Emile comments on Open Thread: April 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Zubon 04 April 2010 05:31:09PM 17 points [-]

Example of teachers not getting past Guessing the Teacher's Password: debating teachers on the value of pi. Via Gelman.

Comment author: Emile 08 April 2010 03:38:44PM 1 point [-]

Quite depressing. Makes me even less likely to have my kids educated in the states. I wonder how bad Europe is on that count? Is it really better here? It can be hard to tell from inside; correcting for the fact that most info I get is biased one way or the other leaves me with pretty wide confidence intervals.