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> "Interned in Dr. Blah's group at the MIT media lab" or "Secretary of the Princeton chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa."

Both of these are about what you have done, and not what you can do. I'm proposing limiting interviews, at least entry-level ones, to relevant skills, abilities, and knowledge. "Read this judicial decision and tell me whether you think it was correctly decided and why." etc.

> destroy all specialized scientific research, education degrees, agricultural science, all high-level maths, biology, ecology, zoology, environmental research

The government should fund students in these directly, as we do with grants in graduate level education.



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