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“Until the trial, we will not know exactly what happened that evening between Zimmerman and Martin”
What an idiot. All kinds of evidence are excluded from trials. You will learn more (and probably already have) about both sides of the case from outside the courtroom.
Here’s an article from Vice on a controversy regarding a recent scientific paper.
Determinism and Its Enemies Are Still Waging War over the Soul of Science
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/determinism-and-its-enemies-are-still-waging-war-over-the-soul-of-science
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/02/18/203259/nature-vs-nurture-waging-war-over-the-soul-of-science
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Understanding those fears helps shed light on the controversy surrounding a recent paper published in the American Economic Review, entitled, “The ‘Out of Africa’ Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development.” In it, economists Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor argue that the economic development of broad human populations correlate with their levels of genetic diversity—which is, in turn, pinned to the distance its inhabitants migrated from Africa thousands of years ago. Reaction in some circles has been swift and vehement.
An article signed by 18 academics in Current Anthropology accuses the researchers of “bad science”—“something false and undesirable” based on “weak data and methods” that “can become a justification for reactionary policy.” The paper attacks everything from its sources of population data to its methods for measuring genetic diversity, but the economists are standing by their methods.
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That “can become a justification for reactionary policy” really stuck out for me so I just had to look at the paper and see…
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/669034
“When used improperly or when it is of dubious quality, however, science can become a justification for reactionary policy.”
“When used improperly… science can become a justification for reactionary policy.”
Talk about the mask slipping… is there any sort of guidelines scientists are suppose to use to make sure their science isn’t used for “reactionary” purposes? The Soviet Union had such guidelines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois_pseudoscience
“Ultimately, this can provide fodder to those looking to justify policies ranging from mistreatment of immigrants to ethnic cleansing (especially by groups with real political power, e.g., Golden Dawn in Greece).”
Would they consider immigration control in any form reactionary?
As Eugene Volokh said: “Letting in immigrants means letting in your future rulers. It may be selfish to worry about that, but it’s foolish not to.” (and I’m happy he said it considering his libertarian convictions… he does say it may not be an issue for the US but that could just be deflection) Shouldn’t we know what we’re letting in… shouldn’t we know if we’re compatible with them?
http://www.volokh.com/2013/02/14/the-pilgrims-as-illegal-aliens/
One other thing… Right after their warning against justifying “reactionary policies” they slip this in…
“However, we are not arguing a case for blissful ignorance.”
I would be able to take them at their word if it weren’t for the fact there are people out there arguing specifically for blissful ignorance.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fury-at-dna-pioneers-theory-africans-are-less-intelligent-than-westerners-394898.html
“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.”
http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/unpublished-study-draws-ire-minorities
“The officially unpublished report—“What Happens After Enrollment? An Analysis of the Time Path of Racial Differences in GPA and Major Choice”—examined how minority students close the gap in academic performance as compared to white counterparts at Duke. The research found that black students’ GPAs indeed converge eventually with those of white students, but attributed this to black students being more likely than white students to switch to less difficult majors. About 35 people protested the study Sunday, claiming that the research minimizes the achievement of black students and wrongly characterizes some humanities disciplines as easier than other majors.”
The President and the Muzzle
http://flawedeconomist.blogspot.com/2012/03/president-and-muzzle.html
Affirmative Disaster
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/affirmative-disaster_626632.html
“It is hard to demonstrate to the lower-middle-class white male at CSU Bakersfield that his supposed 24/7 privilege must be countered by affirmative action accorded to wealthier Latinos or Asians at Stanford ”
Asians? Really? What an idiot.
“Asians? Really? What an idiot.”
Agreed…
I actually had a comment ready with regard to the post itself earlier but deleted it after finding the Vice article…
1. VDH is still rather PC and quite honestly he often just gets a lot of things wrong. Look at his latest article on Mexifornia. He’s still way off base.
2. The Derb was able to get away with much while still employed at National Review. His problem was the manner he wrote that one article… which I’m glad he wrote because it needed to be written.
A pet peeve of mine. A non-trivial number of whites think asians benefit from AA.
To CR: are you serious? this article is nothing like much of Derb’s stuff.
I’m a bigger fan of VDH than many commenters. I generally find his analysis, including that of “Mexifornia,” incisive. (Talk to someone from Marin County. She has no idea that California isn’t universally idyllic.) Regardless, this article is anodyne, even by National Review standards.
