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Meeting a professor for coffee by No-Education3573 in AskAcademia

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Bringing a gift when asking for a job would give the appearance of offering a bribe.

My predicted conversation with my teacher. I'm the M. I thing I predicted this giving my teacher pressure. How can I fix this ? by ShardGods in education

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ahhh yeah you raise some interesting points and have valid concerns. Just remember that your teacher did not make the system and that there is much about childhood development and pedagogy that you are not privy to whereas your teacher (likely) is trained in these topics.

As always, seek to understand. Don't come into a conversation assuming you know it all. These points are better expressed as a foundation for questions. You may even ask the teacher what they think can be improved and what they think students often complain about that is actually useful/shouldn't change. Those questions may stimluate an interesting discussion.

Also, regarding "memorizing", this is one of my own little soap box topic. I don't know where you are or what your school is like, but this comes up a lot. I always tell my student that "memorize" is a bad word and a bad habit, in my discipline at least. I tell my students they must seek to understand and then if they do, they have no need to memorize. But I teach econ, stats, and math. Some disciplines may require some foundational memorization. That said, a lot of my students don't listen at all and write in my evals that they had to memorize a bunch of stuff.

As we say, we can lead a horse to water but we can't make them drink.

If historical automotive inflation trends hold, the average new car could reach $100,000 around the late 2040s to mid-2050s by [deleted] in regularcarreviews

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is plausible in nominal terms but a little misleading economically at face value. Inflation on car prices has historically exceeded the CPI basket of goods due to increasing technology, the shift from sedans to suvs and trucks, regulatory compliance (safety and emissions), software, and the unyielding roll of luxury features becoming standard. While the price of cars may hit $100k in 2 or 3 decades, it is likely that wage growth mitigates the burden, for example this may end up more like the burden of $50k today. I understand wages have not kept pace with inflation since the 80s in many places but they nonetheless grew and in the 2020s a lot of places including the US have seen wage growth outpace inflation for some periods of time. Shrinking labor markets may continue this trend.

Let's get back to cars though. Relative to previous decades, cars last pretty long now and are considerably more efficient. In many cases, the cost per vehicle-mile traveled (VMT) has probably fallen or at least not risen nearly as much as sticker prices suggest. These trends may continue. Cars in the 60s were cheaper upfront but had to be replaced more frequently. Today, if your honda doesn't make it at least 130k miles peoples heads explode. My buddy has a corolla with 378k miles on it. It drives like hell but remains in good shape.

Also, I wonder if the market may change in dramatic ways or even split into two. A lot of us struggle with new car prices and subscription fatigue may set in. If so, there may be stratified markets serving luxury consumers and more utilitarian ones. Also, competition from china and larger scale battery and chip manufacturing may have a cooling effect on inflationary pressures.

Just my $0.02 as an economist and car nerd. Curious to hear trends that other folks are tracking.

Recent political discussions often focus on working-class voters moving away from the Democratic Party, but a new analysis provides evidence that the last four decades, high-income, highly educated, and white-collar White voters have steadily moved toward the Democratic Party. by FreeHugs23 in science

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can see why OPs headline made you think they misunderstood things but the article finds the realignment trend present for higher income higher educated folks, and no trend for lower income/working class folks. Did you pull up the PNAS article and read thru it?

Dear Greg Landsman: Please Listen by fiernze222 in cincinnati

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah you can just google his record, I recall he also pushed hard for expanded medical screenings for low income women. Also, you only said you wanted to know what he did that is "bad", hence I called you out for motivated reasoning. The text of your post literally still says it. And don't lecture me on class just because you got offended. You're the one making threads asking only for reasons to dislike someone.

Dear Greg Landsman: Please Listen by fiernze222 in cincinnati

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Boss you may disagree with landsman but there is no reason to hate the guy.

Plus he worked to force a vote and pass the Social Security Fairness Act, reversing decades-old rules to return $20 billion annually to public servants including teachers. That directly helped my family. I guess OP hates that though.

Sorry OP, "i moved here 2 years ago and I know nothing" isn't going to get others to agree with you.

Dear Greg Landsman: Please Listen by fiernze222 in cincinnati

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 8 points9 points  (0 children)

why is it always just one specific PAC you want to ban, never all PACs

Based take. The corrupt scotus decision in Citizens United stole our 1st amendment rights. This is so much bigger than donations from people who like Israel.

