@paleonormie @EricRichards22 The decision whether or not to get drunk the night before is kind of the meta iq test
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@EricRichards22 intelligent people who are hungover and didn't study are occasionally bad at tests
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There's not really any such thing as intelligent people who are "bad at tests"
Susan Wise Bauer@SusanWiseBauer
If you've followed me for any time at all, you probably know that I'm not a fan of standardized testing. Too often, it does a disservice to intelligent students who don't "test well." It puts too much emphasis on a narrow set of qualities and throws less easily measured accomplishments into the shade. In my opinion, classical educators should be working to promote more holistic and thoughtful ways of gauging academic achievements, rather than proposing new standardized testing option. However, I'm really struck by this Washington Post opinion piece by a STEM prof at UC Berkeley, and I'm anxious to know your thoughts. ** In an effort to broaden access to STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — for more first-generation, low-income and underrepresented students, UC has been running an experiment: expanding admission without reliably measuring preparation...In spring 2020, the University of California’s Board of Regents suspended the use of SAT and ACT scores in admissions amid concerns that standardized tests were inequitable.... Having abandoned standardized testing requirements, UC now relies heavily on high school grades and essays. But grades have been inflated for years, and artificial intelligence has made essays a poor measure of unaided writing and reasoning. An admissions process without a universal quantitative measure is less reliable, less transparent and more vulnerable to human bias. The consequences are visible in college classrooms. UC San Diego reported that entering students with math skills below high school level increased nearly thirtyfold in five years and roughly 1 in 12 had preparation below middle school benchmarks. At UC Berkeley, 20 to 30 percent of first-semester calculus students have displayed severe preparation deficits for three consecutive years. Students who struggle with fractions are being asked, in the same semester, to learn far more complex concepts like limits, derivatives and Riemann integrals. Mathematics is like building a tower: Each level depends on the soundness of the one below. A student who has not mastered basic algebra is missing the load-bearing structure on which calculus depends. Placing unprepared students into the same classroom as prepared ones puts brakes on the entire class. Our UC Berkeley calculus classes now have to pause to explain basic properties of addition and multiplication — for example, that (a+b) c = ac + bc. According to California’s Common Core standards, this material is taught in third grade. The students most hurt are those the policy was supposed to help — first-generation, low-income and underrepresented students. Hiding preparation gaps does not remove them; it shifts them to the classroom, where they become harder to overcome. While weaker students drown in material they were never prepared to learn, stronger students tune out. ** It's an intelligent and searing indictment of the cost of doing away with those standardized tests. I might need to rethink. wapo.st/4wHjfBi
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This has nothing to do with you or anyone you have ever known. It is as foreign as Aztec astrology
RadioGenoa@RadioGenoa
European art.
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@skooookum If it’s a miserable enough marriage it still feels amazing a decade later. Like an Everlasting Gobstopper
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@dvb_eck I have this sometimes where I’m abt to get in my car to head to work, and BAM, I gotta take another shit. I started waking up earlier on weekdays bc of those second surprise ones.
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@Psyberdelic_ A woman that’s 200+ lbs is preparing for SOMETHING.
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To all my fellow patriots that love fat chicks, Plan B's effectiveness significantly drops if shes 200lbs+
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@TOTALCESSDEATH Twerking class, dirty whites should be in the Collective Blacks bucket. I say this as a representative of the dirty whites.
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This list makes no sense whatsoever
homogalactica@plumedsnake
Notice how rez Native Americans where placed all the way at the bottom
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@paleonormie It should. If you’re 5’6” & sedentary a 2000 calorie diet will absolutely blow u up.
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You're hammered in the woods of Maine. The night's a waste, might as well pass out. Then you get the text. A fat woman saying please come massage my ass. You think: the gods favor me. I can't lose.
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“consent is the north star of our moral framework” is something only a sociopathic cult leader could come up with. People consent to things that hurt them every day
TRMII@trmtoo
@nosilverv We've obliterated almost every social and moral technology other than consent. And we've never been more unhappy.
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@dvb_eck Pooping is actually the straightest thing a man can do bc it’s basically pushing the gay OUT.
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@wiggakingIV Imagine meeting the one guy in the clink who’s 6’4”, a shredded 250 lbs & violently coercing some timid new fish to be Big Spoon
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I've always been terrified of prison. You always hear about the raping. Just the thought that I'd get in there and start raping anything that moves is a big enough deterrent. Fuck around and turn 2 years into a life sentence. I don't want to put myself in that position.
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@FeralPHunter Nah, homes. You know what they say about abt “Once you go ugly”?
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@Psyberdelic_ @kojimaicmatters Porn used to be so rare you’d watch scrambled channels on regular-ass TV & do visuospatial acrobats to make out the pixelated silhouette of a tit. This is why men of a certain age are so good at the whole mental rotation part of IQ tests.
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@kojimaicmatters Familiarity breeds contempt. When porn was hard to obtain it seemed special. Now its every where and feels shallow. Real intimacy feels like the luxury now
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It's like we're pornmaxxing and prudemaxxing simultaneously. Kinda funny but mostly just annoying.
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@Psyberdelic_ @dvb_eck There’s gotta be one. Somewhere.
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@dvb_eck We'd be living in caves still if it weren't for the nagging of women. I know that's true because I think living in a cave sounds cool and zero women do
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@ShitpostGate It’s funny they tacked on a charge of “practicing a health care profession without a license.”
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💀 there’s like one decent one in that group
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
MAJOR s*x sting operation bust in Florida 12 Chinese nationals were arrested by Miami-Dade police after they were allegedly caught performing s*xual acts for additional payments at massage parlors. Each of the foreign women is now charged with prostitution and practicing a health care profession without a license
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@AlyssaLogic There has to be boot camps for stuff like this. I feel like the one option for childless men of a certain age who aren’t especially debonaire or rizzy or established enough to attract a fertile prospect is just to go mail order. Wonder if the therapist can just suggest Temu.
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That’s actually very interesting lol
Do counsellors have to judge a man’s ability to actually attract a 35 year old woman to have children with? Should that weigh into how therapists approach it?
I don’t know how I would approach that if I were a therapist 🤔
Sean X. Luo MD PhD@seanluomdphd
Well, there’s genuine tension in counseling men after a certain age, let’s call it 45, where if they still “want children” whether the therapeutically correct response should be “go get that 35 year old!” Or it’s time to accept it won’t happen. Single father by choice is also a thought, but this seems to appeal to very very few.
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@barbee75039 Ppl have lost that innate sense of irl whimsy that weed normally activates in the Natural Human.
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