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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Claims It Has Enabled Its Partners To 'Double the Number of Black and Latinx Students and Girls Taking AP Computer Science' (chanzuckerberg.com)
theodp writes: In a Monday blog post, the outgoing Head of Education for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Chan Zuckerberg Initiative made the claim that "we've made investments that enabled our partners to double the number of Black and Latinx students and girls taking AP Computer Science." The claim is an apparent reference to the highly-promoted and wildly-successful new AP Computer Science Principles course (dubbed "Coding Lite" by the NY Times), which the NSF and College Board began development on in 2009. Zuckerberg's CZI LLC was created in late 2015.
Meanwhile, almost 2 out of 3 college students are female...
Next, let's work on getting more men into nursing and teaching. Diversity is always good, right?
Right?
Hello?
Do you have ESP?
Latinx is a real word.
The term is a political neologism that has gained traction among advocacy groups combining racial and gender identity politics.
In other words, its a xenaphobic term, trying to suggest that gendered languages are inferior to the true Americanish with it's pure gender neutrality. These people are sick.
It's frightened of a fairly meaty woman in a leather dress who chucks a razor-sharp frisbee around?
I forget who said it (probably Ben Franklin back when usenet was a thing), but you should never use a word in writing that you've only heard in speech.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I have lived all my life in Spain, so obviously Spanish is my mother language, and I'm seriously tired of all the idiots who try to promote this supposedly "gender neutral" language, ending words in -@, -x or -os/as. The first two are unpronunceable, the last one is way too cumbersome. I wish they would stop butchering our language.
what is the true motivation behind such an initiative?
Life is not zero-sum. This can benefit both corporations and the students, and likely will.
English is the odd one out here. Almost all the languages in the world have gender nouns.
This is why I get pissed when I see people ranting and raving against what few gendered terms might exist in English discourse. They should be lucky to speak a language that actually has gender-neutral nouns and pronouns.
Just imagine if these people learned about other languages.
Different points of view don't come from different skin color or genitals.
The bell curve still exists for blacks and latinos so there will still be plenty that will fit your distribution for CS... this is no where near accounting for disparity in actual enrollments.
If the IQ needed to get a degree in computer science is 120, where Hispanics have an average IQ of 95 and Whites an average of 100, then the distribution of people getting degrees will not match the general population. An average IQ of 100 in a population means 10% (or there about) of them are above 120. An average IQ of 95 in a population means 6% (roughly) of them are above 120. A quick search of stats on race in the general population, in computer science, and some back of the envelope math tells me that this is about right for Hispanics working in programing in the USA.
Also the fact that women will have same IQ also throws your theory out the window.
No, it doesn't. The claim was that while the average is the same the distribution of intelligence among males is wider. I don't know how much wider it is but if the standard deviation on IQ for females is 10 and for males it's 20 then the ratio of males/females with an IQ above 120 is not going to be 1/1, it's going to be more like 2/1, 3/1, or even 4/1. Go find the standard deviation on each sex and do the math.