Andrew Kenneth Gay (he/him)

I very randomly read this and loved it.

Higher Ed in a nutshell. My god.

Americans Have One Very Strange Cognitive Bias Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The People.

“In 2022, YouGov asked “What percentage of Americans do you think are ___?”

The results were hilarious.

Trans: 21%
Muslim: 27%
Jewish: 30%
Black: 41%
Live in NYC: 30%
Gay or lesbian: 30%

The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...

A Sense of Freedom: Filmmaker and Teacher Bart Weiss Talks About his Book "Smartphone Cinema" | Interviews | Roger Ebert An interview with the North Texas filmmaker, film programmer, and teacher about his first book.

If you are a filmmaker or know any filmmakers, I hope you will share this interview with my friend and mentor Bart Weiss, about the revolution in cinema that is coming about because of the smartphone. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/a...

Is it the flu or is it COVID? One at-home test can tell you If you've got a fever, cough, aches and pains, and you're wondering, 'what virus got me this time?" Now you can find out, without taking a trip to the doctor.

If you've got a fever, cough, aches and pains, and you're wondering, 'what virus got me this time?" Now you can find out, without taking a trip to the doctor.

Cover of Discourse in Method and The Meditations featuring a portrait of Descartes with googly eyes added.

Cover of The Critique of Pure Reason featuring a portrait of Kant with googly eyes added.

Cover of Utilitarianism featuring a portrait of Mill with googly eyes added.

Cover of The Tractatus featuring a portrait of a very young Wittgenstein with googly eyes added.

5 years ago almost to the day, I got a large delivery of googly eyes to my office…

The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price NBER Working Paper No. 33164 November 2024 JEL No. 123, 124, N32 ABSTRACT We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research

Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it

www.nber.org/system/files...

In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it

This looks like soulless crap. Why @cocacolagb.bsky.social?

Hmm. I may have followed too many starter packs too quickly.