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2020-10-05 -PC Follies
Mathematics Association Declares Math Is Racist
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Posted by charger 2020-10-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Guessed Bee, stung again. Gonna run outta dollar bills at this rate.
Posted by Snagum B. Hayes9452 2020-10-05 00:41||   2020-10-05 00:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes is it 13% of the population commit 53% of the murder?

That's an uncomfortable mathematical conversation.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-05 07:27||   2020-10-05 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Sickle cell anemia stats: inherently racist.
Posted by Clem 2020-10-05 07:34||   2020-10-05 07:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes is it 13% of the population commit 53% of the murder?

You're just proving their point, BP - math is racist!
Posted by Raj 2020-10-05 09:58||   2020-10-05 09:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes is it 13% of the population commit 53% of the murder?

And it's really an even smaller subset of that 13% (black men aged 16-40 or thereabouts) that commits the bulk of those murders.

So it's more like less than 5% of the genpop doing more than half the murders.
Posted by charger 2020-10-05 10:22||   2020-10-05 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 So, dissolve yourselves. Do it to end racism!
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-05 10:22||   2020-10-05 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 is it 13% of the population commit 53% of the murder?

We notice patterns, but not *those* kind of patterns, you racist! Can't we have a discussion without people bringing up facts all the time?

Posted by SteveS 2020-10-05 10:24||   2020-10-05 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 "As mathematicians, we notice patterns..." VS. Correlation is NOT Causation.
Posted by magpie 2020-10-05 11:12||   2020-10-05 11:12|| Front Page Top

#9 


People who label things as racist, are closet Racists.
Posted by NN2N1 2020-10-05 11:30||   2020-10-05 11:30|| Front Page Top

#10 College and pro football is racist. Wait, maybe it really is.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-10-05 12:01||   2020-10-05 12:01|| Front Page Top

#11 NBA is most racist of all.

We need an NBA that looks more like America.
Posted by charger 2020-10-05 12:22||   2020-10-05 12:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Math be rayciss
Y'all need to put da RHYTHM back in da algo-rithm
Posted by LeBron Leibniz 2020-10-05 12:34||   2020-10-05 12:34|| Front Page Top

#13 It is time for all members of our profession to acknowledge that mathematics is created by humans and therefore inherently carries human biases.

Hahahahahahahahah Wrong.

Pi is pi. Triangles are triangles. Speed of Light is speed of light whether measured is miles/second, meters/year, or toilet paper rolls/taco bell.

Party of Science! Quick, base everything on Emotion!
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-05 12:59||   2020-10-05 12:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Mathematical Association of America

Anyone heard of these clowns before?
Posted by gorb 2020-10-05 13:24||   2020-10-05 13:24|| Front Page Top

#15 No, I haven't. But the mathematicians I know are not Americans.
Posted by Clem 2020-10-05 13:48||   2020-10-05 13:48|| Front Page Top

#16 They should read Omnilingual(1957) by H. Beam Piper -- "Science is Universal".
Posted by magpie 2020-10-05 14:06||   2020-10-05 14:06|| Front Page Top

#17 Party of Science! Quick, base everything on Emotion!

Would it be mean to ask them to show their work? I'd give 'em partial credit if they got the math right but just munged up the arithmetic.
Posted by SteveS 2020-10-05 18:48||   2020-10-05 18:48|| Front Page Top

#18 Showing work sounds a lot like hark of slavery, you racist.

The concern would be if they, for lack of a better word or maybe right word, monetize emotion and SJW points. I believe the Chinese have their Social Credit System built along such lines.

I only halfway kid about "Pokemon, SJW!" where participants figure their D&D sheet based on race, sexual orientation, gender, alignment, and special attributes to make a score which can be compared to others. Someone (or group) scores above another, they have the conch. Score below a certain number, and well you (they) get the haatz.

This would be backed by the Science! of all those University studies and dissertations, especially those in the Peter Vankman Style.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-05 23:31||   2020-10-05 23:31|| Front Page Top

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