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Why does it not make more sense to cultivate local talent, instead of effectively poaching from other countries, and creating negative wage pressure by expanding the labor supply a…

I don't understand the comments on this post. Are we seriously pretending that in 2021 with a nearly universal push for diversity and inclusion, that being a women (or a minority) …

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Specifically I'm referring to the argument that standardized tests discriminate against African Americans. Still, does it really justify doing away with meritocratic standards beca…

Lower admissions standards in a misguided attempt to fix a diversity problem which will only erode the caliber of graduates overall, with knockdown effects on greater society over …

The modern argument is that SAT and ACT tests discriminate against minorities. The reasoning is that minorities score lower because of socioeconomic factors.

>“Well, that didn’t come to pass in 1984, but if we’re not careful that could come to pass in 2024.” I refuse to participate in social media because the tech is already here, and a…

I suspect that you're excluding a nontrivial proportion of homeless people who simply do not wish to live with the burden of employment and responsibilities of rent/mortgage when t…

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Have we accurately anticipated any benefits? Serious question. There's no way that such a massive shift in a complex, chaotic system will only be negative.

If fox, newsmax, and OAN are the only ones willing to report on certain topics earnestly, like, say patterns in black on asian violence, or other ethnically sensitive issues, then …

It is critically important in a political climate where one side is using the spectre of white supremacy as a political cudgel. When a complicit media makes a consistent effort to …

Don't you think it's a little hyperbolic to call the middle class rich?

You'd be overestimating the average person's ability. Laypeople know virtually nothing about computational modeling. I can't find the famous quote, but it is dangerous to consume s…

Right, screw discussion or examination of contradicting evidence. Your side is unquestioningly right, double down and ram your policies down everyone else's throats, regardless of …

>Yes, in some ways. A new study shows Twitter users post even more misinformation after other users correct them. I can't help but feel like the academics studying this "problem" a…

What does free speech entail when a literal handful of unelected people control the modern public square?

There are understated psychological consequences to casual sex, particularly for females. Only in my 30s did I begin to understand the damage that my ostensibly harmless casual rel…

How is any of this intuitive?

>Based on its chemical abundance pattern, we speculate that SPLUS J2104−0049 could be a bona fide second-generation star, formed from a gas cloud polluted by a single metal-free ~ …

But a larger nucleus would be unlikely to produce the same spectral signature even with the same charge. The energy transitions would be different, especially with different orbita…

Most people who oppose GMO don't really understand the scientific reasons to do so, and I don't think that all GMO are necessarily dangerous. However what I've come to realize over…

>This evolutionary perspective counters the "bio-ethnocentrism" of modern medicine—the idea that what is "healthy" or "normal" is largely based on those of northern or western Euro…