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I suspect we differ on big picture questions about how correlated various different mental abilities are. I think a reasonable…
The changes coming to academia as we know it are too large for me to manage without confronting loss at…
The company in question here, Straive, is… not very good (in ways which I am sure are entirely representative of…
I can see why GREs might have some predictive value for some fields (namely, what they test is relevant to…
I have an academic monograph in production with a large European academic publisher that appears to outsource production to a…
Apologies: GPT-3, not GPT-2. Point still stands, though.
With GRE scores we can quantify the extent to which minorities, women, and lower-income applicants do worse than majorities, men,…
Paul Edwards (1923-2004)
The New York Times obituary is here.
UPDATE: A propos our recent discussion of Professor Flew’s purported conversion, Gilbert Harman (Philosophy, Princeton) suggests an apt headline for the passing of Professor Edwards: "Noted Atheist Dies without Converting to Christianity"!
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