 Realize I should probably comment a bit on the attitude I have towards education Some people here on YouTube over Twitter I've definitely pointed out that I seem rather Quick to anger on the subject and I that's that's not an inaccurate description of me. That's definitely true And since I'm figuring out what to Do about the whole using situation is but basically serves as something to get my mind up That and I sort of mess in here right now because Redoing the whole network. It's fun. I don't like networking Ran like 200 feet of ethernet cable not happy about it, but To cover the entirety of why I don't like school it They're gonna be a lot to that so this is gonna be broken up into multiple parts To make it, you know more easily digestible, but also Easier to upload the internet speeds here aren't great Working on it, but they're not great So it'd be better to upload this in chunks It makes it easier for me to edit it, but also because YouTube doesn't seem to get it It does sort of game their their stats It's always the thing when you do metrics you can you can gain anything Uh, granted, that's obviously not my intention. I've knowingly put out videos that Can be up for weeks and have less than 10 views and I'm okay with that By no means my intention to Deliverately game stuff because then you'd see me do You know regular regular call-out pieces stuff like that. I I'll call out somebody who directly criticizes me But I'm not gonna do random call-out videos or anything like that You know, I can cover scientific literature by covering the actual literature and not by like Calling out somebody who's wrong about it stuff like that but Yeah, I guess Sorry for the introduction to college. I won't If I get into anything from high school specifically it'll be after but Getting it get into the college stuff When I first went off it was to get a psychology degree At the time I thought psychology was a brilliant field Find people very interesting. I've always found people very interesting and I think that might have to do a little bit with Sort of came up in the window. It's filling out the stack overflow survey. I Am on the autism spectrum fairly fairly high up a bit of more than just aspergers would be But not full-blown it is still fairly high functioning, but People can pick up on it for a bit. I can still hold out in a conversation and stuff, but there's Things people definitely pick up on tendencies to walk away mid conversation a lot of trouble making eye contact although I Literally just view that as a just a Or predators Well, I like to think about it that way, but The single biggest indicator of that is our eyes are in the front of her face not facing off to the side that's the Predators Physiology is like my dog here's a great example Eyes are oriented the same way as ours. I can dig up research for that if anybody's interested But that's been shown Predators eyes are reliably from facing So I'll disagree with that one totally over the day I died but There's other there's plenty of other things and I think it's sort of this back Back looking back. I think it was sort of this backwards approach to to try to get better because I definitely Not not good at that by any means Eventually figured out how to deal with things rather than Well, I get when people bring up things like that as a way Some bullshit claim that people should make special accommodations for them I'll go into more depth about that in another time, but Yeah, so psychology My grades at a high school were meh that I didn't really like to do the homework Fucking hate homework actually My test grades were great though and they were high enough that it was able to get into the Not only an advanced placement in college because they don't really have that but sort of like a Specialized fast-track thing Essentially if I stayed with the program I would complete the degree within three years rather than four years Sort of like these opt-out tests things To speed through it a bit quicker. That's cool Sort of glad it That that happened because I got to see a bit of the realities of things quicker You know ultimately waste less money than Had I learned a bit slower, you know actually I'm gonna cover some of the more not not the specifics of school itself yet. I'll wait I'll wait for the follow-up to this what I want Why I definitely want to cover at least right now Some of the attitudes that were held about different parts of who I am and what I've done and what skills I had That I have only ever encountered in school In college specifically the things that I have hadn't encountered in Elementary or high middle school or high school things that I've never encountered in the workplace and And Yeah, really anywhere else this is attitudes That I'd only encountered in college that I would think these people should know better supposed to be people of reason and Critical thinking not Not the kind of shit that I Witness, that's the question that is which do I want to do first? Now this is overwhelming a programming channel, so just get that one out of the way real quick Attitude towards somebody who programs like what the frickin do same it as Anybody who's interested in biology or anything else like you did just another student like that's your field. That's okay Literally nothing to comment on there When people would find out I so that was one of the that was one of the starts of things being interesting Quite interesting So the other students the ones who didn't stick around the ones who left not because the grades were bad Or anything like that, but just because they clearly wanted to pursue different avenues in life They were totally fine of it Like cool good. That's you know nice to see that you know how to do something for yourself That was the end of it That's it Which I'm totally okay with I don't want to be glorified for it or anything