Science knowledge varies by race and ethnicity in U.S. (dollars, education)
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Thanks for asking. The point is that our modern civilization, which runs on science, is more fragile than we think. Vast numbers of people, including most women and the vast majority of blacks, are completely clueless about science. They have no understanding of how or why anything works, and are in no position to help sustain us, let alone move us forward. We rely on a relatively small, mostly male, white and Asian group of individuals to do this. We all depend on them, yet there is an ever growing movement to "decolonize" and end the "patriarchy" in science, to push out the competent men and install a gender and racially proportionate STEM workforce. As the results of the survey indicate, this movement is based on a premise that is utterly false. There is no equality or proportionality when it comes to understanding science.
I don't see any movement to "decolonize" science. Maybe in South Africa, but not here. I work a STEM related job, for now. I'm not hearing any "let's decolonize science" where I'm at.
I think you just started this thread as a way of saying "see, Black people are stupid and inferior".
Thanks for asking. The point is that our modern civilization, which runs on science, is more fragile than we think. Vast numbers of people, including most women and the vast majority of blacks, are completely clueless about science. They have no understanding of how or why anything works, and are in no position to help sustain us, let alone move us forward. We rely on a relatively small, mostly male, white and Asian group of individuals to do this. We all depend on them, yet there is an ever growing movement to "decolonize" and end the "patriarchy" in science, to push out the competent men and install a gender and racially proportionate STEM workforce. As the results of the survey indicate, this movement is based on a premise that is utterly false. There is no equality or proportionality when it comes to understanding science.
This only proves how many people can be led around into believing “scientific” assumptions like climate change.
Makes you wonder how humanity lasted 200,000 years without "scientific" knowledge. Black people already did their part in science by inventing humans. Quite a scientific feat.
Wait...are you saying black humans invented human beings? In a laboratory somewhere millenniums ago? How could black humans invent humans when they themselves are humans? Were humans even invented?
You seem fairly illogical.
African people may have been the first humans to come into existence on the evolutionary process, but that is not "inventing humans." Additionally, now there is new evidence that the first humans weren't in Africa, but rather the Middle East.
"Single cell organisms are the greatest scientists of all time, they invented the rest of life. I wonder if they had tiny lab coats that fit well." -thrifty
Wait...are you saying black humans invented human beings? In a laboratory somewhere millenniums ago? How could black humans invent humans when they themselves are humans? Were humans even invented?
You seem fairly illogical.
African people may have been the first humans to come into existence on the evolutionary process, but that is not "inventing humans." Additionally, now there is new evidence that the first humans weren't in Africa, but rather the Middle East.
"Single cell organisms are the greatest scientists of all time, they invented the rest of life. I wonder if they had tiny lab coats that fit well." -thrifty
Yep, in what is currently known as Syria, I believe.
On the other hand, I think everyone should have at least answered correctly the question about which city (Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles) showing the most variance in temperature changes. The graph they provided is a dead giveaway.
Ironically, that's the only one I got wrong. The range on the graphs for two of those cities looked awfully close to each other; the lowest low and the highest high both looked to be nearly the same temperature, so I picked the one that looked slightly higher. I'll just chalk it up to poor eyesight.
Thanks for asking. The point is that our modern civilization, which runs on science, is more fragile than we think. Vast numbers of people, including most women and the vast majority of blacks, are completely clueless about science. They have no understanding of how or why anything works, and are in no position to help sustain us, let alone move us forward. We rely on a relatively small, mostly male, white and Asian group of individuals to do this. We all depend on them, yet there is an ever growing movement to "decolonize" and end the "patriarchy" in science, to push out the competent men and install a gender and racially proportionate STEM workforce. As the results of the survey indicate, this movement is based on a premise that is utterly false. There is no equality or proportionality when it comes to understanding science.
I think this point is worth exploring. The key phrase here is "[They] are in no position to help sustain us, let alone move us forward." Specific to science, I believe that the accumulation of evidence such as this test does show that the scientific burden is disproportionately carried by white males. (And Asian males too, though apparently their contribution wasn't recorded in this particular instance.)
But I don't see it as narrowly focused as this. There are many, many tasks that a society needs done in order to function, and non-scientific people certainly have their roles to play. One of the most important functions of a society is raising up the next generation, and this task is performed overwhelmingly by women, whether they are scientists or not. And even people without formal education or innate intelligence have their role to play. After all, as Judge Smails put it in the movie Caddyshack, "The world needs ditch-diggers too."
The group that does nothing to help sustain us is the underclass, the ones who won't work at any job and do not contribute anything, but (at best) sit around and do nothing, or (worse) actively tear down and destroy the work of others. For whatever reason, black people are disproportionately represented in this class. But the problem is one of culture (in this case, a highly toxic one), not specifically race. (Remember what they say about correlation not necessarily implying causation.) I don't know what the solution is, but I do know that having a sizable (and, bad news for our future, growing) cadre of people who take but never give is a major problem.
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