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What, specifically, do you disagree with or want a study for? The claim that race-blind procedures generate identical incentives for identical black/asian stud
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
What, specifically, do you disagree with or want a study for?
The claim that race-blind procedures generate identical incentives for identical black/asian students? That's not a study, it's a 2 line proof that could go on any econ 101 midterm.
If outcome(x.copy(race=asian))=outcome(x.copy(race=black)) for all x, then U(outcome(x.copy(race=asian)))=U(outcome(x.copy(race=black))) for any utility function U, thus marginal utilities (i.e. incentives) must also be identical.
Similarly, I'd be unable to come up with a study proving that d/dx x^2 = 2x. I guess you'd disagree with that claim too?
- Retra 11y agoFirst, drop the bad attitude. I already know calculus, so obviously I won't disagree with what I already know. But this: > If the message sent is "we let anyone qualified in without even looking at who you are", that provides incentives for anyone to acquire education. and this: > Given that Asians can't get accepted because of their race, yet keep trying I don't know to be true. So yeah, you'd need to prove them to me before I agree to them.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoI gave you the proof of the former in the message you just replied to. It's not a citation, it's merely two lines of econ 101 math. I'm not going to bother googling for the latter, since I'm sure that will be ignored as well.
- Retra 11y agoYour equation doesn't actually capture human behavior, you know.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoWe aren't talking behavior, we are talking incentive. If you want to argue that different races behave differently in response to the same incentives, be my guest.