This is a good point. Math classes are great, but you don’t get much in the way of any applied math until pretty specific business classes in college. Math via Excel would be a lot more useful than Math via TI-84.

I dug it up. It’s very far from a randomized trial, but it avoids the most heinous causation/correlation issues that I was anticipating.

Prove that they can’t. Just because you and all your buddies whine about “kids these days” doesn’t mean you’re right, it just means you’re old and whiny.

some people tend to self-segregate by limiting their interactions with the world and internet to their own singular race, sexuality, or gender

Good call. The 700+ kids who drowned in the US last year deserved to die for being stupid and have improved the gene pool with their deaths. You should congratulate their parents for their contributions to the future of humanity.

I hear it’s tradition to start the first 7 with the same letters, then choose different starting letters for each of the following sets of 7.

His only solace is to name his kids Brayden, Breegan, Brolin, Brixton, Brompton, Braylie and Brylene.

I regularly pull up to people who have a phone mounted on their windshield turned horizontal and playing video. I live in a place that has tough-talk about distracted driving patrols, but that seems to mean approximately jack shit.

I don’t think a comparison between the United States Australian Football League and UEFA is meaningful in any real way

Read my second paragraph, hotshot. I guess you stopped reading when I said NCAA and got so excited about fertile ground for nitpicking and intentionally misunderstanding the original point. Like I said the last time, the NCAA is a good example of an institution with both entertainment and athletic achievement goals…

Look who’s trolling! I’m at least in line with the original article and not just a hopeless homer arguing something just because his team won on a boring technicality.

How about the hundreds of (especially D2 and D3) colleges and universities across the country whose athletic programs never get a dollar from media nor a minute of airtime? Or is there some secret way that a D3 diving meet is really being funded by a multimedia conglomerate? Yes, the NCAA gets money from media, but…

Cool, a guy on the internet has a cool and very convenient story about why he’s one of a handful of people that a general statement doesn’t apply to. I’m shocked! Luckily you still proved me right in that you only liked it because you’re a homer.

Cool, you found another example where there’s both entertainment channels and athletic achievement channels. Congratulations! What about the trials that aren’t televised? Yes, a lot of IOC money comes from media, but in a lot of their work, they’re focused on identifying and supporting the best possible athletes for…

All of the things you listed make for a worse spectator experience, but are fair to a person who is reading about it a couple days later on the internet (not exactly target demo material) though clearly not worse enough to completely tank the most popular sport in the world. It seems like you don’t care about that,…

I guess you really don’t follow the NFL very closely. There are a lot of arguments about whether those calls on defense are fair and consistent, especially in which teams and QBs beneft, not just that they benefit the offense in general. But the NFL is kinda awful, so there’s no shame in not paying attention.

Hmm, so physical interference with a player (including the keeper) wouldn’t count, only deflecting the ball? And by your definition, literally every play where the offense is on the field would warrant an advantage call. I don’t know if I can pass you on this quiz.

A governing board of a sport looking to identify the best competitors. Olympic trials are a good example of what sports look like when they’re focused on athletic achievement and not entertainment. If nearly all of the money is from TV, that sounds a lot more like entertainment to me.

Not sure if you pay much attention to NFL, but there is a lot of argument about the fairness of how pass defense is refereed (both for pass rushers and defensive backs) and a lot of claims that it was better and fairer in the past. A lot of that is because fans like big offensive plays, and fans also like their…

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