[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/twitter/SashaGusevPosts) "A: Another one with perfect SATs but low GPAs. He skipped class to build a healthcare startup that got acquired by Merck. Wants to major in business. P: Fine we can take exceptional outliers. But just the obvious ones along their clearly intended majors. We are NOT holistic"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1946626778069365203) 2025-07-19 17:42:45 UTC 19.1K followers, 23.2K engagements "@how_now00 @mirrorreversed 3) Okay but don't pretend your own re-analysis of overlapping data is a replication"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1943488152074641864) 2025-07-11 01:50:58 UTC 19.1K followers, XXX engagements "@AnaerobicLagoon I think this is more or less how it works but people take SATs and subject specific SAT2s at the same time and then other non-test strengths are considered"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1946674506208088166) 2025-07-19 20:52:24 UTC 19.1K followers, 10.6K engagements "@quant_____ The responders are allowed to enter multiple reasons so presumably if "too liberal" was driven by DEI or biased hiring that would show up as high marks for DEI or biased hiring too"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1947844135303479321) 2025-07-23 02:20:05 UTC 19.1K followers, XX engagements "@Gustavo21239788 So I guess we're rejecting brilliant athletes writers artists startup founders etc. or people who have stellar grades but don't test well"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1946652308206403956) 2025-07-19 19:24:11 UTC 19.1K followers, 7220 engagements "@7uomoki Yeah I can definitely see this working with human input spotting challenges or nudging it in the right direction. But hard to imagine how it would work with the LLM re-evaluating itself without any additional external info"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1946789545082581382) 2025-07-20 04:29:31 UTC 19.1K followers, XXX engagements "In fact IQ tests are heavily biased towards culturally dependent tasks: "g loading" correlates almost perfectly with an objective measure of culture dependence. These are also the tests that exhibit the largest racial differences and "heritability""  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1932792606380998674) 2025-06-11 13:30:41 UTC 19.1K followers, 41.8K engagements "@AndyMasley @moultano It could also be that people actively chose to spend charitable dollars in a suboptimal way because they want the secondary effects. And that telling them they are behaving sub-optimally doesn't really move the needle"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1947354578464239805) 2025-07-21 17:54:46 UTC 19.1K followers, XX engagements "@wil_da_beast630 And AA is now illegal with this administration going after putative violations more aggressively than any other corporate malfeasance in the country. Yet people seem angrier than ever"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1946635429425348950) 2025-07-19 18:17:07 UTC 19.1K followers, 3047 engagements "A: One applicant has perfect SATs but middling grades because she exposed a bribery ring at his school and all the teachers retaliated. It was in The New York Times. P: . I guess we should make an exception for clear mitigating circumstances like that"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1946626776647524389) 2025-07-19 17:42:44 UTC 19.1K followers, 25K engagements "Has there been any quantification of if/when serial prompting an LLM ("Write this code" then "Review what you wrote for bugs") is more accurate than single prompt ("Write this code avoid bugs") Likewise for asking the LLM to first optimize your prompt"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1946785640403665086) 2025-07-20 04:14:00 UTC 19.1K followers, 2820 engagements "So everything hangs together nicely: schooling reliably increases IQ IQ measures a major component of acculturation through schooling and there are massive differences in schooling and neighborhood quality in the US. /fin"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1932792608377745496) 2025-06-11 13:30:42 UTC 19.1K followers, 60.8K engagements "Both my wife and I attended decent state schools (UMass and UConn) had a great time and developed the skills to pursue careers we enjoy. I highly recommend it Yet people still seem to both hate and envy elite admissions for reasons I don't really understand"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1946296170105475471) 2025-07-18 19:49:02 UTC 19.1K followers, 3030 engagements "Will is understating the case here. In the past year alone the author (Rindermann) had a paper retracted because it featured bizarre examples from his own life and another paper in the Journal of Controversial Ideas with blatant analysis errors. Garbage in racism