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There is no end of examples. The first that comes to mind is the “Dear Colleague” letter around Title IX that drove colleges to replace evidence-based adjudicat
by frumplestlatz 1y ago
There is no end of examples. The first that comes to mind is the “Dear Colleague” letter around Title IX that drove colleges to replace evidence-based adjudication with deference to subjective claims and gutted due process on college campuses for over a decade.
Another is the push to eliminate standardized testing from admissions.
Or the “de-incarceration” efforts that reduce or remove jail time for extremely serious crimes.
- spankalee 1y agoWhat do any of those things have to do with empathy?
- frumplestlatz 1y agoAll three replaced impartial rules with empathy-driven bias.
- blackqueeriroh 1y agoWAIT. Do you know why de-incarceration is a program? Do you have any idea? It’s because the evidence says overwhelmingly that incarceration is a substandard way to induce behavior change, and that removing people from incarceration and providing them with supportive skills training has a much, much higher rate of reducing recidivism and decreasing violence.
- frumplestlatz 1y agoThe evidence does not overwhelmingly say that. Empathy-biased thinking says that.