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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 12-01-2007, 03:44 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 849
Posted By Rduke55
Re: The Best Poster in SMP

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Then I (in my mind) promoted Phil as my favourite, mainly due to work done in geo-political threads, where I am pretty sure he is SMP god. Prove me wrong.

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I'm in...
Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 11-27-2007, 05:13 PM
Replies: 64
Views: 1,011
Posted By Rduke55
Re: I [censored] up

I'm really sorry for your loss.

I'm a crazy cat person and I agree, there's no way your cat was trapped down there for any length of time without you knowing it. He knew it was his time.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-27-2007, 10:40 AM
Replies: 94
Views: 767
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Slate.com on race and IQ

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The wealthiest black kids with college educated black parents outdoing the poorest Asian kids with uneducated parents (hint: they don't, which is shocking and instantly debunks a lot of...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-27-2007, 10:38 AM
Replies: 94
Views: 767
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Slate.com on race and IQ

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It's a shorthand term for ethnic origin.

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No it's not. Haven't you been paying attention in all the threads where we've had the exact same discussion? When we are...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-23-2007, 01:21 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 174
Posted By Rduke55
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-22-2007, 10:43 AM
Replies: 230
Views: 907
Posted By Rduke55
Re: What Would David Say About This Remark?

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By the way, I would be willing to agree to a couple of things.

The first is that the IQ difference may not be genetic. I think there's a quite a bit we don't know about inheritance,...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-22-2007, 12:01 AM
Replies: 230
Views: 907
Posted By Rduke55
Re: What Would David Say About This Remark?

Jeez, I can't believe I missed this entire thread.

Phil, I thought you conceded and were done with all this?

We've done this here,...
Forum: Politics 10-13-2007, 05:40 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 77
Posted By Rduke55
Re: The antithesis of mises.org: governmentisgood.com

Nielso,
This is SMP, not politics. You're welcome to post here as long as I don't see politics.

Also, I tried to respond to your PM but you're all full.
To answer, we don't do too much politics...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-07-2007, 01:57 PM
Replies: 116
Views: 1,132
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Science Education in America: Why I\'m Homeschooling My Kid in Scie

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My pre-college years in the school system can best be described as "a colossal waste of time." I remember getting excited in the 2nd grade (after looking ahead in the science book) that...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-07-2007, 01:53 PM
Replies: 116
Views: 1,132
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Science Education in America: Why I\'m Homeschooling My Kid in Scie

Hopefully the thread is getting back on track.

What I was starting to get at with the "fix" question (I wasn't being a socratic ass or anything - I just wasn't sure of what I was trying to say)...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-07-2007, 01:03 PM
Replies: 116
Views: 1,132
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Science Education in America: Why I\'m Homeschooling My Kid in Scie

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Maybe because Phil made it pretty clear he was more interested in petty trolling than actual debate?

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In this thread?

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I really don't understand why he gets...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-07-2007, 12:48 PM
Replies: 116
Views: 1,132
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Science Education in America: Why I\'m Homeschooling My Kid in Scie

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In any case a system that allows people willing and able to arrange notepads to do better then people understand the subject far better is aweful for science education and a disaster...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-07-2007, 09:20 AM
Replies: 116
Views: 1,132
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Science Education in America: Why I\'m Homeschooling My Kid in Scie

Also, wasn't the author of the linked article angry about his kid's grade, not the amount of science he learned? As other people said, why would you expect this to be different in a private school?
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Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 10-06-2007, 09:32 PM
Replies: 116
Views: 1,132
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Science Education in America: Why I\'m Homeschooling My Kid in Scie

But you have a PhD in Astrophysics. How many parents would you think are remotely able to teach their kid science?

Do you think that that article represents something that cannot be fixed?
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 09-25-2007, 03:14 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 406
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Are most scientific studies screwed up?

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Also, I was hoping to hear that the crappiness of Science and Nature was just limited to astrophysics. That's actually disappointing to hear that it is more widespread....
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 09-25-2007, 03:12 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 406
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Are most scientific studies screwed up?

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Agreed about Science and Nature. Some of the papers in there are amazingly crappy.
Funding is pretty screwed up. I think the publishing and funding have the same problem. You...
Forum: About the Forums 09-25-2007, 01:38 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 489
Posted By Rduke55
Re: WooHoo! Politics Keeps on trucking.

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FREE NIELSIO!!!

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YA RLY.
Forum: MOD DISCUSSION 09-25-2007, 12:14 PM
Replies: 57
Views: 360
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Why isn\'t BluffThis banned?

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jman,

are there any other issues you are completely wrong about that you want to draw attention to while you're at it?

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Forum: About the Forums 09-24-2007, 09:38 PM
Replies: 182
Views: 1,170
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Request for action concerning user \'kerowo\'

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You should consider defurring to your cat.

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Kraepelin thinks so:

http://www.sphynxlover.com/kraepelin.jpg
Forum: About the Forums 09-24-2007, 09:33 PM
Replies: 182
Views: 1,170
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Request for action concerning user \'kerowo\'

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I would send this request to an SMP mod but they haven't responded to the previous one or two times I've PMed them.

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I never got a single PM from you.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 09-24-2007, 11:26 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 406
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Are most scientific studies screwed up?

Agreed about Science and Nature. Some of the papers in there are amazingly crappy.
Funding is pretty screwed up. I think the publishing and funding have the same problem. You have these dinosaurs...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 09-21-2007, 11:03 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 247
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Its Hard to Decipher....

Welcome back Madnak.

OP, typically we frown on just posting links for an OP.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-30-2007, 07:26 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 386
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Speciies? you gotta be kidding.

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This is a topic that always sticks in my craw. People make it out to be that there's no way to separate these groups into any legitimate categories and that just isn't true with...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-30-2007, 02:16 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 386
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Speciies? you gotta be kidding.

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BFOD's.

They're rascals when they need to be.

Think of scalar time, not linear. Give it three-dimensional growths against a 'brane matrice.

And you realize at a very, very basic...
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 08-29-2007, 01:36 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 386
Posted By Rduke55
Re: Speciies? you gotta be kidding.

I think that a lot of yours, Dawkins, and Jones' comments are concerning our difficulties putting organisms into groups, both currently and across their evolutionary history. This doesn't mean to me...
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