Nearly 40 percent of colleges are reporting overall declines in applications from international students, according to a survey…
Here is what the opening of the survey itself said:
39% of responding institutions reported a decline in international applications, 35% reported an increase, and 26% reported no change in applicant numbers.
The NYT article does not reproduce the more positive pieces of information... The headline of the piece?:
Amid 'Trump Effect' Fear, 40% of Colleges See Dip in Foreign Applicants
I look forward to not only a correction but in fact a retraction of the entire article and its headline.
Contrastive divergence to suppress biases (3/19/17)
Take 2 people, expose one to bias inducing stimula and another not, and take the difference as truth.
On debiasing (3/19/17)
Morey (The Undoing Project) wouldn't watch scrimmage games and didn't allow comparisons based on race.
Ads and Twitter messages are geared to incite bias. Can it be undone?
Commonsensemedia on zootopia was biased by adult-think. It should have focused more on scary animal scenes (more likely to give kids nightmares) than adult innuendo that kids wouldn't even get.
A.k.a.: delouse the web
how do you assess intelligence while filtering out smooth talkers (3/8/17)
too much of politics (job searches, etc) seems to select for the "smooth talker"
What I find strange is people who think this has only recently become relevant (2/28/17)
Just heard a reporter report "carries a maximum sentence of life in prison" which is true, but why did they only report the max? Because they are optimizing for viewers, not truth.
Kws: truthiness
Truthiness (1/3/17)
Even one person can embody different levels of truthiness. In a way Friedman and Krugman (and esp. that CS dude at MIT) both shift back and forth between truthier academic pursuits and advertisingier political (truth lacking) pursuits.
Let us denote proposition P applied in world w∈W by P(w). The meaning of P is then the mapping v_P:W→{0,1} which assigns 1 or 0 to each w∈W according to whether or not proposition P(w) is true. Equivalently, the meaning of the proposition is the ordered pair consisting of: all worlds, and the subset of worlds where it is true: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.08627.pdf]
Can the truthiness... (1/2/17)
...of a story be estimated by which media outlets pick up a story and how they present it?
Build a model with this as the first data point. Start a company.
Confirmation bias is the root of all evil (1/2/17)
The more news there is, the easier it is for people to participate in confirmation bias. The more CB the bigger the problem. So how does one neutralize wrt CB?
Or how does one tailor his life to avoid CB?
What is this type of self experimentation, self optimization, called?