Current Affairs Potomac River Plane crash

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dylsexicbleu said:
The first few companies, institutions or government departments hiring DEI candidates probably got a good deal out of it. They were hiring the best of the best. If your company is forced to employ the next level down of DEI hires then you are in trouble. Hiring the level below that and your in all sorts of sh*t.

Competency matters in some jobs.
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Are you the DEI hire where you work?
 
dylsexicbleu said:
Troubling.

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Why is that troubling, though?

It should be obvious to anyone who thinks for themselves that SAT scores, what college someone attended or their racial background (provided they speak English to a sufficient degree) is going to be largely irrelevant to whether someone is a good air traffic controller or not. To do it well requires someone having the right sort of mind first (one that can focus and also not over-focus), then the right sort of mental discipline to keep that going over long periods of time and finally the right sort of training.

These people are at least as likely to be found outside of college as they are in it; you might even say more likely to be found outside it given that there is very little in the college experience anywhere that would prepare people for that sort of mental effort.
 
dylsexicbleu said:
The first few companies, institutions or government departments hiring DEI candidates probably got a good deal out of it. They were hiring the best of the best. If your company is forced to employ the next level down of DEI hires then you are in trouble. Hiring the level below that and your in all sorts of sh*t.

Competency matters in some jobs.
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Your ability to draw connections between spurious facts and foregone conclusions would be commendable if it weren’t ill intentioned.
 
tsubaki said:
Why is that troubling, though?

It should be obvious to anyone who thinks for themselves that SAT scores, what college someone attended or their racial background (provided they speak English to a sufficient degree) is going to be largely irrelevant to whether someone is a good air traffic controller or not. To do it well requires someone having the right sort of mind first (one that can focus and also not over-focus), then the right sort of mental discipline to keep that going over long periods of time and finally the right sort of training.

These people are at least as likely to be found outside of college as they are in it; you might even say more likely to be found outside it given that there is very little in the college experience anywhere that would prepare people for that sort of mental effort.
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There are two obvious hurdles to his argument. The first being that admissions rates/scores for all students has no bearing on whether any students were (successfully) recruited from any specific school. The second being that FAA ATC test is very competitive and has high standards, none of which are evidenced to be reduced due to “DEI recruitment.” All of this in addition to the basic objection, which is that it’s a dumb argument.
 
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