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| Topic | Who's da best big brother, Illumi(HxH) or Itachi(Naruto) *spoilers* |
| COVxy 05/19/19 10:30:03 AM #5 | --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Do you regret getting your college degree? |
| COVxy 05/19/19 12:17:05 AM #7 | In some ways yes, in others no. Mostly no. While I could have gotten to where I wanted to go a lot more directly if I had known, the journey to get where I've gone is probably an overall good thing. Going from cognitive psych->nonhuman primate neuroscience->human neuroscience->rodent neuroscience probably has given me a very unique perspective. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/18/19 8:06:41 AM #199 | ssjevot posted... COVxy posted...Asians with disproportionately high SES, yes, but not discriminate against, simply not help. As it shouldn't, because they do not need it. If they are high SES, they do not need a boost. Idk how to make this any clearer. Billionaires are not discriminated against because they do not qualify for food stamps. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/18/19 8:01:51 AM #195 | Asians with disproportionately high SES, yes, but not discriminate against, simply not help. As it shouldn't, because they do not need it. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is my psychiatrist incompetent? |
| COVxy 05/18/19 7:51:51 AM #2 | Seems like the only conclusion one could make given the information presented in this topic. But that's certainly not a yes. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/18/19 5:34:27 AM #193 | ssjevot posted... COVxy posted...My last point was about high SES people, which is high income whites. Ok. That doesn't make what I said untrue nor does it change the substance of the argument. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 7:49:49 PM #191 | s0nicfan posted... Your PDF puts it at 14% which is better technically but functionally it doesn't change the argument. No, my pdf puts total achievement at 14%, which is a completely different number. If 14% of students got a bachelor's degree, but only 5% of enrolled students completed, then a whopping 280% of low SES students must have entered college, if these estimates are accurate and constant. There's a clear discrepancy here lol. s0nicfan posted... To your second and last point, at no point was I framing this about color, so your point about white SES people is true but doesn't change my argument My last point was about high SES people, which is high income whites. Who have a shitty completion rate overall as well. s0nicfan posted... I'm more fundamentally focused on making sure university isn't watered down Who has been arguing otherwise? For the record, the dumbing down of curriculum in modern college has far more to do with the general push for everyone to go to college whether they want to or not, due to requirements for basic jobs. We mostly have middle to upperclass students to thank for that. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 7:19:48 PM #189 | If you say so. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 6:32:57 PM #186 | s0nicfan posted... COVxy posted...s0nicfan posted...Yes, part of the message is "be nicer to your students" but his study also worked because he created a special small class of low income kids and gave them all advisers and peer mentors to provide extra support. First of all, I don't buy the 5% completion rate you are citing. It's not from a cited study, and actual studies of this show bachelor's achievement rates way too high for that to be true: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_tva.pdf Second of all, let's say even the rate of success of low SES students is half that of high SES students, given financial aid, the benefit far outweighs the harm. And even if you didn't think this was true, the solution isn't "don't let disadvantaged people into college", but to fight for better consideration for low SES students in the systems at the university level. If you want to restrict college entrances to students who will thrive and complete, we're clearly not going a good job for white high SES people either lol. That's an entirely different issue though. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 6:08:04 PM #183 | Kyle1022 posted... I didn't even ask for a definitive yes or no, just your opinion. Kyle1022 posted... No white man under those same circumstances would be rewarded as she was, and you know it. lol. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 4:06:51 PM #177 | Kyle1022 posted... Answer honestly. You think a white male in her EXACT circumstances would have gotten into the UIUC engineering program? Neither I nor anybody else can possibly answer that question. This is a pretty common theme. People get pissed when people who are disadvantaged get opportunities that they didn't get. But in all likelihood, they got those opportunities and you didn't for one of two reasons: they needed it more, or you simply didn't apply. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 4:04:22 PM #176 | s0nicfan posted... Yes, part of the message is "be nicer to your students" but his study also worked because he created a special small class of low income kids and gave them all advisers and peer mentors to provide extra support. If they were incapable of learning the materials then they would have still failed. Have you ever considered that lower class individuals perhaps drop out at a higher rate because the support systems, the systems in general, at universities are all created with the assumption of privilege? For example, one of necessary career development processes in the process of obtaining a PhD is going to conferences. These conferences are usually far away, often international. The way most universities deal with "supporting" students is retroactive reimbursement. These students are supposed to just tank a several thousand dollar expense (if international, around a thousand if within the US) for upwards of 6 months. This is fair, because if you come from at least a middle class family, this isn't the end of the world. However, for those coming from lower class families, this often involves necessary loans and credit card debt that builds over those 6 months and puts people into a cycle of extra debt. They are not set up for poor people, and thus poor people drop out of the system more often. Super not surprising. