There's a massive incentive to *find something* if you're paying to have a check done... if you get nothing reported then the value of the test seems to be nothing. If you are told to be "at risk" for some condition then you can go to your friends and tell them that you had no idea and that it was so worth it and that now you can take steps... and that perhaps they should get tested too. The best part is that if you're just reported to be "at risk", rather than an actual diagnosis, there's almost no need for accuracy. If you never develop the condition it will be far in the future, and/or you got 'lucky'.
Yep, just what I was thinking while I read the article. Additionally, high false positive rates, if not detected, eventually result in high intervention and prevention rates making the service look more effective than it actually is.
Is the Republican stable genius proposing to raise taxes and tighten tax laws on corporations? Is he going to reign in tax avoidance practices? I wonder what his party think of this?
Most of these teachers will do the CPD, learn how to teach a little bit of Apple's coding curriculum, and say they're happy and have learned a lot from it. Only a few will go on to incorporate it into their classes (Apple's curriculum isn't on the Common Core, after all). Those teachers that do dedicate some of their own and their students' time to teaching the curriculum will have to divert their time from elsewhere on the compulsory curriculum. Some core concepts and skills will inevitably bet less attention and, as a result, shallower learning. Whether this shows up in any test scores or not depends on how far the teacher and students went and whether they could compensate for the lost time. There'll probably be no discernible drop in test scores but there won't be any gain either. The reason: Programming/writing code is an entirely non-transferable skill. Again, most teachers, whatever they say in feedback and press releases, will be smart enough to stick to developing their students' literacy, numeracy, and study skills and covering the state mandated curricula to make sure that their students perform well academically.
any mindfulness about what one eats will lead to a healthier person
That's true up to a point. The placebo effect isn't magical and it can't do anything that isn't medically possible, e.g. making consumed calories disappear, thereby not making you gain weight, or compensating for unbalanced diets where there are insufficient nutrients, e.g. not enough micro-nutrients in some commercial weight-loss diets. Placebos only trigger physiological responses that our bodies have evolved to give.
...announcing their latest surveillance strategy, an "always on" microphone in your home amid current media exposure about their poor/incompetent data privacy practices.
Who'da thunk it'd be so easy to get people to pay for and install bugging devices themselves?
Anyway, too late Facebook. Amazon got there first.
Yes, sugar pills would be a decent first round of treatment, except for they'd stop working if everybody knew that was what was happening.
You'd think so but that's not actually true. Even when patients know that they're taking a placebo, their bodies usually produce the expected physiological responses as if it were the treatment. The effect is stronger when applied in a medical clinic, by people who look and sound like doctors, and the treatment is very expensive. Additionally, if the placebo is a pill, red placebos are more effective than blue placebos, unless you're Italian, in which case blue placebos are more effective. The placebo effect is a weird thing.
That acupuncture works better than placebo: This is not the case. You have to look at more than a single study. At a bare minimum, studies have to be replicated and then aggregates taken from several replicated studies have to be weighed and analysed in meta-studies before coming to tentative conclusion. Also, it's necessary to establish durations and intensities of treatment, side effects, risks, etc., in order for doctors to calculate/estimate whether it's going to be worthwhile for each particular patient/s conditions.
That acupuncture is scientific: Apart from the failure to conclusively disprove the null hypothesis, generally speaking, there's also the issue that acupuncture doesn't have a disprovable hypothesis in the first place. The whole idea of acupuncture is incoherent and falls firmly into the category of magical thinking.
Acupuncture is bunk, plain and simple. Believers are entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts. Public funds should never be diverted away from evidence-based, effective treatments to hocus pocus quackery "cures." Those peddling snake-oil and deceiving gullible members of the public need to be taken to task over this. It's not always provable fraud but often it is but victims are usually unwilling to prosecute for a variety of reasons, including shame or denial.
We're supposed to be living in the 21st century, right?
Lost me with the bit about acupuncture. It's pseudoscience. What kind of self-respecting scientist speculates about something that's been effectively disproved, i.e. they've failed to disprove the null hypothesis?
OK, Facebook sucks but then so do Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Oracle, etc.. We're supposed to believe that the internet is a revolutionary force for good and that it's making the world a better place. Yeah, right. Keep drinking the cool-aid https://youtu.be/4tLvzyb3_Uc?t...
As far as I know, Google hasn't enabled the election of a moron to president like Facebook has. Everything else, I can forgive.
Well, it's a good job Facebook failed and that America elected its current stable genius. Yes, he's doing a lot of harm but that the world (and by "the world" I mean "Murica" because that's all there is, right?) hasn't ended already is testament to how little actual power POTUS' have.
What's the biggest privacy abusing data collector of them all? -- It's not Facebook or Google or Microsoft, etc.. It's your ISP. The only way you can stop them is to use a VPN but in the past they've even found ways to "tag" your encrypted packets so that they can identify them as you wherever you go and then sell that information to 3rd parties.
