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I'd like to post a substantive comment on this story, but my comments seem to disappear when I logout of my account - as if HackerNews has decided to prevent anyone from reading me…

These results can obscure as much as they reveal. The demographics of the US differ from European countries - the US has proportionally more students from lower scoring ethnic grou…

This is one of my biggest pet peeves - you see something and ask "why the hell is it this way?" You even speculate about some possible solutions, but someone will chide you, condes…

>Daniel Willingham reviews in the submitted post, and the paper is a joint review article on the last decade and a half of research on human intelligence by an all-star group of re…

This post half implies that the points made have reached a consensus within the field, that unnamed scientists have come around to these views. That remains unproven. Notably absen…

Are you saying the solution is for Company B to regularly raise employee pay to market levels? Eg, at the conclusion of John Doe's first year, raise his salary 30%. If so, why do y…

You are correct: The Long-Term Labor Market Consequences of Graduating from College in a Bad Economy http://mba.yale.edu/faculty/pdf/kahn_longtermlabor.pdf

What do you count as a success? The only solid markers of success are sex, blowjobs and a girl meeting you on a different day, i.e. for a date. In that order. Everything else is 'h…

This must be the 'classiest' case of the Streisand Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Werl%C3%A9_and_Manfred...

>most of the DOD is still on IE6, as an example that is something like 2 million daily users. Do you have any evidence for that? From what I've seen, which is admittedly not compre…

Airtime, or something like it, has great potential to shake up online dating. I've tried several online dating sites, and it's clear their basic functionality is extremely flawed. …

Appreciating beauty is criminal. When will people learn?

To explain the issue further, tersely, at the risk of being downvoted, in America, the average score among blacks is a standard deviation lower than that of whites, on IQ tests, th…

Awesome. Aping the accreditation, credit and degree system of brick and mortar academe doesn't make sense for the latest generation of educators - udacity, Coursera, Khan Academy, …

Yes, this seems like a much more appropriate progression than imposing the credit-degree system on online education. A standardized test would assess the depth of one's knowledge, …