The skills gap.

KCfromNC · May 23, 2019

OldWiseGuy said:
Which ones do I google?

The ones you pointed me to earlier in the thread.

iluvatar5150 · May 23, 2019

RDKirk said:
That happened in the early 80s with personal computers.

Back when "data processing" was part of the math programs in colleges, there were just as many women as men. Women, in fact, dominated the field in many areas in the days of "big iron"-- mainframe computers.

But personal computers first entered the social sector as "boys' toys," not as serious business tools. We had to build our own computers and then figure out how to make them do something, so those of us for whom the Archer catalog was favorite reading and Radio Shack was a favorite store had a leg up. It was not presented as an interest to high school girls, so as the field turned in that direction, IT in general was no longer presented to women.

If you look at a graph of women in college taking what would become "IT" studies, the graph rides high, 50/50 male to female until about 1985, at which point the participation of women in technology begins to drop like a rock. That's when PCs happened.

Meg Whitman was interviewed by Freakonomics not too long ago and went on at some length about that phenomenon. She managed to get into the industry before that started, but she had some strong words about the boys club that developed. Amusingly, though, it seemed like she could give at least as good as she could get. :-D

crossnote said:
IMO, we are becoming speciaty experts especially in technology, but imbeciles in godly wisdom.

Yeah, we should go back to earlier times when we were all luddites but knew how to do our Christian duty by keeping all the negroes and all the dirt-worshiping heathens in their place.

crossnote · May 23, 2019

iluvatar5150 said:
Yeah, we should go back to earlier times when we were all luddites but knew how to do our Christian duty by keeping all the negroes and all the dirt-worshiping heathens in their place.

All you are doing is showing your ignorance of the Christian faith by substituting who and what Jesus is and has done with those who use the name 'Christian' and at most profess to be Christian but who were equally ignorant of Who Christ is.

iluvatar5150 · May 23, 2019

crossnote said:
All you are doing is showing your ignorance of the Christian faith by substituting who and what Jesus is and has done with those who use the name 'Christian' and at most profess to be Christian but who were equally ignorant of Who Christ is.

A couple things:

1.) The "no true scotsman" thing is a fallacy.

2.) Do me a favor and don't tell me what I do and don't know about the Christian faith. Your fallacies don't negate the horrors committed by Christians, some of which were done in the name of the church.

3.) Your response isn't germane to my point. You were responded to the question of "We are a product of what we know, and what we know is largely a product of our education. So, how are we doing?" with "IMO, we are becoming speciaty experts especially in technology, but imbeciles in godly wisdom." Your answer makes a statement about humanities progression across time - that we're increasing our technological skills while losing godly wisdom. I was responding to the part about loss of godly wisdom, which implies that we're now less godly than we were when we were murdering indians and enslaving blacks.

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