Elon Musk Is Funding a New School In Austin, Texas (cnn.com) 167
"Associates of Elon Musk are planning to launch a new primary and secondary school," reports CNN, "and ultimately a university, in Austin, Texas, with the help of a nearly $100 million donation from the billionaire, tax documents show..."
Members of Musk's inner circle — including Jared Birchall, who runs Musk's family office — are named as leaders of The Foundation, a new school planning to teach "STEM subjects and other topics," in an application to the Internal Revenue Service asking for tax-exempt status last year... The IRS filing, dated October 2022, was obtained and posted publicly by Bloomberg, which first reported plans for the school on Wednesday... "The School is being designed to meet the educational needs of those with proven academic and scientific potential, who will thrive in a rigorous, project based curriculum," the filing posted by Bloomberg states.
The school plans to initially enroll about 50 students and grow over time, according to the filing. It expects to be funded through donations and tuition fees, although it notes that the school will offer scholarships to support students who couldn't otherwise afford to attend... "The School intends ultimately to expand its operations to create a university dedicated to education at the highest levels," according to the filing...
The Foundation said in its filing said that it had raised around $100 million in contributions since mid-2022 for the new Austin school. The 2022 annual 990 tax filing for the Musk Foundation, also made public by Bloomberg, notes that the Musk charity donated $10 million in cash to the group that year, as well as nearly $90 million worth of Tesla stock.
The school plans to initially enroll about 50 students and grow over time, according to the filing. It expects to be funded through donations and tuition fees, although it notes that the school will offer scholarships to support students who couldn't otherwise afford to attend... "The School intends ultimately to expand its operations to create a university dedicated to education at the highest levels," according to the filing...
The Foundation said in its filing said that it had raised around $100 million in contributions since mid-2022 for the new Austin school. The 2022 annual 990 tax filing for the Musk Foundation, also made public by Bloomberg, notes that the Musk charity donated $10 million in cash to the group that year, as well as nearly $90 million worth of Tesla stock.
Billionaire's playground (Score:5, Interesting)
Sounds from TFA like it's going to be another weird billionaire's playground. At $100,000,000, they'll be able to afford good facilities and some good teachers.
It's a bit weird wanting to get into primary education for kids with "proven academic and scientific potential". Kids are pretty half formed at the primary stage, frankly, especially at the beginning of the primary stage. And he wants to found a university I guess. Billionaires have done that before but the more recent examples (ahem Trump University) haven't had such a good record.
It sounds like an ego project along the lines of "I'm rich and therefore smart and I know better".
Re: Billionaire's playground (Score:5, Insightful)
It will be like one of those religious schools, except that instead of a picture of Jesus feeding 10,000 starving people on the wall, it will be Elon Musk unbanning 10,000 Twitter Nazis.
Seriously though, people who care about education give money to schools. People who want to indoctrinate kids start them.
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Musk doesn't seem to have much of an attention span - he'll move on, and the school will probably turn out well because of the funding.
Ultimately, it is unfortunate that the US is in a position where billionaires see a need (or opportunity) to do this sort of thing.
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Musk doesn't seem to have much of an attention span
You are talking about a guy who has been going on about transition to solar-electric, and colonising Mars since he was a kid in South Africa.
Even the Twitter debacle is a continuation of his ambitions for X.com and Paypal 20 years ago.
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I ordered my personal flame thrower yesterday and it'll get here via the underground hyper tunnel.
Re: Billionaire's playground (Score:5, Insightful)
Musk doesn't seem to have much of an attention span
You are talking about a guy who has been going on about transition to solar-electric, and colonising Mars since he was a kid in South Africa. Even the Twitter debacle is a continuation of his ambitions for X.com and Paypal 20 years ago.
Having long term obsessions and a short attention span are not really contradictions. Having both together is commonly observed - the fixations provide the theme around which the attention jumps.
