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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Jan 2018
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    David Chapman Retweeted Jesse Singal

    I want to agree with this; but a little knowledge of stats can be worse than none. (Whereas trig is just a painful waste of time.) Can the intro course explain its own limits, and the dangers of misuse?https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/951282864498372608 …

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    Jesse SingalVerified account @jessesingal
    It's so much more important for high-schoolers to learn basic statistics than for them to learn trigonometry -- whoever made that decision 150 years ago should be exhumed and fired
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      2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 12 Jan 2018
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        Replying to @puellavulnerata @tehgeekmeister

        Yes… there’s still some proofs in high school geometry, I believe, but no real explanation of what a proof is and why you should care, so I suspect it’s totally forgotten at the end of the year

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      2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Jan 2018
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        Replying to @selfprime @JustChap

        Well… depends on where you are going with it, doesn’t it? Some understanding of prob&stats could be useful for most people, and most people probably could learn it.

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Jan 2018
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        Replying to @Meaningness @JustChap

        Whereas trig is pretty much only useful for engineers. So, even if trig is more powerful in some sense, making it a de facto prerequisite for stats doesn’t seem right

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      1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 11 Jan 2018
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        Replying to @replicaofself

        Unfortunately @edmundharbord is a private account so I can’t see the context for this

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      1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 13 Jan 2018
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        Unfortunately I’m really the wrong person to ask this!

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      2. Rob MacLachlan‏ @robamacl 12 Jan 2018
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        See I am an outlier here, but I use trig-like computational geometry almost daily. Mostly linear algebra style because that is sane in 3D, but I still use "sine=opposite/hypotenuse" monthly.

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      3. Rob MacLachlan‏ @robamacl 12 Jan 2018
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        Like most parts of school curriculum, parts of math are oddly stylized and divergent from actual practice. Geometry is good example. Only class where you do formal proof, major part of math, but format is weird, prob hybrid of medieval scholastic and 1800's textbook.

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      2. Dan listens to the sudden reconfiguration‏ @danlistensto 11 Jan 2018
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        the important meta-question of "how can knowledge be appropriately packaged/paired with wisdom?" which has mostly completely eluded American educational institutions

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      3. Dan listens to the sudden reconfiguration‏ @danlistensto 11 Jan 2018
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        Replying to @danlistensto @Meaningness

        related, is there a minimum age requirement for wisdom acquisition? is 15 too young?

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