out"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1945184125251375261) 2025-07-15 18:10:09 UTC 19.1K followers, 42.7K engagements ". classes and are experiencing a collective mental breakdown. Also our sports teams are an embarrassment. P: Okay admit some athletes with good but not excellent grades but ONLY if theyre state champions. We'll kill two birds with one stone while staying objective"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1946626772344136092) 2025-07-19 17:42:43 UTC 19.1K followers, 31.2K engagements "@Brock_Landers25 @JamesSurowiecki The Hartford to Boston drive very notably does not pass through New Haven"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1945112462191194344) 2025-07-15 13:25:24 UTC 19.1K followers, XX engagements "*Open: Office of the president at the new XXX% Meritocratic University* President: Weve admitted the top 2000 applicants by GPA and SATs. How are they doing Admissions: Several hundred valedictorians whove never gotten a B in their life are now at the bottom of all their"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1946626770771300842) 2025-07-19 17:42:43 UTC 19.1K followers, 226.2K engagements "Oof. Polygenic scores for IQ lose XX% of their explained variance when adding family controls even worse than the attenuation for Educational Attainment. These are the scores Silicon Valley is using to select embryos 😬. A few thoughts on this study"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1937335235437285759) 2025-06-24 02:21:28 UTC 19.1K followers, 967.5K engagements "@how_now00 @mirrorreversed 4) Can't be power: the EASEA PGS was a better predictor than the EUREA PGS in the Chen et al. paper. Also see the strong PGS_SCZ/IQ relationship below (stronger than either PGS_IQ/IQ or PGS_EA/IQ) probably another epicycle for this one"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1943488530442826046) 2025-07-11 01:52:28 UTC 19.1K followers, XXX engagements "A: The international youth playwright awardee that just got rejected because of their average SAT math score is on line one. P: Alright alright well allow exceptional liberal arts achievements. But they have to be truly exceptional: national awards bestsellers etc"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1946626775192138098) 2025-07-19 17:42:44 UTC 19.1K followers, 27K engagements "It is good to be aware of how vacuous and out of touch these Manhattan Institute demands are. When polling actual people with low confidence in higher ed the most common responses are: too expensive (21%) don't teach practical skills (21%) too liberal (17%)"  [@SashaGusevPosts](/creator/x/SashaGusevPosts) on [X](/post/tweet/1947836094457761849) 2025-07-23 01:48:08 UTC 19.1K followers, 18.4K engagements
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"A: Another one with perfect SATs but low GPAs. He skipped class to build a healthcare startup that got acquired by Merck. Wants to major in business. P: Fine we can take exceptional outliers. But just the obvious ones along their clearly intended majors. We are NOT holistic" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-19 17:42:45 UTC 19.1K followers, 23.2K engagements
"@how_now00 @mirrorreversed 3) Okay but don't pretend your own re-analysis of overlapping data is a replication" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-11 01:50:58 UTC 19.1K followers, XXX engagements
"@AnaerobicLagoon I think this is more or less how it works but people take SATs and subject specific SAT2s at the same time and then other non-test strengths are considered" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-19 20:52:24 UTC 19.1K followers, 10.6K engagements
"@quant_____ The responders are allowed to enter multiple reasons so presumably if "too liberal" was driven by DEI or biased hiring that would show up as high marks for DEI or biased hiring too" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-23 02:20:05 UTC 19.1K followers, XX engagements
"@Gustavo21239788 So I guess we're rejecting brilliant athletes writers artists startup founders etc. or people who have stellar grades but don't test well" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-19 19:24:11 UTC 19.1K followers, 7220 engagements
"@7uomoki Yeah I can definitely see this working with human input spotting challenges or nudging it in the right direction. But hard to imagine how it would work with the LLM re-evaluating itself without any additional external info" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-20 04:29:31 UTC 19.1K followers, XXX engagements
"In fact IQ tests are heavily biased towards culturally dependent tasks: "g loading" correlates almost perfectly with an objective measure of culture dependence. These are also the tests that exhibit the largest racial differences and "heritability"" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-06-11 13:30:41 UTC 19.1K followers, 41.8K engagements
