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Comment author: AlexMennen 09 April 2013 12:40:10AM *  12 points [-]

the evaluators job was to collude with the grant proposal submitter, so that we got more evaluation jobs from them in the future.

The grantee, not the grantor, hires the evaluator? What the hell?

Can you see where the politics might come in? There were rich whites who got upset when the data told the schools to put some blacks in their son's advanced math class. There were math teachers who absolutely refused to allow blacks/poors in their classroom, or worse, treated them in such a way as to cause them to fail, thus confirming their worldview.

More what the hell. Was this a long time ago, or am I just really naive about what certain parts of the US outside the bay area look like?

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 09 April 2013 05:24:04AM 8 points [-]

Was this a long time ago, or am I just really naive about what certain parts of the US outside the bay area look like?

Outside view suggests the latter. Also, it's probably more parts than you think. The Bay Area is pretty weird along several dimensions.

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