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The federal government agency I work for eliminated all tests many years ago to try to decrease the percentage of whites. It hasn’t quite worked out, though. On any given day, a third of the black employees phone in sick or do not show up. Many of the others who do show up spend a large part of their day away from their desks. So, even though my office is half black and half white, if you walked in to here you would still think the government was actively discriminating because you would see mostly white people sitting at desks working.
The article says that “Asians” were adversely affected by the ability test at Leprino.
That must mean Phillipinos.
I don’t think Filipinos would have issues with such tests actually. They pass those in nursing all the time.
#2. re: dictatorial power on zoning.
according to the Chicago Tribune, the aldermen make their preferences known to the “zoning committee chairman whose support Moreno will need to make his decision stick.”
Interestingly, Mayor Rahm Emanuel supports the block against Chik-Fil-A.
In the spirit of amac78′s reference to multiple hypothesis and Bonnferroni correction, I read the essay by Father Longenecker on devil possession. No evidence that James Holmes demonstrated “preternatural strength” , which reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excited_delirium.
I think we are left with ordinary schizophrenia to explain.
I did a contact job for a gov’t agency- they ordered equipment for a particular project, including 2 laptops (only once laptop was necessary but they insisted on having a backup). The laptops were the most expensive, high-end laptops you could get at the time, running about 4 k each, with all of the bells and whistles included (when a simple $500 laptop would have been sufficient for this job). It was actually pretty disturbing the way they threw money around. The lady who was the project manager (she was black..which I guess makes this story anecdotal) ended up leaving to go to a different dept., and the next time I went there to service their systems one of the laptops was missing (even though that laptop was specifically designated for this job). When there was a problem with the existing laptop, I asked the new project manager about the backup, and he kind of shrugged his shoulders and said “**** took it with her when she left”.
So instead of using the backup (which they paid for), they ended up paying me to come out and reconfigure everything, which ended up costing another few thousand dollars. Not to mention just about every person that I cam in contact with was a complete tool (white people included); it made for quite a frustrating experience. I certainly don’t shed any tears when people talk about gov’t cutbacks.
http://articles.boston.com/2012-07-25/editorials/32831191_1_gay-marriage-business-license-freedom-trail
boston’s mayor is also anti-free speech.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100172809/whats-wrong-with-america-having-anglo-saxon-heritage/
Pretty much, yeah. When I was in Chicago a couple weeks back, I accidentally stumbled into the grand opening of a McDonald’s in Union Park (don’t ask) and the local alderman was on hand to give a speech about how great it was that this young entrepreneur was bringing jobs to his community. It was subtly implied that the owner had to crawl through broken glass to get the green light.
Considering England is a very race liberal country, you would think Obama would be celebrating our Anglo Saxon heritage.
“Anglo-Saxon” was a charged word up to about the late 70s, when Americans by default believed, more or less correctly, that Anglo-Saxon = real American. They argued against immigration and such by invoking this country’s Ango-Saxon heritage, which made the term toxic from the liberal standpoint.
I still remember older men in the mid-80s making rightie exortations that invoked that term, but not so much after that, when I think we all pretty much gave up on this country maintainign its ethinic identity
The article in your second link references the Ground Zero Mosque. I kind of think it would have been funny it anyone had actually cared about gay marriage a year or so ago. Because wouldn’t it have been fun to send angry e-mails to New York City council members and the New York Times, outraged at the Ground Zero Mosque? After all, the people who were building it were against “marriage equality”. I’m sure some of them had even spoken out against it.
If I were a male relative of the woman who claims she has a peeping tom, I would tell her to get window shades.
From the linked diversity article: “Diversity in its workforce can improve an organization’s access to labor pools, its viewpoints on how to market to diverse consumer segments, a positive impact on public perceptions of the organization, an enhancement of the organization’s brand as an open employer and marketer, and a buttress to reduce the probability of discrimination suits and negative media attention.”
Unless one is marketing a nation-wide product, and not niche marketing (as most companies do), I can’t see any BUSINESS advantage whatsoever in hiring based on something other than test scores.
which reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excited_delirium.
That is really interesting; I have never heard of that.
Kathryn Jean Lopez passes along an article which argues that James Holmes may have shot up that Aurora movie theater because he was possessed by the devil.
Longenecker’s article is a pretty good introductory summary of the issue. I actually went to medical school with a guy who I have long suspected may have been at Longenecker’s “second level” of demonic affliction – this guy was radically homosexual and fanatically devoted to abortion, and I found it beyond creepy just to be in his presence. You could *feel* that something was wrong with him, although interestingly, he was also a “Gay Alpha” in the sense that most of the girls loved him as a gay best friend.