@resistancemoney cognitive reframing - examining what triggers your jealousy to clarify your own values
perspective taking - imagining their struggles
both of which transform envy into motivation.
or metta / loving kindness - from buddhism but with secular mediation practice.
It's called "checks and balances" and it's why we have 3co-equal branches of govt. it's done as an autocrat protection measure and to protect a minority of Americans by oppression by the majority (known as "the tyranny of the majority"). It's been a feature (not a bug) since 1787.
@DrRWatkins@C_Hendrick Perhaps the trick is to package this as a 'critical future competency'-essential for helping students 'learn how to learn.' The upside is, teachers might actually pick up something useful for their own teaching practice in the process.
@AvidCommentator @NatedawgO7 If we had virtuous journalists who reported on the issues that mattered to the nation in open and honest ways, we wouldn't be in such a mess politically.
@mattsquair@clairlemon@RichardHanania Scott Alexander explains that the study's "moral circle" measure doesn't show liberals care less about family - it just shows they include more people in their circle, and there's no zero-sum tradeoff between caring for close kin and caring for strangers
@Afinetheorem@nickpretnar Good thing we still have the oral defence.
Countries like Netherlands who treat it as a formality may need to move back to it being a pass/fail assessment.
@gorge_lilley@TomMahoneyEdu@greg_ashman And selected schools were those with DI during those years?
I think I'm going to have to learn more about the NAPLAN data set and run my own analysis. It's insane (but sadly predictable) that so much money was put into this and so little effort in understanding the effect.