California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide

Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by friedman23 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:23PM (#29324863)

How many people that are good at math and love science / engineering decide to go into politics? I'm just talking without evidence but my guess is politics self selects for ambitious people that are completely inept when it comes to mathematics and critical thinking in general.

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by robotburrito on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:29PM (#29324942)

I think quite a bit. Congress regularly beats high end Wall Street investors when it comes to playing the equities market. This involves a great deal of understanding on mathematics topics involving everything from stats, probability and economics. They manage to do this part time while governing, so I'd have to say they are pretty adept.

I could be missing something though.

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by flatline-84 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:33PM (#29324984)

Insider trading is what you're missing. As evidenced by the March 2020 dump

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by quickthrowman on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @07:42PM (#29325612)

Uh, what? The sharp drop in equities in February and March 2020 was a massive deleveraging caused by panic selling and leveraged traders being margin called.

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by carom on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:52PM (#29325180)

I really hate sarcasm tags and I really appreciate this comment.

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by friedman23 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:34PM (#29324990)

> I think quite a bit. Congress regularly beats high end Wall Street investors when it comes to playing the equities market

Politicians are not using math to decide which stocks to pick, they are using insider information.

edit: ok, it's clear that the parent comment was sarcasm now but you never know

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by lordnacho on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:52PM (#29325183)

Are you not able to see the special font that sarcastic comments are rendered in?

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by giantg2 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:57PM (#29325238)

I suppose it's a disability of mine.

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by dilyevsky on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @06:51PM (#29325163)

No they dont - they already thoroughly investigated themselves

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by alephr on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @07:55PM (#29325717)

Is there any evidence for this or is this just trendy and shallow politician hate?

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by 2muchcoffeeman on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @07:09PM (#29325334)

https://hundred.org/en/innovations/student-government-lotter...

99pi did a story on this some time ago. Having an election means that kids who are shy or not popular miss out. But who would otherwise have valuable skills and want to contribute. So randomly selecting kids but giving them an out if they don’t like the job ended up working really well.

Can this be applied to government???

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Re:California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th gra... by Glyptodon on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @08:02PM (#29325772)

Sortition is classic and worth trying in modern times.

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