I mean, they all do in hindsight, but in the moment of decision, Dolmetsch was a teenager during a surge of Colombian refugees and his only qualification was being admitted to a U.S. college. I picked him because he was topical, but I could just as easily have googled "scientists with blue-collar immigrant parents" like I did just now, and used someone like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_M._Hern%C3%A1ndez who was a Mexican migrant laborer before developing an innovative mammography tool and then going into space.
...it's not cherry-picking when the conversation is about outliers, it's an existence proof. You're here from an ACX comment thread about a specific negative outlier picked for its outlier qualities.
My post contains one (1) example of an immigrant who has made a recent positive contribution in the U.S. Since I foolishly picked one who does not have all possible immigrant backstories in quantum superposition, you can point to any number of categories of people who do not appear in the post.
Love this one so much. So beautiful.
Yes to all of this, yes. I am a bit to verklempt from reading it to write more, but thank you.
I mean, they all do in hindsight, but in the moment of decision, Dolmetsch was a teenager during a surge of Colombian refugees and his only qualification was being admitted to a U.S. college. I picked him because he was topical, but I could just as easily have googled "scientists with blue-collar immigrant parents" like I did just now, and used someone like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_M._Hern%C3%A1ndez who was a Mexican migrant laborer before developing an innovative mammography tool and then going into space.
...it's not cherry-picking when the conversation is about outliers, it's an existence proof. You're here from an ACX comment thread about a specific negative outlier picked for its outlier qualities.
My post contains one (1) example of an immigrant who has made a recent positive contribution in the U.S. Since I foolishly picked one who does not have all possible immigrant backstories in quantum superposition, you can point to any number of categories of people who do not appear in the post.