The debate on racial diversity in pilot hiring has sparked controversy. United Airlines CEO, Scott Kirby, plans to implement a version of the Rooney Rule, requiring the interview and hiring of women and people of color, regardless of qualifications. Critics argue that lowering pilot standards for diversity compromises safety. The discussion has also involved the use of statistics to support or refute racial stereotypes, with some labeling it as pseudoscience.
me: “all the race science morons ever do is demand you address their charts of IQ or some supposed IQ proxy, by race” race science moron: “oh yeah??? well what about this chart of IQ by race???” https://t.co/0GfkqXlMx4
The most irritating thing about these race science cretins is how they do this “Why won’t you address the data?!?” routine. But they scarcely ever share any actual data, and when they do 95% of it is the same thing: a chart of IQ or some supposed IQ proxy by race. Okay?? https://t.co/rTMtx0lz1n
the race scientists endlessly post the same pile of charts, mostly 15-20 years old, mostly summary data, purely correlational. and they’re too intensely stupid to understand that “having a few lazy numbers” isn’t a defense against pseudoscience but its main persuasive technique
Libs arguing against racial IQ differences is a pretty good way to detect the not so sophisticated libs who didn't get the memo. Smart libs simply avoid debating this issue cause they know they can only lose this debate. Have you ever seen Matt Yglesias talking about this?
Race science creeps don't care that their data is decades old and heavily debunked, that gaps they treated as innate have magically closed. They're not interested in the truth of anything. They just want some statistical talisman to wave around and say "See! Black people dumb!" https://t.co/5gotbcAJNT
When race science "statisticians" aren't outright lying, they're doing the "correlation does not imply causality" error. That error is so widely known it's become a cliche, which is a good sign that people who make it repeatedly aren't doing statistical analysis worth engaging.
The amount of race idiocy on the right + left is dispiriting. Race realists jabber about IQ, muscle mass, crime, and now, pilots? Activists demand essentialism in classrooms/offices, selectively moan about disparities, and expand the definition of racism into pure incoherence.
The Stancil/Sailer debate is really laying bare how liberals like Stancil have zero response to dispassionately deployed stats other than hysterical moral scolding and accusing their opponent of being a Nazi race scientist. If you are unbothered by this, they have no other attack https://t.co/WVlVhHUhQg
They don't engage with Sailer on the facts or on the substance of his arguments because they know they have nothing, just their preening moral outrage and juvenile ad hominem and desperation to maintain what they mistake for intellectual respectability. https://t.co/i14Sr72DSU
The racists demanding that Stancil and others engage on their “statistics” try to pass off a graph showing how many Black people have died in car accidents as evidence of “black crime.” Statistical analysis is not what they’re doing. https://t.co/KTafro1mss
the race science cretins get so mad when you won’t argue with their “data” but there is absolutely no universe where engaging in a debate over something like “should we be terrified of black people flying planes” is worthwhile. those people should be spat on, not just argued with https://t.co/vgO7D2cNCR
I understand that 99%+ of commercial pilots flying TODAY faced standard rigorous qualifications. But I also understand there’s a movement since 2020 to reduce those standards for future pilots of the right intersectional valence in the name of “equity.” https://t.co/uKcujzuNs5
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby recently vowed to implement his version of the Rooney Rule, requiring the company to interview and hire women and people of color, no matter their qualifications. Could you rely on a pilot who is selected without prioritizing their qualifications? https://t.co/OWvBYYVE7J
The NFL, which is much closer to a meritocracy than the workforce in general, has positions that consistently push 99% black, and other positions that consistently have blacks in the single digits. But people assume current pilot demographics must be due to anti-meritocracy. https://t.co/4VD4olJl4e
Hiring pilots based on the color of their skin will get people killed. I know this. You know this. The truth is you’re fine with that as long as the people you want to get handouts get handouts. In your mind, that’s an even trade. You believe in people dying for your grievances. https://t.co/aqEBrFK3LK