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.
ah cool that you uploaded 7000 books: did not do that myself. A good tip for next time :)
What do you mean by "decreasing priority"?
I was struggling with the filters UX:
- the age is capped at 75 years
- Ratings/reviews take the 90th percentile (like a median) of your book set
This last one ensured the filters would be more dynamic. If you had a book with 100k ratings, it would have been hard to use the slider (as this was linear). Any suggestions to change the UX?
Before you could only target a lower limit. But for more functionality, I had the idea to add a max and min. However, this combination does now work
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.
School is a must for every kid. However, the form that our current education system takes is absurd. It is barely appropriate for a minority of students. Much less all of them. There are so many better education systems in the world with amazing results and we refuse to make ours better.
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
A thread on Gelman's article is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22006595.