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https://reason.com/2023/11/27/charter-schools-get-less-funding-but-achieve-similar-test-scores-to-public-schools/
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confounding factors abound. E.g. this could be due to mere selection effects (parents that care about education pick a charter school) or socioeconomic factors like the network that charter parents have access to.
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do agree there should be more experimentation in education. But it's always important to be intellectually honest about the difference between P(x | y) and P(x | do(y))
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can i just say how much i love that you responded with an equation??! can we be irl frens?
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Haha only if you can tell me what it means
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friendship tests? i’m here for it. first one is what’s the probability of x happening if y already exists, the second is causal inference. so if you actively set y vs passively observe. ok your turn what type of chord is this?
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There has been some debate but we’ve come up with F half diminished seventh I’m afraid this might be a rocky start
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haha no it’s ok! i was being purposefully difficult (surprise surprise!) but it’s called a tristan chord and it’s any time there is an augmented 4th, 6th and 9th above the base.
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I even asked my very musical mother and sister and they were no help haha
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hahah fred’s a much better name for it tbh. i vote for fred too
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