Causes of Crime

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by finnbow

It sounds similar because they are similar. Namely, too few qualified blacks are interested in being cops and too few American kids study electrical engineering/computer science. Look at the EE/CS class structure at America's engineering schools and you'll see a high percentage of Asians (which for whatever reason is not true in Civil, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering).

Maybe so but what about those of us who did have the skills and never made it past the HR department?

I also never could understand why girls are discouraged from taking computer science. Back at Bell we were 50/50 men and women and the ladies were damn good. Plus Bell had us all trained, people in their mid twenties to ones like me in their mid thirties. Of course I realize that companies here expect someone else to pick up the tab for training people. I will admit that in '63 computer programmers were rather thin on the ground.