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I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. The United States has a system of de jure discrimination against white and asian men. Moreover, there is a great deal of de facto discre…

Personally, I think complex analysis is important. I really like Serge Lang's book "Complex Analysis." It is supposedly a graduate level text, but the first half of it covers the b…

I think it is about status signalling for the parents and the social status prospects for the children more than its about career prospects for the children. What college your chil…

What are the problems with just increasing the dosage over time. This sounds to me like a very reasonable approach to someone with intractable pain.

I inherited a house and condo from my parents. They are in California and purchased long ago, so the property taxes on them are ridiculously low (the condo, worth about 700K has a …

Indeed. And there is also a continuous shortage of farm workers, or at least workers willing to do backbreaking seasonal labor harvesting crops for substandard wages. Astonishing.

I think overhead rates at most big state schools are around 50%, and I believe they are higher at a lot of elite private universities. This is the link I got when I googled "Yale o…

Its very hard to turn down a request to review a paper you are qualified to comment on from an editor you know, or who regularly handles your papers. Editor X from Journal Y sends …

Quite aside from the question of whether or not its okay to discriminate as long as it is principally whites who are harmed, I find this statement from the ACLU to be bizarre. I th…

Assuming the basic facts claimed by the author are correct, this is really bad. I'm not referring to the behavior attributed to the U Chicago professor and her husband, either. Tha…

Tech seems to be converging to the norms of other highly paid professions. I'd bet that at least 40% of Goldman Sachs' hires come from Harvard, Yale and Princeton. How about the bi…

See CalTech for an example of an elite school that has race-blind admissions. As far as I can tell, it hasn't put any pressure on the Ivy's to change. Incidentally, Caltech's lates…

It was "recentered" in 1995. The right side of the distribution was essentially truncated. A 1600 on the pre-1995 SAT was quite an accomplishment (I don't have data at my fingertip…

The bargaining power of workers is being undermined by large-scale immigration and by trade policy. The National Academy of Sciences report on immigration found that current immigr…

Indeed, statistics is fine, but I think the problem is larger than scientists being poorly educated. It looks to me like an awful lot of scientists aren't acting in good faith. I d…

In order to owe $60,000 in back taxes, you had to have income. Where did that income go? Were the original loan amounts even higher? Loans of $140,000 sound awfully high for an und…

The law puts most of the burden on drivers quite intentionally, and I think properly. My general impression is that the average driver doesn't understand the law and don't apprecia…

I'm sure there is a lot of waste in the UC Office of the President. But Universities have become huge, complicated behemoths with many functions besides education. I recently saw a…

Because you get a lot of free press.

Moreover, in most of California, the supply of housing has been artificially restricted using overly stringent zoning rules and laws. I'm in favor of reasonable zoning rules, but i…

Actually, 100 points is an underestimate. At elite schools, there is a significant difference between the average SAT scores of admitted white students and admitted black students …

This is hardly surprising given the greater than 100 point difference in average SAT scores between the two groups.

This. I'm sorry to say that I agree. What is really astonishing is the low quality of the police forces in cities in the United States which pay police very very well (when all of …

You are just defining the class of Riemann integrable and Lebesgue integrable functions using Jordan measurability. There is nothing wrong in this, but there is nothing different i…

But the only obstruction to developing convergence theorems for Riemann integrals is that the limit of a sequence of Riemann integrable functions need not be Riemann integrable. Th…