{"id":5839,"date":"2020-01-17T17:14:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T01:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2020-01-17T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T01:14:34","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-234","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/01\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-234","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 234"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>\n\n On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Reflec\u00adtions on Inter\u00adsec\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Cole\u00adman Hugh\u00ades, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cI don\u2019t know what pro\u00adpor\u00adtion of stu\u00addents at elite schools are part of the inter\u00adsec\u00adtion\u00adal sub\u00adcul\u00adture. But it is com\u00admon enough that I nev\u00ader go more than a few days with\u00adout encoun\u00adter\u00ading it. As a crude point of com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson, I\u2019m more like\u00adly to meet a com\u00admit\u00adted inter\u00adsec\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adist on any giv\u00aden day at Colum\u00adbia than I am to meet a com\u00admit\u00adted veg\u00ade\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan, and much<\/em> more like\u00adly than I am to meet a com\u00admit\u00adted Chris\u00adt\u00adian.\u201d<\/li>
  2. The Unit\u00aded States is Starved for Tal\u00adent<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cOver\u00adall, get\u00adting (approx\u00adi\u00admate\u00adly) one extra high-skilled [H1\u2011B] work\u00ader caus\u00ades a 23% increase in the prob\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of a suc\u00adcess\u00adful IPO with\u00adin five years (a 1.5 per\u00adcent\u00adage point increase in the base\u00adline prob\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of 6.6%). That\u2019s a huge effect. Remem\u00adber, these star\u00adtups have access to a labor pool of 160 mil\u00adlion work\u00aders.\u201d<\/li>
  3. Why Bad Things Must Hap\u00adpen to Good Peo\u00adple<\/a> (Nathaniel Givens, Pub\u00adlic Square): \u201cIt\u2019s also fair to say that when we know in advance the bound\u00adaries of the bad that can hap\u00adpen, we can hedge our bets and selec\u00adtive\u00adly choose our course through life to opti\u00admize risk and reward. The prob\u00adlem isn\u2019t that we will make dif\u00adfer\u00adent deci\u00adsions under con\u00addi\u00adtions like these. The prob\u00adlem is that we will make them for dif\u00adfer\u00adent rea\u00adsons<\/em>.\u201d A Mor\u00admon take on theod\u00adi\u00adcy, quite inter\u00adest\u00ading and not con\u00adtin\u00adgent on Mor\u00admon dis\u00adtinc\u00adtives.<\/li>
  4. Aus\u00adtralian rap\u00adtors start fires to flush out prey<\/a> (John Pick\u00adrell, Cos\u00admos): \u201cBlack kites (Mil\u00advus migrans<\/em>), whistling kites (Halias\u00adtur sphenu\u00adrus<\/em>) and brown fal\u00adcons (Fal\u00adco berig\u00ado\u00adra<\/em>) all reg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly con\u00adgre\u00adgate near the edges of bush\u00adfires, tak\u00ading advan\u00adtage of an exo\u00addus of small lizards, mam\u00admals, birds and insects \u2013 but it appears that some may have learnt not only to use fire to their advan\u00adtage, but also to con\u00adtrol it.\u201d<\/li>
  5. Big Data+Small Bias \u00ab Small Data+Zero Bias<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cSup\u00adpose you want to esti\u00admate who will win the 2016 US Pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial elec\u00adtion. You ask 2.3 mil\u00adlion poten\u00adtial vot\u00aders whether they are like\u00adly to vote for Trump or not. The sam\u00adple is in all ways demo\u00adgraph\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtive of the US vot\u00ading pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion but poten\u00adtial Trump vot\u00aders are a tiny bit less like\u00adly to answer the ques\u00adtion, just .001 less like\u00adly to answer (note they don\u2019t lie, they just don\u2019t answer).\u201d I was stunned.<\/li>
  6. Coach O. Vs. The Acela Grad\u00adgrind<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cYou\u2019d think that the media elites would by now have learned the cost to their own cred\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of not under\u00adstand\u00ading this coun\u00adtry. But they keep being sur\u00adprised. Nobody expects a New York Times<\/em> edi\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal writer to agree with the deci\u00adsion to can\u00adcel col\u00adlege class\u00ades because of a foot\u00adball game. But one would like to think that a man of the world such as him\u00adself would have enough sense to think about why this deci\u00adsion might have been made, and what it says about cul\u00adtur\u00adal dif\u00adfer\u00adence. I sus\u00adpect if the LSU Board of Super\u00advi\u00adsors had can\u00adcelled class\u00ades for Trans\u00adgen\u00adder Day Of Remem\u00adbrance, the New York Times<\/em> edi\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal board would have wet its col\u00adlec\u00adtive pants with delight.\u201d\n