just listened to a podcast where glenn loury interviews james heckman (!!!) about racial economic outcome differences
specifically around iq vs (other things)
if you're a patron I'd recommend listening, else wait until it drops on @bloggingheads in a few days
got me thinking
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african americans aren't doing badly because there are systematic and invariant differences in ability, and white people dont hate them in any way that matters what a nice story!
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i will not be discussing the relative merits of these stories and will take a moment to point at my pinned tweethttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/967114911401652225?s=19 …
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what dawned on me fairly quickly as Heckman went along was that in fact this is at Least as dark as the other stories and possibly moreso
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the first issue is probably well covered but it runs roughly "well what you're more or less saying is that black people are terrible parents and communities, utterly failing to raise their children" good luck with that implicit messaging
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the second is that all of the policy solutions are unspeakably horrifying Heckman goes on and on about how valuable a good mother is to a child, how this work is underappreciated lets suppose this is true what do you suggest we do? find new, better mothers for black kids?
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very quickly this seems to run into horrific state interventions and speaking of that let me point you to the track record of the state on surrogate childrearinghttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1328922229438959616?s=19 …
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anyway i ended up less optimistic about solving achievement gaps than i was when I started
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Isn't this just the culture explanation? They're missing a culture that can instill virtue and good habits etc
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inequalities based on iq which is based on internal rigor which is based on internal morals which are based on genetics rearrange these to your liking, anything goes
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