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August 13, 2010
Bean-Counters and Baloney
The bean-counters have struck again —
this time in the sports pages. Two New York Times sport writers have discovered that baseball coaches from minority groups are found more often coaching at first base than third base. Moreover, third-base coaches become managers more often than first-base coaches. This may seem to be just another passing piece of silliness. But it is part of a more general bean-counting mentality that turns statistical differences into grievances. The time is long overdue to throw this race card out of the deck and start seeing it for the gross fallacy that it is.
At the heart of such statistics is the implicit assumption that different races, sexes, and other subdivisions of the human species would be proportionately represented in institutions, occupations, and income brackets if there were not something strange or sinister going on.
Although this notion has been repeated by all sorts of people, from local loudmouths on the street to the august chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States, there is not one speck of evidence behind it and a mountain of evidence against it.
Posted by Vanderleun at August 13, 2010 10:08 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
I'll bet their is a disproportionately high number of Afro-Americans enrolled in African-America studies programs at universities across the country. As such, those programs must immediately be shut down due to their inherent....drumroll...wait for it...RACISM!
Posted by: Blastineau at August 13, 2010 10:21 AM
If you have equal opportunity, you will get unequal outcomes.
If you have equal outcomes, you don't have equality of opportunity.
The two are directly antithetical to one another.
Regards,
Ric
Posted by: Ric Locke at August 13, 2010 11:41 AM
Ironic, isn't it, that the people obsessed with numbers are all a bunch of one-note sambos.
Posted by: Jewel at August 13, 2010 2:09 PM
Ric:
I've never heard it so succinctly put.
Kudos.
JWM
Posted by: jwm at August 13, 2010 3:59 PM
I was going to write something witty or pithy, but after Ric's excellent summary, I got nothing.
Posted by: Grizzly at August 13, 2010 11:55 PM