Okay, just tried to go watch #GoT and got sucked into @iamjohnoliver's bit about standardized testing, which was great, and let me tell you…
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@chaosprime You are being unfair. Standardized testing is every bit as much of an exact science as feng shui. -
@StevenBrust@chaosprime if it’s not subjective it must therefore be objective and therefore true.#science -
@XaiaX@chaosprime Why, I'd never thought of it that way before. -
@StevenBrust@chaosprime I think it’s genuinely the problem with such things. People mistake quantifiable for important, objective for fair. -
@XaiaX@StevenBrust You're not wrong. I wish I had any hope of finding the SMBC comic about measurability bias. -
@chaosprime@StevenBrust someone seems to have developed a full text search of it. http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.pl?comic=137 … -
@XaiaX@StevenBrust apparently i dreamed this comic. it involved the question of whether one SMBC person was good at sex and that person… -
@XaiaX@StevenBrust …producing some arbitrary statistic, the other asking what that had to do with whether they were good at sex, and the… - 2 more replies
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