To better test students' readiness for college the new SAT will allow cheating.

So I this is what’s coming to education, and I think it’s going to be a bit wild and probably pretty disruptive for college educators. High schools seem to be passing students in a lot of their courses (like math) even though students have a lot of gaps in their knowledge. The

I helped Scott Alexander with this post. At least with respect to some traits (e.g. education, bmi), we are in an epistemic crisis about their heritability. We have multiple strong methods - twin studies, RDR, sibling, GREML-WGS - that are not converging on a consensus reality.

Sometimes I wonder if trying to pinpoint causality and heritability is so difficult because the outcomes ultimately arise from complicated dynamical systems and the methods used are built to study simpler linear processes.

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The academy is just so lost. It doesn’t know what it’s doing or what to invest in. I suspect the biggest reason is that senior administrators have become a managerial class which gain promotions for doing things which are completely disconnected from providing high quality

My best guess is that this will continue. Small colleges will go under. Universities with high acceptance rates will water down all their curriculum to maintain enrollments (taking more and more students who are not college ready) and will eventually turn into extended K-12

Now advertising the “white party”? Yeah, I’m sure this will work out just fine. 🙄

Called on to reveal my most “right-wing-coded” opinion, it’s usually some version of this. If the state wants to deprive gifted students of challenging coursework in order to exploit them as de facto tutors, then pay them a teacher’s salary w healthcare & a generous pension.

Can/should the below replacement-level birth rate be thought of as a free rider problem?

Using (directed) graphs to model your preferred form of power distribution like this seems really illuminating. FWIW, public universities seem to be a mix of the top right with the bottom left: Hierarchical coordination, and each position of power has a deliberative body (with

Hot take: Universities should be ranked by prevalence and severity of student cheating, and this should be a large component of accreditation assessment.

Ugh. Andreessen has no idea how the scientific enterprise works.

DEI hasn’t been a core aspect of the scientific endeavor, nor should it. The core aspect of the scientific endeavor is the search for empirical truth. One can easily argue that DEI done well has positive social benefits. But likewise one must acknowledge that DEI done badly

Hm. I think I've found the "cancel culture" line where I don't really care The guy voluntarily went on an enormous mainstream platform to tell everyone he was a fascist, defend Nazis, call huge chunks of the populace his Schmittian enemies, etc Seems like he got what he wanted

I only watched a bit of one clip, but from what I saw he seemed (quite frankly) to be a zealous nut job. I don’t really like the idea of people being fired for their public comments (as long as that doesn’t hinder their ability to do their job), but it seems like you are kind of

I only watched a bit of one clip, but from what I saw he seemed (quite frankly) to be a zealous nut job. I don’t really like the idea of people being fired for their public comments (as long as that doesn’t hinder their ability to do their job), but it seems like you are kind of

I mean, the funny answer would be that it’s due to the crackdown on excessive DEI stuff. Anyway, the big increase probably has something to do with the last check being at (or near) the lowest point in recent history. It does look like the same increase across partisan groups

To be fair, higher ed policy has been going to shit for a long time. This is just the latest season.