Discriminating against Whites who do better on tests is "diversity."
From the second link, the anti-White in charge of the case is: Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
She is a Black, of course.
>>"Discriminatory employment tests do more than cost applicants a fair chance to compete for public service jobs like firefighting; they also PREVENT communities from being served in these crucial positions by THE MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATES for the job"
By testing applicants you deprive people from having the most qualified firemen. Black logic.
>>"The under-representation of Black people in the fire department workforce in Durham, and across the country, undermines public safety efforts. This settlement agreement requires the Durham Fire Department to reform its unlawful hiring process and provide MONETARY AND OTHER RELIEF to those already harmed. "
The taxpayers have to pay the Blacks who can't pass the test.
>>“Employers should identify and eliminate practices that have a disparate impact based on race,” said U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston for the Middle District of North Carolina.
Sandra Hairston is also a Black.
>>Under the terms of the consent decree also filed yesterday, DFD will:
>>Adopt a written test that does not discriminate in violation of Title VII and provide data to the department on the administration of the new test to ensure compliance;
>>Pay $980,000 in back pay to applicants who were disqualified by DFD’s uses of the challenged test; and
>>Hire up to 16 applicants who were unfairly disqualified by the challenged test and who successfully complete the new firefighter selection process.
The settlement means they are FORCED to hire Blacks who failed the test, AND pay them "backpay" for time they didn't work.
I’m in favour of some thumb-on-scale in police hiring.
For policing to be effective police need to use force and for the public to (broadly) accept this. They also need the public to answer their questions.
It’s much easier if the police look and feel broadly like the policed population.
This is not at all unique to the United States. In lots of European cities the policed tend to be first- or second-generation migrants in inner cities and cops tend to be natives who live in the suburbs or exurbs.
In the Charlie Peters interview about "grooming gangs" someone linked on the Wikipedia post, he said it was clear someone on the police force would sometimes tip off the Pakistani perps after a complaint.
Its fairly the obvious the police in the UK are not just ignoring the grooming gangs, but actively helping them. In other words, the UK police are part of the rapists and sex traffickers.
How will our underrepresented protected groups ever achieve Equality if they have to take the same test as everyone else?
If Equality means anything it means a 105lb woman gets to "serve her community" as firefighter because dashing her hopes and dreams is cruel and wounds her ego—and isn't the first purpose of every possible endeavor to make the underrepresented feel good about themselves, thus increasing this quarter's sum of self-esteem?
"Recitifying historical injustice" is the new American First Commandment. Nothing else is more important and no emergency or crisis can dislodge it and if you want any sort of managerial perch, you must never question it.
Where I live, they reduced the weight of the dolls firemen have to carry out of smoke-filled buildings, because the realistic weight was too much for female applicants to carry. This was the result of a feminist discrimination bureaucrat, of course.
Also, businesses and state bureaus will now give you online tests that include a logic test, language test, and personality test.
The businesses do this to avoid being sued when they don't give non-Whites the job. First of all, the non-Whites will usually do worse on the logic and language tests, but if you simply don't want to hire them, for various reasons, you can always say that the personality test wasn't what you were looking for. A personality test is unquantifiable.
In the opposite direction, the government bureau - or a leftist HR department at a business - can always claim that the personality test made them hire the immigrants even when they did worse on the logic and language parts.
I had my 10yo try the questions Cremieux posted and he aced them. He would've aced them 2, maybe 3 years ago easily as well. It is absurd that anyone fails those things, assuming Cremieux didn't just post the easiest questions he found.
"Similarly, can you imagine trying to get an Administration official to come up with a plausible argument for why we perhaps should use racial quotas for cops but not for firemen? "
As if White firemen had any idea how to rescue Black bodies.
Tangential, but your subtitle reminds me of memes I see going around Twitter that demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of bell curves. Namely, various people are using the bell curve meme template (where the moronic take and the brainiac take are largely identical, with the midwit take being contrary--e.g.: https://imgs.search.brave.com/OqIikuY0PCsiekGub-sIT7lvXc96MqiCdhPDz5SoVOE/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLmlt/Z2ZsaXAuY29tLzdk/NnExaC5qcGc), but they think the maximum of the curve represents the superior position (because it's higher!), so they place their "brainiac take" there.
