Do I need to dig up my presidential predictions?

[Arnold]

He's calling you stupid.

Actually he said you're too stupid to know you're stupid.

Yeah, and he is a genius.

 

[LAM]

The Democrats got smart and put him up in 08 which guaranteed him two terms because of the black,hispanic and women vote regardless of whether or not he is actually good for the country.

I think your ride to school just pulled up outside. do the world a favor and use protection every time you have sex.

 

[flcrkr]

Sorry just a small business owner that has seen it get progressively worse over the last four years and I don't needa magic
crystal ball to know that we will continue down the same path with the current president we have. I know you are gonna
spew some bullshit about some report that you looked up online dating back to the early 1900's that's the reason that we are in the situation we are in now just to try and make yourself look so much smarter and more informed than everyone else. You and your google reports won't even equal a pimple on the ass of life when it is all said and done. It is up to the administration in office to steer the country in the right direction and I don't have confidence in the current administration
Oh and by the way its not a race thing. I couldn't care less what color or religious belief the president is as long as he is doing whats best for the country.

 

[Gissurjon]

Dunning-Kruger effect

The Dunning-Kruger effect occurs when incompetent people not only fail to realise their incompetence, but consider themselves much more competent than everyone else. Basically - they're too stupid to know that they're stupid.



The Dunning-Kruger effect is a slightly more specific case of the bias known as illusory superiority, where people tend to overestimate their good points compared to others. The effect has been shown by experiment in several ways. Dunning and Kruger tested students on a series of criteria such as humour, grammar, and logic and compared the actual test results with each student's estimations of their performance. Those who scored lowest on the test, in the bottom quartile, were found to have "grossly overestimated" their scores.


He's calling you stupid.

Wasn't there a study made on American students compared to other students that showed exactly this? The American students scored lower but were largely convinced that they had scored better than they did.

and don't we call that patriotism, lol

 

[DOMS]

Wasn't there a study made on American students compared to other students that showed exactly this? The American students scored lower but were largely convinced that they had scored better than they did.

and don't we call that patriotism, lol

The difference between Western cultures and the rest, is that, in education, our main focus is on problem solving. In the other cultures, it's on rote memorization. That's largely why upwards of 90% of all major discoveries and inventions in the last 100 years have come from Western countries.

It's called being better than others.

 

[LAM]

The difference between Western cultures and the rest, is that, in education, our main focus is on problem solving. In the other cultures, it's on rote memorization.

but it's not ask anybody in education, dozens of my friends from HS are in education at every level and is this is their biggest complaint along with the fact that US schools are just too easy in general. critical thinking is exactly what is NOT being taught in US schools, it's a pseudo form of it. the US education is what you said it wasn't mostly memorization, they teach to pass tests in HS and college.

the PISA has named the US specifically in this area of education.

 

[DOMS]

but it's not ask anybody in education, dozens of my friends from HS are in education at every level and is this is their biggest complaint along with the fact that US schools are just too easy in general. critical thinking is exactly what is NOT being taught in US schools, it's a pseudo form of it. the US education is what you said it wasn't mostly memorization, they teach to pass tests in HS and college.

the PISA has named the US specifically in this area of education.

I have children in school right now. They've gone to school in two states. The majority of them had "how do you overcome/fix this?" stuff. I'm sure that not all schools are like this. Especially in lower income areas, but it's indicative of what I've heard from friends in other states that have kids.

American has historically scored low on international scales in education. That hasn't stopped us from being responsible for the vast majority of the world's modern inventions and discoveries.

 

[Little Wing]

the only problem solving in my son's homework is his math. it's been that way every year. it's almost all memorization. the biggest problem solving stuff is what he researches on his own, you cannot depend on a school for that. public schools have been too easy for at least the last 15 years that i know of. huge difference from what we did in school and what kids i had at 30 and 36 do. public school is a cakewalk to get funding by meeting standards.

 

[cshea2]

It depends on the school district, and how motivated the student is. School is to easy, then get in to advanced placement classes. Most of the kids I went to school with were only concerned with getting high grades, rather than thinking about how they can apply what they learned to the real world. I don't hear many people complaining about graduate school being insultingly easy.

 

[bio-chem]

that's the thing. name the top universities in the world and by and large they are right here in the US. High School education doesn't prepare you for shit, and it really wasn't meant to.

 

[T K]

For those that might recall I said on several occasions here (months ago) that Obama would get re-elected.

Couldn't care less about Barack as he'll be done soon.