It's literally just a skill. It's something. I know how it happened to know how to do Also know how to happen and know how to cut wood didn't Fix some basic stuff with my car. I'm not great with cars some basic stuff It's just skill don't make it something it's not at least people did That quickly got turned into how Uh, it definitely meant that I was gay Which I'm not I've never even been remotely sexually attracted to a man I have no problem with people who do my best friend in college was bisexual guy who Overwhelmingly preferred dudes. I have no problem with that. Just like any buddy specific fetish What you're into genital wise is just what you're into You can't really have a discussion about that Because it's It's the same kind of thing with like what what you think taste good. That's just what you like That's the end of it but I was weird thing with a lot of them where The fact that I so Met I must be gay I mean it is bizarre thinking and Essentially a sort of Stereotyping going on There's the the stereotype usually goes that gay person probably very into fashion So there's a good chance you could see she's would so the thinking here is sort of the opposite, but It still definitely fits with the stereotype for that because so is he's probably into fashion It's probably gay. Meanwhile. I Dressed like trailer trash most of the time. I have no problem admitting that Dress up for work or whatever, but overwhelming majority of the time. I'm dressed like I am now I have no problem going out in public like this like this And a crap ton of ties right back there, but Now I dress most of the time. I'm not into fashion Not But I got more bizarre than that and If I would try to explain that like I'm not Gay, why are you why are you coming to this conclusion? It would quickly turn into one of two things Either I was in denial about it And that society had You know just enforced down on me that being gay was bad and that I was just in denial about how I was gay like what What what line of Justification do you have for something that like like that? It seems completely absurd meanwhile Every gay person or bisexual person I have ever met up to that point Had not even remotely fit the stereotype of the gay guy Not a single one of them knew how to sew A single one of them was very into fashion or Uh, you know had great interior design skills or any of the other bullshit that's claimed Older now and uh, let's just say Stereotypes exist for a reason but do keep in mind They're not super reliable Okay, like A lot of embellishments and other shit people do to them The other thing the other thing I would say when I Uh Would ask them why why they were coming to that kind of conclusion or the trying to assert that I'm not Gay what the hell are you talking about? um It would go off on me on how I was uh Homophobic or Things like that which I literally could not care less I care about somebody's sexual orientation as much as I care about their their Uh Culinary preferences because as far as I'm concerned, it's the same thing Give a shit. I don't want anybody to give a shit about my preferences either Just what I like the idea that Me Sewing and being straight makes me homophobic I thought these were supposed to be critical thinkers people who highly valued Evidence and the scientific method the analytical method different approaches to determining The likelihood of something being factual they got my ideas on on this and uh I'm ultimately not certain. I'll flat out say that I am not certain about exactly what what what the hell was going on there, but um I think I was witnessing the start of What we now basically know as the uh social justice warrior movement like I said, I I don't have any hardcore concrete proof of that that's Literally just my feeling Uh regardless the The definite thing That I didn't think like these people At least in regard to that Well, this kind of stuff didn't didn't stop there the other Uh blatant case of stereotyping that I would see um I'm from a very rural area um I I Even though it's very small and it would be easy to find me. I really don't have any problem with people knowing where I'm from um partially because In all reality, I don't really expect anything to happen uh partially because I am in such a rural area that What the hell is really going to travel out here anyways? and partially because uh I live where there stand your ground laws and I also live where there's a few rather large animals and I've Bought and off a few of those because I'm a avid hiker and these kinds of things have to wind up happening I'm a lot more afraid of Say a bobcat or an angry black bear That doesn't happen very often to be fair, but the A lot more afraid of those than I am of some Pissed off person for whatever fucking reason, you know um but Um from a really real rural area and when they would learn about this the immediate assumptions Assumptions so we're going to cover a few of these Was that I absolutely must be of lower intelligence um Something I see in movies a lot as well and I really don't like watching movies for that reason The best business school in the country By most metrics Clarkson university is not too far from here and I actually worked there Not employed by them, but uh worked at the facility like still staff card and everything just not they weren't my employer um So they're they're close for me to have been working there. They're close and uh Yeah Are also a great engineering school It's not one of the big names because it is a smaller school, but St. Lawrence university is another big name in colleges in this country and They're not far from here either in fact St. Lawrence university is one town over from where Clarkson university is located Similarly, and I I've tried to dig up research through this um You know widely online's library uh google scholar semantic