The rules of basketball have a disparate impact on the short, the obese, the uncoordinated, the white (apparently), etc., so they need to be abolished and reparations should be paid by LeBron, et al., to those classes who suffer such harmful discrimination.
"*The rules of basketball have a disparate impact on the short, the obese, the uncoordinated, the **white** (apparently), etc., so they need to be abolished and reparations should be paid by LeBron, et al., to those classes who suffer such harmful discrimination.*"
As they've been doing ever since Princip, the Serbs are ruining it for everyone.
This is in regard to an article by Griffe du Lion on the alleged sociological constant regarding women math professorships.
The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is used for admission to graduate school and scores on it are useful for comparing male/female likelihood of becoming eligible for professorship in a university math department. These data are more useful than tests of high school students. For recent data I could access, the average difference between men and women looks trivial and the difference in standard deviation looks trivial.
The differences in means are trivial in relation to the averages in "quantitative reasoning", 154.1 for women and 156.8 for men. Standard deviations are 9.5 for women and 9.1 for men.
The authorities withhold information on raw scores, so we do not know the true scale on which we are comparing nor the raw averages and variations. The least obscure discussion of the scale I could easily find is at "https://e-gmat.com/blogs/gre-scores/".
ETS seems too diversely talented to admit what the initial stand for on its web site (https://www.ets.org/about/who.html). Perhaps the initials no longer stand for anything and the organization's original name is an embarrassment in woke culture (https://www.ets.org/).
The practice test was really easy. I think I'm a firefighter now.
Our descent into self-imposed mediocrity continues.
Discriminating against Whites who do better on tests is "diversity."
From the second link, the anti-White in charge of the case is: Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
She is a Black, of course.
>>"Discriminatory employment tests do more than cost applicants a fair chance to compete for public service jobs like firefighting; they also PREVENT communities from being served in these crucial positions by THE MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATES for the job"
By testing applicants you deprive people from having the most qualified firemen. Black logic.
>>"The under-representation of Black people in the fire department workforce in Durham, and across the country, undermines public safety efforts. This settlement agreement requires the Durham Fire Department to reform its unlawful hiring process and provide MONETARY AND OTHER RELIEF to those already harmed. "
The taxpayers have to pay the Blacks who can't pass the test.
>>“Employers should identify and eliminate practices that have a disparate impact based on race,” said U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston for the Middle District of North Carolina.
Sandra Hairston is also a Black.
>>Under the terms of the consent decree also filed yesterday, DFD will:
>>Adopt a written test that does not discriminate in violation of Title VII and provide data to the department on the administration of the new test to ensure compliance;
>>Pay $980,000 in back pay to applicants who were disqualified by DFD’s uses of the challenged test; and
>>Hire up to 16 applicants who were unfairly disqualified by the challenged test and who successfully complete the new firefighter selection process.
The settlement means they are FORCED to hire Blacks who failed the test, AND pay them "backpay" for time they didn't work.
hope the settlement also pays for the coloring books and crayons that will be used for their new written test.
I’m in favour of some thumb-on-scale in police hiring.
For policing to be effective police need to use force and for the public to (broadly) accept this. They also need the public to answer their questions.
It’s much easier if the police look and feel broadly like the policed population.
This is not at all unique to the United States. In lots of European cities the policed tend to be first- or second-generation migrants in inner cities and cops tend to be natives who live in the suburbs or exurbs.
In the Charlie Peters interview about "grooming gangs" someone linked on the Wikipedia post, he said it was clear someone on the police force would sometimes tip off the Pakistani perps after a complaint.
Its fairly the obvious the police in the UK are not just ignoring the grooming gangs, but actively helping them. In other words, the UK police are part of the rapists and sex traffickers.
Disparate impact strikes again!
How will our underrepresented protected groups ever achieve Equality if they have to take the same test as everyone else?
If Equality means anything it means a 105lb woman gets to "serve her community" as firefighter because dashing her hopes and dreams is cruel and wounds her ego—and isn't the first purpose of every possible endeavor to make the underrepresented feel good about themselves, thus increasing this quarter's sum of self-esteem?
"Recitifying historical injustice" is the new American First Commandment. Nothing else is more important and no emergency or crisis can dislodge it and if you want any sort of managerial perch, you must never question it.
