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Or just fund public schools at the level that private schools do and have reasonable class sizes.

I would agree. The testing used to stream kids is noisy at best and systematically biased at worst against kids with educated parents.

> n impoverished school where the majority of the effort goes to controlling poor behaviour I think this is the real issue, irrespective of 'gifted' status. I failed the 11+ in the…

> it's probably enough to act with genuine, directed enjoyment and curiosity. This is true, but I think you are seriously underestimating how difficult this can be, and how easy it…

This is amazing. The only problem is I now want all these features within the OS X file open dialog for opening saving files within applications.

right, but 50% of the effect of opiates is placebo, so we shouldn't be too surprised. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11207392

Was just about the say the same. He has an excellent chapter on the history of smoking research with an interesting anecdote (repeated here https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-…

This is my hobby horse! A confounder would be an unobserved (unmeasured) variable that influences both the allocation to treatment and the outcome. In this case unfiltered air else…

I don't know why you are being downvoted because I wanted to say much the same. There is a clear asymmetry in our current cultural practices, and the assumption is often that activ…

> I don't think that's a safe assumption to make. I agree, but the reality is we don't know. Also there's evidence that cultural norms do substantially shape our opportunities (e.g…

Except that many girls are made to feel abnormal for expressing an interest in stereotypically male activities (as are boys in reverse). The key is to acknowledge first that our so…

I'd have more sympathy for critiques of feminism (and similar policies designed to help minorities) if even basic indices of equality like pay for equal work were fixed, and there …

They don't get better prices because they are operating in a system where access to key drugs is a key differentiator. Penny pinching on access drugs (as does NICE in the UK on beh…

No, specifically they say: > The most admired arguments are made with data, > but the origins, veracity, and malleability of those data > tend to be ancillary concerns. That's a co…

>(can't quit your job and travel the world if you have kids to support). I think the real reason is that there will be someone to look after you when you're old and sick.

Amazon doesn't pay VAT, the consumer does

This sounds cool... have you shared the code anywhere?

My god... I can't tell you how happy that just made made me. I've been using runserver_plus for code reloading for a while, but hadn't realised this could do the same for the shell…

I'm not a Corbyn fan, but I think this is a gross misrepresentation of the current labour leadership, and their likely actions in government. I often see these kind of analogies be…

No. Feynman actually criticised scientists who weren't prepared to explain and justify their work to the public. He says this in one of the bbc videos, can't remember which, as par…