"A former senior US intelligence official said: ‘This is Modi looking at the world and saying to himself, ‘The US conducts targeted killings outside of war zones. The Israelis do it. The Saudis do it. The Russians do it. Why not us?’"
"In a 1989 study, New York psychologist J. Marvin Eisenstadt scoured the records of 699 eminent Americans and found that 45 percent had lost a parent before age 21. Only two other groups in the general population show that level of orphanhood—juvenile delinquents and depressive or suicidal psychiatric patients."
Guess what claim doesn't actually seem to have the backing that's often asserted for it:
You know that statistic that men apply for jobs when they meet 60% of job ad criteria and women only 100%? It’s rolled out all the time - in discussions of barriers #genderequity, by smart people I respect, and in the media.
The thing is - there’s no data to support it. [1/3]
— A/Prof Lisa A. Williams @lisawilliams.bsky.social (@williamslisaphd) June 12, 2019
The closest it seems you get is this:
The source? Internal interviews w/ execs at HP. Not an empirical study. @curtrice: “At this point, we know there is no legitimate, evidence-based foundation for the claim [...]. None. Nothing that can be examined, reproduced, reviewed or cited.” [3/3]
What you can achieve with standardized testing: "Latino and Black students in advanced math courses grew when Texas districts stopped relying on recommendations and automatically enrolled qualifying students."
Overall generative AI seems to pretty good at finding obscure connections. I wonder whether AI would be better or worse at the normal cases or the odd ones when compared against human physicians tackling each type of situation.
"Banned Books Week is, or should be, eminently mockable. Its proponents trade on the moral currency of defiance (“See how brave we are, inviting people to read these daring books!”) but in practice they are doing the opposite — attempting to reify a consensus. Take a look at the “most banned and challenged” books from 2010 to 2019, according to the American Library Association. Many are war horses of junior-high English, with millions of copies in print"
"In short, Norway – a major oil and gas exporter – needs to sell over 100 barrels of oil (which emits 40 tonnes of CO2) to pay for the tax breaks it gives EVs to avoid one tonne of CO2."
