Re:Culture still doesn’t explain poverty
by jerf on Sunday January 16, 2011 @10:37AM
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That's either dangerously close to the line of the unprovable, or simply on the wrong side of it. Or "undisprovable", if you prefer. At some point a sufficiently "subtle" impact on behavior simply drops below the noise floor of normal human interactions, which aren't exactly a continuous party of peace and love no matter how you slice it.
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Two studies which kind of demonstrate the "subtle" form of racism:
"Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?" - http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mullainathan/files/...
Another study that showed that whites with criminal records have a better change of getting a job callbacks compared with blacks without criminal records when qualifications were the same: http://ftp.iza.org/dp4469.pdf (the study was also done in Chicago with the same results)