scholar Plenty of other of other uh either databases or search tools or research I've tried to find evidence and maybe somebody has it but on any type of even if it just correlation any type of uh data on intelligence levels and uh region of habitat And it doesn't seem to be anything which is unsurprising this should sound like an obviously Uh prejudicial attitude to have that somebody who lives in a specific area that would be a lesson a lesson or intelligence something you would at least I thought going in there that that collegiate pound people should know better But they were the only ones I've ever encountered in my life that were like that Well them and for that specific thing the lesser intelligence thing them and uh Hollywood because that must be pretty lawless Uh pretty reckless Sort of fuck the police attitude similar similar stuff like that um This is something that's going to vary immensely because it's largely a political view But the attitude around here uh for the most part again not entirely Tons of different attitudes Tons of different attitudes, but around here the attitude is generally just that Police aren't always necessary It's better to have them But there's a lot of things that people can handle better themselves Bring the police in when it's a bigger problem That should sound okay to most people Should also not sound like total lawlessness to most people another college around here that uh Quite a lot of criminal justice people come out of they'll then go move throughout the entire country A lot of them are border patrol, but There's cops and the like as well Uh like a disproportionate amount way more um Per capita than you would expect way more per capita than the the national average Hardly what I would consider lawless To go on with that And this is again something I can gather stats for if anybody really wants to see it Because I don't have the stats right in front of me. I'm gonna refrain from giving an exact number, but the uh the crime rate In this area so that is it's usually measured Uh the amount of crime per thousand people In an area The crime rate Here is considerably lower than the national average again something that would contribute something that definitely is not anti-law and um So this wound up being yet another thing that I had looked into and um This was something that The more I looked into it the more I realized that uh It tends to be cities that have the bigger crime problem And of course the immediate cop out to that was At all while there's more people in cities. So of course there's going to be more crime in cities But that's not the same thing as the crime rate being higher As remember we're talking about the instance of a crime per a thousand people So if you have say one murder in a town of thousand people every year That's one in a thousand if you have ten murders In a town of ten thousand people every year That's still a rate of one in a thousand You have a hundred murders In a town of a hundred thousand people That's still a rate of a hundred one in a thousand This continues on For the rate to be higher That means instead of the hundred murders in a town of a hundred thousand people You might be looking at something like a hundred and fifty murders in a town of a hundred thousand people If you then scale that back down to the lower population You're now looking at 15 murders in a town of One thousand sorry ten fifteen murders in a town of ten thousand people Or one and a half murders per year so one one year and two the other year In a town of one thousand people An increase in rate Cannot just be dismissed away by a larger population count Those stats can easily be gotten from the Department of Justice the United States Department of Justice Or any of the specific states departments of justices They will not necessarily be That way across the board It's going to depend on a lot of specific factors The federal ones at least the last time I've checked which was 2015 Were that way But also it wasn't very strongly that way I'd be curious to see the actual Calculation of statistical significance and see how Whether it was even within statistical significance or if it wasn't how Or sorry If it was statistical significant and if if it was how How much it was Um another thing Was when the whole oh, you must be a racist card got pulled Literally not nothing about me nothing about my beliefs or anything else like that just Immediately you're from a rural area. You must be a racist I was always fun to defend and I will quickly learn not to because any attempt at trying To even ask how They had come to that conclusion let alone defend against it Was just dismissed as oh all small towns are racists No source No anything else just All small towns must be racist Now I'd ultimately went to two different colleges and it was bizarre when in one of them It was a small town and the professors were saying this I don't know if they Like lived in the area, but never socialized with the people of the area, but this claim was Insane does racism happen. Yeah everywhere. It's unfortunate But if you're going to make a claim like that that small towns are racist you better You better have some evidence to back that up That some something government statistics peer reviewed research something To back up That small towns on average I'll even accept a minor little amount say 51 percent to 49 percent to back up That that's the case I'm not going to make the claim that say big cities are Overrun with Then all hipsters Because I have no evidence for something like that Are there more hipsters in cities than in the countryside? Yeah, probably but I don't know I have no idea That's just a guess and guesses are wrong a lot of the time And I think that's all they whatever wind up doing is guessing but so sure of themselves that They weren't willing to question their own