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What do her parents do?
by cup 6y ago
What do her parents do?
- eat_veggies 6y agoI know you're asking this to try to downplay her remarkable achievements. But her parent is a single mother [1] who's an insurance agent [2]. [1] https://wsspaper.com/65234/news/qa-with-science-talent-search-finalist-dasia-taylor-21/ https://wsspaper.com/65234/news/qa-with-science-talent-searc... [2] https://dailyiowan.com/2020/11/18/iowa-city-west-senior-dasia-taylor-launches-apparel-shop/ https://dailyiowan.com/2020/11/18/iowa-city-west-senior-dasi...
- neolog 6y agoReally the question is how did she do that? If she had parents in the field (probably a common scenario), we don't need to know much more. If it's something else, then we can ask if those conditions can be generalized.
- okprod 6y agoHer parent is a single mother, insurance agent.
- blubbity 6y agoHow do you know the question is intended to downplay her remarkable achievements? I first interpreted the question along the lines of Mozart or Tiger Woods and didn't think about it uncharitably until you brought it up.
- Leparamour 6y agoThe whole affair seems to be politicized too much to not question the truthfulness of the claims presented as facts. Also, pH-sensitive dyed wound dressings have been in development for at least a decade by now, at the Fraunhofer institute[1] in Germany. [1]https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2010/11/dressing-indicates-infections.html https://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2010/11/dre...
- nanna 6y ago> The whole affair seems to be politicized too much to not question the truthfulness of the claims presented as facts. Do you realise your comment sounds a lot like, 'she only got this far because she's a young black woman'?
- eat_veggies 6y agocan you explain to me what it means to be politicized, and which claims you find questionable?
- zapdrive 6y agoReally? You think her being black, or a woman, played no part at all in getting her all this exposure?
- nanna 6y agoSo what? Why does this bother you? Young black women are hugely under-represented in STEM fields, so this is a nice story of someone breaking through that and it gets coverage. The insinuation is that she doesn't deserve it, that she was only awarded this because she is a young black woman. Are you really placed to judge this? Do you know the ins-and-outs of the award criteria, what the other candidates were like, have you concertedly worked through your anti-black prejudices? No offence but I doubt all three.
- tjs8rj 6y agoI think their point is: is this getting coverage because it’s actually novel and impressive, or is this relative simple but getting attention because of her race/gender? In other words: Is the coverage a good signal for whether one should be impressed or not. It may have merit on inspiring others, particularly underrepresented groups, but I think that’s only adjacent to the parents question of: is this impressive in a vacuum, or just getting traction because of her gender/race, which presumably the parent doesn’t find to be important. Accusations of “anti black prejudices” may be wrong if their actual point is that the news is prejudicially covering otherwise non newsworthy work primarily because of the gender/race of the creator.
- JamesSwift 6y agoI took the question as "thats impressive for someone this young, are her parents in related fields so shes been exposed to this stuff or is it all self guided?"
- eat_veggies 6y agoI hope that's the case! And if it is, then I apologize to cup
- alisonkisk 6y agoSlandering other commenters like this is not acceptable behavior.
- nickphx 6y agoHow could you possibly know that?
- arolihas 6y agoNot a very charitable interpretation