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Ok, there's the vagueness again. What precisely is meant by education? Generally, when the wealthy in Nigeria are, thanks to wealth, now providing childhood nurture at what are norms in the Western middle class, there is a broad palette of educational advantages beyond just larger vocabulary and better reading skills. The best schools that wealthy families afford would offer student projects and problem-solving tasks which would impact fluid intelligence as well as crystallized intelligence. And students, not having to go to dull repetitive laboring jobs or similar after school would better integrate those cognitive skills. Again, when these Nigerian women were raised with Western norms of access and education and nurture, their scores rose to parity. If there is ambition to emigrate, that's not a selective effect for IQ but for personality traits that may not relate to IQ at all. After all, if ambition and drive correlated closely with IQ, the current US government would look vastly different.

An assumption can still be correct even if some policies derived from that assumption are ineffective. And the assumption you mention is robustly supported by social science studies that look at how outcomes and disparities change when discrimination is lessened for minorities and outreach programs support childhood nurture. You haven't produced a shred of evidence that programs supporting things like nutrition, literacy, stable family life, healthy housing, arts after school, etc are "wrong-headed." And resorting to vague phrases like "social justice style" doesn't advance your position. It's just hand-waving. LOL.

2nd that. Seems to be a persistent ignoring of culture/nurture in this malodorous sidebar. LMAO. Ah, but those women are an elite group which means... oh wait...they experienced better nutrition and care and a richer stimulating learning environment in childhood and particular cultural emphasis on diligence and task persistence. You realize you are supporting the nurture side of the argument with these observations, right? These elites are getting the nurture environments which seem to bring them up to the functional levels common in wealthy nations. How are you missing this?

TIL why the Who song is called Baba O'Riley. Released October 1971, so it only took me 54 years to make the connection to the father of minimalist composition, Terry Riley. Once you hear A Rainbow in Curved Air, you realize the Who hommage in their most misreferenced song ( I've even heard a DJ misname the track as "Teenage Wasteland.")

Jesting about the "baby angels," as I'm sure you realized. Americans are notorious for their cultural tendencies towards sleep deprivation. The bit about biphasic sleep is interesting, and something my historian partner has delved into. I am inclined that direction myself, and will often split my sleep cycles now that I'm retired. One pleasure of the biphase night is remembering dreams better. Well, who doesn't enjoy watching the battleships as they glide into their docks?

On road today, can't type much on this device, so my thanks for your post cutting to the heart of this tiresome race mythology. And to @CharonY too for reminders of the pitfalls of the statistical data.

Dim's comments sometimes tend to be more poetic than well-researched. Where are these homes with people sleeping 8-10 hours that you speak of? Do such homes offer adoption programs? Are these residents like baby angels raised by puppies in a beachfront palace with no right angles? Light teasing aside, it seems like routines make considerable difference in the overnight fasting period. Breakfast, as a zeitgeber, seems malleable. Though most people who try shifting to a brunch, moving the fast from twelve hours to sixteen, say, will hit a fairly hard wall at some point. While I benefit from my 16 hour hiatus, it didn't come easily, and I really need to find some food by 10-11 am.

We don't, actually, because this is a science forum not a Far Right garbage conspiracy theories forum. White males who get demoralized because brown people and women turned out to be smart at science too are responsible for their own biases and mood disorders. If that causes them to stomp their feet and blow off study sessions, then maybe they're too fragile to do science. Best leave it to people who know how to work hard.

That's funny, I used the same phrase, mixed bag, on the SFC thread. Watson basically stole a Nobel from her, imo. Then slandered her after she died. It's pretty reprehensible and goes way beyond poaching from grad students.

When the light shuts off on Io, the photons from the previous 11 minutes are still traveling and will keep hitting Earth for 11 more minutes. So it still looks like a 30 minute ON period to the observer. Let's say you were blind and could only know my position on a football field by me throwing a tennis ball and you feeling which direction it came from. I'm always fifty yards away and the ball always takes five seconds to reach you. So, from due north, I throw the ball, while I'm running a circle around you every sixty seconds. Ok. So after five seconds you are struck by the ball and determine, "That came from due north." But I am traveling around you at a rate of 6°/sec. So I am actually (5x6=) 30° off due north, when you register my position as due north. IOW, information always has a finite speed in reaching you.

