Can't make it.

Is this a great country or what.

A plausible hypothesis for fields that do not have objective measures of excellence (e.g., the social sciences, literature, etc.) But it is less plausible--implausible, actually--with objective outcome measures such as those found in sports. Excellence is a more parsimonious…

The larger problem with this thread is that 1/10,000>1/1,000 in just about every kind of difficult human endeavor for which data have been collected. I called it the Lotka Curve. You'll find it everywhere, including in the measures used for the SMPY samples. The best performers…

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Conduct plagiarism reviews of all faculty. Excellent idea.

This is an astonishingly candid and brave account.

Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍 coqauvin Indeed, and thanks to Charles Murray we know the truth in detail:
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1943. 5 to school and neighborhood.

I'm thinking about it from a reporting standpoint. A person who self-reports as celibate homosexual is likely to feel sexual attraction to persons of the same sex. Otherwise, why specify the homosexual part? But a person who is sexually inactive and is asked about sexuality and…

Yes! Requiring transparency in presenting statistics--straightforward descriptions of 'This is what I did and why'--is the best way to fight misuse of statistics. Misuses can't survive an accurate description, and if the description itself is misleading, the deception is easy to…

The core problem, I agree: A breakdown in civic virtue. An excellent article by my former boss. muse.jhu.edu/article/922831

This kid is 30 years old and I can't see anything that is wrong. The only biggie is an omission: Find a person whom you love talking to endlessly and who gets your jokes and to whom you are sexually attracted, and get married. blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-l…

She is a hero for our time. Makes zillions of dollars entirely because people are eager to pay for what she's selling, doesn't abide nonsense from anyone, and by all accounts has been an admirable person in other respects. Not a whole lot of those people out there.

This is a terrific thread explaining the considerations that go into interpreting a modest correlation coefficient. The scatterplot is also useful all by itself for reminding yourself how many exceptions are associated with modest correlations or even much higher ones.

I read this after reading polls showing Gen Z-ers are having remarkably little actual sex, hence this query: Does someone who self-identifies as bisexual but also self-reports no sex life qualify as a bisexual?

Bravo, President Starr. It's so very very simple. And so very very rare.