Word: confusionism
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Fundamentally, last week's warnings were confusing because the people issuing them are also confused. A close look at what triggered the alerts shows government officials operating in a mixture of self-protection, public interest and trial and error. Legitimate new details had surfaced about possible security risks, but because...
The more closely districts look, the less transparent the diagnoses. Beginning last year, Texas' Austin Independent School District began requiring principals to track discipline data by race to discern if any specific teachers were using a heavier hand with black students. The answer was yes, but the reasons were far...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A Room with a Mind of Its Own Machines with sinister minds of their own have been standard fare in popular sci-fi chillers like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stephen King's bestseller Christine. But the fiction behind these devices is rapidly becoming fact, and Ada - a...
Bol said the nature of language programs lends itself to internal confusion and conflict. “Tensions do appear in language programs,” Bol said. “You’ve got to constantly work with other people, and there’s incredible pressure and...
RUSSIA The Cold War Is Over. Long Live Star Wars Russia agreed to a dramatic reduction in stockpiles of nuclear weapons, despite its concern that the u.s. intends to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty in order to develop its national missile-defense program, known as Star Wars...