Oooh Oooh a new entry for WikiDict! incompetocracy : in com pet auk cra see: n: a ruling class exhibiting near perfect unity of rigidly disciplined ideological purpose. Able to move in synchronization with one another like a school of hungry piranhas, but composed of unimpressive cretins who are individually incapable of doing whatever task is assigned to them.
“Now, entrance into the top schools depends far less on grades, which is to say far less on ability, and more far on ideological purity. The ruling class has prioritized loyalty above all else.”
It has been this way for a generation.
The author has a good idea and their solution already exists in different forms. There are issues with self learning that need to be fixed in order for it to be a college competitor.
What the author didn’t hit on but is part of the same problem is that our military sends all their officers to these commie indoctrination centers. The higher up you go, the more indoctrination these soldiers get and they are not intellectually equipped to deal with it. They aren’t accustomed to challenging authority and telling them they are full of shit and Marxism is a gutter religion.
They don’t get promoted by defending American culture on the classroom battlefield.
So the bottom line here is that with an improved from of standard testing to provide the necessary certifications, it’s Yes, we Kahn?
Um, Sal Khan of Khan academy is the same as Khan Noonien Singh whereas Kahn can be a variant of Kohen denoting descended from the priests of the Second Temple.
One of Kliban’s well known cartoons is titled “Genghis and Sylvia Kahn” where Genghis is attired as a Mongol chieftan and his consort Sylvia looks like she is from Fort Lauderdale.
When Star Trek 2 came out, I wrote an outline script to “The Revenge of Kahn” where the bad guy of my treatment was the “Father of Airline Deregulation” Alfred Kahn. This was a parody of both Star Trek and the response to the Reagan Revolution. The protagonists were noteworthy Democrats of the day (I cast Savik with New York Member of Congress Bella Abzug, who was kinda, sorta like the AOC of her time) along with the Klingons who appear on the viewscreen in the Kobayashi Maru exercise played by the Senate Republicans.
But you are hearing this from a guy who can’t separate his villains from his villians, but hey!
I guess I got the Kliban cartoon wrong — it was Genghis and Sylvia Khan, but the idea behind it was the same.
I absolutely agree with the article, BUT, wasn’t part of the problem that hiring based on testing was deemed to be discriminatory, like fifty years ago or so? That is when a lot of corporations switched to using degrees to determine candidate proficiency, because nothing more penetrating was left to them.
Funny how that happened.
The Gregg v. Duke Power decision basically said that if you use some test as a condition of employment, the test had better be related to the actual job. Government uses various tests, such as the ASVAB to enlist in the military, various civil service tests, and tests to join police and fire departments. That case also introduced the notion that if your company’s test results were skewed in racial percentages, then you could be facing a lawsuit and you’ll likely lose. As a result, companies looked for other indicators to differentiate among job applicants, and many of them choose college degrees.
It’s interesting to see some signs that the tide is changing. Several major companies and state governments are no longer requiring college degrees as a condition of employment. Some tech firms are using test results from third party sources as criteria for employment, such as tests for cyber security or database development.
To be serious, an article like this needs to bring up Griggs v Duke Power, and why this cannot be implemented without that case being overturned. It’s too bad that it took commenters to do that.
Author’s Response to that critique: John Carter Jun 21, 2022 (Author)
That’s correct. Disparate impact is at the root of university credentialism. However, the regimen I’m suggesting steps around that: employers aren’t applying the test themselves; functionally, it’s no different from requiring a degree.
But that doesn’t prevent the tests themselves from being attacked as racially discriminatory. So, one step removed, won’t work either if there’s a historical pattern.
The article also needs to bring up Steve Jobs’ (among others) abortion Common Core and all the various incarnations of New Math. A big problem with granular standardized testing is accepting a standard. This would be particularly true in history or civics, but has issues even with grammar (anyone remember Ebonics?).
I remember reading an article about “Merit Badge Education” quite a while back which advocated pretty much the same system.
My take is that the simple answer to “How to kill the incompetocracy?” is have alternatives. Attacking credentials with rival credentials is a good example. If employers have an alternative that’s clearly better, they’ll pick the alternative. But there’s more examples around than that.
Ride hailing services are alternatives to taxi cartels; Musk brings two examples, shaking up both the US orbital launch market and the US auto industry with alternatives to markets that have been stagnant for decades. And the diverse nature of US states that naturally create escape options for those stuck in states deeper in the mess. Competition is the answer and that’s why IMHO so much effort is spent in killing it.
