LimbicNutrition Weblog

A psychometrician gives her take on the news and controversies about standardized testing and high-stakes assessment. A weblog devoted to standardized testing.

Race Is Seen as Real Guide to Track Roots of Disease - New York Times
Challenging the widely held view that race is a “biologically meaningless” concept, a leading population geneticist says that race is helpful for understanding ethnic differences in disease and response to drugs.
The geneticist, Dr. Neil Risch of Stanford University, says that [...]

“Start at the end.
What you want the recipient to do.
Not to think, to do.
Begin by writing the conclusion with a desired outcome action.
What do you want the recipient to do after reading it.
Having written that, consider what the necessary prerequisites are to make them see that as the only possible reasonable cause of action. Then [...]

“More black women are willing to face the challenges that go along with dating outside their race”.

[ ANC gratitude for you. Almost every white person in the ANC is Jewish.]
“Foreign affairs deputy minister Aziz Pahad says the international community needs to rally behind besieged Palestinian leader Yasser Afarat and his people in their attempt to gain control of their lives amid the ongoing Israeli onslaught.”