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American Grant Writing: Race Matters
PHPNerd writes "You might expect that science, particularly American science, would be color-blind. Though fewer people from some of the country's ethnic minorities are scientists than the proportions of those minorities in the population suggest should be the case, once someone has got bench space in a laboratory, he might reasonably expect to be treated on merit and nothing else. Unfortunately, a study just published in Science suggests that is not true. The study looked at the pattern of research grants awarded by the NIH and found that race matters a lot. Moreover, Asian and Hispanic scientists do just as well as white ones. Black scientists, however, fare badly."
The word 'race' has racist connotations and as a scientific concept is obsolete, 'ethnic group' should be used instead.
I have black friends like Tyson here. We hang out all the time, and talk about the stars.
[uncomfortable smile]
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Gosh! That sounds exactly the type of thing those very same Germans were trying to say!
Are there genetic differences between races? ABSOLUTELY.
HOWEVER, test scores and all sorts of measurements over the years have shown that socio-economic standing and other factors are WAY more important than race. Race, if a factor, is not a major factor in intelligence- certainly not enough to sway such a big gap.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Steve Davidson is clearly the negro.
And Lisa Kraft is actually 1/4 Cherokee, and won't shut the fuck up about it. "I'm 1/4 Cherokee," "I'm 1/4 Cherokee," all day long--like she was personally on the Trail of Tears or something. WE'RE NOT IMPRESSED, LISA.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.