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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Actually no, the the upward trend in mortality is primarily a white people problem. Mid life mortality has significantly decreased for blacks and hispanics. http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/5FB2&#x2F
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If they compared like to like, inflation would be far lower. Comparing like to like directly asks the question "how much would it cost to live a 1970 lifestyle in 2017". As you conceded above, that would be pretty cheap.
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You might be right that reduced status for white males is causing them to suffer psychologically. They may also engage in harmful lifestyles that reduce their life expectancy. I'm sorry you feel that reduced status for white people is
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Inflation adjustment doesn't take into account costs that are prevalent in an era but totally absent in another: like internet access, cellphone bills, and such. I'm glad you've agreed with me that life has done nothing bu
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All the factors you cite mean the number I provided is an overestimate. If you have any evidence we work harder than before, cite it. Even so I'm sure they will be an increase in Joe Average's consumption, but is that because Joe
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Weekly working hours is per worker, and is overestimated, as you can find by reading the fine print on that page: "Average weekly hours relate to the average hours per worker for which pay was received and is different from standard or
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
There are plenty of jobs. People just refuse to do them. https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/robots_didnt_take_ou... Aren't Trump's anti-immigrant attitude considered bad in part because we might los
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Back in reality, working hours have no significant upward trend. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AWHNONAG https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M0829BUSM065NNBR https://fred.stlouisfed
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As for gay sex spreading AIDS I gotta burst your bubble but sharing needles among heroin addicts has a similar to GREATER transmission rate. Also, having sex unprotected whether it's homosexual or heterosexual produces exactly the sam
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The fact you want to dilute the impact of religious sectarianism shows your inherent dishonesty on these matters. Your previous goalpost was "asking people if they're a Catholic or not before transacting business." Moving t
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Colleges are secretive, so we need to make do with what little data the court forced them to reveal. I know of no data more current than this. Do you have any evidence things have changed?
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I don't recall Kansas folks trying to tell NY what to do about LGBT. That's the point I was making. Let's see how long before this country goes back to the days of the Thirty Years War where we're even asking people if
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
At Michigan - the one university where numbers were made explicit - being black is worth +1.0 on GPA, whereas underrepresented state is +0.1 and underrepresented county in Michigan is +0.3. https://www.cir-usa.org/Images&#x2
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Laws single out particular people based on preferences all the time, if you define "we won't subsidize/will penalize your choices" as "single out". Some people prefer to marry men, they can't get singled o
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
I'm aware that blue state folks often declare their pet issues to be secret constitutional rights hidden in the auras and penumbra's. I hope Trump appoints enough judges to do the same - I enjoy watching the intellectually dishone
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Warming happened. It didn't happen where it was initially predicted I'm glad we agree that the prediction was wrong. I guess ignore climate science since it made one bad prediction? (Note that I don't advocate this, but if
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Black people in Baltimore absolutely do occupy a privileged position. I wouldn't quite describe it as "direct America", but it's a fallacy to ignore it. We blame poor rural whites (correctly, in my view) for their behavi
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Since the signal was giant, I take it you made a lot of money by betting against it?
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Your first example is based on moral philosophy, not sociology. Your other two examples - as you note - are based on an explicit prediction. Now the question arises - are sociological predictions any good? You can't simultaneously clai
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Call it what you will - I know the word "hiatus" puts people in a tizzy - the predictions made in the 90's did not correspond to the graph of what actually happened. I have no idea how you would describe 2007-2008 as the most
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Yes, doing stuff in America costs more than in every other country in the world, including wealthy ones like Spain and Korea. That's the whole point. If you want better infrastructure, fix that.
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by yummyfajitas 10y ago
Devinhelton explicitly said that sociology made the wrong predictions about desegregation: "Many school reforms ideas (desegregation, ... But the theories were wrong, so the solutions did not work." I'm in favor of desegregat
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The better critique is that math requires homogenous data points. This critique is similarly wrong. There's a field called "machine learning" - you might have heard of it - which often uses inhomogeneous data points. So do
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I'm a policy maker. What do I do with a non-predictive result? Please give a concrete example.
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The fact that a field misses one prediction doesn't invalidate the entire field. Would you declare climate science invalid because it didn't predict the hiatus?
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Regardless of the mechanism, can you present some evidence that desegregation fixed the black/white education gap? As far as I know the gap still exists today, 50 years later, with only small changes over time, quite possibly due to ch
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This is probably a good idea. It's ridiculous that we coddle people who wastefully took out loans with the goal of improving human capital, and then failed to take advantage of them. Previously student loans were a socialized losses, p
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You seem to be claiming that the results of sociology cannot be predictive, only descriptive. If so, that makes sociology completely useless for policy. A field which cannot predict what will happen next time can't actually inform a po
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As a school reform idea, no. Putting blacks into the general vicinity of whites does not appear to cause them to have better educational outcomes. I don't find this too surprising, actually. It would be pretty strange if white people e
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If infrastructure cost the same as it costs in Spain, Korea, China or India, thos suburbs would be paying their costs. Delhi built a metro system for the cost of 2 miles of 2nd Ave Subway track in NYC. We spend too much. That's the pro

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