Eileen
@EileenChollet
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I'm a nobody who knows quite a bit of math. Views my own and do not represent my employer or the federal government.
Joined December 2020
Here's an explainer thread about what I think would happen in special education if the US Department of Education went away. I have no insider knowledge about plans, but this thread is how I would do it. đ§”.
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RT @AnalyticaCamil1: Itâs not like a âWashington Redskinsâ thing, they actually obtained tribal assent before doing that. Itâs probably wokâŠ.
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The Chief of Naval Operations has the legal authority to enlist citizens of the Philippines directly into the US Navy (hundred year old law). Day 1, the new CNO needs to hang out a sign in Manila to recruit the best Filipino civilian mariners to work our sealift ships.
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I saw this picture on my timeline and I truly wondered if someone had AI-ed up a photorealistic Colonel Sanders.
In the past 24 hours, Iâve spoken to some sources and I will say that theyâre going to be a lot of people who feel ridiculous for what they have said to defend John Bolton after they find out what he did. At the head of that list is @RepRaskin.
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Hey @TheFIREorg, whatâs your take on âyour employer can limit your first amendment right of freedom of speech if you are not furthering the mission of the school districtâ in this context?.
UPDATE: The local teachers union just told their members not to post about their job or colleagues.
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It also took Arlington County a full decade to fully desegregate schools, a level of urgency that will be familiar to anyone who had kids in northern Virginia schools in 2020 and 2021. @angryarlmom.
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Letâs pause here to note that Brown v. Board was decided in 1954, five years prior to the Arlington desegregation, if weâre going to claim relevance for things our school divisions did more than half a century ago.
Arlington was the 1st school district in Virginia to desegregate in 1959. This is entirely unacceptable &flies in the face of the work we have done to be an inclusive & welcoming community for all. We do not fight for progress by putting others down, we fight for equality for ALL.
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RT @tracewoodgrains: I'm a big fan of The Argument so far, but one worry I have is the way their staffing replicates the "listen to left, iâŠ.
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RT @NicoPerrino: The enemy of free speech is power. The true test of your commitment to free speech is how you respond when power changesâŠ.
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RT @edudissenter: Who else is worried that Woke librarians are limiting our access to heterodox books by simply not purchasing any?.
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RT @Unitedcajunnavy: Searching for Bryan Vasquez, a young, nonverbal autistic boy who went missing near his home in New Orleans 6 days ago.âŠ.
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Update: I swear, I had not seen this screenshot before I posted this thread.
the website for @OrchidInc portrays a presumed couple scrolling thru their unborn children & then shows them clicking on the profile of each one. canât imagine the next, but presumed actionâchoosing one of your children to live & the rest to be discarded. this is not âhealthcareâ
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RT @glukianoff: I think itâs an absolute scandal that so much publicly funded research and scholarship is locked behind paywalls. ResearchâŠ.
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And those losing lawsuits will lead to journalistic pile-on about the false positive rates and all those families who had healthy kids will feel they wasted their money. Theyâll sue too, and call their Congressmembers, and the regulations and lawsuits will end the ride.
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Because these are rich couples with money to burn, theyâre going to sue the snot out of Orchid for misrepresentation. These couples are going to win because juries donât understand math and science but are very sympathetic to disabled babies.
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So, if 1,000 low-risk couples buy Orchidâs services, youâre going to end up with eight or nine kids with profound autism that could not possibly be detected by the methods used.
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And 6 out of 7 of those profound autism cases have no known genetic cause.
ncsautism.org
In an April 2023 TEDx talk, NCSA president Jill Escher counters the feel-goodism of Autism Awareness Month by highlighting five difficult truths about the rising national autism crisis.
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Profound autism (defined as autism with IQ<70) has a prevalence of about 1 in 100 live births. @NCSAutismOrg .
ncsautism.org
NCSA leaders helped write a new review paper highlighting some of the overarching issues affecting individuals and families affected by profound autism, and directed at pediatric clinicians. We thank...
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⊠the negatives turn up. Itâs probably not going to be a false negative, since rare diseases are by definition rare. Itâs going to be a true negative.
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But letâs assume theyâre using tests with a somewhat smaller false positive rate or testing for fewer diseases, such that most parents only get 1 or 2 embryos with true or false positives. Theyâre going to feel like they dodged a bullet, untilâŠ.
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