At least lately, it's become pretty obvious that WaPo and NYT are feeding us crap on a regular basis. If you go look at the source materials, you'll realize that their "neutral" summaries aren't close to neutral, or aren't factual at all. Many times you don't even have to go to the source--the articles/headlines themselves aren't even internally consistent. ("Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong...")
Maybe it was always this way, and I never noticed.
Personally, I cannot be productive in a noisy environment (sans headphones), and I most definitely cannot be productive pair programming. (Or, good god, mob programming.) Yes, I've tried it.
I've been on one or two interviews where this requirement was brought up. For the common good, I just excuse myself.
It seems possible that some people can actually produce good results via pair programming, but I'm not aware of any examples myself.
So you think that if we don't promote science that studies the heritability of intelligence as it pertains to race, it will lead to genocide?
I can't prove it empirically but evidence suggests Noah Carl is trash; cultural items, ideas, or objects of poor quality. Note, there is nothing in the science that rules this out. But it is clear Noah Carl has a keen interest in race IQ science. But take a look at his cv (https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/204775...) that's not all he is interested in.
> A global analysis of Islamist violence
> Net opposition to immigrants of different nationalities correlates strongly with their arrest rates in the UK
Hmmm, I wonder why it's so important to Noah to establish a heritable basis for IQ. It's hard to look at Carl's work in good faith and not see that he might not be the best voice on the historically troubled subject of the heritability of IQ and race.
I feel it irresponsible to investigate the topic without a sense of caution. It's hard to understate how horrifying the effects of scientific racism have been in the past century alone. Based on his viewpoint and lack of attention to environment factors, it seems likely Carl is trying to weaponize the topic against other groups of people. IQ science is barely ready to be used in the policy arena. Heritable differences between races can be an interesting topic. But the people, like Carl, who are constantly drawn to the heritability of IQ between races have to be viewed with a high degree of suspicion.
Try getting rejected at the final executive approval (i.e., their magic eight-ball) after passing the in-person day and the hiring committee.
Once you've seen the inside of the hiring process, you'll never take this stuff personally again. It's utter garbage. At best, the process manages to select for a few traits that are probably useful, while de-selecting for others they didn't realize were crucial for ultimate success.
If you doubt this, ask yourself how one of the tightest hiring sieves in the world managed to produce Google+.
There was one company I applied to, for which I passed the screening and the technical interview, that I got a "Welcome Aboard" email from which also included paperwork for getting started. I just needed to meet the CEO as a last step, but they told me it was basically a formality and that I was hired.
I arrived on time and was told to wait outside the CEO's office. Through the wall, I could hear him talking to someone over the phone about football and what flavor chicken wings he wanted to have ordered and delivered to him. I sat there for 25 minutes hearing his muffled dudebro voice ramble on as if his schedule was clear for the day.
Finally, he let me in. At least he remembered my name. I told him why I wanted to work for Acme Corporation and the skills I planned on bringing to the table. He told me almost nothing and had me out of there in less than 10 minutes.
Not even an hour after I left did I receive an email from the same HR person who told me "Welcome Aboard!" that they wouldn't be moving me forward in the hiring process. It was one of the most devastating moments in my life because that initial email and the phone call I got after was a sign that my shitty life was finally going to turn around.
It did help teach me a good lesson that I would learn multiple times(with much softer landings) later on, which is that most people involved in hiring don't know what the hell they're doing and that just because a company makes a lot of money doesn't mean that forms of insanity aren't baked into their processes. You've just got to let rejections roll off you.
