I’m pleased to share that our article on the origins of arithmetic, just published in Psychological Review, has been selected as an @APA’s Editor’s Choice article (open-access link below). Here’s a thread about it (1/17)
@mathematics@mathcogsociety
https://t.co/dO7kk8LjJZ
@EdwardEGibbon The deeper problem is that such 'reforms' usually come with no new investment. They force academics to spend more time on admin planning, so less is available for research and teaching. But this is what happens when greater % of uni budgets are spent on admin
@NeroJBlack@Suitandtie9999 The larger problem is that houses are still very expensive relative to median income. Couple that with the fact that many new builds are townhouses and apartments, and you have a recipe for long-term decline in NZ standard of living
@GrendelsHammer@Suitandtie9999 The problem is that lack of cap gains tax has encouraged over-speculation in housing (along with other policies such as deductable interest on rentals). If we had one, we might be able to reduce tax in other areas - e.g. no GST on food - and still be able to balance the books
@binoffishery NZ is a bicultural nation. For the first time ever, two peoples decided together to create a new nation. This is unique in world history, and should be celebrated and cherished by all.
@asanwal Universities are about teaching students how to learn, not what to learn. Graduates are much better at on-the-job learning because of their university experience. 'Signaling prestige etc' are just by-products of social stratification
@PhysInHistory On balance, philosophy is about questions, math about answers. Both are hard, but in different ways. They should complement each other like branches of the same tree. The ancient Greeks understood this, but unfortunately it's something we've forgotten
@danbri@wartsandbrawls Both - industry managers should know enough to do the job of subordinates if necessary, but not true for universities because academics have unique expertise in their area. that's why top-down admin doesn't work in unis, collegial, shared governance is better
@dennismhogan The financial incentives help to explain why scholarly rigor is compromised - Psychology is a cash cow for Unis, so courses can't be too demanding otherwise student numbers will fall.
@Science_TechTV Both - invented because mathematics is human cognition, reborn in the mind of every child that attains numeracy; but also discovered because there are evolutionary reasons why we have invented the mathematics we have, rather than something else
@PhysInHistory Mach was a very deep thinker, even if ultimately wrong about atoms. His analysis of angular momentum - water in a rotating bucket becomes concave not because of its motion in absolute space, but its motion relative to the collective mass of the universe - influenced Einstein
@BorisJohnson Putin has never wanted to conquer Ukraine. For years, Russia worked for a peaceful settlement in the Donbass. The SMO was a last resort. This brutal war could have been avoided if you/UK/NATO hadn't scuttled the Istanbul talks.