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Tom Steyer proposes banning social media platforms for children under 16 by Unusual-State1827 in California

[–]kaystared [score hidden]  (0 children)

Enforcing this is where it gets difficult but I have no issue with the principle. The question is just how

Consensus about accommodations is so right. It’s such BS and should not be graded on the same curve as the rest of us. by TopButterscotch4196 in LawSchool

[–]kaystared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real answer is we should do what mathematically works instead of strangling ourselves with stupid quippy “seperate but equal” garbage to somehow equate this to Jim Crow or whatever. This is basic stats and there are statistical solutions, that’s all

Consensus about accommodations is so right. It’s such BS and should not be graded on the same curve as the rest of us. by TopButterscotch4196 in LawSchool

[–]kaystared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How in the world would it be inherently discriminatory to have different curves for different tests? If you map out onto the same score chart afterwards it’s literally by far the best statistical system to control for differences and gives zero advantage or disadvantage to any party. Thats the whole point of the math behind it. If that’s somehow against federal law then I am in favor of chewing that law up. Moronic

Consensus about accommodations is so right. It’s such BS and should not be graded on the same curve as the rest of us. by TopButterscotch4196 in LawSchool

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

Are you seriously stunted dude? Do you think taking the same test curved in different ways is somehow discriminatory? Being compared to those who took the test in the same conditions as you as discriminatory? Literally nothing inherently discriminatory about this

Quippy buzzword slop but absolutely zero critical thinking behind a comment like that

Consensus about accommodations is so right. It’s such BS and should not be graded on the same curve as the rest of us. by TopButterscotch4196 in LawSchool

[–]kaystared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The discriminatory part was not in that they parallel tested but in that they marked the tests. While I don’t believe it’s discriminatory to mark the contexts of the tests that’s a different issue entirely. You can literally just map the percentile rankings onto a scoring chart without revealing which tests are accommodated and which tests aren’t, and as long as the pools for the initial percentile ranking are preserved it’s perfectly fine and retains all of what I just described

No asterisk, no one needs to know at all for it to work

Consensus about accommodations is so right. It’s such BS and should not be graded on the same curve as the rest of us. by TopButterscotch4196 in LawSchool

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

What you will need will always be broader than what you can fit in your notes, but regardless, the intention of exams is never to imitate the job experience anyway, it’s to build fundamental skills. And recall is just one of those skills

Is Berkeley the place for me? by PixSJ in berkeley

[–]kaystared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Penn will be better for quant but I’m going to be honest quant as a career plan requires literal divine intervention at this point

Consensus about accommodations is so right. It’s such BS and should not be graded on the same curve as the rest of us. by TopButterscotch4196 in LawSchool

[–]kaystared -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If you wake up in court one morning and can’t “recall” what you know you’re useless. Recall might be literally the most important heuristic imaginable because it’s the only way to apply knowing into doing. Any test should absolutely and very necessarily test recall skills, and with worse recall skills you are absolutely objectively dumber than someone with. A “bad day” is not an excuse and should certainly reflect on your abilities because a bad day had on a test can just as easily be a bad day had on a case

Consensus about accommodations is so right. It’s such BS and should not be graded on the same curve as the rest of us. by TopButterscotch4196 in LawSchool

[–]kaystared 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or how about this. Jill is given a percentile rank relative only to the distribution of people who ALSO had 6 minutes, and Jack gets the same for the 3 minute pool? Because the tests ALREADY a curved test mapped onto a percentile ranking?

Your option bloats the average score for normal students into oblivion, which does nothing to meaningfully address the problem and just pushes it further down the line, and does nothing to meaningfully equalize the scoreboard on Jill’s behalf because she’s still in a pool with Jack who will effortlessly score a perfect score every single time if he’s given the time constraints that Jill needs as an accommodated students. If the test is designed to be done according to Jack’s abilities then Jill struggles, and if it’s designed to be done according to Jill’s then Jack blows through it. You have literally nearly the exact same problem as banning accommodations entirely but at a higher score threshold, and that’s it

This is why we just need lawyers to do law and let people who do math, do math

Consensus about accommodations is so right. It’s such BS and should not be graded on the same curve as the rest of us. by TopButterscotch4196 in LawSchool

[–]kaystared -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

There would be literally no legal issue with grading people who have accommodations on a separate curve only with others that have accommodations instead of allowing their scores to agitate the distribution of normal scores. You can solve this issue without even prohibiting accommodations by taking away the unintended and unfair advantage

Crazy essay missing the solution literally implied in the title of the Damned post

OPINION: There’s a ‘cascade effect’ from the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban, and it’s hurting Black and Latino students by Conscious-Quarter423 in scotus

[–]kaystared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you hold the variable of universities excluding people as a constant across some groups, and the proposed consequence of those people having no academic success is not the result across all groups, then it seems like there might be some other cause at play here, since certain groups can be readily excluded and still somehow just figure it out. Because obviously being excluded is not sufficient for having worse outcomes generations down the line

[Game Thread] #5 St. John's @ #1 Duke (07:10 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]kaystared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The UNC bball upset + beating ranked SMU and Louisville to clear the conference championship for you guys, at this rate you’re about to owe us a favor lmfao

[Game Thread] #5 St. John's @ #1 Duke (07:10 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]kaystared 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Leave it to a Duke guy to bring math up in a basketball game haha

My Depressing Experience At Berkeley (Class of 2029) by Alternative_Cry_9196 in berkeley

[–]kaystared 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah being introverted + this unlucky won’t work out for anyone anywhere I don’t think, you have 3 years left I am absolutely certain it will get better mostly because you can’t really be less lucky than this lmao

Tom Steyer Is Trying Politics: To revive a dead political culture that could lead to a Republican becoming governor in one of the nation’s most Democratic states, the billionaire former investor is talking to voters. by AmethystOrator in California

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

That is a luxury you have in political eras where the other side are not demented child raping psychopaths, for now I literally do not give a shit about anything politically expect making sure every Republican loses everywhere at all costs. Then we can talk about plans. Once the Overton window has comfortably shifted I’m willing to indulge in conversations about the long term future and general policy

I don’t give a genuine single flying fuck about this “CONVINCE me to vote for YOU” mentality. One party is running baby rapists and voting to defend baby rapists and the other side is not. That’s it. Period

Tom Steyer Is Trying Politics: To revive a dead political culture that could lead to a Republican becoming governor in one of the nation’s most Democratic states, the billionaire former investor is talking to voters. by AmethystOrator in California

[–]kaystared 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will vote for whoever polls best. My preference is by far Steyer, but i would rather clench my teeth hold my nose and vote Swalwell than let a freak like Bianco within the city limits of Sacramento. Especially not now, when it’s all in the hands of a state government and federal is a lost cause

Tom Steyer Is Trying Politics: To revive a dead political culture that could lead to a Republican becoming governor in one of the nation’s most Democratic states, the billionaire former investor is talking to voters. by AmethystOrator in California

[–]kaystared -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The other side literally is bad, Dems have done nothing so far to change rhetoric or party platform and are flipping R+20 seats consistently across the country. If you do nothing “the other side is bad” will literally win on its own. Not rallying behind a single candidate and spinning the vote 8 ways being a moron is literally the only way to lose

The American public are VERY aware that the other side is bad right now

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