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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 22:56:21 JST Bread up, Bro
   this is why studying for the SAT is gay. just take the test and win.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 22:57:40 JST Bread up, Bro

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     the article is pretty interesting https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/asian-immigration-and-the-signaling
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 22:59:24 JST Bread up, Bro

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     "Unschooled kids, who received no formal instruction at all, score only a grade level behind their schooled peers on standardized tests. " is by far the most interesting line in the article
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:10:27 JST Bread up, Bro

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     second most interesting:
     
     "Yet when tested in circumstances where there’s no incentive to Goodhart, Asians are also less skilled, conditional on education, than their white counterparts"
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     WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:11:41 JST WilhelmIII

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     "Education is very expensive in both dollars and time (it takes 17 years of a typical American’s life, from kindergarten to college graduation, to have a decent shot at middle-class status) and on top of that appears to causally reduce fertility (by delaying both pairing and childbearing) and to increase parents' divorce risk."

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:11:41 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @WilhelmIII yeah, an extremely solid article.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:15:18 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • WilhelmIII
     @WilhelmIII "I’ve argued before that the acid test of whether or not immigration is beneficial to the existing population is which direction members of that population move"
     
     I really like the test they propose of how to know if an immigration is beneficial.
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     WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:15:19 JST WilhelmIII

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     I'm reposting it everywhere I can.

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     DMA (dma@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:18:39 JST DMA

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     • WilhelmIII
     I am unschooling grandson.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:18:39 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • DMA
     @DMA @WilhelmIII
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:20:15 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • DMA
     @DMA @WilhelmIII this is the paper that he references. What is kind of interesting is that the framing in the paper is that unstructured plan home education performs worse, and he turns the results on their head - saying "all this education produces what result, exactly" - which is the point many of these unstructured people have.
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     WilhelmIII (wilhelmiii@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:21:46 JST WilhelmIII

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     There are some personal pride issues about scoring high but that's about all it gets you.

     The guy that passed by one point still got certified. And he was out getting laid while you were grinding.

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:21:46 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • CrustyB
     @WilhelmIII @CrustyBurgerhead @Bill_Boone yes, cramming for a test if you don't need it to pass is stupid, because you're going to forget it all.
     
     This is one of the major problems that people have repeatedly mentioned about china.
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     CrustyB (crustyburgerhead@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:21:47 JST CrustyB

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     • Bill_Boone
     I used to spend weeks prepping for certification exams. Now I go into them raw and get lower but still passing scores.
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     Bill_Boone (bill_boone@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:21:48 JST Bill_Boone

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     @sickburnbro Personally gained 130 points by getting a full night sleep and skimming through some test prep book that said "hey this is the analogy section where you find words that are good analogies and shit". Sleep is an amazing thing.
     
     Also retook it alongside a nigger football player and a cheerleader who had gotten 800 and 1000 respectively the first time around.
     
     That nigger football player became more famous than anyone else who went to my high school... at least that year.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:22:34 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • CrustyB
     @CrustyBurgerhead @Bill_Boone Getting a good rest and going in awake and well fed is the most important and easy thing to do right.
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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:40:59 JST BroDrillard

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     • Bill_Boone
     For some tests it's helpful to check beforehand the type of questions they ask and/or the type of answers they're expecting. I still remember a certain test from a long time ago. On one question I responded with a detailed explanation that got a lower score, because they expected a two-sentence regurgitation of basic high-school material. Knowing the expectations is useful.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:40:59 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • BroDrillard
     @BroDrillard @Bill_Boone yeah, I mean facilizing yourself with the style of questions, is certainly useful. Pretty hard to figure out the analogy style without a little practice.
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     Ulysses (professionalbigot69@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:43:37 JST Ulysses

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     @sickburnbro
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:43:37 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @professionalbigot69 yeah, that whole thing is what killed him. People reacted pretty explosively to "actually making the US a grind hellhole is a GOOD THING" - the fact that he didn't recognize what he was getting into is what marks him indelibly as a foreigner. The whole Tiger Mom thing was treated with scorn even at the new york liberal level.
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     Vulpes_Quartus (vulpes_quartus@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:46:09 JST Vulpes_Quartus

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     One of my friends forgot the date of the exam and went partying the night before, got around the 99th percentile while still high on LSD.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:46:09 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Vulpes_Quartus
     @Vulpes_Quartus @Bill_Boone yeah the problem guys like that have in the end is that they think they can keep doing that forever.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:51:12 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • Vulpes_Quartus
     @Vulpes_Quartus @Bill_Boone goats are silly but farming them has got to be an exercise in pain.
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     Vulpes_Quartus (vulpes_quartus@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 23:51:13 JST Vulpes_Quartus

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     • Bill_Boone
     He burnt out of MIT after his last semester and went off-grid as a goat farmer. Hope he's doing alright.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 02:30:36 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur I don't think that's an indictment of the american education system but simply the idea of formalized education ** to begin with **
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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 02:30:37 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @sickburnbro Yep, the american education system at it's finest.

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 02:35:19 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • WilhelmIII
     @Evil_Bender @WilhelmIII and that's the ones that use the actual formal curriculum
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     Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv: (evil_bender@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 02:35:20 JST Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:

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     • WilhelmIII
     Thats not an education. It's an indoctrination. Homeschooling is like 2 hours a day.