The best Higher & Continuing Education books: Reddit reviews

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Here are some tips:

1. Take the passage literally. If it were up to interpretation, the College Board would have problems. It's not like school where if you can prove the answer correct through interpretation, the correct answer MUST be present in the text.
2. Many problems with reading that I faced were with focusing and deep reading. Make sure you are focused on the passage.
3. When you are finished with a practice test, ALWAYS review it. This will help you learn and understand what you are doing wrong.
4. If you can check out books from your local library. I totally recommend the SAT black book. https://www.amazon.com/SAT-Prep-Black-Book-Strategies/dp/0692916164/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?gclid=Cj0KCQjwj_XpBRCCARIsAItJiuR6HFj0ZpwCcXN14aIPlKCOD3OGAEN_5oro5AvCUWHEOZ_LbP5bYb0aAnCDEALw_wcB&hvadid=241648829517&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9012138&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=17497859065999215882&hvtargid=kwd-61311316065&hydadcr=8453_10382305&keywords=sat+black+book&qid=1564323775&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1
5. Don't rush. Many mistakes are silly mistakes that are made from testers looking at the time and worrying about not finishing.
6. If you rule out an answer, make sure you rule it out for the right reasons.
7. The most important thing is that the answer, again, is ALWAYS in the passage. If you look close enough, you will ALWAYS find it.

I hope this helps. I'm pretty okay at reading but absolute trash at math.

Someone needs to read this: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

This is a great example of how to hide information in nice visuals.

Bra tekst, men det er flere faktorer her, og dette er ikke særnorsk; vi er uten tvil del av en vestlig trend. F.eks. så snudde nedgangen i selvmordsrate i USA rundt år 2000 og har steget hvert år etter det. Selvmord blant unge jenter har virkelig økt de siste årene, og de starter nesten å ta igjen guttene.

Jonathan Haidt har skrevet en veldig interessant bok[1] om disse trendene.

Faktorene som nevnes er bl.a. endring i barneoppdragelse til mer overbeskyttende foreldre, mindre uorganisert lek uten oppsyn, og sist, men ikke minst, fremveksten av sosiale medier.

Resultatet blir at en stor gruppe ungdommer ikke har lært seg å takle motgang, ikke har lært seg konflikthåndtering, og i tillegg er psykologisk nedbrutt av å ha levd de formative årene på sosiale medier.

Hjelper vel heller ikke at disse ungdommene vokser opp i en Verden som blir mer ustabil og segmentert, og hvor effekten av klimaendringene begynner å bli synlige.

Det hjelper vel heller ikke at de vokser opp i et sekulært og nihilistisk samfunn med enormt fokus på individualisme/hedonisme. De får ingen hjelp fra religion eller ideologi, de må selv finne en mening i en kaotisk Verden.

Vanligvis skal vel vi gamlinger se ned på nyere generasjoner og skryte over hvor hardt vi hadde det, men slik situasjonen er nå ser det ut som GenZ kommer til å ha mye hardere liv enn oss. Iallfall vi som er millenials som akkurat slapp unna SoMe i ungdomstiden.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897

> have them do the work.

There is literally no more effective learning method than this.

Everything else is forgotten within 3 months. Look up knowledge retention rates for state-funded education.

It is horrible and utter waste of everyone's time and money.

This question gets people RILED UP. Darling, in America we have no class system, you know that. :P

There's a very interesting book that's now pretty dated but gives a solid foundation on this topic called "Class" A guide through the American Status System by Paul Fussell. Read it for an eye opening look into how it is!

He points out that things like no white after Labor Day and similar strictures (I was raised to believe that patent leather is not worn by polite society, or that pierced ears on children are vulgar, for example) are part of a class system that places people with nothing but time to drift around the globe in search of sport and leisure at the top. So naturally you wouldn't wear white after Labor Day as you're now in moving on to Eden Roc and tennis season is over or whatever :P

However that's high WASP preppy. That's not the only kind of "wealthy" there is! Plenty of people who are genuinely mind bogglingly rich wear flashy clothes and have diamond encrusted watches and so on.

Fussell also points out that there's a class that's beyond class: artists and the children of movie stars, the hyper-wealthy service class people (like let's say "energy workers" who work with the stars) or trustafarian types. Those people wear ironic brands and pad around first class cabins in bare feet with no bra (the book was written in like 1983).

Fascinating read.

I know people won't like to hear this. But this book basically shows that education is basically just [signalling]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics\) ). The thing is though, that he also shows that people that have higher degrees (like Bachelor's or Master's) actually earn more money even if they are employed in fields like being a bartender or waiter funnily enough. I guess it is literally becoming true that you need a degree to help get these jobs (at least the higher end of these).

Everyone getting a Bachelors degree is basically just the same as everyone having a high school diploma. It is like standing up in a concert to see better, if you do it that is fine, but then if everyone does it we are all in the same position again.

https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652

You should check out this book The Coddling of the American Mind. It talks about just this! There's basically three untruths that people are clinging to: (1) what doesn't kill you makes you weaker, (2) always trust your feelings, and (3) life is a battle between good and bad people. There's this mentality that everyone is so inherently fragile that we must be protected all the time. Couple this with the fact that people conflate their feelings with reality. This is the exact opposite of what cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches people who are recovering from anxiety disorders. Just because you think something is scary/wrong, doesn't mean it actually is.

