What students know (or think they do)
This semester is my first teaching one of the frosh courses in USF’s Honors College, and I enjoyed meeting my students this morning, though there was one disconcerting minute or two, when I was trying to encourage discussion of real-life high-stakes examples of trying to discern truth. (The course, titled “Acquisition of Knowledge,” is really […]
Comments from NIH!
The NIH program director sent me the comments of the study section on the net-flow grant proposal. On the whole, they were very encouraging, in two ways. First, they generally agreed that the approach I had in January (when I submitted the proposal) was sound and interesting, and there was nothing inherently problematic. Second, their […]
Grant proposal away!
The proposal to NSF based on the net-flow estimates is now submitted. We’ll see what happens. (I asked for a primary review by the Sociology program.) Thanks to a staff member in my college, I now know how to get the parallel data (not by grade but in toto) to estimate net flows for graduate […]
More net-flow SAS files
More test SAS files for state-level net flow from North Carolina in 2000-01, Massachusetts in 2000-01, and Massachusetts from the mid-1990s. As I’ve seen before I got the algorithm right, there’s a significant downtick for Mass. 2000-01 for 10th grade (or a higher-magnitude negative flow). You need several years of data after that point to […]