If there's a correlation between sex and not just their model but the underlying notion of credit repayment, how can you create a model that doesn't have this same correlation?
Surely you can understand why I might not want this attached to a normal account- I've had people harass my employer before over this.
I don't think I've been uncivil or unreasonable towards other users, and you don't seem to be saying as much. Is there a way to discuss this concept without breaking site rules, or is the concept itself what is prohibited?
If you or anybody else cannot imagine succumbing to this sort of blind rejection of scientific studies and would like to experience it firsthand, consider your attitude towards research into the relationship between race and IQ.
The Naturalization Act of 1790- the first legislation implementing the rules for citizenship- limited immigration to "free white persons of good character". [1] It's revisionist nonsense to say that whiteness is a modern invention.
The point of this is not to establish oneself as better, it's to answer a question that is the backbone for our current social policy.
The underrepresentation of black people among life outcomes that correlate with high intelligence (physicists, CEOs, leading politicians, etc.), and overrepresentation of black people among life outcomes that correlate with low intelligence (prison, death by shooting, etc.) has been accepted as proof that our society is fundamentally opressive, and needs to be torn down. If black people and white people are as groups genetically equal, then this reasoning is perfectly valid- different outcomes would be the result of environmental bias.
If not, however, then no such inference can be made- these disparate outcomes are exactly what you would expect from two disparate groups, even in the absence of any oppression. If this is the case, suddenly teaching black children that white supremacy will limit their ability to succeed in tech, taking medical school slots away from more qualified Asians, and requiring equal proportions of blacks and whites in various positions becomes tremendously harmful.
I kid. Here's a meta-study that overviews three decades of research into the topic, and provides what I've found to be the best summary of the position and its ramifications. [1]
Here's a survey administered to geneticists, behavioral psychologists, and other experts who are active in the field. 83% believe that the IQ gap has a non-zero genetic component. [2]
We're actually at the point now where we've been able to identify some of the genes involved. [3]
It'll be interesting to see what happens as this stuff gets harder and harder to reject.
Who cares? It has absolutely no effect on you, while helping his group of people.
The world would be a better place if people worked on improving their own communities as much as they do policing to make sure nobody else is improving theirs.
They're not necessarily wrong, either. I'm responsible for hiring decisions, and whenever possible I prefer to go with white and Asian men because 1. I know their accomplishments are the result of their own ability rather than hand-holding, and 2. if things go sour, they're not going to sue me.
Obviously few women or PoC do those things, but with a white/Asian guy you remove the risk entirely.
They aren't on the margins, at all. Sanders said that white men don't know what it's like to be poor, the Colombia mattress girl was invited to the State of the Union, the president of Harvard was fired for saying that men may have greater variance in genetic traits than women.
Hundreds of millions in federal funding is awarded for professors to talk about how we need to "abolish whiteness"; it's the dominant belief system in academics.
My point is that you don't see the opposite- there aren't researchers purporting to have shown that the means are the same, flawed research or otherwise.
They don't want to study it, even though doing so could prove their position.
Imagine if there was an easy way to check whether or not God existed, but Christians virulently fought against anyone who tried to do so. Wouldn't this be a pretty good indicator that they were wrong?
I've asked this question probably two dozen times to various people, in as earnest and non-confrontational a manner as I can , and the only time I've been able to receive a response that departed from "You're a racist." was when I was told by my professor to leave the room.