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It requires economists who don't see it as beneath them to teach it at that level to schoolchildren.
How many people have you met who have an actual good understanding of economics who has that ambition? I think it'd be an incredibly important and respectable thing to do, but I just haven't met many people with that ambition.
Even speaking at a personal level, if I were to remove the math from my college level econ courses I would see it as giving in somehow, because the math is pretty tied to my identity and how I see myself. But society-wide what's really needed more is better non-mathy, accessible econ education.
Honest answer: physics/engineering envy. Economists are all trying to be rockstar data scientists and researchers.
Also, the mathematical approach to teaching econ has made it inaccessible to many students. Especially those who never had an ambition to go into a technical field, and wanted to become a teacher.
Not necessarily. How many students get a teaching credential to teach high school social studies who've never taken even Econ 101?
The function is formally defined as:
where is a complex number, and the function also returns a complex number.
A complex number is really just two coordinates in the complex plane: . So you can plot a complex number on a two-dimensional axis, as in the app.
So the app just shows, for whatever set of complex coordinates you draw on the input plane, what the Riemann Zeta function's output coordinates are in the output plane.
In other words, it transforms your drawing (a set of input points) into another drawing (a set of output points)
It just has a really weird, circular and stretched transformation.
It also has deep connections to number theory and prime numbers, which is why mathematicians obsess over this function. A lot of mathematical theorems rely on the Riemann hypotheis being true, but no one has proved it.
I don't really know what it has to do with lightning, but the video is so ridiculous and stupid, i love it
I actually give ourselves a bit of a pass because these are students arriving with these attitudes already, before having taken much if any econ in college.
I bet a lot of high school social studies, history, and even econ teachers haven't actually learned how to think like an economist
gov has become so powerful of a force in society that everyone just defaults to praying to it as if it were God
For high salience and high liquidity markets like presidential elections, I absolutely do believe that prediction markets can predict better than polling.
It's the low liquidity low salience markets that I'm highly skeptical of.
I always thought of it as something to do with square chins. That's why I was confused how a lady could mog you.
I'm shocked how many students really think the government has the ability to make things better, and that the chief problem is corporate power. I probably need to build a repertoire of well-identified (and easy to narrate) papers showing how government policies lead to poor outcomes, and then teach those papers more.
Yes, US. I think the dominant point of view among young people is that the system is broken. I don't really blame them for feeling that way. The system is indeed FUBAR. But because they are not educated properly, they reach for solutions that will likely make things worse.
Continuing my grading adventures
Lotsa students outright saying they're socialists, outright saying blackpilled / conspiratorial ideas, outright saying they don't care about this class or college.
Way higher numbers of this than any previous semester I've taught.
These journos know what their audiences crave, and it's Luke 18:11
The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector
This is probably the area where I'd give Austrians the advantage.
Their deductive reasoning based approach starting with human action is probably more accessible and more memorable to the average person than the mainstream math & graphs approach.