"@AndyMasley @moultano It could also be that people actively chose to spend charitable dollars in a suboptimal way because they want the secondary effects. And that telling them they are behaving sub-optimally doesn't really move the needle" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-21 17:54:46 UTC 19.1K followers, XX engagements
"@wil_da_beast630 And AA is now illegal with this administration going after putative violations more aggressively than any other corporate malfeasance in the country. Yet people seem angrier than ever" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-19 18:17:07 UTC 19.1K followers, 3047 engagements
"A: One applicant has perfect SATs but middling grades because she exposed a bribery ring at his school and all the teachers retaliated. It was in The New York Times. P: . I guess we should make an exception for clear mitigating circumstances like that" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-19 17:42:44 UTC 19.1K followers, 25K engagements
"Has there been any quantification of if/when serial prompting an LLM ("Write this code" then "Review what you wrote for bugs") is more accurate than single prompt ("Write this code avoid bugs") Likewise for asking the LLM to first optimize your prompt" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-20 04:14:00 UTC 19.1K followers, 2820 engagements
"So everything hangs together nicely: schooling reliably increases IQ IQ measures a major component of acculturation through schooling and there are massive differences in schooling and neighborhood quality in the US. /fin" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-06-11 13:30:42 UTC 19.1K followers, 60.8K engagements
"Both my wife and I attended decent state schools (UMass and UConn) had a great time and developed the skills to pursue careers we enjoy. I highly recommend it Yet people still seem to both hate and envy elite admissions for reasons I don't really understand" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-18 19:49:02 UTC 19.1K followers, 3030 engagements
"Will is understating the case here. In the past year alone the author (Rindermann) had a paper retracted because it featured bizarre examples from his own life and another paper in the Journal of Controversial Ideas with blatant analysis errors. Garbage in racism out" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-15 18:10:09 UTC 19.1K followers, 42.7K engagements
". classes and are experiencing a collective mental breakdown. Also our sports teams are an embarrassment. P: Okay admit some athletes with good but not excellent grades but ONLY if theyre state champions. We'll kill two birds with one stone while staying objective" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-19 17:42:43 UTC 19.1K followers, 31.2K engagements
"@Brock_Landers25 @JamesSurowiecki The Hartford to Boston drive very notably does not pass through New Haven" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-15 13:25:24 UTC 19.1K followers, XX engagements
"Open: Office of the president at the new XXX% Meritocratic University President: Weve admitted the top 2000 applicants by GPA and SATs. How are they doing Admissions: Several hundred valedictorians whove never gotten a B in their life are now at the bottom of all their" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-19 17:42:43 UTC 19.1K followers, 226.2K engagements
"Oof. Polygenic scores for IQ lose XX% of their explained variance when adding family controls even worse than the attenuation for Educational Attainment. These are the scores Silicon Valley is using to select embryos 😬. A few thoughts on this study" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-06-24 02:21:28 UTC 19.1K followers, 967.5K engagements
"@how_now00 @mirrorreversed 4) Can't be power: the EASEA PGS was a better predictor than the EUREA PGS in the Chen et al. paper. Also see the strong PGS_SCZ/IQ relationship below (stronger than either PGS_IQ/IQ or PGS_EA/IQ) probably another epicycle for this one" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-11 01:52:28 UTC 19.1K followers, XXX engagements
"A: The international youth playwright awardee that just got rejected because of their average SAT math score is on line one. P: Alright alright well allow exceptional liberal arts achievements. But they have to be truly exceptional: national awards bestsellers etc" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-19 17:42:44 UTC 19.1K followers, 27K engagements
"It is good to be aware of how vacuous and out of touch these Manhattan Institute demands are. When polling actual people with low confidence in higher ed the most common responses are: too expensive (21%) don't teach practical skills (21%) too liberal (17%)" @SashaGusevPosts on X 2025-07-23 01:48:08 UTC 19.1K followers, 18.4K engagements
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