Take for example the "colonizing Mars" thing you bring up - does he really have a coherent approach to getting to "colonizing Mars"? What we have seen is in 2016 Musk planning to land the Dragon capsule on Mars "as soon as 2018" [time.com], and a Mars colony by 2024 [dw.com]maybe 2028?, or (last year) sending someone to Mars in 2029 [npr.org]?
You see here the long term fixation combined with the erratic short term jumps from one imaginary scheme to the next. And the Mars fixation is explained by the Musk's apparently life-long grand delusion that he is the most important person in human history since he is going to save the human race by colonizing Mars [theverge.com]. The Verge piece was written more than 9 years ago, but Musk is still obsessing on it [thedailybeast.com]. But he really has no plausible strategy for achieving this self-aggrandizing delusional objective. Despite the real achievements of SpaceX the Mars thing is one half-baked hare-brained scheme after another.
Not necessarily (Score:2, Informative)
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Not entirely sure what you're talking about (Score:3)
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Education and genius are completely different things, genius might allow one to excel in an educational setting but a genius has just as much need for education as anyone else. Actually they have more need for it because they can actually put it to good use.
For someone who writes so much about this you'd think you'd understand the difference.
Frankly Universities SHOULD abandon people who can't keep up. If you can't you can't, and you won't really be able to effectively employ what you are learning there.
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I think our math scores are actually pretty good (Score:3)
Re: Billionaire's playground (Score:5, Funny)
Better merit-based nationalist yeomanry schools than mongrelized sanitized Trotsky-slut public schools where faggot teachers fondle your children.
You need to up your ketamine.
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Better merit-based nationalist yeomanry schools than mongrelized sanitized Trotsky-slut public schools where faggot teachers fondle your children.
You need to up your ketamine.
Thanks Matthew Perry. :-)
[Too soon?]
Nah, either that or he needs some Thorazine stat.
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Re: Billionaire's playground (Score:4, Insightful)
I guess I'm not the only one who got reminded of the NAPOLA [wikipedia.org].
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You are not, and what better a disguise for a fascist think tank than a tax exempt university? Government subsidy for Musk's benefit is his standard move.
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I guess I'm not the only one who got reminded of the NAPOLA [wikipedia.org].
Or the Jugendbund der NSDAP for the little ones.
While of course, the true believers will, stomp their feet and downmod us when they get the chance for daring to besmirch fearless leader, he's been allegedly getting a tad erratic in recent times, and he does allegedly love him his ketamine - Allegedly, mind you. https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/... [nypost.com] His security clearance is under review. https://taskandpurpose.com/new... [taskandpurpose.com] Trust me, you don't want to ever fill out a new SF-86.
Tesla is concerned about his
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I'm not at all concerned about his Ketamine use, ever since I heard about Matt Perry [wikipedia.org].
More power to him! I believe in him!
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I'm not at all concerned about his Ketamine use, ever since I heard about Matt Perry [wikipedia.org].
More power to him! I believe in him!
Well, that's a disturbing article. The pop culture set does seem inclined to abuse drugs. At the moment, the abuse of Ozempic, the drug treatment for type 2 diabetes, is all the rage for the stars to lose weight. https://news.yahoo.com/people-... [yahoo.com]
There's a certain irony in that people like Kelly Clarkson - the one time flag bearer for the body positive movement has suddenly peeled off over 40 pounds in a really short time. Or the owner of Weight Watchers - Oprah Winfrey and her sudden weight loss. Hmm, th
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"Ozempic" for weight loss mat be off-label. But by no means is it abuse. The exact same drug (semaglutide) is approved and sold for weight loss under the name "Wegovy." The only difference is that Wegovy is a higher dose than Ozempic. So what's the beef? In fact, if the lower dosage will do for that specific individual, it seems to me that it'd be preferable to go with Ozempic instead.
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"Ozempic" for weight loss mat be off-label. But by no means is it abuse. The exact same drug (semaglutide) is approved and sold for weight loss under the name "Wegovy." The only difference is that Wegovy is a higher dose than Ozempic. So what's the beef? In fact, if the lower dosage will do for that specific individual, it seems to me that it'd be preferable to go with Ozempic instead.
