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@k9_reaper What is the source for this data?

South Africas current crime stats: Averaged Murder: 60 every 24 hours Rape: 4 every single hour Hijackings: 50 Home invasions: 60 every 24 hours We are at war. And the average citizen will tell you that everything is okay. Guns aren't the problem, bad guys are.

@RetroCoast I am rapidly moving to advocate zero cash benefits. In kind only.

End SNAP. Replace it with monthly distributions of dried beans, powdered milk and rice See how quickly people go back to work.

@cgshort No.

Asking for generations of African Americans who were wronged by the federal government: This recent settlement now sets precedent for reparations, correct?

@3RenChengHu With the obvious outlier of certain professional athletes and most politicians, parents income explains most of IQ. IQ causes SES.

The really interesting thing here is how little scores vary by income within race. Looks like a 3+ SD difference in income predicts only a 0.5 SD difference in test scores—a correlation of less than 0.2. The causal claim implied by "The SAT just measures your parents' income" was always obviously false, but it's striking how weak a predictor it is even in a purely correlational sense.

@eurofounder Your best one yet. Ouch.

The European female founder journey: 1. Have a groundbreaking idea for a period tracking app 2. Recruit four other female co-founders 3. Spend 6 months designing the logo 4. Get rejected by Y Combinator, blame it on "tech bro culture" 5. Raise €25k from a Berlin Female Founders Fund instead 6. Pay Forbes €10k for an article titled "Building A Company Without Toxic Masculinity" 7. Speak at six panels about being a woman in tech 8. Launch MVP with 12 users 9. Win "European Female Innovator of the Year" award 10. Meet a 62 year old divorced French VC at a sex party 11. Marry him, shut down company, become a trad wife

@sigmond216 @drterrysimpson Hi Sigmond! Nobody administers race-based tests. If you don’t understand the relationship between IQ and the MCAT, then medical school probably isn’t for you.

@NotCubby @drterrysimpson Pray tell, where did yoy get this data from? And how does it relate to medical school admissions? Where was a wide scale race based test ever conducted and who received the tests

One of the things I continue to find remarkable in this debate is how many people look at Black students scoring in the 95th percentile on the MCAT — often higher than the average matriculant at most American medical schools — and still conclude they were admitted “only because of race.” These are objectively elite academic performers. Many scored higher than applicants admitted to excellent medical schools across the country. And yet some people persist in speaking as though the mere existence of Black students at Yale is proof that standards collapsed and that unnamed “more deserving” Asian applicants were robbed. At that point, the conversation is no longer about MCAT scores. It is about an inability to imagine that highly accomplished Black students belong in elite institutions. What also fascinates me is how quickly social media pundits become absolute authorities on physician selection, while dismissing the judgment of admissions committees at institutions that have spent generations training world-class physicians and scientists. Medicine is harder — and more human — than sorting percentiles on a spreadsheet.

@Zephani167197 That’s not even a smart take. The question is not who belongs, the question is were the most qualified candidates chosen, or was there an arbitrary selection factor, like race, that punished some and rewarded others.

I don’t live in America, so I may be missing context, but from what I’ve seen, the conversation seems to boil down to this: Ivy League spots are only “rightfully” for Asians and whites and that Black students shouldn’t be there.

@libsoftiktok It makes more sense when you understand every accusation of “racism” is just battlefield prep, intended to disarm you as others seize resources and power.

But wait there’s more! The Superintendent of Penfield Schools in NY wrote a whole letter calling everyone racist and complaining she faced challenges cuz she’s Black They now appear to be engaging in race-based hiring, discriminating against White people

@Tennessean Hand the scholarships to scholar-athletes.

NAACP calls for Black boycott of University of Tennessee athletics tennessean.com/story/sports/c…

@PeteNakos That’s fantastic - let’s see who’s just collecting a paycheck, and who is there for the school.

The NAACP has launched a campaign calling for college athletes and fans to withhold athletic support from public universities in Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas & Georgia due to Black voting representation. It calls for athletes to "consider all available options under the transfer portal." naacp.org/articles/naacp…

@shizuearts Hi Shizue! “Disproportionately” with respect to what population? Answering that accurately is the beginning of wisdom.

@JDCocchiarella Hi Jack! Who are you calling a fascist?

I think hanging with a fascist today hurt your point a little more than cursing you clown

@FiSurgi Please tell me you are not conflating a data point with a statistical result.

