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Starting Strength and only primarily targets the ability to lift heavy objects. On its own it does nothing to improve your cardio fitness and it doesn't directly help with postural…

from the wiki article on nicotine: "no epidemiological evidence supports that nicotine alone acts as a carcinogen in the formation of human cancer "

" Is it because asians are that much more naturally gifted?" Why not?

The effect "could be large". Do you have any data to support this? Some forms of coaching "add over 100". Do you have data to support this? Poor black/hispanic kids don't have test…

The right way to do "education selection" is to pick the best students from your applicant pool. I don't see what would be wrong with that method.

In reality it is simply not possible to create such gains on average. SAT score is still a very good predictor of future academic performance. "Does test preparation help improve s…

It cannot be coached very easily. See http://nepc.colorado.edu/files/Briggs_Theeffectofadmissionst... . "Does test preparation help improve student performance on the SAT and ACT? …

This sort of hype article pops up every few years in the British press. Perhaps there is an increasing trend in students attending US universities, but it is always going to be a s…

I suspect it isn't hard to find papers that show a link between high debt levels and weak economic growth. Or do you think the consensus among economists is that no such relationsh…

There is no serious rebuttal or debunking of Mcintyre contained within that post. Even if we ignore the details of that specific controversy, it is still obvious that there are 1) …

This is not a credible source.

This article has a pretty bad smell. The author makes a lot of fairly extreme claims but these are mostly based on his own anecdotes or non public data sets. The claims that "you c…

What is the trend for the overall number rather than percentage of tenured college professors? Surely a large part of this is explained by the explosive growth of higher education …

I would be very sceptical about using weight training, and squatting and deadlifting in particular, as remedies for back pain. These exercises can bad for you if you have pre-exist…

I think this view of things is a bit misguided. Most of the jobs available to those who should not go to college are not traditional trades. Effective vocational training has to be…

But it is not obviously unfair or wrong. The students are separated according to ability, not the colour of their skin.

The streaming can and should be done through aptitude tests and competitive examinations. Your story is quite unfortunate but there are better ways of separating pupils by ability.…

The second question makes no sense unless you have some quasi-religious pre determined belief in the cognitive equality of different racial groups.

Competition in action, reducing prices for consumers. I like it!

Should we ignore demographics? Why?

"A true rationalist" would be smart enough to recognise that there are many other variables that can effect the quality of education. The greater levels of unionisation in Finland …

welp, an argument you can't win! Time to insult people!

The Mismeasure of Man is notoriously awful trash. It's amazing that anyone would recommend it as a reference or guide to the subject when its poor quality is so widely recognized b…

How much modafinil do you take? Where do you get it from?

why did you use the word "iterate"[1] in this context? [1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/iterate