> I think Scott Alexander makes one rather poor argument towards the end of his debate with Grant. The way I read it, Grant claims that the decline can't have a biological explanation, Scott agrees but counter-claims…
For anyone who hasn't read the actual memo yet, what he did say was "Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate". That's not anywhere near "a…
You might also want to read this fully-sourced response to Grant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge... (and also Grant's response to that response in the comments).
While that 2013 study [1] did show that both boys and girls prefer faces to objects at that age, the results seem to support boys having lesser face/object preference than girls. Unfortunately raw data wasn't provided…
What if we fill the whole tube with carriages, without any space between them and very little space between the carriage wall and the tunnel wall? That would leave much less room for turbulence and perhaps reduce…
> I think Scott Alexander makes one rather poor argument towards the end of his debate with Grant. The way I read it, Grant claims that the decline can't have a biological explanation, Scott agrees but counter-claims…
For anyone who hasn't read the actual memo yet, what he did say was "Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate". That's not anywhere near "a…
You might also want to read this fully-sourced response to Grant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge... (and also Grant's response to that response in the comments).
While that 2013 study [1] did show that both boys and girls prefer faces to objects at that age, the results seem to support boys having lesser face/object preference than girls. Unfortunately raw data wasn't provided…
What if we fill the whole tube with carriages, without any space between them and very little space between the carriage wall and the tunnel wall? That would leave much less room for turbulence and perhaps reduce…