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Exactly. "Women are shorter than men on average," but that doesn't make a 7'2" woman any shorter in absolute terms.
by thirdtruck 11y ago
Exactly. "Women are shorter than men on average," but that doesn't make a 7'2" woman any shorter in absolute terms.
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- tsotha 11y agoExactly. I can look at a 7'2" woman and see that she's tall. What do I know about medicine? If my life depended on picking a tall person hidden behind a screen, would I choose a woman or a man? This is what's stupid about so-called "affirmative action". They've set the situation up such that it's rational to make sure your doctor is white or east Asian.
- hackinthebochs 11y agoNot really. Sure, statistics on whole populations favor whites and asians when it comes to test scores. But any doctor you may come in contact with has passed many tests of knowledge and ability at all levels of their education and career. They have seen many patients, have not had their medical license revoked, can still receive medical insurance, so on and so forth. Such a selection of individuals will not follow the distribution of intelligence one sees in the general population. At this point you are just as likely to have a crackpot white doctor as a crackpot black doctor.
- tsotha 11y agoNo, I don't think so. Some people are more intelligent than other people, and it flows through to all their endeavors.