Bryan Caplan

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education 12

A test meant to find the best candidates must make perfect scores vanishingly rare, so that the top of the distribution can still be told apart.
Standardised testing is a good idea badly executed: the tests in common use are the problem, not testing itself.

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America 3

The U.S. Constitution's checks and balances have become largely ineffective.
The U.S. president now wields power comparable to a temporary dictator.

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economists 3

College is not a good career investment for most of the population.
Differences between the public's and economists' economic views do not solely reflect economists' self-serving bias.

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politics 3

Political party platforms diverge most on issues where the party base cares intensely and the general electorate is apathetic.
If academic arguments can be dismissed for reaching politically unwelcome conclusions, there is no point in having academic arguments about politically charged subjects at all.

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benchmarks 2

A test meant to find the best candidates must make perfect scores vanishingly rare, so that the top of the distribution can still be told apart.
An AI can already earn an A on a university economics midterm, years earlier than informed forecasters expected.

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