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Yes. I'd wager Jewish infants adopted into a random family would perform better than black infants adopted into the same family, in a controlled study.
by a3voices 12y ago
Yes. I'd wager Jewish infants adopted into a random family would perform better than black infants adopted into the same family, in a controlled study.
- ekm2 12y agoYou cannot draw a conclusion to an experiment you are yet to perform.At the very least, it does not count as scientific.
- a3voices 12y agoYes you can, it's called prediction.
- ekm2 12y agoIt looks more like a prophecy.
- danieltillett 12y agoThis experiment has already been performed. The results are complex and controversial.
- lake99 12y agoYou're probably right, but for the wrong reasons. Racism leads to positive and negative expectations [1]. And do explain how you'd control for expectations based on race in your study. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect