https://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/03/consider-reparations.html … @robinhanson argues for slavery reparations. This is a good and important post even if you aren't usually a Hanson fan.
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Any halfway sane person knows that black Americans have been wronged by slavery and subsequent rights violations (segregation & expropriation, especially of housing.) The question is, how should such wrongs be righted?
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US politics has overwhelmingly chosen to *compensate for disadvantages* rather than *reverse and pay for injustices.* Affirmative action instead of reparations.
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This pattern generalizes. The US went directly from banning unions to mandating them (roughly speaking) -- from an injustice unfavorable to union workers to an injustice favorable to them.
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People who oppose employer discrimination against women are far more likely to advocate quotas for female hires than blinded hiring. (Even though blinded hiring *does* dramatically increase the number of female hires in many cases!)
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Hey, I would like to advocate for blinded hiring at my work! Can you point me to evidence for the claim that it increases the number of female hires? How about other disadvantaged groups?
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http://gap.hks.harvard.edu/orchestrating-impartiality-impact-%E2%80%9Cblind%E2%80%9D-auditions-female-musicians … Classic example is blinded orchestra auditions.
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The evidence seems to be not as clear cut as initially presented https://medium.com/@jsmp/orchestrating-false-beliefs-about-gender-discrimination-a25a48e1d02 …. There is contrary evidence from this Australian study http://behaviouraleconomics.pmc.gov.au/projects/going-blind-see-more-clearly-unconscious-bias-australian-public-service-aps-shortlisting ….
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that's good to know! One thing that the linked piece didn't mention: the "relative female success" at auditions overall didn't increase since the 70's even though the proportion of women in orchestras increased dramatically. More women who were less qualified must have applied.
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