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> Desegregation didn't work? > As a school reform idea, no. This is a really strange conversation. Imagine the following conversation: "Ending slavery didn't
by cynicalkane 10y ago
> Desegregation didn't work?
> As a school reform idea, no.
This is a really strange conversation. Imagine the following conversation: "Ending slavery didn't work?" "As an anti-poverty program, no." So that's technically correct, but one has to be conscious of the implied assumptions about what matters.
- yummyfajitas 10y agoDevinhelton explicitly said that sociology made the wrong predictions about desegregation: "Many school reforms ideas (desegregation, ... But the theories were wrong, so the solutions did not work." I'm in favor of desegregation on capitalist grounds. I think it's unjust to legally force me to discriminate if I don't want to. In much the same way, I think it's unjust to force me to use yellow cabs rather than Uber, or prevent me from purchasing services from an unlicensed barber. If a theory predicts X, and X doesn't occur, that shows the theory to be wrong. The theory should be discarded even if it supports policies I otherwise favor. That's true even if the predictions are on something that's unimportant. Similarly, if I build a stock market prediction model, and it makes me money but incorrectly predicts how I make money, I'm probably switching it off. The reason is that it is clearly wrong, and will likely lose me money next time.