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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,…
AFA statement here; the key bit:
Mandatory anti-racism statements currently being developed are in principle indistinguishable from myriad other statements of belief that university officials have sometimes attempted to force members of the faculty to endorse in the past. No matter how widely shared or normatively desirable any particular statement of values might be, individual professors should not be directed or coerced to endorse or accept such statements.
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