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So, even if you have an RCT showing positive effect, there’s still perhaps a 20-50% chance that the true effect is near zero.
Is It Fair to Say That Most Social Programmes Don’t Work?
80000hours.org
This reality is why some advocates point out that leaving educational equity up to individual choice — or more accurately, to those who are economically advantaged enough to have choice — is a way for the government to punt responsibility for creating an egalitarian system; one where children’s education is a game that everyone wins, not a select few.
How School Boundaries and Feeder Patterns Shape DC’s Housing and Education Inequalities
Abigail Higgins
Humans are active listeners; we create meaning where there is none, or none intended. It is not that the octopus’s utterances make sense, but rather that the islander can make sense of them, Bender says.
What an Octopus’s Mind Can Teach Us About AI’s Ultimate Mystery
octopus test
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