I unironically endorse this.https://twitter.com/FischerKing64/status/1470523608397017092 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Tom Tomsen
This is what I thought because linear algebra wouldn’t likely be suggested by anyone who knows some math and humanities. It’s just pulling out math “brands” performatively. I suspect he heard ML uses linear algebra so tada must be a weeder topic or otherwise useful? It’s neither.https://twitter.com/TomTomsen5/status/1470597008528347139 …
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I assumed it was because those two are the second-stage weed-out courses in engineering. A lot of people take calculus and algebra, but then it splits & only the STEM people go on to multivariable and linear. So those 2 are right there at the fork in the road.
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That doesn’t make them correct courses, if you wanted to put in a weeder and/or something to buttress skills of humanities people. They’d be bottom of the list tbh. I think this is the opposite of “if only Mark Zuckerberg had some humanities classes.”
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I wonder if some kind of statistical literacy course, where you learn about p values and whatnot, wouldn't be a good fit as a weeder.
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At Dartmouth they actually did this - the "10" course for most humanities majors (excl. art, languages) was a stats-focused prereq. Plenty of people learned enough to convince themselves that could prove their intuitions "correct."
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Yeah, half-baked color-by-number stats can be terrible, as are simplistic or reductionist teaching of humanities or social science. There's a tension between more rounded education and specialization, and K-12 is probably where you'd invest to make it possible to help address it.
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