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...There’s a link between clear speaking and clear thinking-when you reach the point that you can teach something to someone, that’s when you understand it,” Maggor says, explaining that the way scientists, politicians, and friends communicate affects their work and relationships...
...biggest thing that I gained was outside [the] academic or professional,” he adds. “It was being able to understand what home means for one billion people in the world...
...love my parents, I love the way they raised me, even though they pushed that doctor thing. I understand they really just want the best for their children, and to them a doctor is the best you can be. If they hadn’t pushed me, I wouldn’t be here,” she says. “But if I took Women and Gender Studies, my parents would demolish me,” she adds with a laugh...
...author wants to draw the wrong conclusion from the fact that simplified models get things wrong (even dramatically wrong). No one denies that we need to better understand and communicate the limitations of data, that it is crucial to guard against unjustified trust in our preferred models (perhaps the author forgets that before the crisis, there were plenty of critics of the efficient market hypothesis who were using data and simulation to predict pathological behavior in asset markets). But a data-driven, formal approach to making policy decisions is quite frankly the best we can do and therefore essential...
...understand that they can consult their books. The effort is to make them synthesize [the course material],” he said...