It's the timeline. the amount of weight people like Winfrey and Clarkson have peeled off in way too short a time is akin to starvation. That does nasty things to the old ticker and other organs.
They are abusing themselves. As well, Semaglutide does have side effects https://www.nbcnews.com/health... [nbcnews.com] like pancreatitis, bowel obstruction, acute gallbladder disease, ileus and delayed gastric emptying. A woman recently brought suit against Novo Nordisc because she now has stomach paralysis - probably not
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It will be like one of those religious schools, except that instead of a picture of Jesus feeding 10,000 starving people on the wall, it will be Elon Musk unbanning 10,000 Twitter Nazis.
Seriously though, people who care about education give money to schools. People who want to indoctrinate kids start them.
Pretty much this.
Give me your children until they are seven and they'll be mine for life.
Musk thought that by buying Twitter he'd be able to control what people thought. He was horribly wrong because he's never had to interact with people on a normal level, it's a skill he's never learned thus is constantly frustrated that people have thoughts and ideas he doesn't agree with.
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Can you please send some of those education experts who create effective schools that properly educate children to read, write, think, learn history, and do math?
We need a bunch of them over here.
Thanks!
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Ooh, how fucking lucky we are... /s
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You are quite lucky to have me here. I'm one of the few people here posting verifiable truths in what is otherwise a mindless Narrative driven bubble of self confirming ignorance. 99% of the responses are a variation of "U R dum! Name checks out! Ha ha ha! Me smrt!". Not a good look or very impressive response from the Narrative drones.
The truth may not set you free but it sure pisses off a lot of people.
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You are quite lucky to have me here.
I'm sure you're narcissistic enough to tell yourself just that while you stand in front of a mirror.
99% of the responses are a variation of "U R dum!
That is because your remarks are often of poor quality. If you then pretend you're smarter than others by virtue of your name you're gonna get it. You literally reap what you sow.
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Your name only reflects on the stupid things you say. It creates an expectation that you simply do not deliver on.
Re: Billionaire's playground (Score:5, Informative)
They aren't trying to fix education, you don't do that at the college level. It's a war on "woke", just look at the faculty. Bari Weiss is a founder, on the faculty AND the board. Come on! She's a 30 something journalist most known for being the "liberal" aligned with Shapiro, Peterson, Thiel, Musk, Weinstein brothers, etc. Given the STEM focus, you'd think there'd be more STEM on the faculty than politics (or Iranian studies!). You'd be mistaken.
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I wouldn't worry. It's yet another arrogant & ignorant billionaire who's assumed that they can "fix" education & do it better than the millions of experts who've dedicated their lives to studying & implementing effective, broadly accessible educational programmes over at least a couple of centuries.
Ha Ha Ha. You serious? The same "experts" that completely change their teaching "methods" every couple of years as though it will magically fix everything that the last change broke? The same idiots who pushed common core onto all the schools? The same idiots who threw out phonics for whole language and threw that out when it was obviously ineffective and broken which anyone not an "expert" recognized from the start? The same idiots who claim trying to find the actual correct answer in math is racist?
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It's a bit weird wanting to get into primary education for kids with "proven academic and scientific potential". Kids are pretty half formed at the primary stage,
My kids primary school ran on-entry testing at age 5-6. The rationale is to identify special needs, but with one-on-one testing, it is also surprisingly good at identifying future high achievers. They would not try to run classroom multi-choice standardised testing until at least age 10.
Testing at age 5 [Re: Billionaire's playground] (Score:2, Insightful)
My kids primary school ran on-entry testing at age 5-6. The rationale is to identify special needs, but with one-on-one testing, it is also surprisingly good at identifying future high achievers.
Turns out you can pretty much identify achievement by looking at zip code.
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Turns out you can pretty much identify achievement by looking at zip code.
