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Chetty is regressing against the wrong thing, which is pretty typical for economists, who mostly seem to be political ideologues armed with least squares fittin
by scottlocklin 7y ago
Chetty is regressing against the wrong thing, which is pretty typical for economists, who mostly seem to be political ideologues armed with least squares fitting and dumb models.
He's basically suggesting school busing on a societal level, and we all know how well that turned out.
- sfkdjf9j3j 7y agoWhat do you mean by, "we all know how that turned out"?
- HarryHirsch 7y agoWikipedia has an article on busing in Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_desegregation_busing_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_desegregation_busing_cr... It was a boon for politicians on either side. The right could say "look, it isn't working", and the left could say "we tried".
- selimthegrim 7y agoHow this article got past the editors without mentioning “all deliberate speed...” or anything about Swann is beyond me