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Why Taleb? I hate that piece because most of what he's referring to has been dealt with for decades. It's like "narcissist who knows nothing about a field doesn't bother to learn a…

So I agree with you about SAT IQ, and IQ SES. However ... IQ isn't the only correlate of success. I think if you look at it all, there's a large dose of conscientiousness (which st…

Somehow the idea that this is all caused by people applying to more places doesn't cut it to me. It might account for some of it, but not all of it. A lot of this is probably fairl…

So... I've been programming in R for over 20 years. I've been ready for an alternative for performance reasons for about half that time. Julia seems like a promising alternative, t…

I think what a healthy diet is fairly individual-specific. I think there are probably general guidelines that are pretty good for most people, but the details depend on how differe…

I think the poster was just pointing to the parallels. It's salient to me as a professor. FWIW, I think the issues are definitely related though. There's lots of STEM hype in acade…