That would have been a bit useless, considering almost all the kids at the school lived in the same postcode.
It is such an obviously wrong thing to say (they are not all equally smart, or equal achievers) that I have to ask what were you thinking?
I guess you are referring to the cycle of low IQ, poverty and social class, and the cost of housing leading to increasingly class-segregated neighbourhoods?
When I live, public housing is distributed around the city, so as not to create ghettos like some US cities h
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Is that because poor people perform poorly or because people who perform well move to nice areas with other high performers?
Or, people living in poorer zip codes go to inferior schools, because schools are primarily funded from real-estate taxes?
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Re: Billionaire's playground (Score:5, Informative)
Sounds from TFA like it's going to be another weird billionaire's playground. At $100,000,000, they'll be able to afford good facilities and some good teachers.
That's $110,000,000 funding, plus an endowment of $90,000,000 of Tesla stock.
200 million for fifty students; four million dollars per student. Yes, should be able to do pretty good.
I expect he's believing his own tweets about children being 'indoctrinated' by the 'woke mind virus', and wants to set up a school to indoctrinate them with good conservative values instead. With a four million dollar per student education, that should help. There are plenty of conservative schools that are religious in nature (and funded with equally large and larger endowments), so what's new here is not that it's a conservative school, but that it's not a religious one.
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Do you have kids in school now or in the last, say, 10 years?
I do.
If you don't then you have no idea how bad the schools have become.
And that's not how budgets work. That's not a $200m/year budget. That's $200m starting funds to build a campus, pay lawyers to deal with paperwork, hire people, pay them to move to Texas, buy equipment, busses, books, computers, and so on and have enough cash left to take a loss for several years until they have enough paying students to turn a profit or at least get close t
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I love how, 5 years ago, you and those like you would have been celebrating this.
BUT, the machine told you that to be a good person, you must hate Musk, so you're hating Musk now.
Good bot.
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Weird that a post pointing out obvious lies gets down modded. I guess that's the -1 I don't like you mod.
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It's a bit weird wanting to get into primary education for kids with "proven academic and scientific potential". Kids are pretty half formed at the primary stage, frankly, especially at the beginning of the primary stage.
Elon Musk has 11 children. Most of those were conceived through artificial insemination and Elon's personal eugenics program. With this school, I wouldn't be surprised if he plans to have 20 additional kids, that he would mix in with the gifted children of other parents and other oligarchs.
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Remember what education is like in this state, wrt things like evolution and slavery.
What school? (Score:2)
For teaching slave drivers for Mars?
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How is this a flamebait?
Muskrats get triggered by Warhammer 40k based mockery of their Fabricator-General. It's a bug in their cybernetic implants.
50 students? (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe normal is as good as it gets. (Score:2)
Re:Maybe normal is as good as it gets. (Score:4, Insightful)
Musk isn't interested in changing the world, that's just his sales pitch. He's interested in wealth, power and strokes of his ego. It's all a competition for him.
"Didn't Trump do a university to train people the right way?"
No, everything Trump does is pure grift. And you assume Musk wants to "train people the right way", bad assumption. It's to increase power and influence, nothing more.
These dumbasses ... (Score:2)
Feel good for him (Score:2)
Instead, he himself has noticed that the quality and numbers of fresh-out-of-school American engineers is decreasing. This is a cumulative effect of Americas education falling apart, combined with our best and brightest not going into hard fields.
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"Instead, he himself has noticed that the quality and numbers of fresh-out-of-school American engineers is decreasing."
But he's too stupid to see he's supporting policies that make such a thing happen.
Obe problem for Musk: (Score:2)
intelligent people tend to be liberal.
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intelligent people tend to be liberal.
No, intelligent people are more likely to go to college. And colleges have been administratively occupied by (now) at least two generations of lefties cultivated by the aging hippies from the 1960s. The schools they run become progressive cultural echo chambers, churning out more of the same. If by "liberal" you mean it in the classic sense (liberty-minded), then you're right. But there is nothing liberty-minded about the contemporary liberal (as that term is now used) contingent running education in K-thr
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It's more accurate to say that unintelligent people tend to identify as conservative. They're far easier for right wing organizations to manipulate.
