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Only 50 out of 14,385 United Kingdom professors are black. They are alleging racism, and are demanding quotas to get more tenureships. However, currently it is illegal in Britain to hire someone on the basis of their skin color, so implementing affirmative action would require that parliament change the current law to allow preferential treatment for black academics.
If the British lower their standards for hiring professors it would be a disaster for the university system. 50 may not seem like a large number but the statistics tell the real story. The majority of England's 1.7 million blacks originate from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Carribbean, where the average IQ for blacks is around 70. If we assume that around a third of England's blacks average about 85 IQ because of mixed race parentage with whites, then the overall average for blacks in would be about 80. Compare that with whites who average 100 and hold 94% of the professorships. If we lowball the estimate of a 120 IQ as the entry point to be a able to become a tenured professor at the university level, a bell curve calculation reveals that only .4% or 6800 blacks have the requisite base line IQ. Of those, many are too young or old for the work force, and of the remaining many would be pursuing careers in business, medicine, engineering and other lucrative paths, not academia. 50 is a pretty significant number when blacks in the 120 range are a needle in a haystack, so there is no reason to conclude that the schools are practicing racism.
Affirmative action has compromised academic standards in America to the detriment of all students black and white, the British should not make the same mistake and should refuse to give in to the pressure to compromise their high quality of education. If blacks truly feel they have suffered discrimination then let them sue and prove it in court.
It's sad that there are people who support taking skin color into account. Enlightened people realize that our priorities should strictly be looking at peoples' qualifications.
14,000 British professors
If the British lower their standards for hiring professors it would be a disaster for the university system. 50 may not seem like a large number but the statistics tell the real story. The majority of England's 1.7 million blacks originate from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Carribbean, where the average IQ for blacks is around 70. If we assume that around a third of England's blacks average about 85 IQ because of mixed race parentage with whites, then the overall average for blacks in would be about 80. Compare that with whites who average 100 and hold 94% of the professorships. If we lowball the estimate of a 120 IQ as the entry point to be a able to become a tenured professor at the university level, a bell curve calculation reveals that only .4% or 6800 blacks have the requisite base line IQ. Of those, many are too young or old for the work force, and of the remaining many would be pursuing careers in business, medicine, engineering and other lucrative paths, not academia. 50 is a pretty significant number when blacks in the 120 range are a needle in a haystack, so there is no reason to conclude that the schools are practicing racism.
Affirmative action has compromised academic standards in America to the detriment of all students black and white, the British should not make the same mistake and should refuse to give in to the pressure to compromise their high quality of education. If blacks truly feel they have suffered discrimination then let them sue and prove it in court.
It's sad that there are people who support taking skin color into account. Enlightened people realize that our priorities should strictly be looking at peoples' qualifications.
14,000 British professors