Because they do.
Zimmerman was framed to illustrate police racism, then it turned into a case of white profiling. The press does jump on white on black crime, but usually to give the impression that police racism (and the presumption of black guilt and white innocence) is pervasive, not white crime. So VDH is being a little imprecise.
Good article. Hansen probably reads Sailersphere.
He was correct in claiming that wealthy Asians enjoy an advantage over poor whites in college admissions. While wealthy whites have an advantage over wealthy Asians in college admissions, poor whites have a disadvantage against everyone, including both poor and wealthy Asians. Furthermore, a large part of the disadvantage which Asians seem to have is due to the fact that Jews are granted a large advantage, but then lumped together with whites. Read Epsenshade’s and Radford’s findings if you want to see for yourself that poor whites have a disadvantage against both poor and wealthy Asians (and everyone else), and read Unz to find out about Jewish overrepresentation.
(Note that whenever I say anything about representation or advantages, I mean relative to academic qualifications).
Also, bear in mind that not all Asians are created equal when it comes to affirmative action.
Here’s Steven Farron on the question of Asians and Affirmative Action:
http://www.affirmativeactionhoax.com/additions/
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I must begin by qualifying the title of the section in my book in which I discuss this subject (Section D of Chapter 9): “Asians Are Beneficiaries of Affirmative Action.” In that section, I document that Asians are the greatest beneficiaries of government programs that set-aside contacts for minority-owned businesses and that Asians are often beneficiaries of programs to increase the proportion of minorities in high-level positions.
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In my book, I repeatedly point out that the contention that Asians suffer from greater discrimination than Whites in undergraduate admissions is usually based on comparisons between the combined Verbal+Math SAT scores of Asians and Whites at the same colleges. But that is a misleading measure since the Verbal section, on which Whites do better than Asians, is more important than the Math section, on which Asians do better than Whites. However, I do not provide any evidence for the greater importance of the Verbal than the Math SAT in my book. I will correct that defect now.
There are two reasons why the Verbal SAT is more important than the Math. One is obvious: the types of questions and problems on the Verbal section are relevant to many more university courses and many more occupations than the questions and problems on the Math. (In my book (pages 152, 303), I warn against confusing mathematical reasoning with accuracy of arithmetic computation.)
A more important reason for the greater importance of the Verbal section is that it is a more accurate measure of General Intelligence (i.e., it is more g-loaded) than the Math section. To state that non-technically: the Verbal section is a more accurate measure than the Math of ability at “analyzing, synthesizing, and manipulating information; distinguishing relevant from irrelevant information; and other types of abilities that are commonly called intelligent” (page 303 of my book). (The definitive discussion of General Intelligence (g) is Jensen 1998.)
The higher g-loading of the Verbal than the Math SAT explains a fact that I mention on pages 281-3 of my book. I show there that coaching/preparation does little to raise SAT scores. But it raises Math scores more than Verbal scores. This probably surprised many readers, who assumed that the opposite should be true. However, although the form of the Verbal section is words, its substance is General Intelligence; and General Intelligence is the most completely genetically determined of all mental traits.
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Hanson’s articles on the 2 countries that make up California are good reads. He consistentyl spotlights the anarcho-tyranny of the golden state.
@Dr. Stratton – Check out “The Soul of Battle” by Hanson. It’s a quick read and a good examination of three campaigns that are from completely different eras and cultures, yet have many similarities.
Given that VDH is a professor in the Cal State system, I am sure he has first hand knowledge of how asians benefit from AA in the Cal State system.
Hanson does write some good stuff. That does him make any less of neocon warmonger -or any less of an anti-race realist racial liberal. Of course-aside from not wanting to share the fate of Derb-he may be simply bowing to the facts of his living in a 90% Hispanic jurisdiction and having ethnic Mexicans in his family when he espouses race denialism.
What a dopey finishing analogy. When The President said that, we had a picture of a 12 year old. Nicole was obviously pretty vacuous, and about as unsympathetic as Trayvon was sympathetic. In fact they LOST because of it. Worst trial stradegy of all time. Not only was she unsympathetic, I think the majority of black women on the jury – HATED her. And that was just from the prosecution witnesses.
You’re writing as if the black women on the O.J. jury were geniuses. My guess is Nicole was smarter than most, if not all, of them.