and based on that, having those huge classrooms is the most cost-effective way to increase scores for most people

and it has nothing to do with kids being white or black - the IQ is not based on race but on the environment at that age

Of course, when all you're looking at is the percentage of students meeting "minimum competence," you're missing the fact that a lot of the kids can go far, FAR beyond that. It's not unreasonable to expect that at least 10% of American students could be done with Calculus and Differential Equations by the time they finish high school.

10% of those could likely be done with an Associate's Degree, if not a Bachelor's.

dude, I've been all over the place, intelligence does matter enormously

you get these weird behaviors from doing things that they are not familiar with....cargo cult actions

No teresko iq is inherent

we had guards at the front gate of a facility

@tereško - Fact is, when you segregate students by academic ability, the strong begin progressing at a faster pace and the percentage of students meeting some "minimum competence" threshhold drops because a lot of the weaker students were being buoyed by tutoring from the more gifted.

@shrikeclaw well, IQ actually measures how good are you at abstract problem solving (basically, how good you are at math, geometry or programming ... shit like that),

they were supposed to be guarding the operation as there were major security risks

In our pursuit of egalitarianism, we kneecap the cognitive growth of the gifted, all in pursuit of having a larger percentage that meets some "minimum competence" threshhold.

we had a simple system for scanning things in with a hand held scanner

they broke for about a week, but the guards kept doing the same motion without the scanner

^ cargo cult

Nah. Manipulation.

cover the sticker on the truck with one hand and raise the other up like holding a scanner gun

no point to it

If the kids don't know the scanners are broken, then they're not as likely to bring in guns or knives.

If you stop using the scanners, kids will recognize that something's changed.

dude, the good guys we had were gurkas

the locals were terrible

we had fucking Al-Queida agents inside the damn operation

the locals were useless in that regard

Wait, were they going through the motions WITHOUT a scanner? Even a broken one?

yes

so bizarre

empty hands

I could understand using a fucking broken one, just to maintain appearances, but if there's no scanner then it's obvious as shit that you aren't scanning people.

that's what I was trying to convey

sorry if I was unclear

If I was working at an inner city school, and the metal detectors were broke, I'd say wand the kids anyways for the few days it takes to get working metal detectors in, just so that not as many of them will know how vulnerable they are.

With any luck, by the time someone realizes they can smuggle in a knife you've fixed the problem.

almost all of the people on my work "level" in africa have major problems learning new software even if straight out of college

some are ok, but most are crap

I had the great honor of tutoring a graduate student from Uganda.

She was taking college algebra, and couldn't do basic arithmetic. Even basic addition, with two digit numbers, was too much for her.

The level she was at, she shouldn't have been able to pass third grade, let alone high school, and especially not college.

there is an enormous discrepancy

that says more about the education system in Uganda than anything else

no, that's an international graduate student from Uganda, accepted to the first world

@tereško - I think we should give people a chance to prove themselves, and then judge accordingly. We should be splitting kids up by ability starting around second or third grade, and there should be more splits as you progress in education, because a lot of kids are going to be at vastly different levels and it would be deeply unfair to them to have them all in the same class.

another level