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    Mr. Farrell...what a read. What a glorious, depressing, affirming, hilarious, and cautionary read. From the time I was 17/18 until about 23 I spent a lot of time in boxing gyms. I was never good enough to get past smokers...and I would have been afraid to even if I had any talent. I saw too many dudes right on that

    In addition to what others’ have already posted regarding their inability to determine force (there are pads with sensors and for that), they’ve never worked right for me. I bought them when they were on sale about half a year ago on touchofmodern, and they are really glitchy with pairing (e.g., one unit will pair,

    I enjoyed reading that very much. It was measured and honest in a way that’s hard to pull off, and it put me in your head and left me feeling that I learned something. Full disclosure: I’m a 45 year old white male, born to immigrant parents, liberal social science professor, etc. So given that proviso of my

    I am curious which company you work for and would love to hear more about your transition . I’m former associate dean of student success and currently faculty fellow of student success and 80% of my job is creating student success initiatives, and monitoring and evaluating ongoing ones, all in the service of

    I am sorry, but the author’s conclusion is flat out incorrect and also seems to miss the point. She states: “One might argue that the monitoring of an entire student body lacks the nuance to effectively deal with an individual on a personal level. And, as we’ve seen, algorithms aren’t free from bias, so there are

    Agree with AimlessZealot to some extent, but we need more info. For example will this data find its way into presentations or publications or be used to solicit for grants. If so, then IRB approval is often recommended or required, and if IRBs are reviewing, they will often look for informed consent procedures (even

    “The real life journey that runs from age 13 to 19 starts with a bang. “

    child developmentalist/ university professor here...and although my area of expertise is adolescence and young adults and not early childhood, I regularly teach a parenting course. You should ABSOLUTELY ask your kid how their day went. Alice, I don’t know what triggered that post, but that stringing together of

    At some point I’ll take the time to read actual study referenced, but based on the description in this article, this sounds a helluva lot like a gene-environment interaction that Sandra Scarr (a very well known behavioral geneticist) had discussed MANY years ago, called Passive (there’s also “evocative” and “active”).

    On the contrary Mr. Schwartz. Please Mr. Moore, stick around, by all means, and keep making a horse’s ass out of yourself and by extension your desperate followers.

    A slight exaggeration! But it feels like it some times. Great grandma has a 25 yr old grandson...so it’s easily in the realm of possibility that she will be a great-great-grandma soon.

    thank you sir, I needed a good chuckle this morning as I prepare to host 3 4 generations of relatives for a Christmas Eve party...and you delivered.

    We’ve been warning about this in the social sciences for a while, although under a slightly different rubric. The concern for us has been models that are entirely atheoretical...just like machine-learning based algorithms. You get outcomes, and then you try to tailor the narrative (or hypothesis) to fit the data, when

    Right on. I’m a male and the hugs thing annoys me too. It’s almost always highly gendered. I’ve had women try to hug me—and it felt as if THEY felt that it was what was expected of them. I politely demure and try to thrust my hand out as quickly as possible without inadvertently jabbing them in the rib cage.

    Very kind of you to say! I try to post comments I think may have some utility, just as I have gained from the comments of others that have been really insightful and trenchant. Usually, I’m commenting on social science research as I’m a developmental psychology professor. But once in a while something else grabs my

    Nice review, and I’m glad you led with Iphigenia. I can’t overemphasize enough how much understanding both Greek drama and Greek mythology (and two overlap quite a bit, obviously), is important here. When you read enough of both (and as a Greek I was forced to in my youth, but chose to in my adulthood), you come away

    I’m proud of him too. He seems like very good kid, and has gone back to Greece and supported some youth programs there. His entire family seems rock solid. He’s also a big mamma’s boy—-and that’s a positive in my book.

    Hello my brother and I say that with as much affection as I one can project in an online comments post)

    David, this was a very well-done piece. I was familiar with the general history here, but I learned a lot of fascinating details. This is the kind of long-form story that I hope continues to characterize Deadspin.

    Ha! Haven’t seen someone bring that one up in a long time. And interestingly, there is a flip side to that bias such that high aptitude/ high competence individuals tend to under rate themselves. We actually see this effect play out pretty clearly in indirect measures of student learning, i.e., when we ask students