EconTech

Not a whole lot of new information here, just kind of put together. Also, someone else (Bartels, Krugman has done it before) is pointing out the very obvious point that Republicans win due to the Dixiecrat conversion to Republicans. Yes, that means race is still driving national politics at the margin, by middle and upper [...]

That is, we handle it rather terribly. Perhaps worm-like would be better. Just because Obama is running, and doing well, does not mean race is no longer an issue (yes, I’ve heard this said multiple times). IATs still reveal 70-90% bias rates among Caucasian Americans. More uplifting news from science blogs:
Americans still linking blacks to [...]

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Yes, more on this. To a large extent, I agree with the sentiments here. This is part of what I find so appealing about Rawlsian Justice and Rawlsian social welfare functions. The naive libertarian notion (that is, there are libertarians with more sophisticated views than this, but they are small enough in number to ascribe [...]

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Re: discussion with someone yesterday. Of course, this is the kind of thing that gets filed under ‘duh’ ex-post by most (non-racist) people. This may be the best of all possible worlds in terms of testing intelligence outcomes pre-environmental effects. However, intelligence is still a fuzzy word, and for me to accept the research (one [...]

Last Thursday there was a huge march in Jena, La., to protest the harsh and unequal treatment of six black students arrested in the beating of a white classmate. Students who hung nooses to warn blacks not to sit under a “white” tree were suspended for three days; on the other hand, the students accused [...]

Here is the abstract from the new Roland Fryer and Steve Levitt paper:The Ku Klux Klan reached its heyday in the mid-1920s, claiming millions of members. In this paper, we analyze the 1920s Klan, those who joined it, and the…
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