I'm more concerned with 2016 and who the stupid repubitches will send up next.

If they learned anything from this debacal For their sake it better be Rubio over Ryan.

 

[hoyle21]

Couldn't care less about Barack as he'll be done soon.

I'm more concerned with 2016 and who the stupid repubitches will send up next.

If they learned anything from this debacal For their sake it better be Rubio over Ryan.

How republicans respond will surely be interesting.

 

[maniclion]

Sorry just a small business owner that has seen it get progressively worse over the last four years and I don't needa magic
crystal ball to know that we will continue down the same path with the current president we have. I know you are gonna
spew some bullshit about some report that you looked up online dating back to the early 1900's that's the reason that we are in the situation we are in now just to try and make yourself look so much smarter and more informed than everyone else. You and your google reports won't even equal a pimple on the ass of life when it is all said and done. It is up to the administration in office to steer the country in the right direction and I don't have confidence in the current administration
Oh and by the way its not a race thing. I couldn't care less what color or religious belief the president is as long as he is doing whats best for the country.

It's up to us to pressure our Senators, Reps and all the way down to city council members to make changes. We've got to keep some manufacturing in this country so voice your support on issues the ITC are constantly investigating like china dumping pv modules in our country at unsustainable costs to their manufacturers, which was just found did happen and tariffs were imposed on them....

 

[DOMS]

It's up to us to pressure our Senators, Reps and all the way down to city council members to make changes. We've got to keep some manufacturing in this country so voice your support on issues the ITC are constantly investigating like china dumping pv modules in our country at unsustainable costs to their manufacturers, which was just found did happen and tariffs were imposed on them....

They're trying to kill the domestic PV market by dumping. The same way that Japan killed the television market in the US, back in the '80s.

 

[maniclion]

They're trying to kill the domestic PV market by dumping. The same way that Japan killed the television market in the US, back in the '80s.

They nearly did, dozens of American companies tanked because of it, they just couldn't compete against product being sold at prices below manufacturing cost. That was the one issue that I was against Romney on, he wanted to cut Solar tax credits and subsidies and that would have destroyed the vastly expanding industry and killed what few manufacturing plants we have left. Of all things we need to keep some of it in our hands and not hand it over to the Chinese or we'll be dependent on them for renewables. Energy independence is a make or break issue for this country as we have seen with oil.

 

[Gissurjon]

The difference between Western cultures and the rest, is that, in education, our main focus is on problem solving. In the other cultures, it's on rote memorization. That's largely why upwards of 90% of all major discoveries and inventions in the last 100 years have come from Western countries.

It's called being better than others.

The kids the american students were compared to were from western civilizations and what you just said doesn't have anything to do with the point anyway. The point was that they were overestimating their own ability, they did so irregardless of any other nations or culture. They weren't being asked if they did better than the other countries, they were asked how good they thought they personally did on the tests they took.

 

[LAM]

It's up to us to pressure our Senators, Reps and all the way down to city council members to make changes. We've got to keep some manufacturing in this country so voice your support on issues the ITC are constantly investigating like china dumping pv modules in our country at unsustainable costs to their manufacturers, which was just found did happen and tariffs were imposed on them....

politicians at the federal level are nothing but stooges, nothing will change for the better. remember it was the business owners that started globalization and not the government. government just passed the legislation to make it legal. globalization was the child of the Trilateral Commission born in the mid 70's which is nothing but a front for the CFR.

do you give up hope for change? maybe or maybe not. I dream about it but certainly do not except it in the real world. one small change here and there does nothing for a system that is legally corrupted by those with excess capital which is concentrated in the hands of the few. but this is the way the US has always been, at least for over the past 100 years.

 

[DOMS]

The kids the american students were compared to were from western civilizations and what you just said doesn't have anything to do with the point anyway. The point was that they were overestimating their own ability, they did so irregardless of any other nations or culture. They weren't being asked if they did better than the other countries, they were asked how good they thought they personally did on the tests they took.

Considering that they're citizens in the worlds only superpower, it's understandable.

 

[Swiper]

but it's not ask anybody in education, dozens of my friends from HS are in education at every level and is this is their biggest complaint along with the fact that US schools are just too easy in general. critical thinking is exactly what is NOT being taught in US schools, it's a pseudo form of it. the US education is what you said it wasn't mostly memorization, they teach to pass tests in HS and college.

the PISA has named the US specifically in this area of education.

the schools are run by govt. what else did you expect? of course they're a failure.