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Math is racist: How data is driving inequality
CNN ^ | Sep. 6, 2016 | Aimee Rawlins

Posted on 09/07/2016 12:20:44 PM PDT by PROCON

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To: PROCON
Math is racist

Black Lives Matter is calling for a nationwide boycott of all Prime Numbers.

21 posted on 09/07/2016 12:46:59 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: PROCON

“If you can’t get a job because of your credit record”

An important part of culture is informing others about the lessons you’ve learned, encouraging them toward better behavior.
Don’t do stupid things that damage your credit record.
If you do, and realize it was stupid, teach your kids & others to NOT do such things.


22 posted on 09/07/2016 12:47:11 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: PROCON

I learned to do multivariable calculus and differential equations in college. I suppose that somehow makes me extra-racist.

Do I really need a close-sarcasm tag?


23 posted on 09/07/2016 12:49:34 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Grampa Dave
Oops Gooder English and a lazy little finger got in my way: "Vote for Illiarily dead/or alive to correct stop these criminal education WMDs being used against our youth.
24 posted on 09/07/2016 12:52:19 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion , freedom is stronger than that of the Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
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To: wbill

I’ve never been asked, but I do feel that this is a good practice. I’ve been known to put some of the things that they cannot legally ask on my resume such as marital status. Maybe I’ll add my 790 credit report.

I even managed to maintain that while being unemployed for six months.


25 posted on 09/07/2016 12:54:05 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: spintreebob

You were paying $1100 per month for auto insurance? Where?


26 posted on 09/07/2016 12:56:45 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: PROCON

Yes indeed. Common sense must be eradicated in order to make certain classes of people feel equal.

This is the same mental disorder that’s given us affirmative action which is one of the worst scheme’s to ever to be foisted on society from the left. Affirmative actions actually end up hurting those it claimed to want to help. Instead of giving people the tools of opportunity to lift themselves up out of the ghettos and the gutters, affirmative action says, ‘oh no, just bring the ghetto and gutter with you and we’ll just claim you’re equal now. Thereby, keeping them unequal in many key ways and destined to fail in the long run because of it.

Egalitarianism is an impossible goal and is a folly to those who believe in it.


27 posted on 09/07/2016 12:58:21 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: PROCON

OK, so what does O’Neil conclude from all this? That companies and business stop it? Voluntarily? Or by law?

They’ll just find another way.

The better thing to do about the poor is to let the captains of industry lead their specialties without government constantly looking over their shoulders, and without passing laws based on the biggest campaign donations.

Let the economy grow and need the poor to hire and labor and let the poor become working class, and the working class to become the middle class.

That’s the ONLY way that actually works to end most poverty in the world.


28 posted on 09/07/2016 1:02:38 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: FreedomPoster

I taught myself to do trigonometry because I needed it in the machine shop so I could get a promotion and get a raise. I guess that makes me a racist now.


29 posted on 09/07/2016 1:02:42 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: PROCON

Mark Twain said “There are three types of lies: Lies, Damnable Lies, and Statistics”

I would add a fourth: Liberal Talking points.


30 posted on 09/07/2016 1:04:28 PM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: Altura Ct.

How’s most of ‘Frica doing?


31 posted on 09/07/2016 1:07:11 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: PROCON

In the Beginning God derived the first function value that we came to discover as mathematics.


32 posted on 09/07/2016 1:10:04 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Grampa Dave

Readin’, Writin’, and ‘Rithmatic B racis’? I doubt it.


33 posted on 09/07/2016 1:11:01 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: PROCON

Reminds me of the AI internet robot that let its interaction with the world program its own thinking.

Didnt take 48 hours till it was ranting and raving and spewing racist electrons all over cyberspace.


34 posted on 09/07/2016 1:13:58 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: PROCON
Ah heck, just abolish Math and you won't be able to see the inequality anymore.
If $10 equals $10,000,000 or any other number then we're all equal, right?

35 posted on 09/07/2016 1:15:56 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: FreedomPoster

As long as you never got into the cheating of numerical approximation, you’re fine....


36 posted on 09/07/2016 1:18:40 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: spintreebob
I kept the same job, same family, same driving mileage and habits but move zip codes. My auto premium went from over $1100/mo to under $100 per month. Absolutely nothing changed in the odds of my having a claim.

Yes, it did.

You were no longer living in an area where the person you had a collision with was likely not to have insurance.

You were also living in an area where it was less likely your car would be vandalized or stolen.

Your insurance rates do not solely depend on you but on the people around you.

If they are more likely to commit property crimes your rates will be higher.

37 posted on 09/07/2016 1:20:36 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: PROCON
"Once ... WMDs digest that data, it sends more police to arrest them and when they're convicted it sentences them to longer terms."

OR you could put it like this:

"Once ... WMDs digest that data, it sends more police to protect you and when aggressors are convicted it sentences those who commit crimes against you and your community to longer terms."

If you aren't a criminal, this is all to the good.

38 posted on 09/07/2016 1:22:05 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Act instantly, repent at leisure.)
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To: Paladin2

Undergraduate and graduate numerical methods. There are a lot of diff-e-qs that don’t have definite solutions, the only way to get to a solution is via numerical approximations. Fortunately PCs came out right as I was graduating undergrad, so I was able to do my graduate numerical methods in interpreted BASIC on an IBM-PC in my apartment, instead of going down to the computer center to use the terminals into the mainframe. Many of the solutions would take hours to converge to a solution on my PC, but that was OK, I just let it run overnight.

So I was PC when PC was still cool!


39 posted on 09/07/2016 1:35:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: PROCON

Yes, it is evil to use “hate facts” against the poor, uneducated and unmotivated slob, or the violent thug.

Interferes with the re-distribution of wealth, don’t you know.


40 posted on 09/07/2016 1:45:24 PM PDT by chesley (The right to protest is not the right to disrupt.)
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