- In all countries, in all years–without exception–girls did better than boys in academic performance (PISA) tests.
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Vinod Khosla said:
There are, perhaps, a few hundred sensors in the typical car and none in the body. A single ad shown to you on Facebook has way more computing power applied to it than a $10,000 medical decision you have to make.
- The gender of an unknown user can be identified with an accuracy of over 95% using the way a user is typing.
- Citation counts work better than a random baseline (by a margin of 10%) in distinguishing important seminal research papers.
- By consuming vitamin B3 (or niacin), you can increase your body’s production of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD+ for short). It turns out that NAD+ supplementation normalizes key Alzheimer’s features (in mice). If I suffered from Alzheimer’s, I would not hesitate to take niacin supplements.
- The U.S. has never produced so much oil.
- According to Nature, birds living in large groups are smarter.
- A few years ago, we were told that the Pacific nation of Tuvalu would soon disappear due to climate change. In fact, for now, it is growing in size.
The first statement is only true for the PISA reading test. In the mathematics tests sometimes boys are better than girls. But there’s no big difference. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/pisa-mean-performance-on-the-mathematics-scale-by-sex