truthteller

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by truthteller 13y ago
at this point you are just embarrassing yourself with your weird crusade attack "psychologists and supporters". I'm sure most readers in this forum feel intuitively that mental ability can be measured with some accuracy, so I
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by truthteller 13y ago
are you some sort of indian nationalist?
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by truthteller 13y ago
the point is that they predict future performance equally for different groups, not just that they predict performance. your language is alarmingly exaggerated and pompous for someone who lacks basic reading comprehension skills and is enti
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by truthteller 13y ago
the opinions of ignorant journalists are not really relevant. it was strongly criticized by experts in the relevant area. do you realize how intellectually lazy you look when you form strong opinions on subjects without even doing basic res
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by truthteller 13y ago
from your link: "The American Psychological Association's report Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns stated that in the United States IQ tests as predictors of social achievement are not biased against African Americans since they p
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by truthteller 13y ago
"the mismeasure of man" is a garbage book by the noted fraud and liar steven jay gould. it certainly should not be used as any sort of reference on intelligence testing.
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by truthteller 13y ago
This whole post is a perfect example of the danger of Taleb's work. Someone with no knowledge of finance or statistics has read his books and now feels able to make extremely strong statements about a link between financial theory and
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by truthteller 13y ago
no, it's just bad writing. meandering nonsense is never good writing, though perhaps it boosts your ego to feel like you are part of a special club (of millions) that understands his ramblings.
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by truthteller 13y ago
this happens all the time in the UK. big accounting firms and F100 companies recruit people in unrelated degrees all the time.
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by truthteller 13y ago
mostly luck
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by truthteller 13y ago
he's really lost the plot. :(
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by truthteller 13y ago
but of course any intelligent person can do those jobs without a "business" degree.
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by truthteller 13y ago
Entry into higher education is more competitive in most European countries...
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by truthteller 13y ago
it is British -- not Scottish -- oil.
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by truthteller 13y ago
could you explain a bit more about the mechanics of buying/selling retail flow? or is there any standard reference for learning more about the details?
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by truthteller 13y ago
how does interactivebrokers compare to this in terms of cost? are there any hidden costs retail investors should be aware of?
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by truthteller 13y ago
are you ok with the vast amount of money and time currently wasted on higher education? do you think the four year degree is really the most appropriate form of training in most cases?
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by truthteller 13y ago
there are a lot of investment funds out there. even if none possess any skill, it is possible for a few to produce extreme risk-adjusted performance simply by chance.
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by truthteller 13y ago
Where is the paper for this novel clustering algorithm?
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by truthteller 13y ago
but you are not thinking hard, you are running silly worthless simulations and puffing up your own ego.
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by truthteller 13y ago
What a bizarre article. this is a worthless exercise without any data. the task of building a model of labour market and estimating your model with real data is very complicated.
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by truthteller 13y ago
you should actually make an effort to learn and understand modern economics before coming to such strong conclusions. there are good reasons why the discipline exists in its current form. it is clear from the "slide-ruler-y math"
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by truthteller 13y ago
bigotry? i don't think you understand what that word means.
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by truthteller 13y ago
without British rule India would be an even bigger shit hole.
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by truthteller 13y ago
i think the "trend" is towards advising people against studying humanities unless they have a very strong motivation to study these subjects and are fully aware of the opportunity cost. when people give such advice it does mean th
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by truthteller 13y ago
...but none of that makes much difference: "Does test preparation help improve student performance on the SAT and ACT? For students that have taken the test before and would like to boost their scores, coaching seems to help, but by
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by truthteller 13y ago
why would you be looking primarily at physicists if you are trying to find data scientists??
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by truthteller 13y ago
"I believe educational policy should be made under the assumption that everyone is a highly intelligent, curious and creative individual like myself" -- Stanley Kubrick
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by truthteller 13y ago
"One SIMPLE TRICK to radically change educational outcomes!!" it's amazing that people still actively publicize idiotic self promoters and charlatans like Mitra.
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by truthteller 13y ago
there is a huge difference between having a sense of curiosity about the world and studying science seriously. people love to watch documentaries about the natural world, yet very few attempt to teach themselves mathematics or physics.

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