Correction: Apple and Google are competing for your tax dollars to defund effective teaching practices and materials, to siphon them off into corporate tax havens, regardless of whether the replacement teaching practices and materials are at all effective.
BTW, a 2015 OECD study http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789... found a negative correlation between ICT use in K-12 schools and academic outcomes, i.e. literacy, maths, science, etc..
Looks like consumers who unwittingly buy non-Hooli, sorry, I mean non-Google phones and tablets are going to find out the advantages and disadvantages of F-Droid https://f-droid.org/ sooner or later. No, you can't get the Facebook or Twitter apps, which you might regard as a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what you want to do with your phone/tablet and how much you value your privacy.
Sorry, that was Facebook's. Here's Twitter's https://twitter.com/en/tos And don't forget to keep checking that one for changes too. Did I say Twitter? Oh no, I meant Google Drive's https://www.google.com/drive/t... And yeah, keep checking that one too. Oh, and don't forget to check GMail's ToS too, since you need a GMail account to use Google Drive: http://www.google.com/intl/en/... That should keep you busy for a while.
OK, here it is: https://www.facebook.com/legal... Oh, and don't forget to keep checking up on it and re-reading it in case they've changed something, which they can do at any time.
And BTW, ToS aren't for users, they're there to create legal loopholes to evade legal action against Facebook.
...because your experiences, thoughts, and opinions are representative of the 2 billion people using Facebook. If you don't want to use it then of course they shouldn't either, right?
Yeah, and all those people who get ripped off by pyramid and ponzi schemes had it comin', the suckers! Let's deny the obligation of governments to look after the best interests of their populations (AKA the "social contract") and leave everyone hanging out to dry. Anyone who dumb enough to get victimised deserves it, right?
Just had a thought. Nowadays, the Chinese are buying up loads of stuff in the US including companies. What if the Chinese govt. bought Facebook and all their data, outright?
Well, you got me there. Your current administration are doing more harm than good. The regimes in some other countries will probably be more competent. How about we get Norway to nationalise Facebook?
Ah, you mean like the GDPR in the EU? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Yeah, it's a good step in the right direction. Alternatively, just nationalise Facebook? Imagine how people would feel about sharing their personal information with the US gubbermint?
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Also, is there no regulatory requirement to report/publish error margins in medical testing services?
There's a massive incentive to *find something* if you're paying to have a check done... if you get nothing reported then the value of the test seems to be nothing. If you are told to be "at risk" for some condition then you can go to your friends and tell them that you had no idea and that it was so worth it and that now you can take steps... and that perhaps they should get tested too. The best part is that if you're just reported to be "at risk", rather than an actual diagnosis, there's almost no need for accuracy. If you never develop the condition it will be far in the future, and/or you got 'lucky'.
Yep, just what I was thinking while I read the article. Additionally, high false positive rates, if not detected, eventually result in high intervention and prevention rates making the service look more effective than it actually is.
Is the Republican stable genius proposing to raise taxes and tighten tax laws on corporations? Is he going to reign in tax avoidance practices? I wonder what his party think of this?
That's their responses to a survey. Let's check their phone records to find out what they're actually doing.
Most of these teachers will do the CPD, learn how to teach a little bit of Apple's coding curriculum, and say they're happy and have learned a lot from it. Only a few will go on to incorporate it into their classes (Apple's curriculum isn't on the Common Core, after all). Those teachers that do dedicate some of their own and their students' time to teaching the curriculum will have to divert their time from elsewhere on the compulsory curriculum. Some core concepts and skills will inevitably bet less attention and, as a result, shallower learning. Whether this shows up in any test scores or not depends on how far the teacher and students went and whether they could compensate for the lost time. There'll probably be no discernible drop in test scores but there won't be any gain either. The reason: Programming/writing code is an entirely non-transferable skill. Again, most teachers, whatever they say in feedback and press releases, will be smart enough to stick to developing their students' literacy, numeracy, and study skills and covering the state mandated curricula to make sure that their students perform well academically.
any mindfulness about what one eats will lead to a healthier person
That's true up to a point. The placebo effect isn't magical and it can't do anything that isn't medically possible, e.g. making consumed calories disappear, thereby not making you gain weight, or compensating for unbalanced diets where there are insufficient nutrients, e.g. not enough micro-nutrients in some commercial weight-loss diets. Placebos only trigger physiological responses that our bodies have evolved to give.
...announcing their latest surveillance strategy, an "always on" microphone in your home amid current media exposure about their poor/incompetent data privacy practices.
Who'da thunk it'd be so easy to get people to pay for and install bugging devices themselves?
Anyway, too late Facebook. Amazon got there first.
Yes, sugar pills would be a decent first round of treatment, except for they'd stop working if everybody knew that was what was happening.
