“[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than females on the Math section but females achieved higher scores on the Verbal section. ETS policy-makers determined that the Verbal test needed to be “balanced” more in favor of males, and added questions pertaining to politics, business and sports to the Verbal portion. Since that time, males have outscored females on both the Math and Verbal sections. Dwyer notes that no similar effort has been made to “balance” the Math section, and concludes that, “It could be done, but it has not been, and I believe that probably an unconscious form of sexism underlies this pattern. When females show the superior performance, ‘balancing’ is required; when males show the superior performance, no adjustments are necessary.” “”

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“Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org

And then people urge me everything is fine, of course it is, when you’re ignoring statistics that is.

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Fun fact: SAT tests predict college performance pretty well for men, but they strongly underpredict college performance for women. http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/12/20/1948550612469038.abstract

HMMMM

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I think I’ve reblogged this before, but that study needs to be shared.

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hahahaha more women go to college than men still so joke’s on you

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And colleges lower the qualifications for admission for men as well if they dont deliberately favor men over women in admissions in an effort to “balance the scales”. 

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I say this over and over again: men, if colleges weren’t PRACTICING A FORM OF PREFERENTIAL ADMISSION IN ORDER TO GET “BALANCED” CAMPUSES, you would not be getting in as much. So shut up about affirmative action. 

Also, standardized tests don’t just disadvantage women - they also tend to highly disadvantage POC and other marginalized groups. My mother once fought really hard to get a PhD candidate with shitty GRE scores admitted to her program, because she knew that GREs tend to disadvantage black people. The candidate got in, got her PhD, and is now teaching at an Ivy League School. 

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Poetry day.

Here’s the link to my Patreon if you’re into my comics and want more in the future! :)

Just kidding, I love Halloween.

I’ll announce the winners for the Halloween contest later today!

Jupiter's Triple Shadow Transit This webcam and telescope image of banded gas giant Jupiter shows the transit of three shadows cast by Jupiter's moons in progress, captured in Belgian skies on October 12 at 0528 UT. Such a three shadow transit is a relatively rare event, even for a large planet with many moons. Visible in the frame are the three Galilean moons responsible, Callisto at the far left edge, Io closest to Jupiter's disk, and Europa below and just left of Io. Of their shadows on the sunlit Jovian cloud tops, Callisto casts the most elongated one near the planet's south polar region at the bottom. Io's shadow is above and right of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Of course viewed from Jupiter's perspective, these shadow crossings could be seen as solar eclipses, analogous to the Moon's shadow crossing the sunlit face of planet Earth.

Proatividade no olho dos outros é refresco. Tirinha do Ricardo Coimbra.

*Tirinha Policial é uma série de posts publicados no blog Abordagem Policial, com tirinhas ou charges que se relacionam direta ou indiretamente com o contexto da segurança pública.

You have to imagine that the next sentence is being read by the late, great Don LaFontaine. In a world where it feels like nothing you can do is right, there came video games!

Video games were definitely a way for me to escape from reality as a kid. Sure I made mistakes in video games, but I learned from my mistakes, I got better, and I was rewarded for them with new experiences and cheesy completion screens. Best of all, I wasn’t criticized for my mistakes as I learned (except for in Duck Hunt). Without video games there’s no telling where I might be right now. Maybe I would have experimented with drugs or even worse reading books. Thanks video games, you’ve always been a true friend.

You haven’t lived until you try all of these!

Coxinhas

What is it: Little raindrops of fried goodness usually filled with chicken and a very creamy cheese called "catupiry."
Tastes like: A fried mac and cheese ball, sans noodles, plus chicken.
Conclusion: Why don't these exist in the U.S.?
Get a recipe here.

Flickr: brunobucci

Brigadeiro

What is it: Chocolate truffles made with condensed milk instead of cream and covered in chocolate sprinkles.
Tastes like: A Nutella ball sprinkled with chocolate.
Conclusion: You've been missing out on chocolate rolled into balls for far too long.
Get a recipe here.

Flickr: negativz

Pão de Queijo

What is it: Little rolls of bread with cheese baked into it.
Tastes like: Yup, little rolls of bread with cheese baked into it.
Conclusion: You'll never eat regular bread again.
Get a recipe here.

Flickr: lcloss

Farofa

What is it: Fried cassava flour; it can include egg, bacon, and other add-ons. It's usually sprinkled over rice and beans.
Tastes like: Nothing you've ever tasted. Come on, it's fried cassava flour, but it's still DELICIOUS!
Conclusion: Hands down: cassava flour is tastier than regular flour.
Get a recipe here.

Flickr: jeanmi

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O artigo Como fazer o review de um jogo de forma épica faz parte do conteúdo do Byte Que Eu Gosto! - Nerd, Geek, Dicas, Cinema, Games e mais!.