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 3:51:18 PM #174 | Kyle1022 posted... Your comparison also isn't an apt one, as a 23 on the ACT is pretty solid. Whereas an 18 isn't much better than what you get for simply writing your name on the thing. I got an 18 (maybe 16?) the first time I took it. Took it a second time got the higher score lol. Not like I studied or anything, just the opportunity to take it a second time knowing what I was going into helped. The only reason I was able to do so is because I got waivers for the cost of the exam. None the less, a full ride scholarship and a science training program along with a guaranteed job and multiple connections to one of the world's largest biomedical science institutes was far beyond anything I was qualified for. Point is, opportunities happen for poor white people too if you actually apply to these programs rather than sulk in racism! --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 3:26:59 PM #171 | s0nicfan posted... The context and point of the article is that without extra tutoring and special support these kids bomb out. I don't think you read that correctly lol. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 2:36:32 PM #169 | Kyle1022 posted... As was I. But you conveniently left out your academic performance in high school. Did you also get an 18 on the ACT and finish outside the top 10%? Because if so, as a white male, you most certainly were not awarded entrance into UIUC'd engineering program, as the black female was. I was a 3.0 student with a 21? 23? ish on the ACT. Got admitted to a good state school. Got a full ride scholarship after my sophomore year through a program dedicated towards helping underrepresented and disadvantaged students with an interest in science. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | ended up buying tekkonkinkreet on dvd |
| COVxy 05/17/19 2:08:31 PM #2 | It's a pretty good one, or so I remember. I watched it when it first came out. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 2:06:55 PM #166 | s0nicfan posted... COVxy posted...Kyle1022 posted...Don't have Facebook anymore so no idea and not really relevant to my point So you're just gonna ignore the entire context and point of that article, huh? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 2:04:36 PM #165 | Kyle1022 posted... It's really not though. There are standards of getting into that program and they were lowered because of someone's gender/race. You really think a white male with otherwise those exact same credentials from the same high school would have gotten in? Nope. It is LITERALLY racist by definition. As a poor white male who was awarded many opportunities that my 'empirical' record would have excluded me from, yes, I think it's certainly possible that they would have. But that's beside the point, which is that the goal isn't really about making things "fair" at entry way. We can talk about that all day long, and there's reasons to suggest that inclusion of students who have had roadblocks is actually "fair", but that obscures the fact that entrances are supposed to find students who would succeed at an institution. That's why her success at that institution matters, because if she did perfectly fine there, then it is you with egg on your face, because the university bet correctly. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/17/19 1:44:46 PM #160 | Kyle1022 posted... Don't have Facebook anymore so no idea and not really relevant to my point The fact that you can't tell how it's relevant should make you think a second time. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/16/19 7:44:22 PM #119 | Bloodychess posted... Nothing points to this being good either, yet here you are scoring keyboard points Certainly there is. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/16/19 7:26:22 PM #110 | Houston posted... Are people unaware that if we keep going down this slope we'll have people unqualified in important structural/health/etc positions all because "diversity" is always required?? We probably already do. People are aware that nothing points to your conclusions and prophecies. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | SATs to assign "adversity score" to reflect social backgrounds |
| COVxy 05/16/19 5:43:10 PM #99 | Imagine being someone who has an issue with this. Jesus. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Have to take my final today (Stats) |
| COVxy 05/15/19 9:20:07 AM #4 | Tell the professor that this is just a sample of your performance and they should divide your score by n-1 rather than n. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | It's curious how afraid we are of wasps |
| COVxy 05/15/19 9:01:15 AM #28 | pogo_rabid posted... COVxy posted...Conception616 posted...COVxy posted...Conception616 posted...Considering my grandmother will literally die if she is stung by one, this is a stupid fucking topic. The user seemed to think that because it could kill his relative due to an allergy, the premise of this topic is false. I demonstrate and equivalent case that is unoquivocally ridicuous to demonstrate that it was faulty logic. There's absolutely no reason why I should need to be so verbose about it. On the actual topic, wasp stings aren't that painful and go away relatively quickly. The extent to which people fear them is a bit disproportionate (like if a wasp flies into the office in the summertime, you get essentually an evacuation until it leaves lol) --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | It's curious how afraid we are of wasps |
