everyone is right in the middle of their bias. Also, youre a white supremamcist and i feel threatened as a puerto rican transleper
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 3:51 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the whole country are on the barbell curve now. Me, I like to > tell myself I am right in the middle. > > *From:* Bill Prince > *Sent:* Friday, February 12, 2021 2:48 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT possibly political > > > In the rural area we live in, which is just far enough away from Silicon > Valley to think of it as "there" and not "here", but we still have a lot > (and I mean a lot) of S.V. types up in these here hills. > > Several years ago I coined the term "barbell curve". It's a sideswipe to > the conventional bell curve. With the bell curve, you survey a sample of > people, and their opinions on an arbitrary topic can be plotted on a graph. > You get a few people at each extreme of the graph, but the vast majority > are in the center. When you plot it out, you get the familiar bell-shaped > curve. > > Around here, it seems we have large portions of our population that occupy > the extremes, and very few in the center. If you survey them on a topic, > you will get a sort of inverted bell curve, where the ends go up, and the > middle goes down. Kind of like a barbell. I call it the barbell curve. > > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 2/12/2021 12:06 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > > There is a branch of the left that does not trust science. And of course > alt-right has their alternate science truthiness. > > There was a good article about Evergreen College up in Washington. In an > article in the Olympian the writer said: > > Evergreen now seems fully in the control of an anti-science, > anti-rational, anti-liberty, racist minority embedded in the administration > and faculty which holds the rest of the staff, faculty, and students > hostage. If you oppose them, or even don't actively support them, they will > strip you of your livelihood if you are faculty or staff, or your education > if you are a student. > > > If the far left and far right merge at the bottom of the circle with anti > science, thus presumably mushy math practitioners, then at the top of the > circle where left and right meet must be the haven for math and science. > That is the spot I consider myself to be. > > In my universe it is 2 dimensional. Everyone is on my circle and can be > described by a vector. Magnitude and Angle. I am hopefully about a .5 @ > 90 degrees. Perhaps 80 degrees. > > But you gotta use a smith chart to find folks like antifa and proud boyz. > They have reactances... > > From: Steve Jones > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 12:11 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT possibly political > > This is part of the equity vs equality stupidity. > I always loved math, even the math that exceeded my scope because its the > only honesty. Math is rigid and doesnt care about you, or your identity. A > wrong answer in woke equity is right as long as your intentions were good. > Equity makes things blow up. Math/=Equity > Ill stick with the old truths of mathematics > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:49 PM Adam Moffett mailto:[email protected] > wrote: > > > This course seems stupid. The original context is the Oregon DOE > newsletter provided a link to it. > > On the one hand, the DOE is not forcing any teachers to take this course. > On the other hand I don't understand why they would even suggest it. On > the other-other hand, I don't think we need to flip about it. This is not > an actual math curriculum. > > > > > On 2/12/2021 1:24 PM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > > Yeah, that is what got me too. We all know there are a bunch of ways to > arrive at the right answer. But in math, most of the time there is one and > only one right answer. Or in the cases of roots, you can have two right > elements of the solution but you need both of them to constitute the one > right answer. > > From: Mathew Howard > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 11:17 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT possibly political > > I think this quote pretty much tells you all you need to know: "Upholding > the idea that there are always right and wrong answers perpetuate > objectivity as well as fear of open conflict." > > If they were talking about teaching different methods of arriving at the > correct answer, that's a fair discussion. I think it's probably true that > there are differences in the way individual's brains work that make some > methods work better for some people than others (although I seriously doubt > that has anything to do with race, but it could very well be related to > cultural and linguistic background), so there's a reasonable argument for > saying that we should look at different methods of arriving at the correct > answer, but I'm pretty sure that math is one area where there is in fact > always a right and wrong answer. > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:54 AM Cameron Crum mailto:[email protected] > wrote: > > Well if that doesn't spell it out for you, I don't know what does. I was > half kidding in my response earlier, but looks like it was spot on now. We > are doomed if this crap is allowed to proceed. > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:48 AM Chuck McCown via AF > mailto:[email protected] wrote: > > > https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oregon-math-course-racism-white-supremacy-teachers > https://www.foxnews.com/us/oregon-education-math-white-supremacy > > From: Carl Peterson > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 10:18 AM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT possibly political > > Not sure of your source but I think you misunderstand. > > > https://www.mathnasium.com/littleton-news-when-one-correct-math-answer-is-not-enough > > "Reframing the above problem to encourage divergent thinking might look > something like this: > > “Find the sum of 32 + 5 and then create more equations that have the same > sum.” > > Theoretically, someone could keep thinking about this problem forever and > generate infinite correct answers." > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:32 AM Chuck McCown via AF > mailto:[email protected] wrote: > > Just read of a push to teach a “new math” the encourages multiple “correct > answers” to math problems and eliminates “show your work”. Supposedly > cleanses math teaching from institutional racism. > > OK, irrespective of your genetics, heritage, cultural backgropund and > gender choices, if I tell an employee to go read the sequentials off of a > reel of cable and tell me how much is left, they better get one frigging > answer, the one and only correct answer. > > So I am an old fat entitled unwoke white guy. By some accounts > automatically racist. I don’t feel that way, but again I am unwoke > (whatever in the hell that means) so I wouldn’t know. > > I simply don’t get how getting the one and only right answer in math class > is institutional racism. Can you imagine someone that came up through > schools that allow this trying to get into an engineering program? 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