It doesn’t seem like the way someone would intentionally fudge data, though, and they still met the benchmark they were hoping for in the lowest result if I’m reading the story correctly:

The BBC gave a more complete description of the exact error:

Ah, yeah, brutalism. It was at the time considered a forward-thinking use of new materials on their own terms without the design limitations of replicating traditional material, but it’s almost all ugly crap that’s aged horribly. I think a large part was architects being blithe to the limits of the material and…

I decided to see if I could find the per-pupil spending in the magnet schools, and I think this shows them being relatively cheap:

The impression I get is that there’s a common opinion that education is an intractable problem. I think it’s due to a mix of poorly conceived fad fixes, ineffective or stalled implementation (the unions in particular are controlled by a seniority made up of people who got ahead under extant conditions are will force…

I predict that the a common response from much of the city will be surprise that Mumbles wasn’t light-skinned black.

Yeah, but any of that only matters if the menthol actually makes much of a difference.

Yeah, it’s a bit tough because many whiskeys are supposed to have a nice kick to them, but I didn’t want to go straight to sugary drinks because those are often trying to recruit young people while I’m not sure kids love menthol. It holds for vodka, rum, and tequila, though, so I think it works. I guess there could be…

Oddly enough, they’ll be announcing the person they select on the second day of Pesach, which is a three-day-chag this year because the first night is Saturday. That means I and other religious Jews can’t participate in a 24-hour digital detox because of a 73-hour digital detox.

I think the big question for this measure is whether menthol actually makes smoking worse in some way or is just a flavor black consumers use in their tobacco when they do smoke. We don’t want a policy equivalent to fighting heart disease and obesity by banning hot sauce (i.e., banning black tastes), not least because…

That’s actually where the flies are coming from, as they eat the mold growing on the grounds.

These discussions often center around reductions to correlation in national drinking habits and stereotypes of national character. For example, the statement that children drink wine in France gives the practice credit for a cultural image of the healthy Parisian when France actually has major problems with alcoholism…

I think that’s missing that “ethnic studies” is considered to be an independent field of study and analysis, kind of like how sociology isn’t the same as history. Of course, this points back to how we kind of let history take over the social studies curriculum when it could alternatively have full units on…

Two fairly comprehensive writeups of the antisemitism issue are at

African violets are notoriously touchy, as are carnivorous plants. A cast iron plant (variegated if you want more visual interest) is probably the most reliable option, as they live up to their names, and their slow growth rate keeps repotting to a minimum. Trees can also be nice. A Norfolk Island pine would be good…

During a press conference on Wednesday, Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Jay Baker appeared to sympathize with the alleged shooter, telling reporters that Long told authorities “a sex addiction” was the reason he picked the targets that he did, not because of their race.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/brian-eno-and-roger-waters-defend-ken-loach-and-david-miller-against-made-up-antisemitism-charges-1.513144

O.K., what’s the story they’re trying to suppress? Whenever the subject of some biography or his family complain about not “approving” it, it’s because there’s something the approval is being used as an incentive to leave out.

Considering the disclaimers, it seems like his big worry is that people will try to turn his disagreements on policy into an allegation of an ulterior motive (such as him saying that public housing projects were a failed experiment and that wealth taxes in Europe haven’t been successful means he wants poor people to…

It seems like a bit of a stretch to link this attack with the Tree of Life shooting rather than other recent, widely-reported cases of anti-Asian violence and the magazine editor fired for anti-Asian rhetoric earlier this week.