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https://www.nber.org/papers/w12828
The over education of America has seriously devalued advanced degrees. I read somewhere that the average IQ of a person obtaining a Ph.D. has declined to right around 100.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/math-decline-ucsd/684973/
Then there is the social promotion / not teaching fundamentals in education. What are we doing?
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/18/8th-graders-want-algebra-sfusd/
Academics, including professors at the Stanford School of Education, have done a lot to damage the college readiness of American kids (particularly Californians).
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We have normalized and protected incompetence. We stopped championing excellence and became skeptical of it as an elitist thing.
We have cultivated a culture of entitlement that drives achievement lower and reward expectation higher.
We have allowed people to bolster their profiles via grievance vs via competence.
We have trained a generation in playing the DEI game, to the point of creating a trans identification fad that is only just now slowing down.
In short, we have taken a community minded, Protestant work-ethic based, patriotic culture and sold it out for consumerism and stupidity. But it’s not my fault because I am oppressed and traumatized by the way you guys look at me.
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We have normalized and protected incompetence. We stopped championing excellence and became skeptical of it as an elitist thing. We have cultivated a culture of entitlement that drives achievement lower and reward expectation higher. We have allowed people to bolster their profiles via grievance vs via competence. We have trained a generation in playing the DEI game, to the point of creating a trans identification fad that is only just now slowing down. In short, we have taken a community minded, Protestant work-ethic based, patriotic culture and sold it out for consumerism and stupidity. But it’s not my fault because I am oppressed and traumatized by the way you guys look at me.
AI is only going to accelerate that phenomenon. It pretends to be additive, but in reality, it is not particularly groundbreaking. It aggregates existing data quickly without much in the way of discerning that which is needed. AI does not, cannot, will not, invent, create, design or discover anything really critical. It can only summarize what has gone on before, and what’s worse, it will invent that which is not there. It hallucinates.
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Academics, including professors at the Stanford University School of Education (SUSE), have done a lot to damage the college readiness of American kids (particularly Californians).
I am very close to a SUSE (pronounced “Suzy”) PhD who is a diehard, committed Socialist and has so many personal challenges that she just can’t understand normal thinking. Quite literally the worst person I have ever met face to face, described in this Substack, if you are interested:
I wouldn’t leave my kids alone with her for five minutes. For quite some time, she was in charge of selecting books for secondary schools in a very large public school district.
Frankly, I’m not sure how she got into SUSE. She didn’t graduate from high school, scored on the 48th percentile on the math portion of the CBEST. She did undergrad work at a midlevel UC, has a correspondence Master’s from some school in Vermont, but she’s a lesbian registered Democrat civil servant (check, check aaaaand check), so after an interview with the department chair, she was accepted and started to wreak havoc molding young minds. Happily, she’s near retirement age.
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Laurie sounds awful, but in a DEI awful way.
You got that right. But as awful as she sounds, the real capper is her stance on taxes. She’s at the age and level where her compensation is substantial, both in gross income terms and in total compensation, per transparentcalifornia.com, she has averaged $300k annually for the last three years.
Her position on taxes is that she shouldn’t have to pay them because she doesn’t like how they are being used (remember, she’s former U. S. Army). Difficult to walk that Socialist/Republican line, I imagine.
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