really weird about it is that YC is international and they are applying US ethnic labels (and representation lev
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This isn't really about interreligious marriages; it mostly affects Muslim Arab Israeli Citizens marrying Muslim Palestinians.
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Class analysis isn't that relevant in the workspace. At least in the US, your perceived class changes with economics, so there's not much class differential in meetings. All said, I don't intuitively buy the idea of Zoom radi
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I got curious and did a bunch of research. It relies on the fact that carbon dioxide is transmitted from tissues to lungs in blood as carbonic acid. The carbonic acid is formed by water and carbon dioxide. It seems extremely accurate as lon
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by usaar333 5y ago
I'm dubious that this lacks societal benefit overall. Even if we buy that breaking up the sexually abusive family is't the best thing (already dubious), there's strong second order effects of this disincentiving abuse. Autom
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It still applies to individual stocks. Diversification comes from working at different companies over your career.
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> The idea that entrance exams balanced things in favor of people from lower socioeconomic classes is, and always has been, a bunch of malarkey. You are looking at this absolutely, not relatively. The rest of the admissions criteria have
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Succeeding in college also requires a strong reading background. The point of the test is to predict college success, not "be fair" (an inherently subjective statement)
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First off, the SAT has gone through many revisions in the last 20 years so it's unclear this still applies. The SAT doesn't even have analogies any more, perhaps as a result of this research. Secondly, that doesn't address di
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by usaar333 5y ago
I'm not aware of any significant cultural test bias (which I'll define as differential prediction).
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I'd think for Harvard of all schools SAT probably doesn't matter much today. Their range is 1460-1580 with a mean of 1520. Broadly speaking, the test is too "easy" (especially for the class Harvard admits) - over 25% o
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Math is much more disparate than Verbal (ERW). You can see the data at https://reports.collegeboard.org/pdf/2020-total-group-sat-su...
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If you dive into the data, the higher performing groups are stable. Lower performing groups are falling. (E.g. non English language learners are at stable reading scores, English language learners scores keep falling).
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Oh the Simpson's Paradox is that the relative portion of the lower performing groups is increasing as well. For instance, ELL students have increased from 8.1% in 2000 to 9.6% today ( https://www.edweek.org/leadership&#
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by usaar333 5y ago
If you deep dive into demographic groups ( https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading/nation/groups/?gra... ), you get a bit of a different story, showing a lot of the drop might just be Simpson's Paradox a
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You can deep dive into the data here: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reading/nation/scores/?gra...
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What's the reason for this? I assume it's to combat marriage fraud, but is that not the case?
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Is Facebook willing to allow pseudonyms? Unless they are, they are barely in the same market.
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> Reddit is a bunch of hatred and disinformation today Partly because they are in effect one of the most unmoderated large scale sites on the internet, which results in the toxic people going there. But if you know how to find subs well,
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by usaar333 5y ago
True, but that's a very different definition. Also, IMO, a bit of a confused one that leads to confusion. e.g. apartheid is often referred to as "white minority rule" - that is the minority oppressing the majority. Similarly,
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> Imagine being called a minority in a place you are the majority and have lived for centuries before occupation. There's lots of criticism I'd have for Chinese policy, but this terminology isn't one of them. It's ve
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FICO credit scores aren't intended for tenant assessment - it's just a lazy option some landlords do. The credit companies have dedicated products for such a use case ( https://www.mysmartmove.com/ ). Realistically,

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