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According to the recent "Task Force on Standardized Testing" from the UCs ( https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/committees/... page 23) SATs are better predictors than…

I think you just summarized most of this list and this movement (not all! but most).

Isn't it Berkeley where 80% of applications for faculty positions are filtered on their diversity statement (even for things like particle physics)? Or consider Stuart Reges being …

I would say that McCarthy and his acolytes, was also motivated to do good (protect America). The villagers burning 'witches' were motivated to do good (protect the village, and inc…

And isn't there in implicit insult in that? That an entire group is so fragile, that seeing a mere word on paper, in a completely different context, will somehow reduce them to emo…

It is, but don't worry, they don't care about that group.

Why not just ask him when he stopped beating his wife, and be done with it?

Yes, but then isn't it clear that he isn't to be trusted (or how much he is to be trusted), and that's really what most people care about, they don't care why. I think that's part …

It seems about the weakest one possible, in that it allows accepting either only tiny amounts of responsibility, or almost total responsibility.

We (humans, AlphaZero) are both distilling the rules down. Some rules are easily distilled (a queen is worth more than pawn) some are more difficult (mobility, knight vs bishop). I…

FWIW, I think it already has, actually, multiple times. My guess there are few factors in place -- people recognized motivated reasoning -- there are many studies the authors clear…

Super minor note: it's "sow" (as in spread seeds, "reap what you sow" "sow wild oats) as opposed to "sew" (needle and thread...)

There is something at best blind, and more likely to my mind, dishonest about the "It's just a trivial change" argument. It's used to bludgeon dissent. "You can't possibly be such …

I actually think more generic worker's rights is better than expanding protected classes, which will always have holes.

It seems to be a pretty unhealthy thing, psychologically. It's why 'gaslighting' is its own special term. It's what's often used in psychologically breaking people down. I think pe…

Yes, but historically it was a joke, or surprise. Now it's a moral failing.

You need to compare jobs you can get with same qualifications, of course. That's why we don't compare surgeons with janitors. Of course, most gender pay gap comparison do in fact c…

That's not true. Obstetricians are mostly women and are better paid (on average) than internal medicine, which is mostly men. There are other examples. If you assume men are willin…

Why on earth would you say "you have to know this isn't true"? If you see similar patterns across many different cultures, including ones considered to be more gender-egalitarian, …

Oh come on, Thrasymachus is the OG strawman. All he does is go around saying how smart Socrates is, and how wrong he himself is.

It doesn't really -- I don't think any business say "well, I'm paying for surgeons rather than pediatricians, which have more men, so I'll pay more." This would ignore obstetrician…