>Innovation has always been regarded as the key to economic growth in our country, and is a particularly hot topic these days. In addition to leading to job creation and technological and business advances, innovation can also be one lens to view how we improve opportunities for the most marginalized children in society.
>Vox spent time looking at new research on innovation which seeks to understand the factors which determine who becomes an inventor in the United States. It provides important insight into who is left out innovation and how that has a detrimental impact on society overall. While ability, exposure to innovation early in life and opportunity are vital factors that drive invention, so too, does membership in an ethnic or gender minority group.
>This is not just a matter of parents encouraging their children to go into STEM fields. It is about access to resources—coupled with creating pathways for underrepresented students to tap into innovation. This is why it is critically important to make it a priority that schools and local programs, regardless of the socio-economic background of the community in which they are in, have opportunities for students that encourage invention.
>All of this boils down to a simple point. As a society, we need to invest in the creative and inventive capacity of children—particularly those from disadvantaged or minority backgrounds. As economic disparity has a negative impact on the quality of life of children who are poor, black, brown and female, it also has a negative impact on the quality of innovation in our country. It would be wise for our government to encourage and facilitate opportunities for all children to become inventors, instead of focusing on ways to cut them off from a bright future—both for the sake of the children and ourselves.
Charles Johnson
>barriers for girls and students of color negatively ???
Brayden Edwards
you are so done, america so fucking done
Brody Bell
We still need safe spaces, goy
Isaiah White
Did you honestly expect the study to find anything different? Someone paid for this piece of propaganda disguised as research. If the study had concluded that actually everything is just fine the way it is, nobody would have got paid and the study wouldn’t have been published
Leo Long
so what are the barriers? what is preventing them from doing well in math? math is pretty damn absolute so it's not like racist whitey teacher says they wrote a shitty short story.
Joseph King
They have affirmative action and preferred access. What more do they want? I want off this fucking ride.
Austin Myers
Black womans are the driving force behind innovation.
Benjamin Rivera
This is what they really believe.
Ryan Bennett
Vox is hyper left wing in case anyone couldn't figure it out from this. Their YouTube channel has videos claiming people who like Tucker Carlson are white supremacists.
Christopher Rivera
Intelligence.
Joseph Allen
I truly hate you fucking Jews
Jordan Williams
Social stigma is still around. Society deems certain things to be boys activities and the same for girls.
The recent Hollywood allegations have also shown what a lot of women face in the workplace.
As a society we are moving away from these things but it’s a slow process. It won’t happen overnight.
Jacob Collins
What barriers did the study find? I’d imagine the barrier is “didn’t get enough free money for being a nigress.”
Connor Hernandez
>vox what's david brock pay these days?
Austin Ramirez
>affirmative action >scholarships >women and "minority" societies and events Maybe white men do better because they don't have a fucking choice if they want to be in the field
Daniel Morris
I do agree that instant feedback helps. It makes learning quicker. Thats is one of the issues with our current teaching system. Ive memorized things incorrectly at one point in my life to then discover I learned it backwards, all because it took 3 weeks to get my test back
Matthew Turner
There are just as many white kids growing up in bum fuck no where with their meth addicted parents and zero educational infrastructure.
Life isn’t fair for anybody.
Caleb Clark
>looking for internships and scholarships >half say they will hire majority women and underrepresented minorities >the half are exclusive to minorities >exclusive programs usually require well below at 3.0 GPA >Read some fromp on Vox misconstrue the importance of diversity in innovation
They can’t hold up one of the idiots they give an unfair advantage to, so they speak in vague generalities. Fucking idiots are cealing their own fate. Affirmative action is the biggest redpiller of white males.
Nolan Rodriguez
The wording is pretty poor but the message is somewhat accurate.
You would have to be delusional to think that white and black kids have the same opportunities when it comes to education in the US.
Samuel Kelly
>Social stigma is still around. Society deems certain things to be boys activities and the same for girls. this could not be more untrue since the year 2000 in the US education system.
