by Larry Shultz | Feb 9, 2024 | Democracy, Education, Public Policy, Science
A very recent OECD skills study showed that citizens, age 16-65, of the USA scored 19th of 20 nations in the adjusted mean numeracy test and 18 of 21 in literacy. For young people age 16-24 in the numeracy test the USA was 24 of 24, and 20 of 21 in literacy. In terms...
by Larry Shultz | Feb 4, 2024 | Biology, Ecology, Human and Civil rights, MPP, NET non-equilibrium thermodynamics and life, Public Policy
https://www.unm.edu/%7Ejdelong/delong2008oik.pdf
by Larry Shultz | Feb 4, 2024 | Biodiversity, Democracy, Education, Human and Civil rights, Public Health, Public Policy, US West
Bundyville: The Remnant – Longreads
by Larry Shultz | Feb 3, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Democracy, Education, Human and Civil rights, Neuroeconomics, Public Policy
I must say, the USA believes the friggin wholesale business is by definition orders of magnitude morally superior to retail. We also think Christianity is superior to Judaism. When Jews try their hand at our business, we have some strong pre-existing blood libel...
by Larry Shultz | Feb 3, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Biodiversity, Biology, Biophysical Economics, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy, Epigenetics, Evolution, Genetics, Human and Civil rights, Neuroeconomics, Pseudoscience, Public Health, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized, US West
A Religion of Life | Do the Math (ucsd.edu) We are a story telling species. Stories about “god s” gave selective advantage to groups, who developed greater internal altruism. It rolled the dice in their favor in out group competition and aided in in group...
by Larry Shultz | Feb 1, 2024 | Climate, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Human and Civil rights, Public Health, Public Policy
Just over a third think higher education is a net win. 40% think it isa a zero-sum game (with student loans) and just over a fifth think it is a less than zero sum game, thus it provides negative utility. Honestly, many people attend and thus have no earnings for a...
