Here are some groups using the "learn to code" meme: https://girlswhocode.com/about-us/ http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ Would you say that they are "alt-right"?
We can translate this to physics quite easily. How many of the folks posting on Facebook to celebrate this person's achievement would be willing to do even one homework assignment for a freshman physics class at the…
The journalists and Facebookers who are excited about a person who has done some work as a computer programmer... how much would you have to pay them to sit through the first hour of an intro programming class? (Maybe…
philg here... A reader pointed me to this response to my Weblog article. To answer Jellicle's question about "how much would it cost to take the three-day course?" ... $0. The course was free, open to the public (no…
My article did not assert that a pilot became captain at a foreign carrier after 270 hours. The article asserted that a person became captain at a foreign carrier after thousands of hours... nearly all as second in…
It depends on what you mean by PIC time. The pilot going through a professional flight training program will log all of the time after he gets his or her Private as PIC time, e.g., during instrument rating training.…
Gladwell does not explicitly say that American pilots are the best. However, he does use the U.S. major airline safety record as the standard (to which the cited foreign carriers fail to rise). U.S. major airlines…
Here are some groups using the "learn to code" meme: https://girlswhocode.com/about-us/ http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ Would you say that they are "alt-right"?
We can translate this to physics quite easily. How many of the folks posting on Facebook to celebrate this person's achievement would be willing to do even one homework assignment for a freshman physics class at the…
The journalists and Facebookers who are excited about a person who has done some work as a computer programmer... how much would you have to pay them to sit through the first hour of an intro programming class? (Maybe…
philg here... A reader pointed me to this response to my Weblog article. To answer Jellicle's question about "how much would it cost to take the three-day course?" ... $0. The course was free, open to the public (no…
My article did not assert that a pilot became captain at a foreign carrier after 270 hours. The article asserted that a person became captain at a foreign carrier after thousands of hours... nearly all as second in…
It depends on what you mean by PIC time. The pilot going through a professional flight training program will log all of the time after he gets his or her Private as PIC time, e.g., during instrument rating training.…
Gladwell does not explicitly say that American pilots are the best. However, he does use the U.S. major airline safety record as the standard (to which the cited foreign carriers fail to rise). U.S. major airlines…