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A lot of factors: 1) People definitely did get away with this, all the time. Historically, researchers had no obligation (at least that was practically enforced) to maintain and sh…

My understanding is that the overall body of research suggests that artificial sweeteners don't cause additional calorie consumption. Given that is true (and leaving aside the much…

If anything, it reflects a greater degree of logical rigor: 1) It's commonly taken as a simple fact that overrepresentation of white people among e.g. the top hedge fund managers i…

There's no logical endpoint for "disparate group outcomes prove a problem that must be fixed" outside of discrimination against Asians and Jews. (It's an ineffective racist, white …

Oh, transfermarkt is perfectly fine, and your general point about EPL money is definitely right -- just don't think it makes any sense to count pure transfer outlay without taking …

I'm not sure what metrics you're using for "spent around the same amount," but from preliminary looks at AC Milan vs. Brighton that doesn't seem true at all. Breaking things down i…

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This overestimates the role of international soccer in predicting future international soccer success. Players get 99% of their development with their club teams. While it is cruci…

Yeah, this has been one of the most disappointing things for me. No way his shtick has fooled all of them. Pg in particular I would've expected more rigor from, but maybe that's na…

To be frank: I think the main reason is because explicit talk of cost-cutting was at odds with leadership's self-aggrandizing Twitter talk. (Disrupting the education industry, putt…

It's only a double standard if you're assuming the people critical of Lambda aren't also critical of selling valueless $200k college educations to checked-out students.

Because they have minimal admissions filter and constantly tell students not to give up, to fight imposter syndrome, student testimonials, "this is the toughest thing you'll ever d…

I was at Lambda when they announced the switch from 9 to 6 months and the elimination of paid team leaders. The feedback was universally negative. In a channel for open student dis…

https://samzdat.com/2017/06/28/without-belief-in-a-god-but-n... samzdat makes similar points in this article -- esoteric but insightful

The reason for this is almost exclusively the Earned Income Tax Credit. A single filer claiming two children and earning $11,000 would be eligible for a (fully refundable) credit o…