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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 22h

Opinion | The Erosion of Context in Admissions

The shift toward standardized metrics will make the selective college admissions process less fair, not more, Tara P. Nicola, Mandy Savitz-Romer and Julius DiLorenzo write. https://bit.ly/4q9YYBU

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

A campus sign that reads "Office of Admissions."

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Luca 🤓 @lucadistefano.eu · 1d

The combination of only allowing ridiculously short rebuttals AND late reviews is, for lack of a better term, a double travesty #academiccgatter #academicsky #justconferencethings

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 1d

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

www.theatlantic.com

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 23h

The voluntary illiteracy of executive decision-makers is an underrated part of how we got here.

Information comes through to them by meetings instead of written reports (which they seldom read much, if any, of), and they operate chiefly on rumor and vibe rather than any sort of hard info.

dcthings.bsky.social @dcthings.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely embarrassing that no senior leaders I interact with actually read anything (yes this also applies to Biden appointees). No one responds to emails, no one reads past two sentences, no one does anything. The rest of the Pentagon follows along.

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting because here the effect sizes favor CAMS…

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 1d

Oh well I tend to be very skeptical of these indirect comparisons. You can get seemingly different effects for pretty much any reason, we need direct comparative outcome work. There aren’t really a lot of trials like that right?

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 1d

Wait where do these data come from?

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 1d

Right but also even if it were way higher it doesn’t mean education couldn’t have an effect.

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 1d

FWIW I do think it’d be hard to get true “twins reared apart” data but I mostly don’t care about this study because of course education affects IQ

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 1d

If Joe Biden was unable to close an umbrella there would have been +/- 1,000 think pieces in the newspapers of America questioning whether he was capable of discharging the duties of the office of President of the United States.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking mostly of duration when I wrote the post but that was only one of several dimensions considered

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 1d

Is there a reason they’re letting JD Vance out of the house more 🧐🧐🧐

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 1d

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 1d

Why is Fortune publishing these articles; what is the agenda here www.yahoo.com/news/article...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he is ‘envious’ of Gen Z college dropouts who have the ‘mental space’ and time to build new startups

The tech billionaire said there would be “a lot of cool stuff” for 20-year-olds to build now.

www.yahoo.com

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 1d

I found the different results with the different outcomes to be really surprising. I would have expected the opposite; effects on ideation but not attempt

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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 1d

One more trial finding that CBT reduces suicide attempts compared to an active control condition.
No difference for suicide ideation

Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicidal Military Personnel and Veterans

This randomized clinical trial investigates if brief cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention reduces suicide attempts and suicidal ideation among high-risk suicidal US military personnel a...

jamanetwork.com

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 1d

If you are a coding prodigy worth $30 million, maybe college is not “worth” it (whatever that means) but, and I don’t mean to be controversial here, most people are not $30M coding prodigies