Model Minority and the Will Rogers Paradox

Will Rogers joked that “when the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence in both states”.

The Will Rogers Paradox occurs when a group (G) with a certain characteristic moves from one population (A) to another (B).

Assume that characteristic has a range score (say, from 1 to 10).

Assume that members of the group (G) have a characteristic score of 5.

Members of population A, exclusive of G, each have characteristic scores of 7.  The total in population A, including G, is 10, and the number in G is 5.
Members of population B, numbering 10, each have characteristic scores of 3.

The average characteristic score for population A (including G) is [(7x5 + 5x5)/10] 6.
The average characteristic score for population B (without G) is [3x10/10] 3.

When G leaves population A, the average characteristic score for A [7x5/5] 7.
When G joins population B, the average characteristic score of B is then [(10x3 + 5x5)/15] 3.66....

Thus, the average characteristic scores of both A and B increase when G migrates to B.

This is, of course, insulting to both groups B and G.  But it does give a reason for migration.

Humans

Society is comprised both individuals and organizations of individuals.

People have learned that it is sometimes better if people work cooperatively to achieve a goal rather than if people seek to achieve that goal through their idiosyncratic methods -- because people have found that by working toward a goal as isolated individuals, people often find that they are working at cross purposes to the detriment of their common goal.

People must be taught to work cooperatively because they start life necessarily focusing on and pursing their own individual needs in order to survive.

Part of maturing is learning to accommodate the needs, wants, opinions of others into something that is collectively satisfying to all the members of the group.

Humans have evolved as social animals and so the ability to accommodate is part of that evolution.  But the ability to accommodate leaves open the possibility that  accommodation can be one-sided.

This possibility of one-sided accommodation is further enabled because humans are to some extent hierarchical.  Thus, an aspect or sign of rising in the hierarchy is the number of people who are willing to accommodate the person seeking status in the hierarchy.

One can gain compliance by intimidation or fear, persuasion or seduction, promises to fulfill the other's desires or solve their problems.


Neo-Liberalism is the philosophy with an ethical standard that holds that:
1.   Greed is good.
2.   The individual is the only standard by which to judge the good.
3.   That the needs and wants of an individual have precedence over the needs and wants of all other individuals.
4.   That compromise to achieve equity among all parties is evil.
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Was he lying again? The Pee Tape and Covid19

In his defense on the impossibility of the "pee tape" -- Trump and two Russian prostitutes engaging in a ritual wherein the two prostitutes urinate on the bed the President Obama slept on when he visited Russia -- Trump claimed that that couldn't have happened because he is a "germophobe".

If he is a "germophobe", then why has his statements and behavior been so dismissive of the dangers of covid19?  He talks (talked) as though the virus is easily dealt with, and he shakes hands and closely mingles with his cronies and (wealthy) supporters.  Is this the behavior of someone who is afraid of germs?

He now seems to be taking the pandemic a little more seriously, but his statements to that effect sound scripted and lacking in any real conviction -- real compassion and concern for others, as an actor, are not his strong suit.