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[gordon b. mower @mauyoung]

@MikeLMower Oh wow! How is Ferrin fairing?

[Stephen R. C. Hicks @SRCHicks]

On the value of philosophy in this era of declining enrollments, AI, ideological capture, and so on.
The whole article is worth reading:
"a 2025 study in the *Journal of the American Philosophical Association*, working with data on over half a million undergraduates at hundreds of institutions. What we do know about philosophy majors is that they get some of the highest scores in a variety of graduate entrance exams including the GREs, LSATs (for law schools) and GMATs (for business school) (philosophy majors even do much better than business majors in the GMATs), the authors designed the study to answer the obvious skeptical objection — that philosophy majors do well on these tests only because verbally strong students self-select into philosophy. They confirmed the selection effect: students with higher SAT verbal scores and stronger intellectual dispositions in their freshman year are more likely to choose philosophy. But after controlling for SAT scores and freshman-year dispositions, philosophy majors still outperformed every other major on the GRE Verbal and the LSAT — by 33 points on the GRE Verbal (then on the 800-point scale) and 2 points on the LSAT. Philosophy ranked first among 57 majors on three of five outcome measures. They showed no advantage on the GRE Quantitative, which is exactly what we should expect: philosophy does not teach math. It teaches the thing it teaches, and the data suggest it teaches it well."
(Source: N. Ángel Pinillos, “The Honest Case for the Humanities,“ https://t.co/efxDKTLOrC. Via Kevin Hill.)

[TakingHayekSeriously @FriedrichHayek]

“After controlling for SAT scores and freshman-year dispositions, philosophy majors still outperformed every other major on the GRE Verbal and the LSAT — by 33 points on the GRE Verbal and 2 points on the LSAT. Philosophy ranked first among 57 majors on three of five outcome measures.”

[gordon b. mower @mauyoung]

The local paper picked a little story I wrote about getting my broken ankle treated.

Guest opinion: First visits to a country hospital | News, Sports, Jobs - Daily Herald https://t.co/N4udrORkx1

[gordon b. mower @mauyoung]

@grok @TBLV23 @FurkanGozukara How credible is matt smith's claim?

[gordon b. mower @mauyoung]

@DerwinLGray @BYU @BYUalumni @BYUfootball Congratulations! Well-deserved!

[Aaron @__dutchman__]

Listening to a baseball game from a radio broadcast is underrated

[Chris Fizer @ChrisKindaReads]

i guess i will be going to college @stjohnscollege

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Mookie Betts was awesome for doing this back in 2021.

[gordon b. mower @mauyoung]

David Hume, Republicanism, and the Human Scale of Political Order https://t.co/7kxxy37Lbi

[Fox News @FoxNews]

JAM SESSION: Alaska Airlines passengers got an unexpected treat when jazz star Dave Koz and the Summer Horns turned a diversion into a surprise plane concert.

[Forbes @Forbes]

The richest Black American—with an estimated net worth of $11.4 billion—David Steward grew up in the segregated South with seven siblings and a father who worked as a mechanic, janitor and a trash collector. https://t.co/2TgwggON3R #ForbesBLK50

[A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin]

One of the funniest moments in television history!

[gordon b. mower @mauyoung]

@BYU_News The two schools are interrelated in many other ways as well. As with Coach Sitaki, if not for the University of Utah, I too would not be at BYU. That is true for many of my professor colleagues as well. I love both schools.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Yasiel Puig still has a CANNON for an arm 🤯

[gordon b. mower @mauyoung]

@BBGreatMoments What a play!

[Joseph Keegin @jmkeegin]

For @aeonmag—I wrote about the St. Louis Hegelians, the Illinois Platonists, and what these associations (and others like them) can teach us what philosophical study might look like after the university: https://t.co/xlefU0jlLn

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

A man’s best friend to share your love of the game with. Can’t ask for anything better 🐶

[gordon b. mower @mauyoung]

@chrisschuringa Hume, seriously? He published Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion after he died.