hanimmal
Well-Known Member
And I think you are missing my point in asking how many other people were promoted.
Maybe if I give an example.
Fantasy football.
After the first couple picks the drop off in quality is significant, but after that the drop off is not large within a few picks of eachother, like say pick 13 vs pick 15. Because of this, you usually will have a game plan of picking the best available that fits your needs depending on how you wish to set up your team. Some will go for the best receiver (because they are usually available) some will get a second tier running back, ect. The point is it really doesn't make much difference, because it is a crap shoot after the first few picks (barring injury) on who will score more points anyway.
Same with work. If 15 people got promotions, the last two were black, I don't have much issue, because 14 and 15 are not that much better statistically than 16 and 17. Now if these people sucked and were 30 or 32 then that company may have had a better reason to get them.
Like say money.
If I decide that this #17 person is not going to be able to do anywhere near as good of a job as number #14 then how can I say that money is a motivating factor? Because by not picking them I may stand to lose out on 11% of the population of the united states business by being protested as being racist. That scare is worth promoting them to not have to deal with it.
Add in the fact that 68% of America is 'non-white' and potentially that is a lot of money being missed because I had to have this white guy who may just be a smidge better than this other black guy (based off a test), even though they both will most likely do a fine job and both bring me in about the same amount of future business.
Maybe if I give an example.
Fantasy football.
After the first couple picks the drop off in quality is significant, but after that the drop off is not large within a few picks of eachother, like say pick 13 vs pick 15. Because of this, you usually will have a game plan of picking the best available that fits your needs depending on how you wish to set up your team. Some will go for the best receiver (because they are usually available) some will get a second tier running back, ect. The point is it really doesn't make much difference, because it is a crap shoot after the first few picks (barring injury) on who will score more points anyway.
Same with work. If 15 people got promotions, the last two were black, I don't have much issue, because 14 and 15 are not that much better statistically than 16 and 17. Now if these people sucked and were 30 or 32 then that company may have had a better reason to get them.
Like say money.
If I decide that this #17 person is not going to be able to do anywhere near as good of a job as number #14 then how can I say that money is a motivating factor? Because by not picking them I may stand to lose out on 11% of the population of the united states business by being protested as being racist. That scare is worth promoting them to not have to deal with it.
Add in the fact that 68% of America is 'non-white' and potentially that is a lot of money being missed because I had to have this white guy who may just be a smidge better than this other black guy (based off a test), even though they both will most likely do a fine job and both bring me in about the same amount of future business.
. Seriously, Obama is trying to do his job, buts still learning. Hes been president for 1/4 years and people are so quick to say what a shitty president he is.
I was a firefighter and the test scores were public knowledge as are our salaries etc. I can't offer proof on this one but trust me, it happened more than once. We were even told why it was happening.............in order to fill quotas because we didn't have enough black lieutenants and captains. Ask any fireman for a large metro fire dept. It happens all the time. I figured you would've learned the first time not to accuse people of making shit up without any evidence of that yourself. 
