Arjun Panickssery (@panickssery) / X

Arjun Panickssery

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Arjun Panickssery

@panickssery

Building accelerated, individualized learning @Zembla_

Seattle

Joined January 2019

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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Apr 7, 2025
Mississippi has the best demographic-adjusted NAEP (4th & 8th grade) scores now The "Mississippi Miracle" started in 2012 when the Republican governor/legislature introduced phonics-based instruction and began to hold back ~10% of 3rd graders per year who fail a reading test
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
May 10, 2024
"I'm autistic." "Does that mean you take things literally?" "No, you're thinking of kleptomaniacs."
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Oct 28, 2024
I have learned something terrible about the word "nonplussed"
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Jul 14, 2025
Apparently it's not illegal to pay others to sterilize themselves, and "Project Prevention" has paid 8,000 crack addicts $300 to get IUDs, vasectomies, and tubal ligations > The organization has used slogans such as "Don't let pregnancy get in the way of your crack habit"
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Oct 28, 2025
Wow a reverse skeuomorph (the book itself is already a progress bar, so it doesn't need to imitate web content) I don't think I've seen that before
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Sep 9, 2024
The S&P 500 would have gotten them a 852,827.90% return in this time period, leaving them with $64 million
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Apr 7, 2025
Replying to @panickssery
In contrast, Oregon, with the lowest demographic-adjusted scores, has a Board of Education that has indefinitely "paused" since 2020 the use of any standardized test as a graduation requirement Most of this stuff isn't rocket science
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Feb 26, 2025
That got the attention of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. “I’m sorry. Entirely what?” he said. “Orthogonal,” Friedman replied. “Right angle. Unrelated. Irrelevant.” ... Justice Antonin Scalia jumped in. “What was that adjective? I liked that,” he said. “I think we should use
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Sep 4, 2025
They should have put another continent on this half
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Sep 1, 2024
Cowen on Chomsky lol: "I think we need to entertain the hypothesis that he’s simply a person who’s wrong about everything, pretty much; and his true achievement is one of stamina and quantity, which I do not mean in a snide, negative way. I find that extraordinarily impressive."
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Oct 13, 2024
The evidence strongly suggests that the U.S. is massively under-policed We have fewer police per homicide than any other developed country
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Oct 28, 2024
Replying to @panickssery
This adds to my mental list of "apparently the British meaning is reversed" words: - apparently "quite" means "not very" - apparently to "luck out" means to have bad luck - apparently "homely" has kind of the same meaning but with a good connotation?? - I think whenever I mention
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Jan 25, 2025
remembering this paper arguing that gifted programs had no long-run effect on student earnings because the college-admissions bonus got canceled out by the increased risk of going to grad school
David Shor
@davidshor
Aug 3, 2024
Replying to @asymmetricinfo
This paper finds null effects on high school outcomes, arguably good effects on college outcomes, but then no long run earnings effects because the good college outcome effects get cancelled out by being more likely to go to grad school. Pretty substantial impact on *household*
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Arjun Panickssery
@panickssery
Aug 1, 2025
Trump is to the left of Romney-2012 on every non-immigration issue: LGBT, free trade, entitlements, foreign intervention, etc And Biden governed well to the left of Obama . . . So in reality the country mostly faces the opposite situation from what OP is suggesting
Eric
@Ericrse37986
Jul 31, 2025
Why it is only Democrats that have to move to the center while Republicans can go further right with no consequences??
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