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pantokrator
2d ago
Yes, one cannot argue with that!
pantokrator
2d ago
Maybe I am wrong and all of what I read was propoganda but it seems fairly consistent with what you see back in the subcontinent, the UK should deport people en masse at least those who did touch girls but I am not sure if they will do anything at all.
What I am wondering here is why you are talking about India if it were actually Pakistanis, at least according to the few articles I've read. Of course this is also the subcontinent, but why aren't the Indians against their enemies? I assumed India and Pakistan really don't like each other? Do they want to be blamed unjustly? Or is the culture regarding this behavior similar enough that they don't really mind being put together?
pantokrator
2d ago
What about supermarkets? Gyms? Barbers?
pantokrator
3d ago
Indepedent of the race split, we would also get a huge gender split which I find interesting. (And would we possibly get an overrepresentation of nonbinary individuals?)
Let's assume a complete meritocracy based on SAT scores. According to this, the admitted students in Yale have an average SAT score of 1540. Since we disregard anything else now though, it will probably be even higher. However, at the 1400–1600 SAT range we already have 6% women and 9% men. Since we know the tail end of the IQ distribution is longer for men, and 1540 is almost in the upper quartile of 1400 to 1600, we would probably get a distribution of less than 30% women.
As a side note, according to this the average SAT of someone putting "Another/ No Response" as gender is 1067 in comparison to 1029 for men and 1018 for women. Huh, I wonder why that is. Few explanations that come to my mind are politically correct.
pantokrator
3d ago
So do you believe the rest of the application like the motivation texts and maybe some smaller questions (depends on the university, it's been a little while since I used Common App) should not matter at all? Even though there can be tremendous differences personality-wise in students with equal SAT scores, and assuming we are aiming to train America's future elite in the top universities, those can have a significant effect?
For example leadership, agreeableness, emotional intelligence, and discipline come to mind. I would strongly prefer a disagreeable charismatic student getting the spot over someone who is essentially a drone and exclusively studying all day. Of course, those skills are barely quantifiable in general and probably hard to determine based on a thousand words, but it should be a good estimate already.
In other words, is "fair" referring to the fact that SAT correlates strongly with IQ and we just want the highest IQ individuals, which is a point I can see, or a moral judgment differentiating by what we could call "aptitude", in which case my text applies?
pantokrator
8d ago
I’m rather certain we’ll never see a “Are we dating the same girl” online men’s group anywhere.
Well, the Wikipedia article you linked yourself gives an example of that:
A male counterpart, named "Are We Dating the Same Girl NYC" was created for New York. It had mostly the same guidelines and rules to the original. When the original Are We Dating The Same Guy group found it, they said that it was disgusting and unacceptable for men to post screenshots of women's dating profiles. Many people in the men's group were called incels.[14]
But of course we all know the men's group is simply a counterreaction borne out of spite and not a serious contender since your reasoning is still mostly true. However, the hypocrisy is still incredible. The women feeling justified in their own stalking behavior while criticizing the men is a classic instance of the Women are wonderful effect.
pantokrator
8mo ago
Exactly. See Nietzsche's concept of slave morality as the basis for Christianity. The weak and oppressed are defined as good, simply because they are weak and oppressed. This is expressed by the symbol of Christ dying a martyr because he was oppressed by the Roman overlords.
I personally believe we are living in times times that are still incredibly Christian. The modern left is all about acceptance of even the most (previously) repulsing ideas. Whatever was not allowed before, is allowed now, simply because it was not allowed - meaning it was being oppressed. Another important Christian mantra is benevolence. One is supposed to be tolerant against other people, a word that is incidentally used a lot by the left today. Compassion and goodwill can be observed in the stance that the left has about Palestine: they are good simply because they are the oppressed (which is then underlayed by more empirical arguments of course, but this belief is the root of the idea).
While I know that saying "the left" is very unspecific, and there definitely are many counter points, I believe these convictions unite the left in its core and it is not a coincidence they are also present in Christianity.
Oh, I thought you meant that only the church and pub are in walking distance, I didn't realize you restricted yourself to third places.
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