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Wednesday, March 21, 2018

The Social Network: At RISC for MIPS

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:09 pm

MIPS Illustrated  (The above computing  meaning from Wiktionary,
                                   "millions of instructions per second") —

WISC RISC

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 2:15 pm

WISC = Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

RISCReduced Instruction Set Computer   or
             Rust Inventory of Schizotypal Cognitions

See related material in earlier WISC RISC posts.

See also . . .

"Many parents ask us about the Block Design section
on the WISC and hope to purchase blocks and exercises
like those used on the WISC test. We explain that doing that
has the potential to invalidate their child's test results.
These Froebel Color Cubes will give you a tool to work with
your child on the skills tested for in the Block Design section
of the WISC in an ethical and appropriate way. These same
skills are applicable to any test of non-verbal reasoning like  
the NNAT, Raven's or non-verbal sections of the CogAT or OLSAT. "

An online marketing webpage

For a webpage that is perhaps un ethical and in appropriate,
see Block Designs in Art and Mathematics.

RISC Sects

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

The title is from the URL of a paper discussed here yesterday
in the post "Mad Men vs. Math Men" —

https://www.psychometrics.cam.ac.uk/
uploads/documents/docs2016/RISC/RISCSects
.

Abstract   (See also a webpage on this and related publications.)  —

Related material from today's news

Update:  For further background, see a WIRED article from today.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Mad Men vs. Math Men

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:36 pm

Video starring the CEO of Cambridge Analytica —

Alexander Nix, 'From Mad Men to Math Men,' Hamburg Messe, 'Online Marketing Rockstars' speech, 2017

Related material from John Rust, now the director of the
Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge —

My own sympathies are with the Mad Men.

See also Rust in the previous post, Cambridge Psychometrics.
He is known for the UK version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale
for Children.

Cambridge Psychometrics*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:01 pm

* Not to be confused with Cambridge Analytica.

  See also Wechsler in this journal.

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