Andrew Gelman: "No, I don’t think that this study offers good evidence that installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits."
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/01/09/no-i-dont-... (Adding this older link here for cross reference)
Just tested with 7000 books in the want-to-read list so passes the scalability test. Recommendations in decreasing priority:
1. Age > 75 is important, many older but super valuable books didn't show up as a result. Upto 200 years ago is good enough but we'd still miss Aristotle etc.
2. Ratings and Reviews should also have a higher or infinite upper bound, I'm not sure how the front end would look.
Agreed. The uniform thought that school is good and a must for each kid is an issue. Education in the pure sense is a good thing but assuming that schools will find a way to educate each child optimally is tough. There's a lot more nuance and effort needed, especially from parents.
I also feel that children's intuition's are mostly correct about things that are wrong with school and should be trusted more.
This is a tough phase. Children do fight hard to find themselves but they get done in by an authoritative and somewhat disingenuous system that puts them into a mimetic compliant attitude rather than the way they used to act when they were 4 or 5 years of age - their golden age of discovery.
My take is that children need more attention than ever when they've kind of disconnected from the world but the attention needs to be extremely competent as well as caring - a really tough combination.
I heard this recently - "For the median student, the education system mostly wants to make the student do things they don't want to do. It's not about helping them achieve their goals more easily or more effectively. For the most part, it's about achieving goals that aren't theirs" https://youtu.be/dmeRQN9z504?si=AWqDy3cHhgh5oa_Q&t=12
Related link https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/ covers Hypersonics, Beginner's Guide to Kites, Kid's Page explaining how airplanes and jet engines work, Beginner's Guide to Model Rockets, Beginner's Guide to Propulsion, Aerodynamics of Baseball, Aerodynamics of Soccer. It has some repetition with respect to the main link.
A thread on Gelman's article is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22006595.