You'd think so but that's not actually true. Even when patients know that they're taking a placebo, their bodies usually produce the expected physiological responses as if it were the treatment. The effect is stronger when applied in a medical clinic, by people who look and sound like doctors, and the treatment is very expensive. Additionally, if the placebo is a pill, red placebos are more effective than blue placebos, unless you're Italian, in which case blue placebos are more effective. The placebo effect is a weird thing.
Two points to address:
That acupuncture works better than placebo: This is not the case. You have to look at more than a single study. At a bare minimum, studies have to be replicated and then aggregates taken from several replicated studies have to be weighed and analysed in meta-studies before coming to tentative conclusion. Also, it's necessary to establish durations and intensities of treatment, side effects, risks, etc., in order for doctors to calculate/estimate whether it's going to be worthwhile for each particular patient/s conditions.
That acupuncture is scientific: Apart from the failure to conclusively disprove the null hypothesis, generally speaking, there's also the issue that acupuncture doesn't have a disprovable hypothesis in the first place. The whole idea of acupuncture is incoherent and falls firmly into the category of magical thinking.
Acupuncture is bunk, plain and simple. Believers are entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts. Public funds should never be diverted away from evidence-based, effective treatments to hocus pocus quackery "cures." Those peddling snake-oil and deceiving gullible members of the public need to be taken to task over this. It's not always provable fraud but often it is but victims are usually unwilling to prosecute for a variety of reasons, including shame or denial.
We're supposed to be living in the 21st century, right?
Lost me with the bit about acupuncture. It's pseudoscience. What kind of self-respecting scientist speculates about something that's been effectively disproved, i.e. they've failed to disprove the null hypothesis?
OK, Facebook sucks but then so do Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Oracle, etc.. We're supposed to believe that the internet is a revolutionary force for good and that it's making the world a better place. Yeah, right. Keep drinking the cool-aid https://youtu.be/4tLvzyb3_Uc?t...
As far as I know, Google hasn't enabled the election of a moron to president like Facebook has. Everything else, I can forgive.
Well, it's a good job Facebook failed and that America elected its current stable genius. Yes, he's doing a lot of harm but that the world (and by "the world" I mean "Murica" because that's all there is, right?) hasn't ended already is testament to how little actual power POTUS' have.
What's the biggest privacy abusing data collector of them all? -- It's not Facebook or Google or Microsoft, etc.. It's your ISP. The only way you can stop them is to use a VPN but in the past they've even found ways to "tag" your encrypted packets so that they can identify them as you wherever you go and then sell that information to 3rd parties.
Correction: Apple and Google are competing for your tax dollars to defund effective teaching practices and materials, to siphon them off into corporate tax havens, regardless of whether the replacement teaching practices and materials are at all effective.
BTW, a 2015 OECD study http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789... found a negative correlation between ICT use in K-12 schools and academic outcomes, i.e. literacy, maths, science, etc..
Please don't tell me you didn't see this coming.
Looks like consumers who unwittingly buy non-Hooli, sorry, I mean non-Google phones and tablets are going to find out the advantages and disadvantages of F-Droid https://f-droid.org/ sooner or later. No, you can't get the Facebook or Twitter apps, which you might regard as a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what you want to do with your phone/tablet and how much you value your privacy.
Well, gosh darn it if they haven't just proven the availability heuristic yet again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sorry, that was Facebook's. Here's Twitter's https://twitter.com/en/tos And don't forget to keep checking that one for changes too. Did I say Twitter? Oh no, I meant Google Drive's https://www.google.com/drive/t... And yeah, keep checking that one too. Oh, and don't forget to check GMail's ToS too, since you need a GMail account to use Google Drive: http://www.google.com/intl/en/... That should keep you busy for a while.
OK, here it is: https://www.facebook.com/legal... Oh, and don't forget to keep checking up on it and re-reading it in case they've changed something, which they can do at any time.
And BTW, ToS aren't for users, they're there to create legal loopholes to evade legal action against Facebook.
...because your experiences, thoughts, and opinions are representative of the 2 billion people using Facebook. If you don't want to use it then of course they shouldn't either, right?
Yeah, and all those people who get ripped off by pyramid and ponzi schemes had it comin', the suckers! Let's deny the obligation of governments to look after the best interests of their populations (AKA the "social contract") and leave everyone hanging out to dry. Anyone who dumb enough to get victimised deserves it, right?
Ok, good points. Then, let's get Norway or Finland to regulate Facebook for the rest of us. How about it?
Just had a thought. Nowadays, the Chinese are buying up loads of stuff in the US including companies. What if the Chinese govt. bought Facebook and all their data, outright?
Well, you got me there. Your current administration are doing more harm than good. The regimes in some other countries will probably be more competent. How about we get Norway to nationalise Facebook?
Ah, you mean like the GDPR in the EU? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Yeah, it's a good step in the right direction. Alternatively, just nationalise Facebook? Imagine how people would feel about sharing their personal information with the US gubbermint?