I agree that just a u-turn back to the Hard Knocks method probably isn't right, but we need to teach people that it's OK to feel uncomfortable and anxious sometimes. It isn't always reality and it's rarely the end of the world.

These are 2 of the books he recommended/required all of his top level people to read:

• https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322

• https://www.amazon.com/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Life-Changing-Relationships/dp/189200528X/

They sit directly in front of us (we go middle/aisle with them in middle aisle in front of us). Because youngest is "6 and under", we get family boarding still.

In terms of "Chester", I don't fear that at all. Are some people weird? Sure. But the odds of "Chester" having the seat next to my kids is so infinitesimally small it's not something I concern myself with.

<em>The Coddling of the American Mind</em> by Jonathan Haidt (the same guy who wrote The Righteous Mind) is a must read for parents. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Here is their Atlantic Article that was the primer for the book; but the book is significantly better and addresses over-coddling/overprotection of kids much more in depth than this article (which focuses primarily on the academics).

>Do you need a chart here? — Sometimes it is better just to show the user a few numbers and no extra elements that distract him.

This is so true. If you are communicating a single value or even 3-4 that do not describe a multivariate relationship, ask yourself if a user needs to wade through 4 colors and 20 vertices just to get some info they could process in 2 seconds.

This is a pretty great listicle, and it's geared towards live visualizations generated from user insights/behavior for the user. If you are a UX researcher and are creating inferential charts, worth checking out this as well: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

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Not directly about Trump, but if you want insight read Fussel's book on Class. Still mostly accurate even though it came out in the 70s iirc. https://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/dp/0671792253

Class in the US is only somewhat related to money. It mostly has to do with preferences and cultural attitudes that are very hard to shake once they're ingrained as the default for a person at a young age.

Exactly. I like how this is described by Carol Dweck in the book Mindset.

Loosing self worth after failure is sign of wrong fixed mindset while people with good growth mindset see then as learning oportunity.

Big discrepancy? I see a range from ~$50k in low cost-of-living states to ~$70k in high cost-of-living states. Seems like splitting hairs, considering that the value contributed to society by the typical teacher is less than zero.

I used to read that subreddit back in 2013 when I was going through a particularly difficult time with my mother. She's mentally ill and was abusive towards my father and I was considering going "no contact" with her (which is a term used in that community to refer to fully breaking ties with someone). My mom is self-centered and unable to empathize with others and I thought that subreddit could help.

There were some legit posters who also seemed to understand how narcissists behave (they have traits like making very fast friendships and also dividing everyone in their life into rigid "with me" or "against me" camps). That was then, in 2013, and I only read it for maybe 4 months. There was also an undercurrent of victimology among some posters who were looking for people to blame for their own unhappiness. It's one thing to be dealing with a narcissist who you live with or who you're married to -- that's a big problem if you find yourself in conflict with them, fighting with a narcissist is scorched earth stuff -- but once you've "escaped" your npd parent and are an adult, it's time to assume responsibility for dealing with it and moving on. Some people prefer not to move on because they don't want to bare any responsibility because doing so means accepting that at least some of their unhappiness might be their own fault.

I just checked out the subreddit again now and it's fairly unrecognizable from its 2013 version. Yikes. My guess is that the SJW problem has gotten a lot worse in the last 5 years and so the balance of power in the subreddit has tilted decidedly in favor of newer, younger victim-minded posters. Jonathan Haidt's new book should deal with some of these trends in child rearing and socialization.

What are your thoughts about the current generation of emerging adults having poor resiliency and self-regulation skills, and its impact on mood disorders? This has been suggested in some recent pop-psych books, such as <em>The Coddling of the American Mind</em>. What do you think can be done to combat this?

I don’t think Americans spend anywhere near the amount of time thinking about class that the British do.

To the extent that we think about it at all, it’s more about cultural norms than income. A good book to read about this is Class by Paul Fussell .

>Data is beautiful

Except when it's not. I also struggle with collecting a lot of fun data, then not knowing how to put it together. This is a fantastic book for visual ideas.

As someone in tech, these interviews don't really test smarts, programming skills, or IQ. Just that you can grind leetcode.

Tech interviews are all really just a game with a huge amount of luck involved. Sometimes you get all problems you've heard before with lenient interviews, sometimes you get a bunch of leetcode hards with interviewers who expect you to write a proof before solving it. I definitely wouldn't consider someone smarter or dumber then me based on how they did in an interview.

It's tough after a rejection but it's good that you're going to keep applying. Time is on your side and Google will probably be knocking on your door again in 6 to 9 months anyway.

As far as impostor syndrome I'd recommend reading this book https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322

It barely mentions impostor syndrome specifically but the skills taught in it are almost directly related.

I think this is actually a very big deal and something I try to pay attention to as a parent. When you praise your kid for "being smart", that becomes their identity, and once they hit something they don't understand they feel their identity threatened. If you instead praise your kid for their hard work, then learning hard stuff just becomes a matter of more hard work.

