Posted by alexandra_k on August 27, 2018, at 0:55:07
In reply to Re: personal diary correction, posted by alexandra_k on August 24, 2018, at 22:21:38
it's a like a bounty on their heads.
it's the 'cost of being black' sort of idea.
the rough idea is that we can calculate the cost of being black. it is the additional risk that one has in virtue of being black. see, you count up how many (sick black people / the number of black people) and you put that over how many (sick white people / the number of white people) and now you have number like 2.4. Then you get to say 'black people are 2.4x as likely to get sick than white people'. Then you get to say 'the risk of getting sick, as a black person is 2.4x the risk of a white person getting sick'. then you get to say that a black person represents an additional burden of disease (to a public health system, or a potential employer, lets say) of 2.4x that of a white person.
and then you say 'so, if you want me to enrol black people in my clinic... in my university... in my school... then i want to get MORE money for having them than i have for each and every white person'.
and then there is, like, a bounty on their heads.
and they are now the target for people to 'help' them -- all these people who are only interseted in helping themselves (to more money) are now supposed to be motivated to help the black people. or to help themselves to the black people or to help themselves at the expense of the black people. or something like that. it gets hard and confusing.
that's how we got a special clinic here targeting maaori and poor people. the manager guy in charge (formerly dean of med) managed to persuade the government to put a bounty on their heads for him so he could have a clinic sufficiently lucrative for him to retire from position as dean of med into that clinic.
that's after he made sure that the quotas of maaori students in medicine positions were not filled.
here's the idea on that one: maaori students have lower academic outcomes than non-maaori students. more work needs to go into educating them to achieve similar educatonal outcomes at university. so the university needs a bounty on their heads, again, in order to accept them at all... the government provided additional funding for additional places in medicine that were supposed to go to maaori students. but in order for maaori student to be eligabe to take one of those places they needed to attain a level of outcome from the end of first year... that they didnt'. which meant that the university got to give those maaori funded places to non maaori. which they then did.
someone asked the question 'is letting maaori into medicine setting them up to fail' and the response was 'no. once they are in there isn't any benefit to failing them. if they are failed out then they aren't replaced by a non-maaori, there is just one less medical student'.
that was a radio interview just last year.
apparently questioning the capitated (aka 'bounty on their heads') model of funding is 'racist'. we aren't allowed to question it, here.
but see see see where the money goes.
and see the futures they have predicted.
be sure to invest accordingly!
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