{"id":73,"date":"2010-02-16T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-02T00:06:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:06:07","slug":"kevin-rudd-is-an-ignorant-yokel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Rudd is an Ignorant Yokel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From a thread<\/a> at the excellent phdcomics phorum<\/a> where I frequently lurk and occasionally post, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said something awe-inspiringly ignorant<\/a> about reproduction and higher ed.
\nIt’s simultaneously comforting and distressing to know that the US isn’t alone in having ignorant yokels running things. <\/p>\n

From the article, narrator is female:<\/p>\n

\nAt that point one of my friends introduced me, dropping in that I am completing a PhD. At this, [Australian Prime Minister Kevin] Rudd rolled his eyes and in a terse voice lacking any sense of irony remarked that is the “excuse” that “all” young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why is this an incredibly ignorant thing to say? Let us count the ways…
\n1. There are well established positive correlations<\/a> between parent’s education level and almost every indicator of success for children. (and a corresponding inverse correlation<\/a> between education level an fertility…the “only stupid people are breeding” argument.)
\n2. I don’t know the numbers from Australia, but in the US 5.587% of the population over 15 has a Master’s degree, and 1.066% has a PhD, around 60% and 40% female respectively. (src<\/a>, pdf) — “all” the young women? really?
\n3. There are too damn many of us<\/a> anyway.
\n4. What the hell would posses someone to say that? Really? Is it the 1930s? <\/p>\n

In a totally unrelated matter, one<\/a> of the three people sharing the Nobel Prize in Medicine last year was a female Aussie PhD…<\/p>\n

This is not to say the US is doing any better on looking bad right now. We have this shit<\/a>, where a bunch of assholes are trying to pull an Intelligent Design (nomenclature swap to hide the fact they don’t have a leg to stand on) to shove their religious bullshit into the social sciences curriculum. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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