But there is nothing liberty-minded about the contemporary liberal (as that term is now used) contingent running education in K-through-PhD. The opposite.
Could you expand on this?
A new generation of "geniuses" (Score:2)
...who will be taught that labor laws are for losers, so are government regulations. Lying about your product is "free speech", and that performative photo-ops in Israel are better than actually doing anything about antisemitism.
been tried before (Score:2)
Typical billionaire stuff. LOL. This was tried before by a railroad billionaire. His name was Leland Stanford. What a joke that turned out to be.
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Don't forget about the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation meddling in education.
When you are rich, you are right.
He has to, for all his children (Score:2)
Looking forward to watching a documentary version of "Succession: The Space Wars" in a couple of decades.
Arrogance, bigotry, foolishness, and idiocy (Score:2)
I wonder if these new schools will feature lessons on Elon Musk's penchant for arrogance, mendacity, bigotry, foolishness, and idiocy. His actions since he took over ExTwitter have certain borne out these aspects of his character. The man's intelligent but he seems to have a peculiar ability to sublimate his gifts when running X as his actions there have brought out the worst in the man.
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Question (Score:2)
Is Musk feeling ignored? (Score:2)
Because this is pretty much a meaningless project.
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He's just a whiny baby pretty much 100% of the time. He's sad because nobody wants to pay him to advertise next to hate speech on twitter.
taxes (Score:2)
If we had an appropriate tax system there would be no philanthropy.
Oh goodie (Score:2)
The First Church of Lord Elmo is going to have a "school". I can hardly wait. You thought religious schools were bad before lol.
Obvious questions (Score:2)
1. Will any of these schools be accredited? If not, they're bs, and on par with Trump U.
2-10: see #1.
11. When he's done, is he going to ask for public funding, calling them charter schools?
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Silicon Valley Community Foundation: ATX Edition (Score:2)
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Oops .. I meant there are 7.5 times more whites than blacks. (With purely random targeting, the probability of a minority attacking a majority person is always going to be higher than vice versa) Imagine a room of 100 .. where 1 in 10 are violent. If there are 90 people with blue hair and 10 with green hair .. the probability that a green hair person would hit another green hair person is low.
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Re:Right wing tribalism (Score:4, Informative)
However it ignores the fact that there are 7.5 times more blacks than whites in the US. Therefore that 37 has to be divided by 7.5.
Your politics are admirable comrade, but your math is poor. If murders were random, it would be like taking two random marbles from a bag with 100 black marbles, and 500 white marbles. In the cases where you chose one of each, it would be 50/50 black then white, or vice versa.
Same thing with sex. Men are far more likely to kill. Victims are mostly men too, but women still far more likely to be killed by a man than vice versa.
Can you accept that as fact? Then why not for race? People are not all the same, that would be very boring.
Re:Right wing tribalism (Score:5, Interesting)
Nah, it's your stats & probabilities skills that are poor.
Let's have 2 blacks and 15 whites (7,5 times more whites). Excluding suicides:
Black person killing another black person: 2 possibilities (2x1, one killing the other)
Black person killing a white person: 30 possibilities (2x15, each black can kill each white)
White person killing a black person: 30 possibilities (15x2, each white can kill each black)
White person killing a white person: 210 possibilities (15x14, each white can kill one of the remaining whites)
When the killer is a black person, the probability of the victim being white is 30/32 = 93.75%
When the killer is a white person, the probability of the victim being black is 30/240 = 12.5%
Therefore, for purely random murders, it is 93.75/12.5 = 7.5 times more likely for a black person to kill a white person than for a white person to kill a black person, as the GP wrote. Still, the kind of murder the most likely to happen in the random case is white on white at 210/272 = 77%.
