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Goodhart’s Law Explains School Decay

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Everywhere in education, you see incentives at work. The incentives, though, are so far removed from the actual goals of education that they produce perverse results. . We observe this again and again in education. Goodhart’s Law is usually stated, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Feb 4-5)

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Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with the news that the SEC has issued a risk alert outlining Reg BI-related deficiencies discovered during recent examinations of broker-dealers, from dual-registered advisors not clearly communicating whether they were acting as a commission-based (..)

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12 Best Paying Jobs in Finance in 2023

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And while there’s no guarantee that any job will be immune to cutbacks or layoffs, some industries weather economic storms better than others. CFOs typically have a deep understanding of economic theory and practice and strong analytical and problem-solving skills. One industry that tends to be recession-resistant is finance.

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Pilot Shortage: A Story of Stalled Supply and Rising Demand

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Reducing the number of flights per day , while a handy way for airlines to cut costs, also reduces the number of training opportunities for new and existing pilots, who must conduct a minimum number of takeoffs and landings to become and remain credentialed. Laura Williams.

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Moving 5G Beyond The Marketing Realm And Into Reality

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There’s been a shortage of debate over whether the economic headwinds caused by the coronavirus will dampen carrier capital expenditures (CapEx) and infrastructure deployments. In an interview with PYMNTS, Alex Gellman, CEO of Vertical Bridge , which owns and manages communications infrastructure across the U.S. Or hasten it.

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10 Best Paying Jobs in Life Insurance in 2023

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To be successful in the role, you must possess strong analytical and communication skills. Life insurance agents’ salaries vary depending on the type of life insurance policies they sell and other factors such as experience and education. Analytics is more than crunching numbers but also about making sense of a situation.

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Asia Pacific becomes the new ground zero for cybercrime

Future CFO

The increased number of sophisticated attacks in the region gives real cause for concern, as seen in the case of the popular 3CX phone service application which was turned into a trojan as part of a supply attack, said Vivek Gullapalli, Chief Information Security Officer, APAC, Check Point Software Technologies.