Saturday, April 3, 2021

toa rewind - the toa asian supremacy test (march 2019)

I was rereading this post from two years ago, in which I posed a quiz question - how many great American leaders can you name in one minute? Actually, we can just try it again now, right?

OK... start!

(Waiting...)

(... a little longer...)

(...time!)

Of course, the real quiz starts now - did your list align to this country's racial and gender demographics? I didn't say it two years ago, but I'll say it now - I bet you named a lot of white men.

The smug conclusion obscures an important nuance - the test in reverse may have led to the same result. In fact, the proportion of white men on the list of America's worst leaders might be higher than the proportion of them on the list of great leaders. I don't know what to make of this presumed fact, but I'll try - if it's true that you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, then I suppose it means those who never miss aren't getting any shots.