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Tech Jobs and Apple: Every Bit As "Fun" As Pleasure Island?
theodp writes: On the eve of Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the lack of diversity in tech is 'our fault' — 'our' meaning the whole tech community. "I think in general we haven't done enough to reach out and show young women that it's cool to do it [tech] and how much fun it can be," Cook explained. Indeed, the WWDC scholarship winners shooting selfies with Cook at the San Francisco Four Seasons to celebrate their iPhone apps and other WWDC attendees looked to be having as much fun as, well, Pinocchio at Pleasure Island. But, as the NY Times recently pointed out, Cook can be guilty of overlooking inconvenient truths. Which here is that most young women (and men) wouldn't find it 'cool' or 'fun' to live with 8,000 co-workers in factory dormitories where they can be roused out of bed in the middle of the night by Apple for an emergency 12-hour shift to fit glass screens into beveled iPhone frames, although that too conjures up a scene from Pleasure Island.
Countless science papers confirm average IQ of west African blacks is far Lower than most other racial groups. This can be measured at every stage of life including a few weeks after birth. There are a handful of "brain folding" genes that most of the world has to increase IQ, but guess which group lacks them? Also puberty stops ability for IQ to deviate (higher or lower) from mean. Females and overly testosterone laden males go through puberty earlier, and that is why countless science papers also show that that is the cause of females at IQ level of 124 are one in eight chance compared to a male with an IQ of 124. We have known these things for over 80 years.
The US gov shows that if you get a "32" perfect MCAT score, and are Japanese descent, you are only 59% accepted to college !!! Blacks at almost any score level, born in USA, are accepted! Thats from the US governments own online downloadable tables. Racism like that against asians is caused by people like Apple's Tim Cook, claiming we need to solve the IQ discrepancy by social edict.
https://www.aei.org/publication/acceptance-rates-us-medical-schools-2014-reveal-ongoing-racial-profiling-affirmative-discrimination-blacks-hispanics/
It hurts peoples feelings I guess to talk about science. You can breed smarter rats in a few generations. Sprinters in olympic sports win from genetics of fast twitch muscle ratio, and are from west africa. A north korean descent person will not win an Olympic Sprint Race no matter how much training or will or pressure. Its the type of muscle tissue and body type. We can accept that fact, but liberals all think brains are magically all the same.
Boo Hoo. These libtards need to stop it with the "we can train all inner city Detroit gang bangers to be computer scientists and nuclear physicists, if we shower them with free iPads to maybe increase their IQs.
IQ never changes upward after birth, poor nutrition can make it go down, but never up.
. "I think in general we haven't done enough to reach out and show young women that it's cool to do it [tech] and how much fun it can be,"
Do "we" reach out for the young men?
Nobody ever "reached out" for me, yet here I am. Have I just been living under a rock?
No, those who want to do it more than they want to avoid putting up with harassing, unprofessional, boorish assholes, are doing it already.
The problem is, there's a lot of harassing, unprofessional, boorish assholes in the industry, and they're doing their damnedest to protect their boys' club.
This line of argument is like concluding, that women "obviously don't like golf," based on a quick perusal of the Augusta National Golf Club's membership list circa 2005. The lack of women members was not ONLY an issue of "women not being interested." There were systemic and systematic policies in place that discouraged and prevented them from participating. In the case of Augusta National, it was an overt policy. In the case of the tech industry, it's the good old boy network.
It should also be noted that in those same studies..... whites are pretty moronically stupid in comparison to their asian cousins :p
Actualy a white's IQ level (which is used as a "base" also) is *on average* at 100, an (Chinese/Japanese/Korean/etc) Asian's is at 105 (other Asians, e.g., Indians, Arabs are much less than that, about 90), and a black's at 80...
So, it is the blacks who have a very low IQ (if i use YOUR words: "moronically stupid in comparison to" others). A good starting point for -scientific- research (without so much of the other "stuff" that are usual in this kind of discussions) is the book "The Bell Curve" - contains many IQ studies.
Unfortunately this fact (i.e., blacks have lower IQ than other races) is so problematic to discuss because it "paints" anyone who express it as a racist who *hates* blacks - i am a racist, but i don't hate blacks, i just believe in racial differences (actually, i believe that i love blacks more than many people who try to suppress their low IQ fact, because i think that they can be helped socially if we recognize the *biological* fact, in the right way: there is a reason we WHITES have special education programs for our WHITES with low IQ...)
Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!