Observem atentamente o comentário de um usuário chamado Mattayx, sobre um jogo da EA:

Comentário genial, não? Mostra claramente a indignação de usuários com relação aos IAP (in app purchase, ou compras dentro do jogo). As empresas estão se valendo cada vez mais (e de forma exagerada) desse expediente pra aumentar seu faturamento com os jogos. Os games de celular são lançados de forma “gratuita”, mas em geral vem cheios de funções reduzidas ou travadas que dependem de progresso no jogo (configurado de maneira que torne impossível ou muito demorado o avanço) ou aquisição de chaves, códigos, bônus ou recursos usando dinheiro de verdade.

O capitalismo é selvagem, amigos. A minha recomendação é sempre ler os reviews e analisar bem antes de investir seu dinheiro num jogo, pra não correr o risco de ter que desembolsar uma bela grana pra poder continuar jogando ou acabar ficando sem suporte depois de um tempo.

O artigo Como fazer o review de um jogo de forma épica faz parte do conteúdo do Byte Que Eu Gosto! - Nerd, Geek, Dicas, Cinema, Games e mais!.

Senti muita pena do Snowden depois que li essa matéria enviada pra mim por dezenas de leitores.

As pérolas acima são baseadas em fatos reais enviados por David Rocha, Leandro Dourado e Júlia Terra.

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Snowden Analista de Suporte é um post do blog Vida de Suporte.

New shirt released!

El hecho de que un sistema operativo sea "de propósito general" es algo que se suele pasar por alto, pero que a veces tiene un coste, aunque por la regla general es muy positivo. Y no todos entienden o se acuerdan de que pensar en el "propósito general" fuerza a pensar los problemas de una manera diferente: recuerden los flamewars en los que se ha acusado a Linux de centrarse demasiado en servidores y estar condenado por ello a no ser óptimo en el escritorio, por ejemplo.

El caso es que hoy nos encontramos con un ejemplo de libro de las ventajas de un diseño de "propósito general": Acaba de publicarse Android 4.4 "Kitkat". En su esfuerzo por reducir la patética y negada hasta la saciedad brutal fragmentación de Android y por adaptar a relojesotro tipo de formatos con hardware menos potente, Google se ha esforzado por reducir los requisitos de memoria del sistema operativo. Y la lista de técnicas que han usado para lograr reducción de uso de memoria es curiosa:

OEMs building the next generation of Android devices can take advantage of targeted recommendations and options to run Android 4.4 efficiently, even on low-memory devices. Dalvik JIT code cache tuning, kernel samepage merging (KSM), swap to zRAM, and other optimizations help manage memory

"Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM)", es desduplicación de memoria, es decir, si dos páginas de memoria tienen el mismo contenido, el sistema operativo borra una copia y referencia a sus usuarios a la otra. Fue introducido incluido en 2.6.32, hace casi 4 años. Pero lo curioso es que es una técnica típicamente de virtualización que fue desarrollada en Linux por Red Hat. Cuando se tienen en memoria varias VMs virtualizadas de un mismo sistema operativo, la desduplicación puede ahorrar cantidades de memoria considerables.

Lo bueno de que Linux sea un sistema operativo de propósito general es que Android puede usar ahora ese mismo sistema de desduplicación. ¿Quien podría haber predicho hace cuatro años que un sistema pensado para servidores acabaría siendo utilizado en teléfonos móviles de última generación?

Rats have pretty well overrun the globe, but there’s one exception: Alberta, Canada, which has waged a successful war against the critters for 50 years. Owning rats is forbidden to Alberta residents; they can be kept only by zoos and research institutions. The province maintains a rat control zone 600 kilometers long along its eastern border, staffed by eight professionals, and any rats they find are poisoned, gassed, or shot.

“Alberta is the only province with rat-free status, and we take this very seriously,” Verlyn Olson, minister of agriculture and rural development, said in an August statement. “We have lived without the menace of rats since 1950, when our control program began.”

But it’s a constant battle. In 2003 pest specialist John B. Bourne told National Geographic that he worries the wily creatures will hitch a ride to the interior aboard a truck or train. “They are so adaptive, so intelligent, so successful and physically capable … that it would not surprise me if they show up in a place where you’d least expect a rat to show up. I have the greatest respect for this rodent’s resourcefulness, and [its] capabilities scare the hell out of me.”

judgementscythe:

shanejayell:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

Oh my goooooood

JUBILATION YOU ARE SUCH A CUTIE :D

Wonder if it got made into a statue?

It is. Its next in the line. Hopefully the sculpt will pop up soon. (maybe even this weekend at nycc)

celestial-time-sorceress:

I heard some guy say that abortion was wrong, and I was just like, “It’s not your uterus.” 

and he was like, “What’s a uterus?” 

Lmaoooo

basicamente das mesmas coisas que falamos quando há homens ao redor, mas com a vantagem de não ganhar "aham" como resposta.

datarep:

NASA’s yearly budget as % of federal budget