Best way to destroy your culture is to pander to historically useless people who are wrongly called 'minorities' and to women. Ignore this crooked shit, just promote white men and your country will shine like a fucking beacon for all mankind.
Sebastian Evans
> negatively impacts innovation in the US Things pulled out of asses for 300.
Just one example but it shows how the problems of the past still exist today.
Asher Reed
Whose fault is that? Education begins at home. I'm American and my mother was a math teacher - Algebra and remedial math. Remedial is things like basic multiplication, decimals and fractions for high school juniors and seniors who are too fucking stupid to get even the simplest concepts down. Her classes were almost entirely brown. She went out of her way for 30+ years doing everything she could to teach those retards simple math skills, like subtraction and division. Even so slightly more than half passed, and those that did usually had C's. Blacks have no one to blame but themselves for their situation. The problem is black culture.
Gabriel Hughes
They have the same access to public schools. When offered access to private schools through vouchers, liberals throw a fit because they do not want competition with public schools. This is not about having the same opportunities, it is about monopolizing power under their net and anyone who wants out from under it being crushed. Any effort to help, other than throwing government money at public institutions is destroyed, Where do you think "we need mo money fo dem programs!" came from? It is not a meme.
When it comes to universities they have no excuse. They get preferential treatment from the beginning. They have a handicap to boost their chances. Lower scores on entry tests, SAT and ACT scores can be lower than others, and they get in on top.
They have affirmative action and preferred access. They can perform at a lower level than others and still get in. What more do they want?
Silicon Valley is not short on a competent workforce. Is short on a competent and cheap workforce.
In the last two decades the IT bullshit expanded like crazy with the come to power of monsters like google, facebook and the consolidation of other monsters like Oracle and Intel.
But... It's not like you can have a rapid expansion indefinitely. At some point is going to decelerate. So, a lot of investors are butthurt that they can't cash out on the goose of golden eggs like they used to do.
And because innovation is not something that you cant throw resources like madman and guarantee it's results they are trying to keep they revenues cheapening the cost of their workforce. It's not good for any industry that the heart of your product if in the hands of 30, 20 or 10 autistis that start getting more and more aggresive on they salary and demands. In theory if they can increase the pool of competent workers of the sector, they can push the salaries down. So the are basically searching for the holy grail, the philosopher stone, the silver bullet to change the trend and make women and racial minorities competent in the most intelectually demanding areas of the IT industry.
Why women and minorities? Because they are easier to lobby through international initiatives and government programs. You can't lobby "i-don't-want-to-pay-better-salaries-so-please-use-government-money-to-create-more-competent-computer-scientists".
They are failing miserably, thought.
Jace Lopez
One word:
No.
Women are FAR from being barred from anything and colored students have their hands held left and right.
If they face any hardships, it's on them.
Caleb Baker
>You would have to be delusional to think that white and black kids have the same opportunities when it comes to education in the US.
They do have the same opportunities. Black kids have more, if anything. There are literal scholarships catered towards colored students. Black kids, however, tend to squander their opportunities OF THEIR OWN VOLITION.
Cooper Cook
Nice anecdote.
>Whose fault is that? Education begins at home.
I do agree with this to an extent though. Most black people in the US don't do so well at home and are over represented in things like crime, single parent households and out of wedlock birth.
They didn't create these problems themselves. A lot of shit has happened to get to this point. Jim crow laws for example, only 60 years ago. People living under those laws are still alive today. The segregation that arose due to these laws is still somewhat there today. Its not that easy to just pick up and leave and its why we see these ghettos in places like baltimore and detroit.
Blake Morales
>people aren't buying out made-up bullshit about women and minorities having it rough in America >I know! We'll make up bullshit about how our made-up bullshit is hurting EVERYONE
IT'S FOOLPROOF
Eli Garcia
BUT BLACK WOMEN ARE THE MOST EDUCATED IN THE FUCKING WORLD AS OF 2017
Juan Cook
No one is stopping blacks from doing STEM but themselves. Blacks hate science. Their culture is deeply anti-intellectual.
