Everything that is not explicitly white supremacy is WOKE.
I didn’t remember this being such a banger…
Go duck yourself, my brain are gooder then ever
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Considering the consequences of people rejecting science, maybe scientists should stop publishing shit like this.
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They come from the planet Ur
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ElliotR is in Kansas?
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More SAT fodder.
https://twitter.com/Profepps/status/1395512584422391808?s=19
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1395441146982068226?s=19
Finally read all of it, and it’s worth the effort.
Cliffs are unsurprising - some reported sightings have been debunked while many others seem impossible to explain.
Didn’t appreciate the crank with his theory of an advanced sub-ocean civilisation teaching maths to the Sumerians.
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Self absorbed people who are incapable of shame or embarrassment make me irrationally angry.
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1395726663531606019?s=21
If only Meghan McCain had a national platform where she could get vaccinated on air.
The fuck does the White House need to be a part of this?
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Wanting to complain about this to someone who would fact check me I read the bill. I doubt it legalizes anything. What it does is outlaw the use of some weapons from drones and states that the law doesn’t apply to cops or the military. I expect that doesn’t undo any existing restrictions (if there are any).
But, another interesting exemption: it doesn’t criminalize private citizens using weapons from drones on their own property or by agents authorized to do so. You can still use drones to murder people if there’s a recognized deed recorded in your name. Cannot infringe on private property or shooting people crossing the border.
Pretty sure that Matty G. ripped off my post for today’s newsletter.
Last but not least, there is an idea in widespread circulation that SAT scores are poor predictors of college success or of anything else useful in life. I used to think that there was a sense in which this was true, but that it was a statistical illusion induced by range restriction. It turns out that it’s actually not true at all, and that when you correct for range restriction, it becomes even less true. But Freddie deBoer wrote a good article about this that showed me even beyond the illusion, it simply isn’t true.
- Schmitt et. al. find “the primary predictors of cumulative college grade point average (GPA) were Scholastic Assessment Test/American College Testing Assessment (SAT/ACT) scores and high school GPA (HSGPA) though biographical data and situational judgment measures added incrementally to this prediction.”
- Kuncel and Hezlitt find that standardized tests for grad school admissions are good predictors, too.
- Allensworth and Clark claim to have found that ACT scores are poor predictors of college performance, but this involved the application of an incredible amount of statistical controls in a way that I think invalidates the result.
C’mon Matty, don’t be afraid to register and post here.
Also, a veiled SHOT:
Again, we are talking about broad population averages here. I have met a lot of people with high SAT scores in my life, and a non-zero share of them are fuckups who, for one reason or another, never managed to do a good job of anything.
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More of the usual.
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My boss was surprised to learn I don’t have a degree in electronics engineering, I’m not sure what to make of that.
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This Andy Kaufman routine is oddly entertaining. 