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lol!How is it incoherent? The government has been helping black people for decades
Again the subject was meritocracy.
But you've made it clear the capacity you are operating at.
lol!How is it incoherent? The government has been helping black people for decades
The largest predictive factor of success is IQlol!
Again the subject was meritocracy.
But you've made it clear the capacity you are operating at.
My comment clearly mentions schooling in general, not the medical specifically. Are you denying that standards in schooling in general are being lowered? Are you claiming there's no evidence of lowering of standards in education?huh?
So the MCAT, USMLE, USMLE step3,
all residencies, fellowships and Board
accredited board certifications have been
"politicized" at every level?
by who and why?
Evidence is great.
Im not trying to be funny.
Have you ever seen or have a family doctor?
That's the point. Nobody does. You are judging a doctor who finished their schooling, completed residency and got board certified based on how they were admitted to medical school. It's lunacy.
How about just improving education in low income areas?
Attack the issue that way. Keep race out of it.
Were it not for diversity mandates, white men would be the smallest demographic in college by a country mile, and every ivy league college would be nearly 100% asian.
It takes a special kind of idiot to bitch about diversity when it's working in their favor.
Not gonna work. They've tried this many times already
Even LeBron James tried it and he didn't get a single student to pass basic math and science
It was a figure of speach, I’m pretty sure you know that and just deflected the relevant questionWho's "you" ?
thats not true, where are you getting this insane idea from?Were it not for diversity mandates, white men would be the smallest demographic in college by a country mile, and every ivy league college would be nearly 100% asian.
It takes a special kind of idiot to bitch about diversity when it's working in their favor.
No I dont understand who you are referring to?It was a figure of speach, I’m pretty sure you know that and just deflected the relevant question
I really have no idea what you are talking about.My comment clearly mentions schooling in general, not the medical specifically. Are you denying that standards in schooling in general are being lowered? Are you claiming there's no evidence of lowering of standards in education?
Reading some of the comments from specific people, its clear education was not, and will never be their thing.How is it absurd? University applications have always taken into consideration how you grew up and where you went to school. This is not a new phenomena. You still need to finish the course and after finishing the curriculum you will be at the same end point as everyone else. The admission is just the first step of your career. Nobody remembers how you got in after you finished. It's irrelevant.
In my country everyone gets an Enter Score. My course required a 98.5 to get in while I only got a 96.5. I got into the course because the school I went to was at the bottom end of the state. I ended up doing much better than people who went to better schools because there is nobody to coddle you at university. Do you think people talk about enter score in the industry now? Do people care? No. It's about how well you perform at work and the experience you have attained. Nobody even cares how well you did at school. It's a mute point in the real world.
I don't even know why most of you care about this since most of the admissions are taken up by legacy students and foreign applicants. Most of the applicants you are complaining about are not even taking the positions of the top tier students. They are taken by legacy students and foreign applications yet nobody cares. I wonder why?
I’m referring to anyone who supports discrimination based on race.No I dont understand who you are referring to?
Fortune 500 companies? I dont run them, at all.
Who is the 'you' you are referring to?
Well our country (the US) is built on discrimination based on the social construct of race.I’m referring to anyone who supports discrimination based on race.
Do you support discrimination based on race? Or favouritism based on race?
If you support one of those you’re automatically supporting both.
I’m referring to anyone who supports discrimination based on race.
Do you support discrimination based on race? Or favouritism based on race?
If you support one of those you’re automatically supporting both.
I would argue if there's a criticism to make its the reverse, that a lot of the "representation" which so angers Sherdogs cultural warriors is actually tokenism, a phase which seems to have lost its bite as its arguably become the orthodoxy of the media post Obama. What they rage at is actually something which is often used to reinforce the status quo of racism and inequality on a larger scale.Have you looked at the people who became president for America? They were idiots who got pushed by their rich families.
Clinton and bush both had terrible academic careers and only got into their respective universities based on legacy admissions. Two of the dumbest people of all time that would be nobodies if not for their privilege.
That’s most of society. You’re out here railing against the very small % of minorities that get placements instead of the rich white kids that take up most of the admissions.
You're not making any sense.I really have no idea what you are talking about.
school standards "in general" are lowered?
What does that mean? Compared to when exactly?
What type of schooling are you referring to?
Public schools, private schools, charter schools, higher education, community colleges
associates degrees, advanced degrees, bachelors degrees, PHds programs, Ivy leagues?
On a state or federal level?
This is such an absurdly vague bordering on vapid statement.
If you are trying to make a point, you'll have to be more concise.
IQ is not the strongest correlation. They have proven this false many times.
The American Dream promises that individual talent will be rewarded, regardless of where one comes from or who one’s parents are. But the reality of what transpires along America’s K-12-to-career pipeline reveals a sorting of America’s most talented youth by affluence—not merit. Among the affluent, a kindergartner with test scores in the bottom half has a 7 in 10 chance of reaching high SES among his or her peers as a young adult, while a disadvantaged kindergartner with top-half test scores only has a 3 in 10 chance.
The disparities in immediate college enrollment are jarring for tenth graders with bottom-half math scores—54 percent of those who are lowest SES do not immediately enroll in any college, compared to 16 percent who are highest SES. Those who are highest SES are more likely to enroll in a four-year college (46%) than their lowest-SES counterparts (14%).
Family class plays a greater role than high school test scores in college attainment. The highest-SES students with bottom-half math scores are more likely to complete college degrees than the lowest-SES students with top-half math scores.
It doesn't really matter how smart you are since someone who is much dumber than you has a higher chance of success just due to the fact their parents are wealthy. They have modelled this through all year levels and age groups. The results don't change.
Let's start with income. Not surprisingly, the amount of money people make is strongly predicted by what their parents earn. Up until a parent-household-income threshold of roughly $150,000, adult children tend to earn another $0.33 for every dollar their parents earn. Above that cutoff, the increase they see in their income based on their parents' earnings is less dramatic:
IQ doesn't even come close to this type of correlation. The stats don't really lie about this. It's actually pretty damning tbh.
IQ is not the strongest correlation. They have proven this false many times.
The American Dream promises that individual talent will be rewarded, regardless of where one comes from or who one’s parents are. But the reality of what transpires along America’s K-12-to-career pipeline reveals a sorting of America’s most talented youth by affluence—not merit. Among the affluent, a kindergartner with test scores in the bottom half has a 7 in 10 chance of reaching high SES among his or her peers as a young adult, while a disadvantaged kindergartner with top-half test scores only has a 3 in 10 chance.
The disparities in immediate college enrollment are jarring for tenth graders with bottom-half math scores—54 percent of those who are lowest SES do not immediately enroll in any college, compared to 16 percent who are highest SES. Those who are highest SES are more likely to enroll in a four-year college (46%) than their lowest-SES counterparts (14%).
Family class plays a greater role than high school test scores in college attainment. The highest-SES students with bottom-half math scores are more likely to complete college degrees than the lowest-SES students with top-half math scores.
It doesn't really matter how smart you are since someone who is much dumber than you has a higher chance of success just due to the fact their parents are wealthy. They have modelled this through all year levels and age groups. The results don't change.
Let's start with income. Not surprisingly, the amount of money people make is strongly predicted by what their parents earn. Up until a parent-household-income threshold of roughly $150,000, adult children tend to earn another $0.33 for every dollar their parents earn. Above that cutoff, the increase they see in their income based on their parents' earnings is less dramatic:
IQ doesn't even come close to this type of correlation. The stats don't really lie about this. It's actually pretty damning tbh.