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Re:Biology is the New Tech: Letter from a conference on CRISPR by soberhoff on Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:02PM (#20548186)
What are we even arguing over? Is it just over the exact percentage of signaling in education's payoff?
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Re:Biology is the New Tech: Letter from a conference on CRISPR by Hermitian909 on Sunday July 28, 2019 @01:26PM (#20548705)
I thought we were arguing over two things:

How much value is created through publicly funded education beyond basic literacy and numeracy, which Caplan cedes.

Whether Caplan's proposed changes to the education system are good ones.

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Re:Biology is the New Tech: Letter from a conference on CRISPR by soberhoff on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:01AM (#20552991)
Regarding the first point, Caplan personally estimates that about 80% of education is signalling and that 30% is the lowest figure one can plausibly maintain.

As for the second point, I wouldn't bet my life on it. But I think the case is strong enough that experimental measures in that direction are warranted.

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