Re:Why are there so few black people in STEM?
by opportune on Sunday June 14, 2020 @10:43PM
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No amount of funding towards schools can make up for a home life or general environment that's not conducive towards education. I wish we in the US looked at solutions beyond throwing money at it (or at least, in a different way) because it obviously doesn't work.
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Re:Why are there so few black people in STEM?
by ReticentVole on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:44AM
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End the drug war, legalise marijuana and decriminalise everything else, send Black men to get married and raise their kids instead of sitting in Jail.
Only 36% of Black kids live with married parents: https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/FT_18...
Stop giving additional welfare to single-parent households.
Re:Why are there so few black people in STEM?
by tuatoru on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:18AM
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Yeah, it depends where the money is thrown.
Experiments in Brazil and India suggest that the really simple, dumb solution works best: give poor people money, no strings attached.
Sure, they'll waste some of it. But not all that much, maybe a third. To economists, that's very effective targeting.
(If you demand perfect targeting and use of funds here, why not with private-sector investments (67%-90% loss rate) or 'normal' government investments (50% - 75% losses)? )
But India and Brazil still don't have great social mobility. Most studies in that area are still pretty young and it's too early to say if that can increase social mobility in the long term.