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Going by your extremely tenuous suggestion that genetics is an accurate predictor of math/engineering aptitude because of how people of certain ethnicities or s
by Tcepsa 10y ago
Going by your extremely tenuous suggestion that genetics is an accurate predictor of math/engineering aptitude because of how people of certain ethnicities or sex perform on the SAT, we should have a distribution in tech that looks like this:
- Asian/Pacific Islander = 29.6%
- White = 26.4%
- Mexican American = 22.8%
- Black = 22.1%
- Men = 51.6%
- Women = 48.4%
In other words, roughly equal numbers of all of the demographics (specifically _not_ an overwhelming majority of White Men).
So even if your argument were valid it seriously undermines your point.
- buckbova 10y agoAnd I bet this would be true, if women didn't gravitate moreso to the natural sciences.
- drdeca 10y agoNot that it likely impacts your point much, but does this adjust for population sizes?
- Tcepsa 10y agoI totally misinterpreted the data; for some reason I assumed it was the number of students from each group that scored above some threshold, rather than the average score of that group. My calculations are completely garbage, and I would withdraw the comment but it looks like I can't at this point.
- tzs 10y agoAren't you making a big assumption about linearity?
- Tcepsa 10y agoI think it's more that I totally misinterpreted the data. For some reason I assumed it was the number of students from each group that scored above some threshold, rather than the average score of that group. My calculations are completely garbage, and I would withdraw the comment but it looks like I can't at this point.