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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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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it's the reason people called James Flynn racist ina Guardian interview lol
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lots of do not make me tap the sign stuff latelypic.twitter.com/q8UB34Y90a
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