Also note that the ratio still stands when accounting for suicides: You get 4 instead of 2, 225 instead of 210, and (30x255) / (30x34) = 7.5
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Let's assume the killings are random and everyone has equal capacity for murder.
The probability of killer being black is 2/17. The probability that he kills white person in random killing is 15/16. Hence the probability of killer being black and
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Nice try, but you cannot compare conditional probabilities directly. The probability of victim being white when the killer is black is conditional. You cannot compare it to probability of victim being back when the killer is white. These are apples and oranges.
Indeed, but that was Elon's flawed claim. Quenda's and my post explained why it's flawed.
The probability of killer being black is 2/17. The probability that he kills white person in random killing is 15/16. Hence the probability of killer being black and victim being white is (2/17)*(15/16)=11%
The probability of killer being white is 15/17. The probability that he kills black person in random killing is 2/16. Hence the probability of killer being white and victim being black is (15/17)*(2/16)=11% - the same
Sure, these are the 30/272 exposed in my previous post.
If you are seeing discrepancy between black-on-white and white-on-black rates then our assumption that murders are random and everyone has the same capacity for murder does not hold.
Not sure what you're trying to say. Nobody made any claim about a discrepancy between black-on-white and white-on-black rates. The claim was about a discrepancy between the ratio of black-on-white over all black killers, and the ratio of white-on-black over all white killers:
Elon Musk recently posted that blacks are 37 times more likely to kill a white person than a white person is likely to kill a black person.
Probability for a black killing a white: 30/32
Probability for a white to kill a black: 30/24
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s/Quenda/backslashdot/g
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Nice try, but you cannot compare conditional probabilities directly. The probability of victim being white when the killer is black is conditional. You cannot compare it to probability of victim being back when the killer is white. These are apples and oranges.
Let's assume the killings are random and everyone has equal capacity for murder.
The probability of killer being black is 2/17. The probability that he kills white person in random killing is 15/16. Hence the probability of killer being black and victim being white is (2/17)*(15/16)=11%
The probability of killer being white is 15/17. The probability that he kills black person in random killing is 2/16. Hence the probability of killer being white and victim being black is (15/17)*(2/16)=11% - the same
If you are seeing discrepancy between black-on-white and white-on-black rates then our assumption that murders are random and everyone has the same capacity for murder does not hold.
Sorry, you're calculating the wrong thing.
You're calculating the total number of X on Y killings, but that's not the same as the rate at which a member of X kills a member of Y.
The original discussion was about the stupid Elon Musk statistic that blacks are 37 times more likely to kill a white person than a white person is likely to kill a black person. In other words, if the race of the killer is X what's the conditional probability of the victims race being Y.
To look it another way, assume the US had only
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Uh no. Maybe you shouldn't have attended Elon's "math school"? See quenda's reply back to you. The fact that some other idiot modded you insightful is scary.
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You missed the point: I was critiquing his maths. In the purely hypothetical case where murders were random, sorry, marbles drawn from a bag - - "white then black" will happen just as often as "black then white". That is, the neutral case would have equal absolute numbers of black on white, or white on black. Changing the order makes no difference. Hopefully this is easier to see when the emotional context of human race is removed.
I don't know the reason, but individuals who are poor in a wealthy soc
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I was not commenting on your critique of maths. Rather, I was challenging your statement: "Can you accept [men are intrinsically more likely to murder than are women] as fact? Then why not for race?" The wording you used asked readers to accept "as fact" that people of one skin colour are intrinsically more likely to murder than people of another skin colour. That is not a "fact". Rather, it is a hypothesis for which you provided no evidence. In essence, I was challenging you on a semantic misuse (fact != h
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Does empirical data mean nothing to you?
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One problem with empirical data is that it can be open to opposing interpretations. For example, I have read the claim numerous times that marginalised groups tend to suffer more mental health problems than the general population. Apparently, there is empirical data to validate that claim. The problem is that I know of two opposing ways to interpret such data: (1) "prejudice against [name of marginalised group] results in them having increased levels of mental health problems, so the high rate of mental hea
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Russia in the early 2000s had a homicide rate higher than many African countries.