This is obviously a gross oversimplification, but check out a woman named Carol Dweck for more on this.

Hey friend, you should read this book.

Mindset

There is a thing called mindset. Carol Dweck has spent most of her career dedicated to this topic. There is a growth mindset and there is a fixed mindset. I won't try to explain it when it has been explained already.

growth vs fixed mindset

Carol Dwech's book on Amazon

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Learning about this growth mindset was a turning point in my career. I am a better person and am growing in my career.

Queen of the millennials here (I'm 38). My thoughts:

1) Millennials and younger in general emphasize following the rules and operating within defined parameters. Remember when some 'inspirational speaker' would ask "Who here plans to go to college?" and literally every kid would raise their hand? Like, come on, not everyone will, or should, go to college but we were fed propaganda that this was the ONLY path we should take.

2) Intense focus on "safety-ism" as defined in The Coddling of the American Mind: "safetyism as a culture or belief system in which safety (which includes "emotional safety") has become a sacred value, which means that people become unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns".

3) It seems like millennials and younger put more value on social cohesion and conflict avoidance. So rather than question whether masks work (safety!) and if lockdowns are the answer (if we just do this, we'll be ok!), they are compliant and believe that if everyone does what they are told, everything will be fine.

DLAB is horrendous, this guide is quite helpful but it’s just a beast in and of itself. If you don’t score high enough you can retest in 6 months but it’s up to the recruiter as to if they allow you to wait that long. My DEP had a person waiting to retest so it is possible. When I went through (obviously pre plague) we found out our language week 6. You make a list like week 2 of your “top 5” languages which “they match to needs of the Air Force” but most of us think it just goes into a shred box.

Thanks for the shout out. This is a very important topic to me and I'm glad to see others interest as well.

Other countries seem to put more of an emphasis on education, unfortunately, America doesn't, and it will be it's undoing. As an educated populace drives technological superiority which determines which country is the super power. The Chinese, culturally understand this.

The American system is what I call a managed democracy, powers that be have no interest of having an educated population capable of critical thinking to spot and stop corruption.

There is a great book I would like to recommend. Mindset by Carol Dweck. (Sorry for the shill, I'm not Carol I promise. ) Leading researcher in human motivation. She talks a lot about how people learn and how to restructure our education system so the younger generation may thrive.

I hope we can find a solution to get people to value education, a lot do, but a lot don't. I think that will change with self driving cars and 14% of the population is suddenly out of work. This I think will provide a tipping point.

It's never good to count your eggs before they hatch, but post MOASS this will be a charitable endeavor of mine. I hope that we can work together for the betterment of humanity.

Then you teach them to understand intention, and not be indoctrinated by safetyism and grow up into insecure adults.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897

you've run into a interview problem I give out often, I give you a data viz in shambles and ask you to fix it.

What we are generally looking for is the ability for you to isolate the key points of the analysis and communicate that clearly visually

if you're interviewing for UI /ux you should also be familiar with this book

https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information/dp/1930824130

its required reading on my team.

u/Sophiadaputa, it's unlikely that anyone will be able do this question justice of AskReddit on all places. I would recommend reading this book: https://smile.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465083617

It's by a Black developmental psychologist and includes descriptions of how White, Black, and other racial/ethnic/cultural identities develop in the U.S. As usual, reading a book is probably the best way to get a real answer.

Ouais. Je suis en train de lire un livre qui parle de cette nouvelle "culture" de l'annulation et de l'hypersensibilité des jeunes adultes gauchistes, d'un point de vue psychologique. C'est américain, mais ça déteint sur toute la planète bien entendu, et encore plus au Canada (et au Qc) américanisé. Son livre est fascinant, ça explique pas mal la politique de gauche ultra libérale actuelle.
https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897
Selon sa théorie 3 faux principes gèrent les jeunes (principalement) actuellement:
1 - La non vérité de la fragilité : ce qui ne te tue pas te rend plus faible
2 - La non vérité du raisonement émotionel : fait toujours confiance à tes émotions
3 - La non vérité de nous contre eux : la vie est une bataille entre les bons et les méchants
Écoute avec des réflexions du genre tu n'iras pas loin dans la vie, d'où le titre de son livre ...

Consider reading this book, I highly recommend: SAT Prep Black Book

While it is for the SAT, there are many overlapping concepts between the PSAT and SAT. Speaking from a person who went from scoring high-500 to a 710 on the SAT, I found this book very useful with the ERBW section, specifically in giving tips on how to approach different types of questions and helping you get in the proper mindset to tackle the test! It also has extensive examples of math problems and multiple ways to do each one!

Good luck, you got this!!!

You know there is a field of educational psychology which is filled by people desperately trying to find a way to teach kids how to think via schooling, and the results come back unanimous every time: school does not teach people how to think better by any metric.

What you are listing is the goal of schooling, not the reality. There's an entire book on this by the author of Open Borders, Bryan Caplan who is a favorite on this sub:

https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Education-System-Waste/dp/0691174652

You can also search him and this book title on youtube for his summary and podcasts etc.