I’ll give you one example [of ‘equity’ double standards] that came across my desk, and which is so typical. The American Board of Internal Medicine is a sophisticated organisation that licenses and gives exams to people who want to become board-ready doctors in internal medicine. It’s a very difficult, long exam, traditionally, [but] now has this “diversity” initiative – they are going to go through all of the exams they administer and get rid of the questions that do not give equal outcomes for [all racial] groups, on the theory that these questions don’t recognise the “latent equality” of all groups.
On self-flattering fantasies; on a bedlamite horror story; and on ‘equity’ versus competence.
But competence is no longer required — we have an AI for that medical diagnostic knowledge stuff. With robotics for the actual slicing and dicing.
The end must be near.
Somebody ought to tell them that somes diseases, I.e. Tay-Sachs and sickle cell anemia are specific to some portions of humanity.
Can’t they be treated with traditional herbs?
Good point, Joe. Why are we wasting all that money on doctors, nurses, and hospitals when all we need to do is build sweat more lodges?
” latent equality”?
They already have it. Every person writing that test had exactly the same right to work two or three minimum-wage jobs to put themselves through medical school (if they weren’t government-subsidized because of their race and given a full scholarship). They also had an equal right to study hard in their off-hours to ace that test.