beliefs And weren't willing to defend them to other people Another one that was really irritating Is that we must be anti science or must be anti evidence And the single Biggest thing that was brought up in regards to that is we must be Anti global warming or anti climate change Yeah, because the people who are literally living amongst nature are going to be anti environment That makes perfect fucking sense perfect sense Flawless logic and I think that's basically an extension of the country people must be idiots With an intermixing of political views But that's just my guess I don't know what they're thinking. I've literally never been able to even come Close to a satisfactory answer for why any of this has happened. Ah, here was a definitely a good one This was something that I would only encounter in The social science social sciences Uh, really not keen on calling them sciences Uh, that doesn't mean they're not evidence-based practices. Okay. I want to be clear about that I will not call engineering a science either Because engineering proper engineering follows a different method of determining its evidence Because it is different in nature And engineers more concerned with say comparing which Different approaches are going to be most satisfactory for a given outcome Whereas scientists are more concerned with why a given outcome occurs Those different things to determine involve a different process So in no way am I bashing the social sciences social sciences By doing the whole sarcastic air quote about the sciences I'm not saying they're not evidence-based practices. Just that I'm not willing to call them sciences It's in the same way that I'm there's total plenty of things they get called engineering that I'm not okay with being called engineering That doesn't validate them. That just means it's not really the right term for it Okay but I would see this all too often in the social sciences the narrative I won't even say the narrative because it wasn't just one but narratives about the american aborigines the american indians the Native americans whatever you want to call them Really, there's no good name for them because there's tons of different tribes And those tribes Really barely had any good common descendant to use on like But the the claim Out of these people It was basically that there was this large-scale harmony And that everything was wonderful until the white man came And any attempt to question that meant you were racist Where I live is literally one town over from the ganja ke haga reservation of aquasasne the mohawks Their name for themselves is ganja ke haga, but you'd never hear that in college. It was always the mohawks Just like it was always the Iroquois not the Haudenosaunee among these people. Mind you, most of them have assimilated the word as Sort of own it and it doesn't become racist anymore, but The exact origins of Iroquois are slightly debated the two two of the more common theories about the origins of the word are either from a french slur or an algonquin slur Either way, it's it's a slur And it's not the best way to refer to these people definitely not a respectful way to refer to these people Now i'm not about to get all social justice warrior on the professor's asses Hopefully they didn't know better I'm not gonna freak out, you know, maybe I wind up writing a paper just all use Haudenosaunee and ganja ke haga throughout the entire thing, but You know, I grew up around these people to the extent that I was actually adopted into a ganja ke haga family My grandpa is one of the few people An estimated like 2100 of them remaining that can actually speak the language fluently Use mohawk and Iroquois all the time. So i'm definitely not going to get butthurt about it Especially not on their behalf if they're not going to get butthurt about it I have no business getting butthurt about it But it was just sort of interesting noticing that But now back to what I was saying they If you dared question that narrative at all You were racist Because everything was fine and dandy until the white people came along Paying almost no attention to the large-scale clashes that occurred between them You may have Put two and two together when I mentioned the possibility of Iroquois being an Algonquin slur The various Haudenosaunee tribes and the Algonquin tribes Really did not get along together And you saw that manifest with the Seven Years War over here Mostly known as the French and Indian War The French with the Algonquin Versus Some of the Americans with the Haudenosaunee And it's it's much more than that but unlike these people. I'm not willing to comment on the Interactions and Political issues between other tribes that I really would know nothing about Not appropriately in any way But it didn't stop there No a I Wound up going to the call this the the first college I went to when I first encountered this I wound up going with One of my classmates Who was Ganyaka Haga Mohawk And I watched her get called a racist for challenging this belief And it's absurd It's obviously absurd because if you break it down to simple form you have a white professor Telling a Ganyaka Haga girl That she is a white supremacist For trying to explain that her people Did not get along with others this fucking retarded fucking retarded Uh finish this up I guess next time Oh Get into You know to reiterate on how I was Originally getting into psychology and talk about my journey through that and one I Shifted away from that why I shifted away from that I think for the most part we've covered enough of the Prejudices that I encountered there that I never encountered anywhere else Um That's not it for the social stuff that I'll do another one on some uh a different aspect of the social stuff, but this one um We've basically covered the different prejudices I experienced there that Totally totally um