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Science is a set of related methods that aim at finding true patterns about the world. These methods are generally designed so as to remove noise from random circumstances (the traditional focus of statistics) and human biases. Current practices are currently not very good at the second part due to the innumerable ways human biases…
Continue ReadingI had a talk with Tara about the recent furor. (I did not choose the title: I would have chosen something less clickbaity!) Note to self: maybe move around less when doing interviews, lol.
Continue ReadingSomeone on Reddit for SlateStarCodex: AFAIK, SATs are normed to mean of 500 per section and standard deviation of 100. Assuming that math and verbal are highly correlated, that approximates to 1000 mean and 200 standard deviation for the SAT 1600 scale. The median reported score score was 1490, and even the 10th percentile was…
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