“ Black mean performance as physicians on various measures of competence have been lower than white/Asian performance.” Again, I’m happy to compare my full resume to anyone on this app. Trust me, it won’t go the way you think.

I’d argue that possibly the best use for AI is to clean the academic gene pool by scouring every thesis and paper and looking for patterns of “research” that veer well into plagiarism and academic fraud (like citing unread or nonexistent papers). Let sunlight do its disinfecting magic.

I've gotten a lot of comments like this, so forgive me if this isn't very kind, but I'm at my limit. If you're a serious academic, you've spent a lot of time looking at citations, and you know they often contain errors. You know that it's very common for professors just to copy citations they found in other papers and put them into their own papers because they need a lot of citations to look credible. Given that this is going on, it's kind of silly to think that we should have a kind of death penalty for having an LLM, hallucination mistake What you're doing is virtue signaling and pretending that citations are somehow sacred to what academics do, when in fact they're mostly just poorly put up window dressing. You're being dishonest. Perhaps with yourself, perhaps with me.

Occasional errors and oversights are part of science. If we lost our driver’s license for a year every time we exceeded the speed limit by 10 km/h, daily life would become unworkable. Many countries instead use point systems, where trust can be rebuilt through good behavior.

The graph is the result of plotting normal curves for each group, calculating the portion of the population at each IQ level, and adding the results. My working assumptions are in the table. This is the only way to get an understanding of how warped the goal of equal representation is across every job domain. Because the normal curves are displaced, there is no single IQ level, where the distribution of the eligible population matches the distribution of the general population. The corollary to this is that trying to get 13% black representation into Princeton astrophysics or Harvard Law will dig deep into lower IQ pools. @charlesmurray - am I misstating any of the key points?

@NotCubby @drterrysimpson Interesting graph - do the raw data break down the different racial groups ?

@theJokerButcher @iamtheFLYEST Riiiight.

@iamtheFLYEST Mostly true. But can we get rid of legacies in these ivy league colleges? The most prestigious schools shouldnt let dumbasses come in and get degrees because they had past family members go there and they donate tons of money. Thats where all of the spots for others is.

If someone with good grades didn’t get into med school, then it’s probably because they didn’t interview well, lacked valuable medical & nonmedical experiences, terrible personal statement, or just overall not a good person!!! Let’s start there 🙏🏾

@timgill924 Hi Tim! Time to use a different AI agent to write your tweets for you - this one is making you look like a moron.

Let’s be honest. All these people upset about college students using AI are just jealous they didn’t have it when they were in college. They just want them to suffer like they did. It’s an old story: “Well if I suffered, they should too.” It’s also a morally repugnant position.

@drterrysimpson That ESL course did you no favors. Who was arguing that 95% meant you “lacked” merit?

And there it is. A person in the 95th percentile nationally is now declared lacking in “merit” because someone else scored in the 99th percentile. This is exactly the reductionist ideology many of us in medicine reject. You are no longer distinguishing between qualified and unqualified. You are constructing a caste system inside the extreme right tail of human performance and then pretending the tiny numerical differences between extraordinarily gifted people fully determine future physician quality. Medicine learned long ago that they do not. The irony is extraordinary: the same people who insist medicine is about “merit” keep defining merit so narrowly that judgment, communication, leadership, resilience, professionalism, empathy, trust, composure under pressure, and clinical decision-making barely count at all. The body does not care what percentile you scored in organic chemistry when the operating room suddenly becomes quiet. And this is the part he cannot seem to process: a student scoring in the 95th percentile nationally would rank above the average admissions metrics of most medical schools in America, including many schools producing excellent physicians every year. Yet he speaks as though such applicants are academically suspect because others scored slightly higher on a standardized exam. This man does not understand what makes a doctor. He understands numerical sorting, prestige signaling, and hierarchy. Medicine is far more complicated than that. And yes, predictably, his response will be to call anyone racist who refuses to believe that tiny percentile differences among extraordinarily gifted human beings fully determine future physician quality.

@emptywheel Show your work.

It is genuinely curious that old man dick wiggle is telling so many lies to try to spin the Terrorist Slush Fund. First, he believes the bullshit far right propagandists told him to believe. Then, he's too stupid to realize JOE BIDEN DID find this fraud -- his DOJ and Inspector Generals Trump fired found it. But why worry so much about the Terrorist Slush Fund? Your people love it.