Stan Pinsent

Education, Philosophy, Effective Altruism | Creator of @_AboutLearning podcast | Coordinator at @HumanScaleEdu | Teacher | Blogger

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@AllyFogg First prosecution was in 2019, but I take the point that prosecutions are rare.

https://t.co/rwlCvm1AKm

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@AllyFogg For comparison there are on average 50-60 child murders per year.

So 140 known instances of FGM being done in UK (not every year but still) seems non-trivial.

Do we have stats on how many British girls are sent abroad for it?

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@AllyFogg The stat I find is that of the 4280 women for whom they know where they had FGM, 140 (3%) had it in the UK.

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All sorts of interesting stuff in this.

For example: under the legacy benefit system, the marginal effective tax rate for a lone parent working 30 hours/week was 96% - you kept just 4p in every extra £1 earned!

Under Universal Credit, it's lower (76%), but still high...

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@FLIxrisk runs a tight Twitter ship. @open_phil not so much...

- EA orgs have very different Twitter personalities -

https://t.co/xmfzg7lW6x

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My ski thru Victoria park made the news!

https://t.co/1Zmt7zMAN6

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"Free to Learn" struck me as an inspiring yet unlikely vision for education when I read it in 2021.

Little did I know, one day I would get to quiz the author on how it might actually happen. And he's pretty persuasive...

[About Learning @_AboutLearning]

NEW EPISODE after 6-month hiatus!

The great Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn, on his hopes for a creeping education revolution - and what might stop it.

https://t.co/CeDV5KaJzK

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@MatthewJBar @NathanpmYoung Basically that I haven't been following it too closely. My main theory for how he might not have been willful is ignorance/naivety about the law.

Much closer to 100% certain that he deserves to be found guilty.

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Seems naive from SPCA. What better way to build compassion for chickens than keeping your own? https://t.co/HU751FlaPX

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Check out the full study: https://t.co/qyux1Cy1J7

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I checked the social media follower counts of 79 EA-related orgs.

Looks like animal advocates prefer Facebook, longtermists prefer Twitter 1/

(more context in post: https://t.co/qyux1CyzyF)

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The 80/20 rule applies to social media influence: representation is dominated by a few top names in each cause area (animal advocacy and longtermism especially). 5/

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@ChrEaston People who run college prep courses or other zero-sum education schemes - shifting opportunities from one person to another without imparting useful skills/knowledge

[Jonny Spicer🔸 @jjspicer]

One of the biggest changes on my life in 2022 was becoming involved with Effective Altruism. I finally got round to writing a blog post explaining what it is and why I think it's so great https://t.co/txTVM9f4Tm

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In the US, teen births have dropped by 77% in three decades

https://t.co/zq2ajloGXa

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All of the countries that have won the world cup.