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An Algorithm Set Students’ Grades—and Altered Their Futures
The International Baccalaureate program canceled its high-stakes exam because of Covid-19. The formula it used to "predict" scores puzzles students and teachers.
Rory Sutherland
Interesting in its implications.......
wired.com/story/algorith… via @wired
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First Aston Martin DB5 Goldfinger Continuation rolls off production line | MTD MFG
Many of the UK’s most talented craftspeople and engineers put the finishing touches to the first in a new but very familiar series of Aston Martin sports cars, as the first customer car in the DB5 Goldfinger Continuation programme left the...
The Spectator is growing - and hiring | The Spectator
The Spectator is recruiting, which doesn’t happen often. Our sales have grown in a way that we did not expect during the Covid crisis which is why we are returning our furlough money to the government. Our growth has continued: a quarter of our...
Rory Sutherland
The Spectator is growing - and hiring
spectator.co.uk/article/the-sp… via @spectator
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Education secretary abandons Tony Blair's policy to send 50 per cent of young people to university
‘It exasperates me that there is still an inbuilt snobbishness about higher being somehow better than further,’ Gavin Williamson says
Saying yes slowly is what’s hampering progress today | The Spectator
Matt Ridley focuses on the hugely cumbersome process involved in turning discovery into useful innovation
Finally, we’re unboxing the teleporter | The Spectator
This week’s Wiki Man may read a bit oddly. You see, I haven’t ‘written’ it at all; I’ve dictated it into a kind of dictaphone (an Olympus LS-P4, at £130, needlessly expensive for the purpose, but that’s how I roll) and then uploaded the audio file...
Rory Sutherland
Finally, we’re unboxing the teleporter - my Wiki Man this week:
spectator.co.uk/article/finall… via @spectator
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The Complicated vs the Complex: Very Different Types of Experts | Doug Garnett's Blog
It has been mystifying for me how respect for experts has waned over the past decade. Bringing in experienced people, respected for their expertise, seems like
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Rory Sutherland
The ‘class size paradox’: How individual- and group-level perspectives differ and why it matters by @_StephKramer link.medium.com/OXFNENT6R7
Paradox also applies to, say, train overcrowding.
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Higher Ed: Enough Already | No Mercy / No Malice
5-min read
US university presidents and chancellors, enough already.
It’s time to end the consensual...
Table talk with Rory Sutherland – plus a breakfast kedgeree recipe | Spectator Life
The Spectator’s ‘Wiki Man’ columnist shares the dishes and cuisines that have influenced him most.
With Rory Sutherland | Table Talk | The Spectator
Rory Sutherland is the vice-chairman of the renowned advertising firm, Ogilvy, and the Spectator's 'Wiki Man' columnist. On the podcast, he talks to Lara and Olivia about everything and anything from the dreadful British food of the 70s, why he...
Rory Sutherland
Table Talk With the fabulous Cindy Yu:
spectator.co.uk/podcast/with-r… via @spectator
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Sacramento Superior Court Department 24
Rory Sutherland
EAR/ONS or the "Golden State Killer" live plea now online live:
youtube.com/watch?v=dlHiJ-…
(for true-life crime/followers of this case only).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_St…
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Golden State Killer - Wikipedia
Rory Sutherland
EAR/ONS or the "Golden State Killer" live plea now online live:
youtube.com/watch?v=dlHiJ-…
(for true-life crime/followers of this case only).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_St…
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What if Oxford PPE graduates on TV were made to wear pink conical hats? | The Spectator
You can’t discuss racial inequality without using the N-word. And you can’t debate social justice without adding the C-word and the F-word as well.
In this case the N-word is Nepotism, the C-word is Credentialism and the F-word is Favouritism.
What...
Rory Sutherland
What if Oxford PPE graduates on TV were made to wear pink conical hats?
My Wiki Man this week.
spectator.co.uk/article/what-i… via @spectator
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This Week in Startups - Audio: E1077: “Alchemy” Author Rory Sutherland on the Darwinian approach to business, analyzing outliers, why eccentric CEOs have a psychological advantage with customers & more! on Apple Podcasts
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