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Long term poverty in certain areas; Leading to poorer education systems; Resulting in less than stellar academic attainment; Resulting is lack of experience. I

Long term poverty in certain areas; Leading to poorer education systems; Resulting in less than stellar academic attainment; Resulting is lack of experience. If I put out a simple coding test and some people cannot crack it - I'm not going to check if my 2+2 test is unfairly biased towards people with red hair. Did you know, for example, that even fairly wealthy black American families are less able to educate their kids to the same level as white American families? Because access to proper education and parental education levels matter a lot. Because kids growing up in poor areas will get lower levels of attainment. Because long term poverty matters. Breaking that education barrier takes more than one generation. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280232788_Race_Poverty_and_SAT_Scores_Modeling_the_Influences_of_Family_Income_on_Black_and_White_High_School_Students'_SAT_Performance https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280232788_Race_Pove...

woofie11 6y ago
"Gosh. Do you think that /REALLY/ accounts for having just two African American employees in our labor force of 300, one working as an admin, and one who grew up outside of an African American community? There's definitely an effect, but 12% of the US population is African American. You'd expect 36 African Americans. I can see a paper like that justifying 15, but you can do the math here as well as anyone. I certainly wouldn't expect you to hire someone unqualified, but it seems like there might be something else going on than your 2+2 test, but where are you looking for people? And how are you screening for 'culture fit?'" Just to give context, since I got crapped on this another place, the thread is: "How does one create change by asking reasonable questions?" I am giving an example of such a thread which would work in the current political climate. I am neither claiming agreement or disagreement with either the questions or answers. To avoid that impression, I'm putting questions in quotes. I could just as easily take a far-right view for this exercise, or one from a non-US culture. I picked this one since I thought it would resonate with the current political climate and with reddit. But keep on answering, and I'll keep asking "reasonable questions" until hopefully I'll have backed you into a corner. :) It's not a bad exercise, or an ineffective change strategy.

woofie11 6y ago

"Gosh. Do you think that /REALLY/ accounts for having just two African American employees in our labor force of 300, one working as an admin, and one who grew up outside of an African American community? There's definitely an effect, but 12% of the US population is African American. You'd expect 36 African Americans. I can see a paper like that justifying 15, but you can do the math here as well as anyone. I certainly wouldn't expect you to hire someone unqualified, but it seems like there might be something else going on than your 2+2 test, but where are you looking for people? And how are you screening for 'culture fit?'" Just to give context, since I got crapped on this another place, the thread is: "How does one create change by asking reasonable questions?" I am giving an example of such a thread which would work in the current political climate. I am neither claiming agreement or disagreement with either the questions or answers. To avoid that impression, I'm putting questions in quotes. I could just as easily take a far-right view for this exercise, or one from a non-US culture. I picked this one since I thought it would resonate with the current political climate and with reddit. But keep on answering, and I'll keep asking "reasonable questions" until hopefully I'll have backed you into a corner. :) It's not a bad exercise, or an ineffective change strategy.