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Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

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  1. vincent-uden · · focus · HN ↗
    This very much echoes the region of critical slowing down present in a dynamical system after its equilibrium states have disappeared due to a change in the system (a bifurcation).
    1. misterchocolat · · focus · HN ↗
      Holy sentence... George Orwell must be turning in his grave right now.
      1. lelanthran · · focus · HN ↗
        What do you think Orwellian language means?
        1. peri-cl · · focus · HN ↗
          I think GP's was a reference to Politics and the English Language (1946)—not "1984". An essay against convoluted writing styles.

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