Oooh Oooh a new entry for WikiDict!
incompetocracy : in com pet auk cra see: n: a ruling class exhibiting near perfect unity of rigidly disciplined ideological purpose. Able to move in synchronization with one another like a school of hungry piranhas, but composed of unimpressive cretins who are individually incapable of doing whatever task is assigned to them.
“Now, entrance into the top schools depends far less on grades, which is to say far less on ability, and more far on ideological purity. The ruling class has prioritized loyalty above all else.”
It has been this way for a generation.
The author has a good idea and their solution already exists in different forms. There are issues with self learning that need to be fixed in order for it to be a college competitor.
What the author didn’t hit on but is part of the same problem is that our military sends all their officers to these commie indoctrination centers. The higher up you go, the more indoctrination these soldiers get and they are not intellectually equipped to deal with it. They aren’t accustomed to challenging authority and telling them they are full of shit and Marxism is a gutter religion.
They don’t get promoted by defending American culture on the classroom battlefield.
So the bottom line here is that with an improved from of standard testing to provide the necessary certifications, it’s Yes, we Kahn?
Um, Sal Khan of Khan academy is the same as Khan Noonien Singh whereas Kahn can be a variant of Kohen denoting descended from the priests of the Second Temple.
One of Kliban’s well known cartoons is titled “Genghis and Sylvia Kahn” where Genghis is attired as a Mongol chieftan and his consort Sylvia looks like she is from Fort Lauderdale.
When Star Trek 2 came out, I wrote an outline script to “The Revenge of Kahn” where the bad guy of my treatment was the “Father of Airline Deregulation” Alfred Kahn. This was a parody of both Star Trek and the response to the Reagan Revolution. The protagonists were noteworthy Democrats of the day (I cast Savik with New York Member of Congress Bella Abzug, who was kinda, sorta like the AOC of her time) along with the Klingons who appear on the viewscreen in the Kobayashi Maru exercise played by the Senate Republicans.
But you are hearing this from a guy who can’t separate his villains from his villians, but hey!
I guess I got the Kliban cartoon wrong — it was Genghis and Sylvia Khan, but the idea behind it was the same.
I absolutely agree with the article, BUT, wasn’t part of the problem that hiring based on testing was deemed to be discriminatory, like fifty years ago or so? That is when a lot of corporations switched to using degrees to determine candidate proficiency, because nothing more penetrating was left to them.
Funny how that happened.
The Gregg v. Duke Power decision basically said that if you use some test as a condition of employment, the test had better be related to the actual job. Government uses various tests, such as the ASVAB to enlist in the military, various civil service tests, and tests to join police and fire departments. That case also introduced the notion that if your company’s test results were skewed in racial percentages, then you could be facing a lawsuit and you’ll likely lose. As a result, companies looked for other indicators to differentiate among job applicants, and many of them choose college degrees.
It’s interesting to see some signs that the tide is changing. Several major companies and state governments are no longer requiring college degrees as a condition of employment. Some tech firms are using test results from third party sources as criteria for employment, such as tests for cyber security or database development.
To be serious, an article like this needs to bring up Griggs v Duke Power, and why this cannot be implemented without that case being overturned. It’s too bad that it took commenters to do that.
Author’s Response to that critique:
John Carter Jun 21, 2022 (Author)
That’s correct. Disparate impact is at the root of university credentialism. However, the regimen I’m suggesting steps around that: employers aren’t applying the test themselves; functionally, it’s no different from requiring a degree.
But that doesn’t prevent the tests themselves from being attacked as racially discriminatory. So, one step removed, won’t work either if there’s a historical pattern.
The article also needs to bring up Steve Jobs’ (among others) abortion Common Core and all the various incarnations of New Math. A big problem with granular standardized testing is accepting a standard. This would be particularly true in history or civics, but has issues even with grammar (anyone remember Ebonics?).
I remember reading an article about “Merit Badge Education” quite a while back which advocated pretty much the same system.
My take is that the simple answer to “How to kill the incompetocracy?” is have alternatives. Attacking credentials with rival credentials is a good example. If employers have an alternative that’s clearly better, they’ll pick the alternative. But there’s more examples around than that.
Ride hailing services are alternatives to taxi cartels; Musk brings two examples, shaking up both the US orbital launch market and the US auto industry with alternatives to markets that have been stagnant for decades. And the diverse nature of US states that naturally create escape options for those stuck in states deeper in the mess. Competition is the answer and that’s why IMHO so much effort is spent in killing it.