@Noahpinion "What Gelman is talking about" is that kids get naturally smarter and more capable with age, and that effect has to be separated from the effects of schooling. You can't boast of how well your 10-year olds are doing if some of them are actually 11.
@olivertraldi I see two elements at play in "told by society" (both unresonant to me): one is the aggregation, the other is the telling. Women may be more likely to experience influence as communication, telling rather than just pushing, pulling, appearing, affording, affecting.
@wesyang Had you seen an absurdly pompous post of outrage at a privileged white woman making a mockery of an art form of oppressed people you would have gone one way. But you saw this absurdly pompous post instead, so you went the other. The "be normal" response is just to laugh & enjoy.
Today is flag day and the best flag is the Albanian. In honor of this, and the Virginia state inspection requirements, I paid a great deal of money to my local Albanian mechanic. How did you celebrate?
We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Munro (1931β2024). In memory of her life and work, weβve unlocked her Art of Fiction interview from our archive.
https://t.co/1G1Qgtss2C
@UnderwaterTyper Have you graphed your data? Possibly with a bar graph where the bars are asparagus? Possibly actual asparagus, photographed, like in a police line-up?
We all know that Lightning Bolt is two Brians, and early Roxy Music included a Brian and a Bryan. But has there ever been a band with three Brians, or two Bryans, or two Brians and a Bryan, or, the ultimate, a Brian and a Bryan and a Brion?