There's research now about the working population that works five days per week, little to no leave for mother and father after the birth of their child, social medical programs, continuing working beyond 65 in comparison to other countries... They discover those countries have the longest life expectancy and fewer incidences of medical illness, lower turnover in employment in comparison to the United States. The stupidity is amazing and on full display here at ET because I saw many individuals navigating their approval of those other countries that did not take the same lockdown route as the United States. They defended those countries' health policies without once (not a single ET member) mentioning those are countries with either a social democratic government and/or social medical care, shorter work week, and leave (time of from work for several months...minimum) for both the mother/father after the birth of their child. Although I'm not sure if there's a social connection...those countries also have lower crime rates in comparison to the United States. Today, there are a few cities in the United States doing experiments with their workplace to see if the quality of life improves when they do what those other countries are doing. I myself live in three different countries depending upon the month of the year...I see the differences and why. wrbtrader
There's a clip of that I cannot find, when Picard is one with the Borg. Quality of life! Yes! Soon we will all be one with the state. Resistance is Futile!
Wrong. They have more opportunities than the majority, courtesy of affirmative action. It's not enough to overcome the aptitude gap.
Wrong that you're not Asian or wrong that Asians are minorities within the United States ? Affirmative action involves gender, race, sexuality, creed or nationality in areas in which they are underrepresented. Do you have an issue with all the above or with just "race" as in one particular race ? wrbtrader
I'm not Asian. You know what the reality is as to which minorities benefit from affirmative action and which suffer because of it. That's right, only 6% of Asians and 8% of whites with MCATs between 24 and 26 and GPAs from 3.2 to 3.4 are admitted to medical school while 31% of Hispanics and 56% of blacks are. Blacks and Hispanics have considerably more opportunity to advance than whites and Asians of equal ability. The same discriminatory pattern exists in every academic setting, and in corporate hiring. So your reference to lack of opportunities has no merit. The opposite is actually correct. Hopefully the Supreme Court will put an end to this nonsense and we'll stop the racial discrimination that pumps out underqualified professionals and employees.
I'm fully aware of the problems with Affirmative Action...I wrote a paper about it in college involving disparities for Indigenous Americans. Yet, at that time, I was schooled by my girlfriend (South Korean and a medical student) about a ratio that still needs to be fixed, and the United States' best solution for fixing it is still "Affirmative Action" because it is law. She explained to me that regardless of "blacks or Indigenous" getting more opportunities right now...they are still gravely underrepresented in medical school. In fact, I saw such with my own two eyes because most of my immunology, virology and medical ethics classes were in the same building. Of the overall physician population in the United States: 56.2% identified as White, 17.1% identified as Asian, 5.8% identified as Hispanic, 5.0% identified as Black or African American, and 0.4% as Indigenous. Until those numbers equalize or get close to being on the same level (on par) while minorities are the fastest growing ethnic groups in America...we'll see the above lower percentage groups get favoritism in the application process, especially the ones that didn't have the same opportunities. Yeah, of course, it's discriminatory at some schools but it's the only way to equalize something that was already discriminatory out of the gates for many many decades when minorities (including Asians) weren't allowed to attend Medical School or only allowed to attend a Medical School that cater to minorities. Until those ratios become on par with each other or near to it...many medical school programs will be silently unfair about their acceptance policy and will gladly eat any lawsuit targeting them for the unfair acceptance practice. Yet, not discussed often enough is that there are ongoing encouragement programs (not a law) that target those lower percentage groups to ensure education programs are on par with the elite in hopes that by the time they're in college and applying for Medical School or any other post-graduate studies... They will also have the network as in connections. Simply, in a decade or two, the encouragement programs will ensure the scores by minorities are on par or better. It's a process and I've already seen the rewards of such with a few schools in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Kentucky last year sending the most Indigenous students to Ivy League schools than any other prior year that had Indigenous students attending Ivy League schools but not because of Affirmative Action... It was because of the encouragement programs under various different names in different states but with the same objective. Their academic scores were equal or better. I saw it also with the Military College Academies that are trying hard to fix the overall disparities too in their officer ranks although they are the most educated than most universities. Their scores were on par or better...Affirmative Action is not part of the equation. That's what everybody wants...correct ??? Back to my ex-girlfriend, she believed fixing racism in a country with a long history of oppressing minorities is a process that takes +100 years after the first laws of Civil Rights, Affirmative Action and Title VI...imperfect laws. wrbtrader
The Supreme Court will never end Affirmative Action until those lower percentage groups I posted in my prior reply are very close to being on par with the majority. In addition, Affirmative Action is a process for entry into an already unfair advantage for the majority but once your foot is in the door...it becomes mute. As an example, if your grades aren't on par with your classmates in medical school (your example)... You do not pass nor do you go on to a residency program or M.D. Simply, you're weeded out of the program to ensure you're not an underqualified Medical Doctor regardless to the fact of the role that Affirmative Action played in getting you into Medical School. Medical errors (medical mistakes) that lead to lawsuits are the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer. These medical mistakes involve Doctors, Nurses or Medical Technicians. In addition, racial and ethnic minorities receive lower-quality health care than white people. Further, per ratio of medical professionals that have malpractice lawsuits against them and lose... White physicians have the most malpractice lawsuits per ratio. This isn't rocket science but that would then suggests they have the most medical errors. Some would then say they are the most underqualified medical professionals than any other ethnic group of medical professionals...per ratio. In contrast, you have explicitly stated that minorities (medical professionals) are "burdened by underperforming minorities" in an earlier message post and then in your recent message post, you then stated Affirmative Action is resulting in "underqualified" professionals when affirmative action plays no role after someone is employed. In fact, minorities (that includes Asians)...women, people of color... That benefit from affirmative action often have weaker credentials (the thesis of my paper in college) but there is fairly little evidence that their labor market performance is weaker (the thesis of my ex-girlfriend argument when we were in college). It's important that you understand that Affirmative Action is for gender, race, sexuality, creed or nationality but you seemed stuck on "race" without having the ability to look at the makeup of the Supreme Court. Further, you're the one that mentioned Medical School. This is the case in the academic performance in medical school...minorities perform on par or better during medical school in comparison with white medical students. As for their job performance after becoming a Doctor or Nurse...minorities have fewer malpractice lawsuits per ratio to imply their performance in the labor market is fewer. Thus, their job performance is better. In addition, you've mentioned underqualified professionals and employees as if they're separate. Therefore, I will assume your use of the word employees are those that are not medical professionals (e.g. desk clerks, security at hospitals, janitors, anyone working for a medical facility that didn't go to medical school or nursing school)...I can not comment on these individuals about their job performance. Affirmative Action will never go but there will be lawsuits won against a few Universities that have unfair enrollment (acceptance) practices that benefit minorities because of Affirmative Action or Title VI...the latter I believe there are a few cases today heading towards the Supreme Court involving "gender". For what it is worth, my ex-girlfriend (Asian...from South Korea) almost didn't get into the medical school of her choice because others had stronger academic performances in high school. She needed to petition the board and won. She eventually finish top of her class and today is a top physician in the state of California. Other minorities in her class...all finish in the top 10%. wrbtrader
hispanics and blacks are also likeliest to go hungry & be working their way through college, giving them less time to study for the MCATs. Hell, I'm sure you've brought up income by race in your eugenics pushing posts
And this is the result of America's poor Covid response. USA is set to drop out of top 50 countries in the world for life expectancy https://www.unilad.com/news/usa-life-expectancy-slump-20220911
I thought the USA already had dropped out of the top 50 countries for life expectancy a few years ago. wrbtrader