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Jun 12
This is embarassing for @NYMag -- these "gifted" children were about 30X more likely to acheive eminence than their peers. By any standard that is not a "mirage", but the embodiment of whatever metric identified them as gifted.
It's one thing if their writers don't understand baserates and probabilities, but this should have never gotten through editorial review.
Jun 11
Gifted and Talented, or G&T, programs have long been a perennial subject of debate, particularly in New York City, where it has bedeviled mayors for years. Some parents have already washed their hands of the whole G&T business, refusing to participate in what they view as a corrupt system of segregation. But countless others still place significant stock in the G&T designation and what it offers and are comfortable relying on cognitive testing, should it be required, to determine whether a child qualifies.
“When your intelligence is the foundation of your self-perception, failing to achieve feels like soul death,” writes Katie Arnold-Ratliff. But if the limited amount of information we have about gifted kids long-term is any indication, most lead, at best, ordinary lives of modest accomplishment. A 35-year study of 677 gifted children found that by age 50, only 12.3 percent had reached a level of “eminence,” defined as “full professors … Fortune 500 executives … judges and lawyers, leaders in biomedicine, award-winning journalists and writers.” This means 88 percent never did.
Arnold-Ratliff digs into the myth of the gifted child, and how our notions of intelligence may be inherently flawed: nymag.visitlink.me/9mc2Wh
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The study defines eminence as accomplishing "something rare" like becoming full professors at research universities or Fortune 500 executives; 12.3% of gifted participants achieved it, far exceeding general population rates. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC64…
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Jun 11
People tell me liberals don’t have a misandry or anti white bigotry problem. First this random woke chick says this then Briana Joy Gray who was one of Bernie’s most senior staffers says “it’s true!”
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Jun 11
I found it striking that so many journalists covered the Scott Pelley interview -- Lulu Garcia-Navarro did a *fantastic* job -- without noticing or mentioning the inconsistencies in his narrative of events theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Jun 8
How incredibly awful. RIP Gordon Wood, apparently hit by a 'motorist' nytimes.com/2026/06/08/books…
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Love watching liberals seethe over a pro-choice, pro-abortion lesbian married to a woman, run their favorite networks.
So enjoyable
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I think you're really off on all this. The legacy media is largely a monolith. Try getting a single media story on radical activists in K-12 schools or teachers unions. Impossible.
Bari is going to diversify these outlets. They won't be Fox or Newsmax. What is MAGA light anyway? That a corporation she works for curries favor to Trump? There's zero evidence she's done anyone's bidding and I'm sure there will be coverage critical of the WH, as there has been already!
I remember riding the DC metro with Donald Graham who cheered to his reporter that the Dems were going to win the presidential election. There have always been high level ties between legacy media and Dem Admin. Those same media outlets could also be quite harsh, like the WP Whitewater coverage of Clinton. I think you should be cheering this. Do you really want more CNN style ideological one note coverage?
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Jun 8
Let’s not lose sight of this: CBS News is producing strong work every single day. Judge the programming, not the people...
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Scott Pelley tells the NYT that when Bari Weiss was hired to run CBS News, he had never heard of her.
How can someone be this out of touch? Seems to justify what critics of the program have been saying.
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When I told @ScottPelley that the FBI questioned one of our Moms for speaking at a school board meeting, his dismissive response—“the FBI doesn’t call people on the phone”—essentially called me a liar.
Scott showed a “breathtaking, completely lack of empathy, callousness and inhumanity.”
Jun 7
Scott Pelley cries again when declaring CBS’s Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski showed “breathtaking, completely lack of empathy,” “callousness,” and “inhumanity” by letting go Tanya Simon because her “family is legendary at CBS News.”
He again insists the tears are not “about me,” but “but the people I leave behind treated in this way, that breaks my heart. And it’s going to take me a long time to get over it”
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Ray retweeted
Jun 7
I doubt it was her intent to run him over, but video clearly shows front tires spinning while pointed directly at him, before she turns right as or after he raises his gun.
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Jun 6
It would actually make more sense to dismiss/villify WSJ as "the Murdoch project" than dismissing CBS as "the Ellison Project." But both would be stupid.
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Such a bizarre post. Saying 89% of men have some toxic masculinity, and presenting it as a nuanced and more moderate take?
🔦 Spotlight Article of the Month
Are men "toxic"? According to a study of 15,000 New Zealand men, 89.2% express low-to-moderate levels of toxic masculinity!
Check out the article HERE:
division51.net/blog/are-men-…
#MasculinityStudies #SpotlightArticle
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May 27
8. Tell yourself ONE true thing before sleep.
The body relaxes when truth lands. It tenses around what you're overriding.
Write down one thing you've been avoiding admitting — about work, relationships, your body.
Truth is a down-regulator. Use it.
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May 15
This is the absurd logic universities have spent years normalizing while pretending it is sophisticated moral reasoning.
Notice what is completely absent here: merit, performance, talent, work ethic, and individual accomplishment.
The entire premise is that professional stature should mechanically mirror demographic population statistics as if human ability, interests, preparation, culture, priorities, and applicant pools are identical across every group.
By this logic, every NFL roster should also be required to contain a certain percentage of Asian players.
Distinctions in performance are treated as evidence of discrimination by definition.
Why even have standards at all then? Why not randomly select people off the street for every career until every demographic percentage perfectly matches census data?
May 14
Yale School of Medicine Has a total of 553 students across All four classes.
Total Black students: 44. That’s ~10 per class.
Total Asian students: 157. That’s ~40 per class.
There are nearly as many Asian students PER CLASS as there are Black students in the entire school.
Black: 14% of America. Only 7% of Yale Med
Asian: 7% of America. 28% of Yale Med.
Who exactly is getting discriminated against here ?
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May 13
NYU professor @JonHaidt, who has stood at the forefront of the movement to challenge academia’s culture of suppressing the free exchange of ideas, is facing a campaign to cancel his graduation address. nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/po…
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May 5
NYT's @NickKristof to fellow progressives: "A black kid in Mississippi is 2.5 times as likely to be proficient in math & reading by 4th grade as a black kid in Calif. Do we need to look a little bit less at what the Trump Admin is doing ... & look a little more in the mirror?"
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Americans with the highest trust in educators are twice as likely to (falsely) believe that Europeans introduced the concept of war and conflict to Native Americans.
(see graph below)
Many people (incorrectly) think Native American tribes lived in peace and harmony.
The noble savage myth is merely a myth.
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Apr 30
2/ This idea that if we want to discern the truth of some *genuinely complex* controversy, we simply find a friendly Expert and defer to them... this is delusional
I Completely Disagree With Ken Jennings About Experts
jessesingal.substack.com/p/i…
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Apr 26
not only could you make it up, it’s actually entirely predictable.
Apr 26
I’m currently getting mass cancelled on Bluesky for simply being at the WHCD. You cannot make this up
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