You folks got a game plan to deal with the charges of racism and discrimination you're bound to face once your academic competitions begin? Other people are playing other games...
These charges have never been a serious problem for the maths competitions I'm aware of (and I've been involved in both IMO and Putnam to an extent I would have likely heard). Blind grading makes any discrimination charges hard to pull off, and mathematicians are generally not easily swayed by "maths is Eurocentric"-type woo. The resistance is happening at a different place: admissions committees (for undergrads) and faculty committees (for grads) that downplay competitive success or outright hold it against the applicant. But given the secretive nature of these, it's hard to tell how often it is happening. My guess is: rarely at the really strong places, except maybe Harvard; ultimately, both admin and faculty want strong students.
Good for you mathy folks (should be a better term than "nerds" or "geeks"). Hope you can keep it that way. There's a storm coming. The drive for equality of results is building strength as the capabilities of the populace widens due to immigration, dysgenic reproduction (the very word scrubbed from spell-check!), and loss of standards everywhere.
You folks got a game plan to deal with the charges of racism and discrimination you're bound to face once your academic competitions begin? Other people are playing other games...
These charges have never been a serious problem for the maths competitions I'm aware of (and I've been involved in both IMO and Putnam to an extent I would have likely heard). Blind grading makes any discrimination charges hard to pull off, and mathematicians are generally not easily swayed by "maths is Eurocentric"-type woo. The resistance is happening at a different place: admissions committees (for undergrads) and faculty committees (for grads) that downplay competitive success or outright hold it against the applicant. But given the secretive nature of these, it's hard to tell how often it is happening. My guess is: rarely at the really strong places, except maybe Harvard; ultimately, both admin and faculty want strong students.
Good for you mathy folks (should be a better term than "nerds" or "geeks"). Hope you can keep it that way. There's a storm coming. The drive for equality of results is building strength as the capabilities of the populace widens due to immigration, dysgenic reproduction (the very word scrubbed from spell-check!), and loss of standards everywhere.