Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
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Re: Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
#2Rather longwinded personal intro, followed by
due to the war, my grandma was allowed to become a dentist without actually going to medical school!
YAY! What a horror story.
Re: Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
#3Rather longwinded personal intro, followed by due to the war, my grandma was allowed to become a dentist without actually going to medical school! YAY! What a horror story.
That explains quite a lot about dentistry in USSR
Re: Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
#4Rather longwinded personal intro, followed by due to the war, my grandma was allowed to become a dentist without actually going to medical school! YAY! What a horror story.
That explains quite a lot about dentistry in USSR
It explains your bias and preconceived notions.
One could read the story as "people had to do what they had to in order to survive and help their fellow humans". But no, you choose to focus on "Soviet dentistry hurrr" without knowing a thing about it.
The article is also guilty. It talks at length about this book with a story of horrible torture that is entirely made up. Essentially that book is a collection of every stereotype and conspiracy mashed into one. The modern-day equivalent would be a book about how QAnon and Pizzagate are real. But no, the author says "the book is a lie, but Russia is bad so it's justified", missing the obvious: the book is trash.
Re: Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
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That explains quite a lot about dentistry in USSR
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I've often heard this claim touted - that people hired via DEI initiatives are incompetent or cannot do their job - do you have any statistics showing it? It always sounded to me like an "obvious conclusion" that was never proven, just assumed to be true, but I'm interested to see how the numbers play out, if any exist.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I've often heard this claim touted - that people hired via DEI initiatives are incompetent or cannot do their job - do you have any statistics showing it? It always sounded to me like an "obvious conclusion" that was never proven, just assumed to be true, but I'm interested to see how the numbers play out, if any exist.
Having been part of many such hiring initiatives, it hasn't ever panned out in any of my data. It means that everyone needs to be less of a shithead (because folks are no longer broadly homogenous), which makes everything a lot more bearable. The work is the same, but the people are better to each other. It's not that surprising everything ends up working better a year or two later.
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#8WARNING: article is only tangential related to teeth. I gave up skimming halfway through. There were a few mentions of the effects of jail and torture on teeth.
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I've often heard this claim touted - that people hired via DEI initiatives are incompetent or cannot do their job - do you have any statistics showing it? It always sounded to me like an "obvious conclusion" that was never proven, just assumed to be true, but I'm interested to see how the numbers play out, if any exist.
Well, president mentioned some time ago "pregnancy flight suits" for fighter jet pilots. I have no data how pregnancy and 10G are compatible. Also there are no physiological differences.
So I guess you are right!
Re: Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
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I've often heard this claim touted - that people hired via DEI initiatives are incompetent or cannot do their job - do you have any statistics showing it? It always sounded to me like an "obvious conclusion" that was never proven, just assumed to be true, but I'm interested to see how the numbers play out, if any exist.
> that people hired via DEI initiatives are incompetent or cannot do their job
I think this is a strawman. The argument would be that if you hire for diversity, you are no longer hiring for capability first (which is much harder to refute than the straw-man "all DEI hires are incompetent").
You could make an argument for DEI-hiring being possibly helpful against nepotism, though.
Personally, I think that DEI efforts (especially quota-driven hiring) just paper over underlying problems while being actively unethical on their own (discriminating against the majority, basically).