Wilbon/S.A.S. analytics will take jobs away from African Americans

senel · Post #1 » by **senel** » Thu May 26, 2016 3:53 pm

https://theundefeated.com/features/mission-impossible-african-americans-analytics/

Thoughts? I haven't read the article but when I heard Stephanie A. Smith's rant it made me cringe.

Throwback24 · Post #2 » by **Throwback24** » Thu May 26, 2016 3:53 pm

SAS no care.

amcfad27 · Post #3 » by **amcfad27** » Thu May 26, 2016 3:55 pm

So he's saying black people don't do math? What a stupid thing to say...

Dominator83 · Post #4 » by **Dominator83** » Thu May 26, 2016 3:57 pm

They're pretty much saying that blacks aren't smart enough

ldnk · Post #5 » by **ldnk** » Thu May 26, 2016 3:59 pm

Good?

If you can't adapt to perform in modern sports, you shouldn't have a job in it. I don't care if you are White, Black, Hispanic, Male/Female, etc. We should be looking to get the best minds (both from instincts and from ability to innovate).

MotownMadness · Post #6 » by **MotownMadness** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:01 pm

Lol what a idiot

PCProductions · Post #7 » by **PCProductions** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:05 pm

Obviously a touchy subject by the very nature of it, but I'm opposed to the notion that jobs are being "taken" from somebody who isn't acclimating themselves to the professional landscape.

immortalone23 · Post #8 » by **immortalone23** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:06 pm

Adjust to the market, it's simple economics.

Waynearchetype · Post #9 » by **Waynearchetype** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:08 pm

Just because you can't do math doesn't mean others can't as well.

biyombo · Post #10 » by **biyombo** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:08 pm

But all of my calculators are black...

Kevin Johnson · Post #11 » by **Kevin Johnson** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:18 pm

I've worked in a Big 3 Bank and some major financial services companies and the racial/ethnic makeup in particular jobs is interesting.

Analytics - Asian American/Chinese. You can hardly understand some immigrants with PHds but they can create quantative models that forecast the future of the economy

Software Development - Dominated by Indians. (Note, more diversity seems to exist in IT such as admin, infrastructure and such)

Business Side - White

Particular roles like PMs (Project Managers) have a ton of black women in roles. Also, I really see a lack of Black men in corporate jobs, you see the black women represented there but very different for black men.

Stay late and run into cleaning people - South American immigrants

Walk outside construction workers - Like 50% South American immigrants and a mix of black, white. Maybe a woman or two, no Asians!

Hope nobody is offended, it's just what I see.

Post #12 » by **codydaze** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:21 pm

Talk about an over generalization and assumptious.

Nebula1 · Post #13 » by **Nebula1** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:24 pm

You guys should read the article before commenting.

MaxRider · Post #14 » by **MaxRider** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:26 pm

senel wrote:https://theundefeated.com/features/mission-impossible-african-americans-analytics/

Thoughts? I haven't read the article but when I heard Stephanie A. Smith's rant it made me cringe.

every team use it in someway regard of race
why do you think GSW hack Roberson/Adams instead of Durant
because statistically they have the lowest FT% on Thunder team
they may not use super advance one but everyone use it

smallgains · Post #15 » by **smallgains** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:29 pm

Waynearchetype wrote:Just because you can't do math doesn't mean others can't as well.

He is the Einstein of stealing others ideas and words....yeah....I just went there

Waynearchetype · Post #16 » by **Waynearchetype** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:33 pm

smallgains wrote:
Waynearchetype wrote:Just because you can't do math doesn't mean others can't as well.

He is the Einstein of stealing others ideas and words....yeah....I just went there

What makes you say that? Kind of odd thing to say.

Scorpion King · Post #17 » by **Scorpion King** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:33 pm

Wilbon brings up a lot of good points in the article.

Education is the key to overcoming this. Most immigrant communities emphasize education and are rewarded for this.

Kid Vicious · Post #18 » by **Kid Vicious** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:34 pm

smallgains wrote:
Waynearchetype wrote:Just because you can't do math doesn't mean others can't as well.

He is the Einstein of stealing others ideas and words....yeah....I just went there

Pardon my ignorance, but who is he?

_jin · Post #19 » by **_jin** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:37 pm

Wilbon thinks he's one of the smartest black guys out there and he doesnt understand analytics so he thinks all black guys cant understand them. Except he's an idiot.

Kevin Johnson · Post #20 » by **Kevin Johnson** » Thu May 26, 2016 4:37 pm

codydaze wrote:Talk about an over generalization and assumptious.

If you were referring to me, I am not sure how it's a generalization or assumption when:

You have an organization of 80 people in IT within a Corp and 70 of those people are Indian.

Or

You have an a team of 12 Quants (Analytics) and 10 of them are Asian American / Chinese.

Or

Every cleaning crew I've seen come in after hours in the building the past 7 years are South American immigrants