Unfortunately, it seems to me that most of the information that "race" provides is screened off by various things that are only weakly correlated with race,
Which are generally much harder to observe.
For example, "X is a college graduate, and is black" doesn't tell you all that much more than "X is a college graduate"
Um, Affirmative Action. Also tail ends of distributions.
Um, Affirmative Action. Also tail ends of distributions.
I was under the impression that AA applied to college admissions, and that college graduation is still entirely contingent on one's performance. (Though I've heard tell that legacy students both get an AA-sized bump to admissions and tend to be graded on a much less harsh scale.)
Additionally, it seems that there's a lot of 'different justification, same conclusion' with regards to claims about black people. For instance, "black people are inherently stupid and lazy" becomes "black pe...
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