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Comment Re:That is not the correct statistic (Score 1) 287

Unless you'd care to present your genetic research which demonstrates that black women are rendered incapable of understanding math and science by some inherent biological or genetic flaw?

I would only need to present the number of black women taking the courses needed for the field compared to the total. It doesn't matter if they are perfectly capably of doing the job if they were educated in it if they aren't getting the education in the right fields. However, the stats show they avoid engineering degrees like the plague and swarm sociology like it were the second coming.

Comment Re:It has always been that way (Score 1) 444

Hard? Here's an easy way to identify the clear crap. If the N is less than 30 the result, and conclusions should be ignored as more likely a random effect due to small sample size. Sure the actual number is usually much larger depending on what the magic formulas pop out, but the number of studies that I come across that make claims, and draw conclusions when there same size is less than 30 is absurd. That might be ok for a college paper that's not being scored on the result, but whether or not they can actually run a study, and if they had the half a million to do a properly sized study will they do quality work. It's not good for anything other than the pitch for a legitimately sized study.

Comment Re:Power Creep Unless Proven Otherwise (Score 1) 228

If you did the exact same study with Superman, you'd certainly not find his "story power" has been increasing. In the early comics he was the sole hero, so he'd be getting perfect scores for all those.

Perfect score? You really think Superman was the only Golden Age Hero too?

Lets assume you're correct and Superman would have got the Perfect Score of 35 because he was the only hero. This assumes that all the characters were put on a scale, and ranked from best to worst. This would imply that 18 would be the median score meaning that the modern day score of 22.5 implys ether a favoritism towards women, or that it's reached equilibrium, but since the measurement error wasn't given in the article that makes it fairly difficult to ascertain.

However if you had bothered to read the article you'd know that's not what she did, and would still need the male score in order to extract any meaning at all. As for Superman and talking about the abstract "important issues" there is clear power creep between Silver Age stories with Fat Superman to the more serious Modern Area with Infinite Crisis. It's the problem with the Slapstick 60's and the slow methodical March to the age of Miller.

Comment Re:More super? (Score 1) 228

Franklin Richards? He's beyond an Omega Level Classification according to Celestial. Given he can Create Galactius out of a thought, or a whole new universe, he'd give Squirrel Girl a run for her money, but any of the Omega Levels would because pissing any of them off is an instant reboot switch Marvel has built in. Squirrel Girl has yet to exhibit any Universe rewriting abilities.

Comment Power Creep Unless Proven Otherwise (Score 5, Interesting) 228

I could do the exact same analysis on Superman and find the exact same result that over time his powers have inflated. Power Creep is a well known issue in comics. The score of 12.2 in the 60's to 22.5 for female characters today is absolutely meaningless without the corresponding male character scores.

Comment Meaningless (Score 1) 950

When I read that people with aspergers tend to become excessive video game addicts, and that aspergers is more common in men ranging from 2 to 1 to 4 to 1 I need something a little more meaty when someone makes a claim that Video Games are creating a masculinity crisis. How about aspergers patents are creating a bias in your sample, and that a more acceptable explanation of your results because your "symptoms" of the video game masculinity crisis are oddly identical to aspergers.

Comment Re:Deflection (Score 1) 325

Procurement? Why would you fire the messenger? That guy was told to buy them. This very thing tried to happen here in Idaho, and it would have been the State Legislature, and elected Lun Super Independent bought off by the company's that wanted the money. But the voters rebelled and repealed the Luna Laws. If only we could rebel long enough to get people in that don't do this nonsense.

Comment Re:Double tassel ... (Score 3, Interesting) 216

I agree with some of what you're pointing out, but I still have to disagree. A lot of people still don't get Math, but we have it as a core class anyways. Mostly because unless we have everyone try it we only find the small percentage that actively sought out Math. The people who may have had the aptitude for it in their Teens that didn't encounter it until their Mid Twenties are a bit past their prime to learn the higher end stuff. Some still do, but its definitely more difficult. Personally I think a CS credit should just be put into the Math as an option to go into CS or Calculus after they've done Algebra, and Geometry. I've yet to see a person who hates, or doesn't get Algebra that could code at all. I've seen people who couldn't do Algebra try, and they never do too well. If you don't get the abstractions of Algebra you'll fail at CS so it should be in the Core in the Math track.

Comment Re:I know we don't like EA... (Score 3, Interesting) 256

Because most of the traffic problems are a result of poor planning, like a real city, and not a result of heavy restrictions like SimCity. Sure it takes a while to create a proper interchange with all the correct on, and off ramps. Well a while until you figure out that all interchanges are a variation of a round about with some pieces removed and an over pass. Too much traffic is a good indication of not enough Interchanges, or connectors. Each industrial area requires its own interchange, or you're looking at an actual traffic nightmare. Just think about the city you live in, and how many highway connectors you have, and what each connector gets you to. Many cities have a highway connector just for their major mall. Don't make huge industrial areas because a single connector wont be able to service them all.

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