The Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts is 95%

Re:The Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts is 95% by bmmayer1 on Sunday July 07, 2013 @07:31PM (#6004071)

Didn't Steve Levitt prove this wrong?

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Re:The Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts is 95% by npc on Sunday July 07, 2013 @07:35PM (#6004097)

I don't know, did he? Here's some more if that didn't convince you (courtesy of Tim Wise: http://www.timwise.org/2010/07/black-powers-gonna-git-you-su...)

http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/race_at_work.pdf

http://www.eeo1.com/1999_NR/Title.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/01race.html?_r=2

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Re:The Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts is 95% by coldtea on Sunday July 07, 2013 @08:32PM (#6004310)

If you are an economist (a field is already more an ideology / spin machine than science -- the science part in it is basically math), and you are more into entertainment (e.g making the NYT best selling list of shallow books) than science, then you can "prove" a lot of things, without actually proving anything.

Start with a few unexamined wrong assumptions, select the data that fit your conclusion, dress them up with anecdotes and prose, and there you go!

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