I did the Yale equivalent (DS) and I remember we made fun of Harvard copying it. But both programs have been oversubscribed for years (Yale even offered preadmission into DS program as an incentive to some prefrosh), no matter how much people want to put an anti-AI spin on this phenomenon.

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Tbh I think the problem is less cranks and more just "assholes". Like this is just asshole behavior.

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Hofstadter did not stop to consider that there really are forces at work that the public doesn't understand, and although they can sense them they're too stupid and lazy to understand them so instead they invent dumb conspiracies to explain them away

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We all know that there's no such thing as a perfect assessment of ability but that some tests are better than others at measuring it. The only thing left to argue is exactly how good the best tests are.

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standardized tests are the worst measurement of student ability, except for every other method we've tried

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