@jerrrrrrryyyyy they aren't including household income as a control and there are lots of poor but high-achieving East Asians (South Asians who apply to elite schools are almost uniformly UMC or better)
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Dumb question possibly but is there anything in an application that would actually distinguish East Asian from South Asian?
Werner Zagrebbi🇦🇿@zagrebbi
The famous SFFA case treated Indians and East Asians as a single group. This masked significant heterogeneity: It's way harder to get in if you're Indian! In Columbia's internal admissions database (h/t @cremieuxrecueil), East Asian applicants had a 41% lower odds of admission than equally qualified White applicants, whereas South Asian applicants had 63% lower odds.
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even in the best of times the “high human capital model” described below traded Canadian college grads who could get jobs in the US for international college grad who *couldn't* get jobs in the US, which is a terrible selection effect x.com/jkenney/status…
Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱@jkenney
This👇 is an important point. Focussing solely on population growth numbers is misguided. We need to focus on the outflows (brain drain) as well as inflows, and on human capital. Canada’s immigration system used to be a “high human capital model,” which was the secret to its success. We emphasized advanced education, relevant work experience, official language proficiency, etc. During the Trudeau years our immigration system was turned on its head into one that privileges people with low levels of human capital. Add to that the departure of many of our brightest young people for greener pastures. It all adds up to a real long term problem that will deepen our decline in productivity and prosperity.
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the TN visa was the worst deal in the history of deals
Kirk Lubimov@KirkLubimov
Which demographics of Canadians are leaving Canada? >67% of the are 20-44 year olds. >3x more likely to be in Sciences than avg population. >31.1% have a masters degree. >61.4% left to the US. In other words, it's Canada's youngest, most talented and educated population.
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in fairness to Ehrlich, he got some things right, just on the wrong timeframe:
The Honest Broker@RogerPielkeJr
This from Paul Ehrlich will make you think "If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor." Link in reply
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love how Olympic hockey is like “I will die on the ice for my country” and the WBC is like “can’t bring in our closer in the 9th inning of a tied gold medal game”
Bob Nightengale@BNightengale
Mark DeRosa on not using Padres closer Mason Miller in the 9th: ‘‘Honoring the Padres. Had we taken the lead, he was coming in, but I wasn't going to bring him in to a tie game.’
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@amaldorai I think that particular sentence construction evokes the median more than the mean (as opposed to “the average net worth of all Exeter alums is > 10MM”)
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The average Philips Exeter alumnus has a net worth over $10 million.
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@PosterInternet Are there any Antonio Gates equivlants in the NBA?
Sincere question
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Basketball is my favorite sport. I'm sure height explains why basketball ==> football crossovers are more common.
It is possible to add muscle but not height.
NFL player with the athleticism to play in the NBA are way shorter than average NBA player.
jokermag.com/average-height…
TG@TommyGunnNBA
Another L for the “football players could easily play in the NBA” crowd… We see some random average D1 basketball player get an NFL tryout/contract almost every offseason. The inverse never happens for college football -> NBA Any other takes are pure cope.
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@sp6runderrated Zach Lavine, who won the greatest NBA dunk contest ever, had a running vertical of 41.5" at the NBA combine.
that sounds impressive until you realize that 272 pound Myles Garrett had a 41" *standing* vertical at the NFL combine (3" higher than the NBA combine record)
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@sp6runderrated there are virtually no basketball players who have the strength/speed required to play in the NFL. the archetypal modern NBA wing has great height, an enormous wingspan, and sub-5th percentile measurables for TE/WR in the NFL.
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incredible math happening in the comment section here
🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛@nonregemesse
Isn’t it disproportionately high given the population size?
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@Tcho76521726 @leftwingalt @nolightupstairs @whynotqat @3RenChengHu @Shanksrams that link misses two papers:
"Large annihilators in Cayley-Dickson algebras II"
"Large Annihilators in Cayley–Dickson Algebras"
(coauthored with 3 and 2 other Daniels, respectively, which seems like a sort of inside joke)
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@Tcho76521726 @leftwingalt @nolightupstairs @whynotqat @3RenChengHu @Shanksrams in your link:
#7,11,18,19: retraction notices
#9,10: presentation abstracts
#12,20,23: survey articles with no original content
#16: zero mathematical content
#1,3,4,6: retracted
#13,22: duplicates of #4
(that leaves only 7 research papers in the above link)
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Obviously, it's still unprofessional and all, but it popped out to me reading the story that this guy was hired as an assistant professor of mathematics @ UChicago at 25? Bro why are you in politics at all??
Popstonox@Popstonox
Daniel Biss, candidate for IL-09 in tomorrow's election, has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student during his tenure as a professor at the University of Chicago Megan Wachspress, now a Stanford law lecturer, says she was that student
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@leftwingalt @nolightupstairs @Tcho76521726 @whynotqat @3RenChengHu @Shanksrams as well, almost all of his retracted papers are solo papers, vs his non-retracted (algebra) papers being mostly jointly authored
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@leftwingalt @nolightupstairs @Tcho76521726 @whynotqat @3RenChengHu @Shanksrams this is not even close to being true. Biss has ~9 research papers (as opposed to survey articles) that haven't been retracted, vs the 4 that have.
and 4 is not "higher than average", it's "once-in-a-generation" levels of retractions among his peers.
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@amolitor99 @nolightupstairs he was a superstar (straight to TT at Chicago, no postdoc) with an annals and inventiones paper that were later retracted
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@nolightupstairs Probably not a tenure track role, or if it was he was informed, as one is, that he would not be getting tenure. Without tenure, academia is basically just a hobby.
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@GraphJJA this is the only way we'll get to the truth of Inter-universal Teichmüller theory
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@PosterInternet Maybe we need political oppo research not peer review in mathematics
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Daniel Biss also had an inappropriate relationship with mathematical correctness during his tenure as a professor at the University of Chicago
Popstonox@Popstonox
Daniel Biss, candidate for IL-09 in tomorrow's election, has been accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student during his tenure as a professor at the University of Chicago Megan Wachspress, now a Stanford law lecturer, says she was that student
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@MostlyMonkey @idiot_onthe_net Druggan is also massively underemployed given his IQ
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> I encounter people 30+ IQ points lower than me every day
WOWZERS!!!
This is just one of those rare occasions where a Twitter Person informs us that their self-professed IQ is 130
This had never happened before!
Michael Druggan@Michael_Druggan
> Basically, unless you work in an exceptionally public facing role, adults will never encounter anybody with an IQ >15 points higher or lower than themselves. Totally false. I encounter people 30+ IQ points lower than me every day. On dating apps, at the gym, at concerts/festivals etc.. Plenty of places aren't IQ segregated.
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truly incredible run. probably the second worst tenure-track hire by an elite math department in recorded history (IYKYK)
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