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Russia in the early 2000s had a homicide rate higher than many African countries.
So? Many African have a lower homicide rate than the US today, as they are largely rural.
Aside from South Africa and Nigeria, most of the really high homicide nations are in Latin America. Far worse than Africa.
I guess Americans have an impression of Africa being violent from what they have seen in their own inner cities, and the wars seen on TV, but in general it is not the case. I felt very safe travelling in Africa, aside from the big cities.
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In the case where a member of a minority blindly murders at the same rate as members of a majority, the minority race will have a higher ratio of minority on majority deaths than majority on minority. Why is the concept hard for you? If you have a bag with 100 balls .. let's assume there are 10 black balls and 90 white balls. If a black ball attacks randomly/blindly, it is more likely to hit a white ball. If a white ball attacks randomly it is more likely to hit a white ball. If we look at the per-capita cr
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Correct, but a different thing. Please read again. The maths presented was on the ratio of b-w to w-b.
Obviously this is a very emotional subject for many people, and mis-information has been presented by people with different views.
Some making exaggerated fear-mongering statements about the dangers, and other in denial of racial differences. I just get emotional about bad maths.
Key mathematical concept: small average differences between two groups can lead to very large differences in the extremes. T
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To clarify on the race/sex analogy: the lesson should be that most people are not killers. Homicide is the extreme tail of the distribution of aggression.
Most killers are men, but that does not imply there is a huge difference between the average man and the average woman.
A small average difference can create a huge effect at the extremes of the distribution, if it is anything like a normal distribution. (google if interested in the math)
The verifiable fact that there are very different homicide rates by
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I enjoy the fact that Musk believes teaching STEM means having one faculty member for science, engineering AND mathematics while also having equal faculty for Iranian studies. Nothing says STEM like having programs to teach the Iranian perspective on the Jewish state. Meanwhile, their STEM focus is further highlighted by having three times the faculty for politics.
Citation, please [Re:Right wing tribalism] (Score:2)
His BS philosophy of some races are superior to another due to the matrix of genes they carry is stupid.
Could you give a citation showing that this is his philosophy? There's enough that's obnoxious about the man that I'd rather stick with real grievances and not speculate about imaginary ones.
For example, Elon Musk recently posted that blacks are 37 times more likely to kill a white person than a white person is likely to kill a black person. That statistic is designed to make you think we'll have a Utopia if blacks are put into concentration camps. However it ignores the fact that there are 7.5 times more blacks than whites in the US. Therefore that 37 has to be divided by 7.5. And then when you adjust for socioeconomic factors the remaining 5x discrepancy goes away. Reference: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s... [twitter.com] /p>
That URL links to a tweet saying "Odd, why would the media misrepresent the real situation to such an extreme degree?" and nothing else. Could you link the right tweet, please? I tried a google search and got nothing.
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See the tweet he is replying to (try scrolling up?). Also it’s odd you can’t find it via google because posted this a couple times in different forms.
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See the tweet he is replying to (try scrolling up?).
Possibly if you're a subscriber to Twitter ("X") there's a "scrolling up" option, but the web link you gave doesn't have one.
Also it’s odd you can’t find it via google because posted this a couple times in different forms.
Google search [google.com] shows me this post. But it doesn't give me any original statement by Musk.
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Efforts to enhance STEM education have been to the detriment of basic civics instruction.
No, aggressively dismissing civics instruction as being some sort of celebration of evil white colonialist suppression and thus vilifying things like the Constitution are what have been a detriment to civics instruction.
No surprise that Musk the autocrat lover is in on this.
The continual projection of "look! an autocrat!" at the guy who's spent billions to free, for example, a platform like Twitter from unconstitutionally autocratic censorship would be starting to get funny if it didn't betray such a profoundly inverse understanding of the topic.