Where I live, they reduced the weight of the dolls firemen have to carry out of smoke-filled buildings, because the realistic weight was too much for female applicants to carry. This was the result of a feminist discrimination bureaucrat, of course.
Also, businesses and state bureaus will now give you online tests that include a logic test, language test, and personality test.
The businesses do this to avoid being sued when they don't give non-Whites the job. First of all, the non-Whites will usually do worse on the logic and language tests, but if you simply don't want to hire them, for various reasons, you can always say that the personality test wasn't what you were looking for. A personality test is unquantifiable.
In the opposite direction, the government bureau - or a leftist HR department at a business - can always claim that the personality test made them hire the immigrants even when they did worse on the logic and language parts.
When considering how the population has "ballooned", they should be using a heavier doll.
Someone on twitter (Cremieux?) posted links to the Maryland State Police exam. It...... it is an incredibly easy test.
I had my 10yo try the questions Cremieux posted and he aced them. He would've aced them 2, maybe 3 years ago easily as well. It is absurd that anyone fails those things, assuming Cremieux didn't just post the easiest questions he found.
As Amy Wax has told us. We can be pretty sure that none of the officials making these decisions were in the top half of their law school class
Should have a test before voting.
Put it this way. The day that the Race Card fails will be the day that our Democratic friends abandon race politics.
"Similarly, can you imagine trying to get an Administration official to come up with a plausible argument for why we perhaps should use racial quotas for cops but not for firemen? "
As if White firemen had any idea how to rescue Black bodies.
> The Biden Administration can't grasp how bell curves work.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him NOT understanding.
The biggest motivation for progressives is to never let anyone call you a racist.
Tangential, but your subtitle reminds me of memes I see going around Twitter that demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of bell curves. Namely, various people are using the bell curve meme template (where the moronic take and the brainiac take are largely identical, with the midwit take being contrary--e.g.: https://imgs.search.brave.com/OqIikuY0PCsiekGub-sIT7lvXc96MqiCdhPDz5SoVOE/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLmlt/Z2ZsaXAuY29tLzdk/NnExaC5qcGc), but they think the maximum of the curve represents the superior position (because it's higher!), so they place their "brainiac take" there.
All so tiresome.
The rules of basketball have a disparate impact on the short, the obese, the uncoordinated, the white (apparently), etc., so they need to be abolished and reparations should be paid by LeBron, et al., to those classes who suffer such harmful discrimination.
"*The rules of basketball have a disparate impact on the short, the obese, the uncoordinated, the **white** (apparently), etc., so they need to be abolished and reparations should be paid by LeBron, et al., to those classes who suffer such harmful discrimination.*"
As they've been doing ever since Princip, the Serbs are ruining it for everyone.
"The Biden Administration can't grasp how bell curves work."
No, they understand it quite well. They just refuse to admit it and it is politically and monetarily advantageous for them to deny it.
This is in regard to an article by Griffe du Lion on the alleged sociological constant regarding women math professorships.
The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is used for admission to graduate school and scores on it are useful for comparing male/female likelihood of becoming eligible for professorship in a university math department. These data are more useful than tests of high school students. For recent data I could access, the average difference between men and women looks trivial and the difference in standard deviation looks trivial.
The differences in means are trivial in relation to the averages in "quantitative reasoning", 154.1 for women and 156.8 for men. Standard deviations are 9.5 for women and 9.1 for men.
We are not comparing on a scale of 157 points. According to the Wikipedia article on the GRE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_Record_Examinations), math scores are calculated to give a range of 41 points (130-170).
The organization that sells the GRE (ETS) still allows people to see limited data on scores for the years 2019-2020 (https://www.ets.org/pdfs/gre/snapshot-test-taker-data-2020.pdf).
The authorities withhold information on raw scores, so we do not know the true scale on which we are comparing nor the raw averages and variations. The least obscure discussion of the scale I could easily find is at "https://e-gmat.com/blogs/gre-scores/".
ETS seems too diversely talented to admit what the initial stand for on its web site (https://www.ets.org/about/who.html). Perhaps the initials no longer stand for anything and the organization's original name is an embarrassment in woke culture (https://www.ets.org/).