white people are too good at making music, we need affirmative action in orchestras!
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But society is defined by the average, not by the strongest or weakest exceptions. That's why Africa is still a hell-hole or why highly populated muslim areas even in first world countries are so regressive and ghetto-ish.
Africa is an entire continent. It doesn't have a singular society or culture. By simply combining them together and calling it all a hell-hole because of the worst parts, you hide why some groups are doing just fine while others are struggling.
Averaging destroys data. It obscures WHY some individuals are better than the average and why others fall below it. Falsely applying the average of arbitrarily chosen demographic attributes to individual outcomes and presuming this shows genetics as a causal factor is a fatalist view which denies the individual's ability to affect their own situation.
If you take the same argument and apply it to 1500s England you could make the claim that the peasant class was simply genetically incapable of learning to read while the inbred royals were the genetically predetermined intellectual elite.
With ideal information sure. But sometimes, the average is all we have. When we invite people into the US, we can't know their history, or their past crimes (which they can easily lie about). We can't know if they're going to build successful enterprises, or whether they'll fall flat on their face.
Sometimes we have to take chances, and the average for a demographic is part of that assessment. Especially when we have little other data to go by.
Same with an employer when he's hiring someone. He can't know the true intelligence, creativity, or work ethic of a potential employee. He can only go by gut extinct and, that amazing thing we call the 'average'.
If you're hiring people based on "average" and not based on individuals' resumes, interviews, and trial work, then you're not going to succeed in any business. It is the individual that matters.
Regardless, the topic at hand is about orchestral music, not mass immigration where the problem is that there's NO restriction average OR individual. I wouldn't want uncontrolled immigration from England any more than I want it from Mogadishu. The fact of the matter is, even from the most successful first world nation, it usually isn't going to be the most successful people that are willing to leave what they have to take a chance on coming to America.
That's another area where focusing on the average will give you false information. Who cares if the average of the nation they're coming from is high if it's only the worst individuals from that nation are coming here?
I'll agree there. We can more easily judge musical skill and performance in half an hour. As long as the person judging is fair and impartial and not out for victim points.
Sure, but you often can't obtain that information from a CV and a quick 30 minute interview. The quality of work takes weeks if not months to determine, and the demographic will be a factor (not the only one obviously) in helping to determine that.
Obviously with immigration, you're not even getting an interview of that person. There's almost no judgment at all. We can't know their intelligence, their university degrees, their potential hatred for white people, their past crimes or many other things. We can weight the decision however with an average demographic stat.
Neither is necessarily good, but the former would be FAR preferable.
I disagree there. With exceptions (e.g: Somalis carted over to Minnesota thanks to Obama), I tend to think the people who are willing to move to another country often tend to be the more intelligent and enterprising. That's why East Asians beat whites on many metrics; we're getting the cream of the crop so to speak.