On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Judah McAuley<[email protected]> wrote:
> > This still doesn't get to the heart of the matter about how the law > was written. If we say that encouraging diversity is a worthwhile goal > how should it best be met? Trying to assess a test for fairness and > root out potential factors that might lead to skewed results is one > way. It seems like a pretty subjective and difficult task but it is an > approach. Another approach is to look at the outcomes of the tests and > see whether people are passing it at a proportionally fair rate. That > way seems much more objective and obvious. It also has its own > difficulties, however, because you are stuck then trying to figure out > why the outcome was inequitable. But the knee jerk reaction has always been to blame the test. All I am saying is that it does not make sense to me how a test on how to fight fires can, in anyway, be racially biased. I just don't see it. I am not arguing the merits of the law (which I think is stupid, but that is another thread). -- Scott Stroz --------------- The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. - Thomas Jefferson http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299252 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
