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by bromang 13y ago
Starting Strength and only primarily targets the ability to lift heavy objects. On its own it does nothing to improve your cardio fitness and it doesn't directly help with postural problems or injury prevention. And if your main interest is
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by bromang 13y ago
from the wiki article on nicotine: "no epidemiological evidence supports that nicotine alone acts as a carcinogen in the formation of human cancer "
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by bromang 13y ago
" Is it because asians are that much more naturally gifted?" Why not?
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by bromang 13y ago
The effect "could be large". Do you have any data to support this? Some forms of coaching "add over 100". Do you have data to support this? Poor black/hispanic kids don't have test prep programs in school. So they are unable to get privatel
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by bromang 13y ago
The right way to do "education selection" is to pick the best students from your applicant pool. I don't see what would be wrong with that method.
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by bromang 13y ago
In reality it is simply not possible to create such gains on average. SAT score is still a very good predictor of future academic performance. "Does test preparation help improve student performance on the SAT and ACT? For students that hav
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by bromang 13y ago
It cannot be coached very easily. See http://nepc.colorado.edu/files/Briggs_Theeffectofadmissionst... . "Does test preparation help improve student performance on the SAT and ACT? For students that have taken the test before and would like
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by bromang 13y ago
This sort of hype article pops up every few years in the British press. Perhaps there is an increasing trend in students attending US universities, but it is always going to be a small number, and almost all of them will be private school p
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by bromang 13y ago
I suspect it isn't hard to find papers that show a link between high debt levels and weak economic growth. Or do you think the consensus among economists is that no such relationship exists?
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by bromang 13y ago
There is no serious rebuttal or debunking of Mcintyre contained within that post. Even if we ignore the details of that specific controversy, it is still obvious that there are 1) big problems in the climate science community with regard to
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by bromang 13y ago
This is not a credible source.
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by bromang 13y ago
This article has a pretty bad smell. The author makes a lot of fairly extreme claims but these are mostly based on his own anecdotes or non public data sets. The claims that "you can separate all advanced math teachers easily into two categ
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by bromang 13y ago
What is the trend for the overall number rather than percentage of tenured college professors? Surely a large part of this is explained by the explosive growth of higher education as a consumer commodity. We should not expect the percentage
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by bromang 13y ago
I would be very sceptical about using weight training, and squatting and deadlifting in particular, as remedies for back pain. These exercises can bad for you if you have pre-existing issues, EVEN if performed with proper form. Exercise is
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by bromang 13y ago
I think this view of things is a bit misguided. Most of the jobs available to those who should not go to college are not traditional trades. Effective vocational training has to be focused on service sector and administrative jobs as much a
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by bromang 13y ago
But it is not obviously unfair or wrong. The students are separated according to ability, not the colour of their skin.
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by bromang 13y ago
The streaming can and should be done through aptitude tests and competitive examinations. Your story is quite unfortunate but there are better ways of separating pupils by ability.
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by bromang 13y ago
The second question makes no sense unless you have some quasi-religious pre determined belief in the cognitive equality of different racial groups.
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by bromang 13y ago
Competition in action, reducing prices for consumers. I like it!
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by bromang 13y ago
Should we ignore demographics? Why?
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by bromang 13y ago
"A true rationalist" would be smart enough to recognise that there are many other variables that can effect the quality of education. The greater levels of unionisation in Finland compared to the USA tell us exactly nothing on their own. Re
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by bromang 14y ago
welp, an argument you can't win! Time to insult people!
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by bromang 14y ago
The Mismeasure of Man is notoriously awful trash. It's amazing that anyone would recommend it as a reference or guide to the subject when its poor quality is so widely recognized by actual experts in the field. Nobody believes that IQ expre
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by bromang 14y ago
How much modafinil do you take? Where do you get it from?
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by bromang 14y ago
why did you use the word "iterate"[1] in this context? [1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/iterate
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by bromang 14y ago
Do immutable data structures data structures really let you scale out so easily? I thought that was something of a myth...
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by bromang 14y ago
Out of interest, what is the attitude in Austria (and Germany) towards hiring programmers without degrees?
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by bromang 14y ago
Do you really see any sort of market for providing operations that can be implemented very easily using python itself?
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by bromang 14y ago
the "value" of a degree from a certain university in Britain correlates almost entirely with the difficulty of gaining entry to that institution. "Posh people" tend to do much better on average academically than the rest of the population,
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by bromang 14y ago
It does need to be pointed out that the academic literature gives a fairly poor support for a link between the level of inequality and population health. For example, the most thorough review (I have seen) of the the research on this topic

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