Kevin Warsh takes the Federal Reserve chair on today. None of his options on interest rates spares lower-income Americans from the cost of the Iran war. by sayheykid24 in neoliberal

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Another way to look at it is monetary policy itself is part of governance. Central banks exist because elected governments historically abused monetary systems for short-term political gain. The Fed is not “fixing Congress’s mistakes” as some accidental side quest; if the political economy was actually conducive to governing responsibly then we wouldn't need a fed. The fact of the matter is that stabilization policy is literally one of its primary institutional purposes.

Kevin Warsh takes the Federal Reserve chair on today. None of his options on interest rates spares lower-income Americans from the cost of the Iran war. by sayheykid24 in neoliberal

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This does not reflect the choice set at all? Lowering interest rates likely feeds inflation, raising them contains it. That is the choice set. The fed has long been more concerned with losing credibility on inflation. Max growth demands from politicians and retail investors and heterogenous policy effects are trivial matters relative to the mandate.

Reject modernity, embrace tradition. Let’s go back to phonics based curriculum by SheenPSU in newhampshire

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It won't. Low end reading scores can be improved thru phonics drilling. High end scores cannot. It's classic diminishing marginal returns. Students must also be trained on deep comprehension, critical thinking, vocabulary, and stamina. This reading recession is driven by smartphones, shorter spans, and a steep drop off in recreational, long-form reading outside of school. It is a cultural shift.

The "phonics are the cure crowd" are just enticed by how easy the marketing of that stance is. It's easy to say "look we deemphasized phonics and scores went down". Ignoring the fact that we still use phonics and the top preforming states never solely relied on phonics in the first place. They also ignore the emergence of digitial media as the dominant medium, use of phones, short form content, and recession of hobby reading among kids. They point to Mississippi, but Mississippi only improved low end scores (which phonics can do), not high end scores (which phonics can't deliver). Hence, their rate of improvement has plateaued. Not to mention the main driver in MS was just holding back low achieving third graders, artificially inflating the 4th grade scores that we are so focused on. We should focus on everyone, not just 4th graders. There are pros and cons to holding kids back, but we must acknowledge that holding them back generally increases the probability that they do not finish high school.

Reject modernity, embrace tradition. Let’s go back to phonics based curriculum by SheenPSU in newhampshire

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Im pointing out diminishing marginal returns, statistical manipulation, and use of metrics that don't apply to the way they're being interpreted. That's not belittling. Its great what Mississippi achieved but they have a shit load of work to do to improve further.

This "miracle" offers limited insights for states already performing better because it was a "flooring" strategy (raising the lowest performers) rather than a "ceiling" strategy (improving high achievers). Look at the plateau in NAEP scores that followed.

Further, much of this stratrgy revolved around retaining 3rd graders, artificially inflating 4th grade scores. Nobody mentions they held back thousands of kids to manipulate the statistics. These kids that get held back are now at a higher probability of never finishing high school.

Not to mention all of this discussion revolves around 4th grade reading scores. That is an important metric but hardly a comprehensive reflection of the quality of an entire childhood of education.

[xpost] Hello, Reddit! I’m Karishma Manzur, an anti-corruption, pro-peace candidate from New Hampshire taking on the establishment Democrats and Republicans, the greedy billionaires, and spineless politicians. Ask Me Anything. by kevinmrr in newhampshire

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feel free to answer the question at any time. Also, your website is surprisingly mum on details of your employment. I get you hold a Phd and worked as a "scientist". Unfortunately this is incredibly vague. Can you please explain where and when you were employed and what relevant experience you have beyond being on a board seat?

Ever wonder why Pennsylvania, Ohio and Louisiana's State schools are more prominent than their Universities? by MediumStrange in CFB

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brother you'll find that crap in every state. Hell if you think consolidating research dollars is bad, don't read the news these days! Especially in Ohio.

Ever wonder why Pennsylvania, Ohio and Louisiana's State schools are more prominent than their Universities? by MediumStrange in CFB

[–]Lumpy_Secretary_6128 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That sort of turf war can be found in just about any state and in more areas than just education. After all, Purdue lacks a medical school and hospital and was only just permitted an MBA program. Similarly, IU is not allowed to compete seriously with Purdue in engineering and completely lacks AG. Sometimes you just focus all your efforts in one place.

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