Re: [Phys-L] 11 outa 1299!

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

 Oh my: yet another luminary pitched on the smelly pile of too human physicists.  Shockley joins Millican as eugenicists of note.   Newton was engrossed with transmogrifying base metal to gold.
    On Thursday, June 9, 2022, 10:48:01 PM CDT, bernard cleyet <bernard@cleyet.org> wrote:  
 
 
That’s 11 African ancestry students and 1299 total grad. students.  This is more than gross, and an example of Ms. Jones’ point in 1619.  

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-01-15/caltech-millikan-racism <https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-01-15/caltech-millikan-racism> 


At least CIT is doing something about it.  


bc  ….    wonders about the number of women


Note: An ethics exercise about his data:  

https://onlineethics.org/cases/ethics-science-classroom/Millikan-case-discrimination-versus-manipulation-data <https://onlineethics.org/cases/ethics-science-classroom/Millikan-case-discrimination-versus-manipulation-data>  

JD has discussed about ”throwing out” a datum.  



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