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#they that compare themselves amoung others are not wise
centrally-unplanned · 5 years
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Slate Star Codex had a link to this Reason article on US education rankings detailed how the common ones seen in US News are methodologically flawed, in particular by counting spending as as an educational *outcome*, and ranking stats higher simply for spending more. This complaint its 100% valid - only if you assume the premise that spending = more learning does this make sense, yet these rankings are used to analyze if spending = more learning.
Then, however, it goes on to compose its own rankings where, amoung other things, it disaggregates educational outcomes based on race in a state. So instead of comparing students in Texas to students in Iowa, it compares only whites in one to whites in the other, and so on. This split makes sense...*if* you assume that the cause of ethnic achievement gaps is inherent to the ethnicities themselves, and not caused by the educational system. Yet these rankings are again used to analyze whether or not that is the case! They commit the same mistake with race that the sources they criticized did with spending, which I think is a particularly poor mistake to make. So hopefully for anyone reading it from SSC, take the criticism of US News to heart, but their own rankings less so.
(Also, they make the classically dumb mistake of having an “Asian” category, treating immigrants from say China and the Philippines as the same. This really applies to all the ethnic groups, its never wise to treat them as a monolith, but its stands out dramatically for Asian immigrants, as their educational outcomes diverge so widely. Even by their own assumed premises their analysis is undermined by this).
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Thoughts on Kaydens Background: Kayden has a pretty big family and they have spread themselves all over Arda, so they look different from each other (ethnicity-wise) and have different accents and such. Their family reunions are very interesting because they are all so different but they usually manage to all blend together easily without much fighting (though brawls have happened before and Kayden has participated in some of them). An entertaining thing to see during these times, is the variety in size and shapes amoung them.
For instance: Kayden is 6′2-6′5ft, and towers over some of her cousins who are around 5′4-5′8ft. On the other hand, compared to her uncle (on her mothers side) she has to look up to meet his eye because he’s 7′2-7′6ft.
Just, the diversity is insane and very entertaining
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zenrecovery · 10 years
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hat tip to onlinecounsellingcollege.tumblr.com
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