I know you’re making a joke but he has a delusional belief that elite mathematical ability is measured by the speed at which one solves 10th grade math problems. Not only does he seem to not know what he doesn’t know, I’m almost positive that several of us just within the last few posts regularly do math that’s conceptually more difficult than anything he’s ever thought about and have done so for years.
The thing it’s primarily measuring is if you can do conceptually easy math quickly without making mistakes. A lot of people can do that and it’s not a great predictor of whether you’ll succeed at doing real math where you might spend hours to days working on one problem. It’s like having a putting contest for Q School.
lol
What’s the answer?
Also not sure “infuriate” is the right word there.
C, I assume
Are you infuriated?
Nah.
I would have gone with Middle age urban lesbian and Southern male migrant laborer.
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What the fuck is going on in Texas? Seems likely tenure is coming to and end and professors who “compel speech” regarding the existence of racism, etc can be terminated.
Senate Bill 16, sponsored by the chair of the Senate Jurisprudence Committee, is a version of the anti-critical race theory or divisive concepts bills that have been adopted relating to primary and secondary education and that Florida extended to higher education in the Stop WOKE Act (which was subsequently enjoined by a federal district court). SB 16 is much briefer than the Stop WOKE Act. It prohibits state university professors from “compel[ling] or attempt[ing] to compel” an enrolled student “to adopt a belief that any race, sex, or ethnicity or social, political, or religious belief is inherently superior to any other race, sex, ethnicity, or belief.”
The penalty for violating the act is severe—immediate termination. It would likely chill classroom speech as faculty try to avoid any appearance of compelling belief on various sensitive topics routinely discussed in college classrooms. To the extent that the law simply codifies the constitutional prohibition on compelled speech, then it accomplishes little other than attempting to chill speech. To the extent that it might be interpreted to prohibit professors from advocating certain views in the classroom or requiring students to correctly describe and analyze such views in their coursework, then it will invite controversy. Not hard to imagine students complaining that a professor attempted to compel them to believe that, for example capitalism is superior to socialism by assigning them to write an essay with that premise.
Senate Bill 18, also sponsored by the chair of the Senate Education Committee, has passed the committee and is now on the Senate floor […] The bill would prohibit state universities from granting tenure to any member of the faculty hired after September 1, 2023.
It would have a transformative effect on Texas state universities and would seriously imperil academic freedom at those institutions. If Texas were to pass SB 18, it seems quite likely that the post-tenure review system would be next up for reconsideration and that multiple other red states would follow Texas’s lead in gutting tenure at their public universities.
This all makes sense in their overall plan.
Everything about their worldview requires the Populus to be uneducated (actually miseducated) so it makes perfect sense that you have to target the institutions of education.
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Oklahoma gonna counter by replacing the tenure process with red tear facial tattoos.
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That’s what I think.
Silly question obviously. Should’ve stuck to political positions rather than stereotypes.
They have professors in Oklahoma these days? Goodness, they’ve gone about as far as they can go.
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Kinda curious if I’d be allowed to say something I’ve said in prior classes:
“For several years, the FASB allowed firms to disclose stock-based compensation expense, without requiring that companies recognize an expense for stock options granted to employees. Obviously this was a terrible standard, and was largely because certain members of Congress (like Joe Lieberman) threatened the FASB by telling them that the SEC would no longer delegate rule making authority to the FASB if the FASB required expensing for stock options.”
I fixed that.
A friend of mine directs the Center for Pitching Woo Studies
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3.4% - 5% acceptance rate at Harvard, etc is higher than I would have guessed. If that’s all-time low, it’s not that hard to get in.