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Can you share your statistics? Author claims there is data to prove his point but doesn’t include it either.
All the statistics. Maybe start by googling the replication crisis.
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All the statistics. Maybe start by googling the replication crisis.
Yes I’m familiar. The inability to replicate findings. With faulty data, tests, experiments I’m especially skeptical of most of the BS posted on blogs. Excuse me for not trusting “all the statistics”
The thing is, it's pretty easy to back claims that racism happens in the small, because it's true.
But "systemic racism" is a different claim than that.
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Yes I’m familiar. The inability to replicate findings. With faulty data, tests, experiments I’m especially skeptical of most of the BS posted on blogs. Excuse me for not trusting “all the statistics”
Well, there is a ton of statistics. If any of it showed clear signs of systemic racism, you could just post it and say, here it is! Usually it gets debunked -- weak-ass research that doesn't replicate being one category -- those addressed by controlling for some obvious variables another. The thing is, it's pretty easy to back claims that racism happens in the small, because it's true. But "systemic racism" is a diff…
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> So many of these articles are a single person who succeeds and as a result declares racism must not exist. That is not the evidence the author is submitting. His argument rests on the fact that Cuban immigrants outperform Mexican immigrants in many metrics, which thus disproves the racial discrimination hypothesis. He likewise cites the dramatically different performance of Ghanaian immigrants versus African Americ…
What I don’t understand about the whole cultural piece is the selection bias. My understanding is that the Cubans that came here had different circumstances, different opportunity and different resources (they came because they were successful). Otherwise are we just saying that Mexicans are lazy compared to Cubans and that is just culture? Or African Americans aren’t as hardworking as Ghanaians and that stereotype i…
Yes, I think that is the author’s point. The values and habits of the Cubans who fled Cuba and Ghanaians who left Ghana are ones which lend to successful lives. These values and habits, such as placing importance on higher education and academic achievement, are partly what culture consists of.
The alternative hypothesis, if one rejects the notion of value and habit transfer, is to claim that intelligence is genetically transmitted. That opens a very ugly can of worms and to my (limited) knowledge is unsupported by scientific evidence.
In either case though, I think it is clear that the Cuban and Ghanaian example precludes the possibility of racial discrimination.
It seems to me this has deep implications about effective and ineffective policies to raise the living standards of Mexican immigrants and African Americans. If we fail to address the root cause (poor cultural practices vs racial discrimination), the problem won’t get fixed.