I am in the group which sees a college degree as really only important for certain technical jobs: engineer, architect, scientist, medical doctor, chemist, physicist, CPA, finance, etc.
All of those things require a LOT of mathematical fluency. And I have a hard time coming up with any technical degrees, at all, that don't require a LOT of mathematical fluency. (Care to suggest a few? Maybe lawyer, which requires VERY high English fluency...which is obviously "racist"...although just try and to be a great lawyer without it! And, FWIW, very high language fluency, such as required to be a great lawyer, is actually a good proxy for innate mathematical ability. Math is a LANGUAGE, after all.)
And, yes, I think ability to master high mathematical fluency is BOTH essential to human-kind continuing to have a decent future AND as a general test of intelligence. If someone wants to argue that current college admission tests are too culturally biased, then I say simply replace them with a test of advanced mathematical reasoning. Although I'm not sure many of the complainants would appreciate THAT change! ;-)
That would pretty much rule out all the WOKE, I expect. (Although no doubt there are a few of the top deluded who could pass, I expect if would be very, very, very few).
BTW, Why am I going on .. and on about this topic? Because we are NOT SUPPOSED to think about it, much less talk about it. Very few things strike so directly to the heart of Wokism/Marxism, and cut right through the BS and its hold on humanities' soul, then questioning how intelligence and hard work ethic are somehow "racist". We are supposed to shut up and swallow the narrative; that makes it imperative that real humans do the opposite. It is kind of pathetic how slaves-at-heart will fight to regain their chains!
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