Comment by Wandering_Sophist on 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey · 2011-11-15T06:29:54.857Z · LW · GW

Took the survey; I mostly lurk but have posted occasionally.

Comment by Wandering_Sophist on Statistical Prediction Rules Out-Perform Expert Human Judgments · 2011-05-14T19:53:16.982Z · LW · GW

I don't think he is likely to hire programmers straight out of high school.

Giving IB/AP/Honors classes extra weight in high school is necessary to offset the additionally difficulty of these classes. Otherwise, high school students would have a direct disincentive to take advanced classes.