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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Heckman's thing is basically emphasising the importance of what you might call moral development (contra two other major narratives about causes of outcome differentials, IQ and oppression) in some ways this is the most appealing story one could tell
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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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programs that enable said mothers to more fully realize their mothering potential presumably? eg anti-poverty, childcare, healthcare & family planning... there will be the usual back & forth about dependency traps but i don't think this framing implies eigenpoll-style solutions
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iirc those often worked badly in the old days although such were before my time see welfare reform (1994?), status pre/post
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Replying to @eigenrobot @BellaRudd1
So the thing about the Great Society programs/Welfare-to-Workfare is that by absolute awful timing they neatly matched up with the disaster of lead-related-brain-damage. Be neat to see how similar programs worked w/o that. San Francisco’s Abundant Birth Project is one to watch
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