Дзюндзя ([info]syarzhuk) wrote,
@ 2006-01-18 18:33:00
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Current music:Salif Keita - The Mansa Of Mali

Used to be, you had a bunch of Brits in India and China and places, trying half-heartedly to lift the benighted brown rascals from their slothly ways and make’m into Europeans. The White Man’s Burden, all that. Of course, you couldn’t really expect the heathen Chinee to do much more than dig holes and wash shirts. The darker races were, well, the darker races. All right in their place but…limited. Everyone understood it.

Except, it would seem, the Indians and the heathen Chinee. Since they had limited understanding, it figures that they didn’t understand that they had limited understanding, and so acted like they didn’t, and so now they’re doing computational fluid dynamics in their heads because they don’t know any better.


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[info]akusasik
2006-01-19 01:12 am UTC (link)
*smiles*

You know who this reminds me a great deal of? </a></b></a>[info]arbat.

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[info]syarzhuk
2006-01-19 10:17 am UTC (link)
Oh no - Fred Reed is *fun* to read. And he usually speaks his mind, too.

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[info]akusasik
2006-01-19 01:11 pm UTC (link)
Are you saying Arbat isn't fun to read? You're gotta give him that - he can be witty and entertaining. Fundamentaly flawed and somewhat evil, but smart and witty - that's the feeling I got about this guy too. Bleh. Maybe it's just a non-representative first impression.

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[info]syarzhuk
2006-01-19 02:42 pm UTC (link)
Ok, Fred is *not* fundamentaly flawed, how's that?

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[info]ygam
2006-01-19 07:04 pm UTC (link)
I think that both [info]arbat and Fred Reed are witty, but I wouldn't call either of them particularly smart.

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[info]syarzhuk
2006-01-19 12:55 pm UTC (link)
http://syarzhuk.livejournal.com/262975.html

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[info]ygam
2006-01-19 06:59 pm UTC (link)
> “Only 41 percent of graduate students tested in 2003 could be classified as ‘proficient’ in prose—reading and understanding information in short texts—down 10 percentage points since 1992. Of college graduates, only 31 percent were classified as proficient—compared with 40 percent in 1992.”

> That’s college graduates, brethren and sistern! They can’t read simple stuff. “See Spot run. Run, Spot….” What you think them other scoundrels can’t do that ain’t graduates? Halleluja, dearly beloved, idiots are us. Am us, I mean.

Looks like Fred is not proficient himself, or else he would have understood from the Washington Post article (or the study document itself) that not being proficient is not the same as not being able to read "See Spot run". That is "basic", and there is also "intermediate".

http://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/PDF/2006470_1.PDF

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[info]syarzhuk
2006-01-19 07:15 pm UTC (link)
Похоже, это преувеличение было вставлено специально для того, чтобы проверить, какой процент его читателей это заметит :)

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[info]syarzhuk
2006-01-19 08:13 pm UTC (link)
OT - тебя может заинтересовать около-Шеклиевское обсуждение
http://users.livejournal.com/_torion_/39219.html

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