I was AI before AI was cool!
Quite and I think it’s because post-secondary education has been turned into a paper mill instead of higher learning.
Publish or die, as they say.
I’ll make three observations:
1. If you watch/read news a good bit...you probably sit there at least once a day...noting some expert/PhD-type who is duping BS, and not that clever/smart. The CNN/Fox/MSNBC crowd advanced these people in the past 20 years...giving them a platform...was the wrong thing to do.
2. I was within the military structure in the 1990s (coming out of school in 1977) and clearly noticed that high school kids entering service were lacking. I have no idea what they do in high schools today...but it appears they hit the peak by the 7th grade.
3. PhD-level status is a 50-50 proposition these days. I’d hate to tell some idiot they spent $250k for eight years of college and a quarter of the people at Burger King are at their mental level of knowledge and capability.
Free Markets are self adjusting. When Government gets involved, however, all bets are off. You get silly things like D.I.E. implemented. (Diversity Inclusion Equality). Injecting Government into our schools is likely the biggest mistake America has ever made .
It’s not germane to the serious topic on the near worthlessness of most American higher education and it doesn’t befit anyone to comment on anyone’s resemblance...but doesn’t Gay resemble Tooter the turtle with glasses?
as long as people get jobs without merit we will see lots of these idiots in positions of power....
It isn’t about how good your ideas are. It is how well you play the game.
Like many things in our culture, it depends on who’s doing it.
“Trump & his movement must be countered strongly and stopped.”
Government power to tax and to control must be reduced by constitutional amendments.
Montgomery Ward and Sears were once retail kings.
Universities can fall from grace too.
Even if one cites others’ papers, junk in those papers just gets recycled by being cited, and then your paper gets cited, etc. It feeds on itself so garbage ends up becoming accepted as real information.
“In college and having finished a class paper much earlier than everyone else, the professor assigned me the task of finding plagiarism in other student papers.”
As a nineteen year old majoring in History at a major American university, I was required to submit a Junior Year study (of thirty pages or longer). Frankly, I was too young to be able to propose anything new or novel. Thus, I knew I had to “fake it.” It was, simply put, an exercise in plagiarism, and everyone knew it.
Academia is a cesspool of les incompetentes.
But the pattern is similar as to what is described here. Statistics are used to reach the desired conclusions. The papers have obvious flaws in selection bias and confirmation bias. The math is not easy to follow, there are contradictions which are not explained. The raw data is not available.
The papers are published in an obscure journal where the management has emotional attachments to the subject (bears) which cause an obvious bias.
The papers are hailed as absolute truth by the media and by interest groups who are emotionally and financially benefiting from the false conclusions.
The bias against carefully reporting results, and in publishing what are the desired results, has very likely resulted in the deaths of 7 or 8 people who relied on the results as valid.
This is a very small example, but it indicates how wide the corruption has spread. A huge amount, probably much more than 50% of academic papers are not reliable.
It's a pervasive con. Academics cloak their blather in impenetrable language in order to conceal how little actual thought is contained in it. Mediocre minds are going into academia, using corruption and cronyism to secure revenue from government grant issuers.
In exchange, what they really are doing is not exploring knowledge, but rather indoctrinating students, and performing filtering to ensure that conservatives do not get into positions of power.
Higher education is anything but. The more prestigious the dumber you come out.
Gay retained her $900k salary and still holds a job at the Cambridge campus so what was the punishment? She lost a title?
Corruption in all our institutions is a problem.
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I was AI before AI was cool!
Its a byproduct of affirmative action.