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Old 01-16-2012, 06:57 PM
 
Location: southern california
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if grades were the sole determinate of how someone performs in a job there would be no interview process necessary.
i have seen someone smarter better looking and younger than me, dragged from the top of the desk screaming by 2 police officers and taken out the back door. that was the person they promoted instead of me. bi polars like to do that on the job from time to time but boy do they have great grades.
i got the promotion 6 months later. i am often 2nd pick of the draft.

 
Old 01-16-2012, 07:04 PM
 
Location: California
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Yeah, men have some issues to overcome.
 
Old 01-16-2012, 07:06 PM
 
Location: The High Seas
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Use the force
Is this the same person?


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Old 01-16-2012, 07:59 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Its just more evidence of an issue with educating boys in our society more so than girls/women "catching up". The figures are nothing to gloat over - one demographic succeeding while another falls behind is not good for society or the country.

Our boys are falling behind in education - The Denver Post

There are tons of articles like this.

MOD CUT

Last edited by NewToCA; 01-16-2012 at 10:46 PM.. Reason: rude, knock it off...
 
Old 01-16-2012, 08:14 PM
 
Location: Earth
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I fully expect that male high school graduates are less qualified for college than females to begin with, largely because academic success in high school is now perceived as a feminine thing.
And the feminization of education has more than a little to do with why high school drop out rates are so high and why schools are failing.
 
Old 01-16-2012, 08:18 PM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA
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What is happening here? Here's my two cents. It looks to me like men are doing what men always do, and that is avoid overly-feminized or female-dominated environments. Normal men prefer to work and associate primarily with other men - even if that means skipping the prestige of a college education. That's why sports is so wildly popular and exaggerated in this country: it's the only place left where masculine culture is still socially acceptable.
Sounds like you're saying that men just can't compete.
 
Old 01-16-2012, 10:04 PM
hsw
 
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Highest-earning engineers in PaloAlto are almost always male, almost always are white dudes, some Indians...and mysteriously almost no Chinese (what happens to the allegedly overachieving Chinese??)...hmmm...where are the girls or blacks or Mexicans? Wasn't affirm action supposed to force redistribution?

Same phenom among highest earning bond traders in Manhattan

And NBA/NFL have own demographics....it is what it is...despite best attempts of affirmative action and commies to subvert natural selection and market forces
 
Old 01-16-2012, 10:40 PM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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despite best attempts of affirmative action and commies to subvert natural selection and market forces
Commies? sheesh.
 
Old 01-16-2012, 11:12 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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I am all for women getting as deeply involved in the highest levels of the workplace as possible.

Being the big bread winner and taking on the additional stress and responsibility of being the primary supporter of a family is a terrific idea.

Men have been falling over dead from stress related heart attacks for long enough.

We have been subjected to this for too long, it is time for us to stand together and say...."we are not going to take it anymore"

The next words out of our mouths will be...."Honey, I took a $100 out of your purse so I could play a round of golf with the guys and another $5 for a gallon of milk".

Viva la Revolucion
 
Old 01-16-2012, 11:21 PM
 
Location: Escondido, CA
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Highest-earning engineers in PaloAlto are almost always male, almost always are white dudes, some Indians...and mysteriously almost no Chinese (what happens to the allegedly overachieving Chinese??)...

Actually, there are more Chinese than Indians in Silicon Valley. Indians tend to be somewhat more concentrated in engineering, because most Indians are recent immigrants brought here on H1B visas specifically to work in engineering/IT, and the majority of Chinese were either born here or came here before 1995. As to their "allegedly overachieving" children, they are mostly too young to be highest-earning engineers, and they don't always go into engineering anyway (medicine or law would usually be the first choice).
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