Apple asks investors to block proposal to scrap diversity programmes

Re:Apple asks investors to block proposal to scrap diversity... by slt2021 on Monday January 13, 2025 @07:57AM (#42682923)

Nobel prizes are strongly correlated to the educational institution (research school, supervising PI) where research is done. The best predictor of winning nobel prize is whether your academic supervisor/lead have won Nobel prize previously and you are continuing his line of nobel winning research.

The connection of Nobel prize to race/ethnicity, as well as a claim that jews are supposedly smarter than everybody else (to the extent of dominating nobel nominations) is incredibly racist and is false.

Its basically the same ubermensch/untermensch argument made by adolf hitler in Mein Kampf about "superior Aryan race" but this time applied to jews as ubermensch. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3190562/

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Re:Apple asks investors to block proposal to scrap diversity... by pavlov on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:20AM (#42683132)

Exactly! Getting the prize had nothing to do with them being Jewish, or that such bias was in the process. They were simply excellent researchers in the right place at the right time.

And similarly we have no evidence that lesbian firefighters who gain leadership positions got there through either genetic predisposition or bias. Maybe they just had the right attitude and the right mentors, like those researchers.

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