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Sanchez: UCLA Study Shows Process Visualization Outperforms Outcome Visualization
“UCLA psychologists tested exactly that on students the week before a midterm. One group visualized the outcome, so getting that A, right? The other visualized the process, when they would study, where they would sit, which chapters, and then a control group ba…”
Sanchez: UCLA study shows visualizing future self improves long-term decisions
“Like, there's a behavioral economist at UCLA name is Hal Hirshfield. He ran a study where he showed participants age-progressed renderings of their own future selves. The participants who emotionally connected with the older version made dramatically better lo…”
UCLA admissions dropped from 76% when Galloway applied to 9%
“When I applied to UCLA, the admissions rate was 76%. I barely, and I didn't get in. I was one of the 24% that got rejected. And I applied the second time when I got in. This year is going to be nine percent”
Lonsdale: UCLA Medical School Is Graduating Incompetent Doctors Due to Ideology
“So UCLA recently, we saw that school's really been taken over by ideologues, and they're graduating a lot of people who are not competent doctors. They're bringing the wrong people in.”
Chamath: Elite universities consist mostly of privileged, over-coached students
“You see them at Columbia, Harvard. There are these specific Berkeley, UCLA that are bastions of privileged kids for the most part. These are extremely elite institutions that typically Allow in kids that have been coached their entire lives to get into those s…”
Wallach: The brain views its future self as a stranger
“And they'll put people into an fMRI machine, and they'll say, okay, think of your current self right now, and a certain part of the brain will light up. And they'll say, okay, think of this famous actor, you know, whatever. They'll say Matt Damon or Angelina J…”
Horowitz: One-on-one tutoring is the only consistently proven intervention for autistic students
“This is also true with autistic kids. They've done similar research. And the one thing that works is one-on-one tutoring. Or the one thing that's proven of all the interventions consistently, there is a professor with UCLA, Ivar Lovas, who kind of proved that …”
RFK Jr.: DTP vaccine killed or injured 1 in 300 kids in US
“It was killing or causing severe brain injury in one out of every 300 kids who got it.”
Linkabit Co-Founder Leonard Kleinrock Sent the First ARPANET Message
“Len and one of his grad students at the time at UCLA, like the next year, right after this has happened, this is all happening at the same time, they sent the first message on ARPANET ever, like the first Internet transmission ever from UCLA to Stanford.”
Tim Urban: Berkeley and UCLA require diversity statements for chemistry professorships
“Berkeley, right now, and UCLA, and about 20 other schools. If you want to apply to be a chemistry professor, The first thing that you do is you have to fill out a diversity statement, and it's called, that sounds nice, a diversity statement, but it's actually,…”
Jin: 80% of UCLA students say college is for getting a job
“I think UCLA ran a survey a few years ago, surveying their students as to, like, what is the purpose of college for you? And 80% of them said to get a job.”
Blog readers pressured UCLA into granting Jim Gilliam a lung transplant
“Some of the folks who as were like reading my blog and sort of following what was going on one of them sent an email to UCLA and was like, what's going on? This is crazy. Like you're only doing easy surgeries. No wonder your statistics are so great. It's not o…”