| COVxy 05/15/19 8:47:06 AM #23 | Conception616 posted... COVxy posted...Conception616 posted...Considering my grandmother will literally die if she is stung by one, this is a stupid fucking topic. You seemed to have managed to miss the point completely lol --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | It's curious how afraid we are of wasps |
| COVxy 05/15/19 8:43:36 AM #19 | Conception616 posted... Considering my grandmother will literally die if she is stung by one, this is a stupid fucking topic. I mean, my uncle could die if he comes in contact with a cantalope, but if large masses of people feared cantalope it would be pretty fucking weird lol. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Carnival worker turns out to be a serial killer |
| COVxy 05/14/19 8:00:07 PM #8 | ~"I accidentally shot these women on 3 separate occasions." lmao. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is Bran the most pointless character on GoT? (Spoilers) |
| COVxy 05/14/19 1:23:35 PM #12 | Rushed and out of character are literally the same point. Like everything else the past couple of seasons, the writers have reasonable plot points/character development, but have no one guiding them how to get there. So everything has gotten rushed and illogical to place certain characters at certain locations at certain times. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | How snowflakes are born |
| COVxy 05/14/19 9:45:11 AM #4 | TwoDoorPunkCab posted... wow, when i was at school i was told i had to do well in tests or my life is doomed How'd that prophecy turn out? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | What age is acceptable to watch pornography |
| COVxy 05/13/19 7:32:07 PM #8 | Whatever age they want to and feel comfortable doing so. The idea that porn/sex is some crazy thing that warps people's minds (especially while young) has no real basis in reality, and is an artifact of religious thought. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Favorite FF7 limits? |
| COVxy 05/12/19 12:56:21 PM #3 | Non multihit limit break = low tier. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | IT: Chapter Two Trailer! |
| COVxy 05/12/19 12:47:24 PM #44 | Godnorgosh posted... I wonder if that part of the book was actually a subtle dig at Chinese restaurants or something. The chinese restaurant seemed to be another one of the many points decrying the commercialization of old America. The bastardization of Derry as it had been when they were children. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is this statistics map racist? |
| COVxy 05/12/19 12:17:32 PM #20 | Vita_Aeterna posted... averagejoel posted...Vita_Aeterna posted...# of Nobel prizes won by Singapore: 0 I mean, even among scientists the nobel prize is considered arbitrary as fuck. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is this statistics map racist? |
| COVxy 05/12/19 11:49:56 AM #11 | brotrrwinner posted... COVxy posted...Absolutely not. The conclusions you're almost certainly trying to draw from it? Absolutely. Pretty much nothing on it's own, just that there is geographical bias in IQ. Other research, however, demonstrates that pretty much all the predictive validity of IQ is sucked dry when you simultaneously account for education and SES, so that seems like a good starting point =). --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is this statistics map racist? |
| COVxy 05/12/19 11:44:53 AM #7 | Absolutely not. The conclusions you're almost certainly trying to draw from it? Absolutely. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | calling it now, Biden win nom, loses to Trump |
| COVxy 05/12/19 11:41:55 AM #42 | BlueBoy675 posted... you may not have noticed it, but your brain did. Unfortunately for you, your brain noticed nothing. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | calling it now, Biden win nom, loses to Trump |
| COVxy 05/12/19 11:34:02 AM #38 | UnfairRepresent posted... Strider102 posted...Trump gonna lose. America is smarter now. You're right, we don't have to call them stupid, but find a way to appeal to their stupidity. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | IT: Chapter Two Trailer! |
| COVxy 05/12/19 10:54:14 AM #35 | GregShmedley posted... Strider102 posted...Godnorgosh posted...Nothing in that movie will top this Both scenes are pretty accurate to how they happen in the book *shrug emoji* --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Do the professors in colleges ever bang the students? |
| COVxy 05/11/19 9:04:54 AM #18 | PikachuMaxwell posted... There's an unwritten rule that discourages that.... Naw, I was explicitly told in my ethics training that my university supports love when there aren't any conflicts of interest. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Do the professors in colleges ever bang the students? |
| COVxy 05/11/19 8:56:47 AM #13 | SoraOwnsOctopus posted... Is it okay if the student isn't taking their class? Typically, yeah. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Do the professors in colleges ever bang the students? |
| COVxy 05/11/19 6:33:39 AM #7 | Rika_Furude posted... BuckVanHammer posted...is there any other reason to be a professor? Uh, lol. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | IT: Chapter Two Trailer! |
| COVxy 05/10/19 7:47:55 PM #24 | Veggeta X posted... I personally always viewed IT as a mystery horror more than anything else. I feel like the book was majority coming of age/nostalgia. Like 60/40. And even a lot of the horror was steeped in the coming of age theme. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is there a Proper Term for someone who FEELS like a female but |
| COVxy 05/10/19 6:25:29 PM #4 | You identify with the gender roles of women, doesn't make you trans. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Do you think Safelite deliberately hires fucking creeps for their commercials? |
| COVxy 05/10/19 9:07:46 AM #1 | I'm pretty sure every new Safelite commercial stars a new serial rapist. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
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