Apparently pendulums don't work well on a boat. 🤪

Well, the drumming thing apparently relates to red corpuscles in the hand splitting and then the iron-rich contents passing through the kidneys and excreted. Heh. Or men, if they're forced to admit they used it to open a jar. 😄

Yep. Also there's the easy-peasy, doesn't even need installation or hot water or ice picks, jar wrench,... BTW, is it true that drumming with your hands (vs sticks) can cause pink in the urine? This is a question for @pinball1970

Well the screwdrivers are fond of screwing, which is why they also proliferate inside of toolboxes. Best not have more than one in any given drawer or box - they are not parthenogenetic, thankfully. My default method. On both jars and cats mating noisily in the yard. Not obvious to me, mein Kapitan. Makes complete sense once called to my attention, though. Har! I mean, I laugh but I've actually done this with an old jar of electrical parts which had rusted shut over a couple decades. The top of the jar separated, with the neck remaining bonded to the lid. The parts inside were immaculate, so well worth it.

Also, avoid putting an unopened jar in the fridge; the metal lid will contract > the jar. This was so effective at further tightening that I had to run hot water on the top over a minute before it would yield. I had stupidly put peanut butter in the fridge directly from the grocery sack. @geordief 's stabbing trick might have helped for that, given that PB is pretty mold resistant. This problem reminds me of the now iconic comedy sketch called White People Problems. My God, man, there are people in this world who would LOVE to struggle with foie gras jars! Related to this - in the US, foie gras started to be viewed as evil in the seventies, as there was all this publicity on how the geese were abused. Did that improve, or did everyone just stop caring? Sorry, a bit OT, perhaps I can do a separate thread if that's not too much of a _____ _______ _____.

Good one! LOL. Alas, our younger and stronger selves didn't quite believe they would get older and weaker. I remember when young how many sort of imagined (quite irrationally) that they would be amazing and exceptional old folks, outliers who would get up every day and go water skiing or rock climbing. It's part of that whole Off the Bell Curve delusion where people imagine themselves exceptional and (as a US radio show guy used to say "all the children are above-average"). It's a cousin of Dunning Krueger.

UV on nylon, yes that would go to powder by now. Great, now we've spread microplastics on the moon as well. 🤪

Interesting. Which is the more significant effect, coefficient of expansion of metal threads, or raising pressure in the airspace? The hole method has a downside if it's a jam jar and your fridge is not the cleanest. Those wee spores find their way in there.

Improving the rez does greatly reduce the crater-dome illusion that can manifest on grainier old images. You can dispel the illusion by concentrating for a moment, or just rotating inage, but it is an odd experience. Greater detail seems to reduce the effect.

Cool. I'm also the jar opener in my house, and also getting older (seems to be a common thing in human existence). I also recommend the shock method - tap the edge of lid against something, which seems to slightly disengage the threads. (Obv not too vigorously, if it's a glass jar) Various heat methods work, I gather, because metal has a greater coefficient of expansion than glass or plastics.

I think that's correct. If I'm in Old Blighty, and the money gets tighty, and I need anything pawned, I will be careful how I respond.

Dear Mr Turnip , Please heed the advice of our neighbor, posted above. And please note that, while he correctly identified diarrhea symptoms, you should also seek treatment for mental constipation. I wonder if several years of you trying to live on a working class income would help loosen whatever is stuck up in there.

As I recall, you want FL if you handle highly imbalanced datasets. You are reducing the weight of well-classified examples. This is especially useful in object detection. Your situation with object detection is one where background examples far outnumber foreground objects, right?

To my ear, pawned and pond sound the same, in American English. FWIW, your line "Who knows what's out there, Is it dangerous, is it blonde?" struck me as pretty funny. Ha! I've noticed that, despite the French origin, Americans often fail to properly gender their usage and just attach the e to everyone. We Yanks toss suffixes into a blender, And often ignore the uses of gender, When to such neutering we dumbly surrender, We can't tell a girdle from a suspender.