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[Hood Critic]

I have been reading the quoted replies for over an hour now, some to be expected replies, some jokes, some unconfirmed facts, and some thought provoking answers.

Here's to the time you won't get back after reading this:

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3 days and still going quotes:

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[Third Kind]

Damn already an hour in

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Yeah, there's a ton of gold there.

@chris_steller
If middle school was cancelled and replaced by 3 years of trail work, brush-clearing, and solo & team wilderness challenges, academic performance in high school would go largely unchanged.

When I taught middle school, we straight up said they could replace our classes with PE all day for two years and it wouldn't make a fukking difference to their academic growth.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Research performed in most fields is full of accepted forms of bad science practices like p-hacking or harking. Were these practices taken into account, a fair majority of research would no longer reach the almighty p<0.05. We're working on doing better but progress is slow

I'm extremely pro-science but I know from first-hand experience that this is 100% true. The majority of papers in many fields should never have been published. You really can only fully trust shyt if it has been substantially redone and confirmed by multiple independent groups including skeptics, and even then there can be crowd blindness to important qualifying factors.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Many PhDs have no real training in pedagogy and teaching. Freaks my students out every time.

As a result, there are a LOT of college courses that could be replaced with a book club and a lot more learning would happen. Will Hunting nailed this one - entire degrees in some subject could have been picked up at the library as little as most professors know about effective teaching.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

@mykola
I was in the student loan industry. There are so many rent-seekers & middlemen involved it would be cheaper to just give people $ to go to college, even if you account 4 people who “waste” the money & never show up.

Interesting....directly relevant to an HL debate right now.


Edit - and also:

Joe Hunt

Ok, seriously, I was an #Adjunct-Prof. for 6 years, & thought: "I wonder what parents'd think, if they knew all the $ spent on college goes to Admin,

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Farms

The corn belt is running out of water Forever.

I think soil too.

By the time we start practicing sustainable it will take thousands of years to replenish what has already been destroyed/depleted in just a couple hundred.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Gary Mitchell

@garymphoto

In most cases, the water used rinsing and washing labels off recyclable materials is actually more valuable than the recovered materials.



Jenrose

@jenrose
·
Nov 27

Replying to
@mykola
For rare diseases with potential non-drug treatments, no one will research the treatments because there's no money in it, and doctors won't recommend the treatments because there's no research, and there may not be enough people to do a double-blind anyway.



Sepia

@SepiaAutavius
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Standardized tests don’t actually measure if a student understands the content that they test. They just aggregate students based on how good they generally are at answering difficult test questions.



Shingirai Mtero

@ShonaFeminist

Married men graduate with PhDs faster than any other (funded) demographic because they have wives. They climb up they academic ladder faster, because they have wives.



Globetrot Papi

@BigRaunDon

Cybersecurity is a myth. Nothing is 100% secure. Human error, lack of funding/resources, customer requirements, and overall operation and maintenance prevents it from being realistic. All you can do is make sure your fence is a lil higher than a threat actor is willing to climb.



Josh Bakan

@joshbakanofsky

I find journalists all across the board ideologically. But many unknowingly assume: 1. American centrism=objectivity. 2. Having no moral convictions=objectivity. Even though we all have moral convictions. It's not like we seek pro-ISIS opinions in the same of fairness.



Paul Thomas Miller

@BaronVonBork
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Nov 27

The virus escaped last Saturday.

 

[Smoking With Cigarettes]

@BaronVonBork
·
Nov 27

The virus escaped last Saturday.

Wait I missed this one wtf is this

 

[Black Panther]

Wait I missed this one wtf is this

Not all of these are serious.

 

[Hood Critic]

Not all of these are serious.

At least we hope not.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Wait I missed this one wtf is this

Not all of these are serious.

At least we hope not.

That killed me someone just slid that one in among the others.

 

[Serious]

Sounds like my type of thread

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

I got one for my profession

Pros give lessons to get the player better but if they get them too good too quick or tell the parents too much of how theyre teaching then they will lose them as a client

A lot of pros are scam artists

"Oh yeah little jimmy is improving but he still has a lot to work on"

Meanwhile they know they could be packing 2 to 3x more info into each lesson than they do

 

[LightSkinYeshua]

I'm extremely pro-science but I know from first-hand experience that this is 100% true. The majority of papers in many fields should never have been published. You really can only fully trust shyt if it has been substantially redone and confirmed by multiple independent groups including skeptics, and even then there can be crowd blindness to important qualifying factors.

in the same field. Honestly i see nothing wrong with p hacking. You collected a generous amount of data for an experiment. Lets say your looking at over 15 constructs. What is wrong with finding which influences which? Just like the society, there is so much data around us to tell us information we need. Why not explore our options to tell a story that we might miss because we decided to re run an experiment when we have the data already?