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@jessegenet I tried to make a table that shows what you point out. For each of their outcomes. x.com/DChexs/status/…

Love that this article is getting the hate it deserves.... As someone noted... eminence is incredibly rare, so 12.3% among gifted students is decidedly over-representative. For example, around 0.023% of Americans are full professors at R1 institutions, yet 22 of 677 (3.25%) of gifted students studied eventually held this position (a ~140x fold increase)

@adastroworld @NYMag I tried to create this same table but that compares the achievement rate of the gifted cohort compared against the population of the US. The US Estimate column is an AI's guess of the current number of the Americans who meet the criterion, I told it to lean on the generous side.

@NYMag man, we really have some distance to go wrt gender progress

Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies. “When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did. Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh

@KimballCall @elonmusk Now this is the way to happiness. Good for you for celebrating another's success!

I’m a poor married student. But by giving me the chance to invest a few hundred saved up dollars into SpaceX, Elon Musk has done more for me and my family than any socialist ever has. The more he succeeds, the better. Thank you @elonmusk!

@StephenJShaw What possible motive could they have for modifying a long standing survey question? I just don't get it. I could understand adding additional questions, but modifying existing long-standing questions breaks your continuity.

It’s not happening. Desire for children among U.S. adults hasn’t collapsed. CDC and Pew know the data problems (I am on good terms and communicate with both), but the narrative rolled anyway. In 2022–23 the CDC’s NSFG switched to a new survey approach. Response rate collapsed from 63% → 23%. They explicitly warned researchers: do not compare 2022–23 to prior survey waves. Pew ignored the warning, pooled the data, and published the “sharp decline in fertility desire” story anyway. I advised they at least add a cautionary note in a call to their research team. They listened. That didn't happen. A lot of media and academics followed. And now we have this wave of misinformation. My upcoming paper shows the apparent drop is largely a measurement artifact. When you use consistent CDC data, fertility intentions among 25–35 year olds have been remarkably stable for decades. The “generational turn away from parenthood” story is a non-story. Birthrate decline has been at the heart of my ten-year research program, but lack of desire for children is not evident in any of the fifty-plus nations I have studied. @pewresearch I told you this would happen!

@ThoughtfulSaint I was. It profoundly influenced my life. I don't like to talk about it.

Have you ever been physically assaulted while trying to share your Christian faith? I have. And I would bet a TON of the LDS on this app have. Many people on this app talk a big game, but how many of them have been literally physically assaulted while trying to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world? This app is full of internet warriors who won’t even show their real names. But those boys out there in white shirts and ties are the real deal.

@realDrTT Its so exhausting to try to have conversations on any topic with people who engage in bad faith. For people who engage your way it is always fascinating to chat. And I always feel like I gain more than I give. I love seeing how other people interpret the same information I see.

@realDrTT See this is why I like you. I can agree to that statement shake hands, give an awkward bro hug, and move on. It's so refreshingly different than the typical responses we get. Something like "you're 1% different so the most core part of your beliefs and identity are lies."

I disagree with the latter part. Latter-day Saints sincerely worship Jesus Christ and intend to worship the Jesus revealed in Scripture (just as we, Nicene Christians, intend to worship the Jesus revealed in Scripture). However, LDS theology understands Jesus differently in essential ways—especially regarding His eternal divinity, His relation to the Father, and the nature of God. We can recognize their devotion to Jesus while also being honest that we do not share precisely the same doctrine of who Jesus is.

@jessegenet Not to mention how insurance made it worse! They pushed anyone hesitant to adopt the safer standards by threatening to pull their insurance. This is how the diving board died. They misunderstood the data and stopped insuring. “Diving” injuries typically aren’t from diving boards.

@jessegenet Rather they were being used for their intended purposes or worse used in unintended ways and the injuries came as from the natural and obvious risks. It’d be like suing a knife manufacturer because the knife was sharp. When you use a knife you accept risk of cuts.

Let 👏 kids 👏 take 👏 risks 👏

@realDrTT If you visit SLC DM me. I’d be happy to take you to lunch, show you around town, or just say hi. I love your good faith engagement. I find that people who are actually chill and open-minded are rarer than gold and way more fun to talk to! (Gold doesn’t talk much.)

@realDrTT We’d love to see anyone join our team. But I suspect the question you’re asking is actually “are you only being nice to me because you have ulterior motive to convert me?” The answer is no. People don’t believe it but we are just nice. It is our culture, heritage, and legacy.

LDS friends. Are you a cult? Are you just being nice to me because you want to convert me?

@RykerJackson97 @Hotchkiz @DezGoth If anyone has names please DM me. I’d love to send this Elder a real life letter. A letter from someone who can still remember the bitter taste at the end of the dark days of my mission.

Guys, believe me when I say that we “Mormons” have dealt with harassment before. Incidents like this are a daily occurrence. Video credit: @DezGoth

@sourpatchlyds @BowTiedRanger I can tell you the actual names of my forefathers who died on the hill of Christ. It’d be my life’s greatest honor to be laid to rest among them one day. “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.” Romans 1:16

@BowTiedRanger Sad. They're nice people. They're great. They're just... Not Christians. Not sure why they'd die on this hill.

Tough day for the Mormons. Probably 40 years of work blown up in a day.

@Manhattva I've learned when someone is paying a lot of money while saying they have a solution to an obvious problem that they almost certainly already understand the problem. The thought that SpaceX and it's peers didn't realize you can't cool via convection in space is laughable.

This is so embarrassing. The thermal radiators convert the thermal heat into infrared radiation. If I were this guy, I’d be offering any amount of money to get this taken off the Internet because this is so cringe.

@tabr99 @absurdiumcom I tease, but it is to drive my point home, having defined standards is not the same as creating a "system of mandated ignorance designed so you never challenge their authority." If you say FSY is this then you must likewise condemn any parent with a curfew, dress code, or chores.

@tabr99 @absurdiumcom They also insisted that I work hard and I do my school work, chores, and job to a high standard. The craziest thing happened there too, when I grew up I somehow still knew how to waste time and be idle. I could even recognize poor quality work. Maybe my parents just weren't good?

I had my name removed from the Mormon churches records the moment I moved out of my parents house. Ask me anything.

@gen0m1cs Hey @RiotIQ can you review this and explain it in human on your YouTube channel?