If you want to point the finger at anyone, point it at them.
Nicholas Myers
Everything about the black community has gotten worse since Jim Crow was repealed. The black community has more crime, less income, and more single mothers. The problem in America for the American blacks is welfare. Welfare has done more to keep the black community in perpetual servitude than anything else since outright sanctioned slavery.
Andrew Wilson
Blaming movies/TV/pop culture is an easy cop out. It starts and ends with the parents and that's the only decent part of this article. Even that is pretty bullshit excuse. Everyone I grew up with had a computer growing up. Plenty of girls were pushed to take CS in high school and absolutely hated it.
William Butler
Anyone who had lived under Jim Crow laws is, by now, retired, so it's difficult to pin these laws on current workers who never experienced them. To say that old laws have some inexplicable residual effect on new workers is, frankly, bizarre.
I'm not sure what it's like in the UK, but here in the US, all minorities and women have set-aside grants, helps and advantages.
White men, and to a lesser degree East Asian men, have to jump higher hurdles to get into universities, jobs, etc. Perversely, they're getting stronger and better because of the disincentives and blocks placed in their paths. What the leftists have created is a bloc of strong, determined and racially aware white males. As white males get toughened by the disincentives of the culture and government, they'll become even more aware of their whiteness and maleness.
And they'll be prepared, emotionally and intellectually, to fight back.
Eli Perez
so the principles are: >innovation is good >innovation is linked to race and gender >innovation is negatively linked to blacks and women >if more blacks and women were innovators, there would be more innovators, which would be good but here's the breakdown in reasoning >this proves the existence of barriers to blacks and women backwards reasoning. once again, the actual barrier to innovation is that we're working with a philosophy of life that pre-establishes its own conclusions as axiomatic.
Lincoln Clark
Good post
Adam Sullivan
Go back to plebbit you kike rat fuck
Wyatt Martinez
>As a society we are moving away from these things but it’s a slow process. It won’t happen overnight. a remarkably slow process, and growing slower all the time, while all the more costly one might imagine that at a certain point one is to look at diminishing returns and accept that a given direction is clearly a write-off but if one instead subscribed to a philosophy keen on prescribing more of itself for its own lack of success, one might miss this obvious course of action
Nathan Morales
>innovation can be measured >innovation can not only be measured but also predicted Lmao somebody somewhere believes this and should be executed
“Research” is what it has been called by for 1000s of years..
Innovation is like a participation trophy for just acting like you’re trying
Juan Wood
What barriers? People of color and women are given preferential treatment in most college acceptance programs as well as the US's fairly left leaning education system. It's not a "barrier" if those people choose not to go into those fields of study.
Aaron Evans
the actual barriers are against whites, white men specifically. the actual diagnosis would be that AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS HURTS INNOVATION
you see them talking about "resources" and "quality of life" but is seems subtle, but the whole point of whatever else they say is to give money to women and non-whites. white men should not have money! when white men have income, women might date them, which leads to having white babies! NO!!
give women and non-whites, and white women will stop having white babies!
Chase Myers
Pro tip: If you constantly need help to start a business, don't. Building an innovative product from scratch is very hard. But, all the business information you need is easily available in books. If you're not capable of finding it yourself, choose a different path. Innovation is a product of necessity. Being an entrepreneur is not something anyone can guide you through. Being your own boss means figuring it out yourself.
Charles Gray
Innovation is a very real thing. Read Zero to One by Peter Thiel. If you innovate you create a totally new solution to a problem. This means you are creating a brand new market. This gives you an opportunity to grab an organic monopolistic market share. If you don't innovate (e.g. a restaurant), you are joining an established market with lots of competition. More competition = race to the bottom in prices = lower profits = lower wages. Innovation is the difference between millionaires and billionaires.
Colton Reyes
>Research shows barriers for chimpanzees negatively impacts innovation in the US
