Posted on 09/05/2004 4:22:12 PM PDT by freedom44
Pretty gnarly nads there bud. lol That'll spark the female's interest.
Thank you--for making my point. A guy who wrote what I wrote has "nads". What a dickless culture we have now.
I understand. I do not have a previous screen name. I thus am a "newbie" for lack of a better word.
And, if I remember correctly the extreme right of the bellcurve is much more heavily populated by men. Of course the extreme left is too, but I'm not sure that negates my point.
Very few women, per population representation, are flocking to engineering schools. I think you can be of average intelligence and do really well in law school, memory is key there, but engineering requires higher brain function, IMO.
There are relatively few female architects as well, with no female architect coming even close to Wright's status or others of his caliber. Maybe that will happen in time, but I don't see it ever becoming a situation of glut.
Women excel in other areas such as 'instinct', but I don't think they are as smart as men. And when women are young, they are prone to not even use what they have. Hence the old expression, 'you could talk that girl out of her virginity twice with the same line.'
Didn't you say you went to a selective Law School? Don't they have records? Go find it yourself, Torie. Unless you're afraid of what you will find. I suspect that thet is the case because you would had to have been on another planet to have missed the story.
It is possible that you got in on the merits--as I pointed out woman always have-- but it is probable that you indeed took a more qualified guys place, in terms of pure stats. For you to play dumb or to ACTUALLY have missed all of this especially given that you seem to be about my age is frightening.
As another poster pointed out, Indian and other Asians are not the beneficiaries of racial preferences here in the US. If anything they are the victims. The article is about the UK, so I'm not sure what relevance it has to the situation here in the US, if any.
Women are the beneficiaries of gender perferences, which also go under the Orwellian term "affirmative action."
I don't care what color a doctor is, so long as he is GOOD.
FWIW... The doc doing Clinton's surgery tomorrow is a white male:
http://www.columbiasurgery.org/divisions/cardiac/staff_smith.html
You got that one right. The new doc we started seeing is Asian. Great doc, intelligent, and corrected prescriptions the old doc prescribed incorrectly. I am greatful to him for that.
Wow that's very narrow minded of you. How do you know how they got into medical school? Just by looking at them and a person's skin color? I've never filled out any racial categories so if you came to me as a patient exactly how would deduce my race/ethnicity to know whether I'm qualified or not?
How do you know he's white? Did you ask him?
I don't know why but the race of a doctor has never occured to me ever in my life. Then again, I don't go to hospitals often as I do try to take good care of myself.
Nice try, but I'm a WASP male, and since I was from out of state, and had no relatives previously admitted, I was kind of on my own. Cheers.
I think you have something about the extremes of the bell curve, but lawyers and docs don't inhabit the extremes mostly. They tend to be in the 120 to 135 IQ range - smart, but usually just short or quite short of the near genius category.
Bzzzt--wrong. And it's been this way for a while. MEN RULE!
Fair Test's 2001 COLLEGE BOUND SENIORS (approx 1.7 million) TEST SCORES
SAT scores by Gender
Female
502 Verbal
498 Math
1000 Total
Male
509 Verbal
533 Math
1042 Total
I responded later on to that. Stay tuned.
Never did for me either. We were stuck. My 18 year old son needed gall bladder surgery. Our doc retired due to sickness. We needed another doc pronto. This wonderful man helped us out. Sent us to a terrific surgeon. All within one week. Everything was professionally handled. Again the new doc was I think chinese, I'm not sure. It doesn't matter. He is a good doctor. I don't go to hospitals either. Unfortunately, this was necessary.
Maybe genetically considered caucasian but Indians aren't white. I don't know about how the administration treats Indians but that doesn't stop Indian doctors from calling some of my mother's friends niggers (esp. when they're darker than the doctors!).
I don't think it's as much that, as it is that it's much harder to mess around with test scores in engineering. An essay can have major failures in logical reasoning and even elementary spelling and grammar, and be marked "brilliant" if it was written by the "right" person, but marking an incorrect mathematical result as "correct" proclaims the professor doing the marking as an idiot.
An equation is either right or wrong. A software application either works or not. A bridge either stands or falls. That makes engineering a difficult target for affirmative action
"I went to a very prestigious and selective law school, admitted in 1974. At that time, woman made up about 20% of the class.."
What 'nice try'? I simply thought that there was a refrence to yourself in the above line.
By all means, if you are curious, check the data at your own school. The fact that they will do everything they can to withold it from you will pretty much answer any question in the matter.
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