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Didn't Steve Levitt prove this wrong?
by bmmayer1 13y ago
Didn't Steve Levitt prove this wrong?
- npc 13y agoI don't know, did he? Here's some more if that didn't convince you (courtesy of Tim Wise: http://www.timwise.org/2010/07/black-powers-gonna-git-you-sucka-right-wing-paranoia-and-the-rhetoric-of-modern-racism/ http://www.timwise.org/2010/07/black-powers-gonna-git-you-su...) http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/race_at_work.pdf http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/race_at_work.pdf http://www.eeo1.com/1999_NR/Title.pdf http://www.eeo1.com/1999_NR/Title.pdf http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/01race.html?_r=2 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/01race.html?_r=2
- coldtea 13y agoIf you are an economist (a field is already more an ideology / spin machine than science -- the science part in it is basically math), and you are more into entertainment (e.g making the NYT best selling list of shallow books) than science, then you can "prove" a lot of things, without actually proving anything. Start with a few unexamined wrong assumptions, select the data that fit your conclusion, dress them up with anecdotes and prose, and there you go!