avatarlite

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by avatarlite 9y ago
The cause of sex-related ability tilt is irrelevant with regard to the consequences on STEM employment. Whether due to socialization alone, innate ability alone, some combination of the two, or causes we don't understand, the outcome i
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by avatarlite 10y ago
In my experience, qualitative arguments of the form above rarely change people's minds but a quantitative model will help. The question asked is the causal network that contributes to mathematical genius and the distribution of contrib
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by avatarlite 10y ago
That's an entirely reasonable skeptical point of view to take in the absence of other evidence. However, this question has also been examined. Using typical measures of socioeconomic status (e.g. an index of education + income), one fi
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by avatarlite 10y ago
The article's author also wrote a book advocating a universal basic income, “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State,” which was first published in 2006. In that book he allows that services for the disabled would need to be
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by avatarlite 10y ago
From the article: >Or consider the unemployed young man who fathers a child. Today, society is unable to make him shoulder responsibility. Under a UBI, a judge could order part of his monthly grant to be extracted for child support befor
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IQ may mean achievement gap can never close(schoolsweek.co.uk)
1 points by avatarlite 11y ago|0 comments
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by avatarlite 12y ago
tl;dr - a refutation of statistician Cosma Shalizi’s essay at http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.htm... in three parts: (1) "Shalizi’s first error is his assertion that cognitive tests
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by avatarlite 14y ago
Anyone interested in this topic should read the primary research papers. The pattern of differences in IQ test answers between generations is not congruent with the pattern of differences between individual who do better and worse on averag
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by avatarlite 14y ago
This is a good intro: http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997whygmatter...