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_The Death of Wikipedia: How the “Encyclopedia Anyone Can Edit” Became the Encyclopedia No One Should Trust_
"Bias, defamation, and lack of equipoise has rendered the platform irrelevant."
You can either be a neutral analyst, or you can be a partisan propandist. You cannot be both.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-death-of-wikipedia-how-the-encyclopedia
"Bias, defamation, and lack of equipoise has rendered the platform irrelevant."
You can either be a neutral analyst, or you can be a partisan propandist. You cannot be both.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-death-of-wikipedia-how-the-encyclopedia
Thefocalpoints
The Death of Wikipedia: How the “Encyclopedia Anyone Can Edit” Became the Encyclopedia No One Should Trust
Bias, defamation, and lack of equipoise has rendered the platform irrelevant.
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_Thomas Sowell Explains Why Skin Color Was Never the Problem_
Academia (at ALL levels) is dominated by those who advocate, out of one side of their mouths, favoring minorities over others. Out of the other side of their mouths, they also claim that the poor academic achievements of minorities is largely due to racism.
Whose racism would that be? Their own?
FTA: While college presidents and provosts, diversity, equity & inclusion professionals, and media panelists claim that racial differences in grades and standardized test scores are due to a culture of bias against minorities in educational institutions and classrooms, sowell has written and spoken for most of his life about how skin Color is irrelevant to students’ academic achievement; that preparation determines academic success; and that when students enter schools where their preparation cannot be matched, the outcome is inevitable regardless of students’ ethnicity.
In his 1989 book “Choosing a College,” sowell wrote about how black students at MIT whose math sat scores were above the national average had clearly demonstrated math skills well above the norm. By objective standards, those students were clearly prepared for an engineering program at a good technical school. Instead, they were competing with MIT students whose preparation ran well ahead of theirs. As such, they were at a disadvantage when compared to the rest of the students at MIT.
When a student finds themselves in a situation like that -- with superior preparation but inferior competition -- what happens to that student?
Sowell claimed that if that student attended a good engineering school that was geared toward students who have similar levels of preparation to theirs, then the student would thrive. The reason why they would thrive is not because black students cannot learn engineering; rather, it is because their above-average preparation would have allowed them to excel in an environment that acknowledged the validity of their preparation, not because learning engineering was outside of their capabilities.
Law professors have since supported Sowell’s claims. Legal scholar Richard Sander conducted extensive research on affirmative action in law schools and documented what sowell stated. In sander’s research, after controlling for both academic credentials and tier of law school attended, he discovered that black students and white students attending similar-ranked law schools passed the bar exam at virtually identical rates. However, the racial disparity only appeared when students were mismatched; i.e., placed in schools with a higher ranking than their preparation warranted, resulting in significantly lower grades and ultimately passing fewer students than other groups of students.
This is not a story about bias in grading. This is a story about misplacement.
https://www.deskooled.com/p/thomas-sowell-explains-why-skin-color
Academia (at ALL levels) is dominated by those who advocate, out of one side of their mouths, favoring minorities over others. Out of the other side of their mouths, they also claim that the poor academic achievements of minorities is largely due to racism.
Whose racism would that be? Their own?
FTA: While college presidents and provosts, diversity, equity & inclusion professionals, and media panelists claim that racial differences in grades and standardized test scores are due to a culture of bias against minorities in educational institutions and classrooms, sowell has written and spoken for most of his life about how skin Color is irrelevant to students’ academic achievement; that preparation determines academic success; and that when students enter schools where their preparation cannot be matched, the outcome is inevitable regardless of students’ ethnicity.
In his 1989 book “Choosing a College,” sowell wrote about how black students at MIT whose math sat scores were above the national average had clearly demonstrated math skills well above the norm. By objective standards, those students were clearly prepared for an engineering program at a good technical school. Instead, they were competing with MIT students whose preparation ran well ahead of theirs. As such, they were at a disadvantage when compared to the rest of the students at MIT.
When a student finds themselves in a situation like that -- with superior preparation but inferior competition -- what happens to that student?
Sowell claimed that if that student attended a good engineering school that was geared toward students who have similar levels of preparation to theirs, then the student would thrive. The reason why they would thrive is not because black students cannot learn engineering; rather, it is because their above-average preparation would have allowed them to excel in an environment that acknowledged the validity of their preparation, not because learning engineering was outside of their capabilities.
Law professors have since supported Sowell’s claims. Legal scholar Richard Sander conducted extensive research on affirmative action in law schools and documented what sowell stated. In sander’s research, after controlling for both academic credentials and tier of law school attended, he discovered that black students and white students attending similar-ranked law schools passed the bar exam at virtually identical rates. However, the racial disparity only appeared when students were mismatched; i.e., placed in schools with a higher ranking than their preparation warranted, resulting in significantly lower grades and ultimately passing fewer students than other groups of students.
This is not a story about bias in grading. This is a story about misplacement.
https://www.deskooled.com/p/thomas-sowell-explains-why-skin-color
Deskooled
Thomas Sowell Explains Why Skin Color Was Never the Problem
The renowned economist has spent decades making an argument almost no one in academia wants to hear
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_Pssst. . conservatives-"gender dysphoria" is not real_
It's actually classic BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder,) whose definition is this:
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5 / DSM-5-TR) as a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, along with marked impulsivity. This pattern begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts.
Diagnosis requires meeting five (or more) of the following nine criteria:
* Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment (Note: Does not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in criterion 5).
* A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
* Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
* Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating) (Note: Does not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in criterion 5).
* Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.
* Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).
* Chronic feelings of emptiness.
* Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
* Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.
These symptoms must cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning and not be better explained by another mental disorder, substance use, or a medical condition.
https://disaffectedpod.substack.com/p/pssst-conservatives-gender-dysphoria
It's actually classic BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder,) whose definition is this:
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5 / DSM-5-TR) as a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, along with marked impulsivity. This pattern begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts.
Diagnosis requires meeting five (or more) of the following nine criteria:
* Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment (Note: Does not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in criterion 5).
* A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
* Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
* Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating) (Note: Does not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in criterion 5).
* Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.
* Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).
* Chronic feelings of emptiness.
* Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
* Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.
These symptoms must cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning and not be better explained by another mental disorder, substance use, or a medical condition.
https://disaffectedpod.substack.com/p/pssst-conservatives-gender-dysphoria
Substack
Pssst. . conservatives-"gender dysphoria" is not real
If we want to solve real problems, we have to get to the real truth.
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The party-affiliation switch happened gradually, over ~30 years. The slope of that change is roughly the mirror image of the decline in overt (Jim Crow-style) racism.
The real "switch" over those 30 years was simply that Democrats changed the target of their racism from anti-Black to anti-white.
https://fixupx.com/CynicalPublius/status/2086608767165374913
The real "switch" over those 30 years was simply that Democrats changed the target of their racism from anti-Black to anti-white.
https://fixupx.com/CynicalPublius/status/2086608767165374913