Re:NASA releases detailed global climate change projections
by tzs on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @02:16PM
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> Do you really think black people go through such mental calculations like that, when deciding what to spend their time on next? Do you, whatever race you are?
Of course not.
> You and Russ are presuming that you have any idea what thoughts and mental calculus goes through a black person's mind when they decide when and how hard to work on what, and that you could even know or deduce it without asking, and that it's the same for all black people, and that there's a difference between how black and white people think, which rules and formula they use, and which numbers they plug into them.
Nope. I'm presuming that black people make these decisions exactly the same way white people do, which is by observing the outcomes of the decisions of others similarly situated and picking a path similar to the paths taking by those whose outcomes they would like to also achieve.
They can see that blacks living in the tier 1 neighborhoods need to put in a lot more work than the whites living in those neighborhoods. They can see that putting in merely the same level of works that whites do results in at best tier 2. They can see that working less than that results in tier 3. They can see that their friends working less and settling for tier 3 are spending more time with family or personal interests. The can see that tier 2 is only a minor improvement physically over tier 3, and is a long way behind tier 2.
Of course not.
> You and Russ are presuming that you have any idea what thoughts and mental calculus goes through a black person's mind when they decide when and how hard to work on what, and that you could even know or deduce it without asking, and that it's the same for all black people, and that there's a difference between how black and white people think, which rules and formula they use, and which numbers they plug into them.
Nope. I'm presuming that black people make these decisions exactly the same way white people do, which is by observing the outcomes of the decisions of others similarly situated and picking a path similar to the paths taking by those whose outcomes they would like to also achieve.
They can see that blacks living in the tier 1 neighborhoods need to put in a lot more work than the whites living in those neighborhoods. They can see that putting in merely the same level of works that whites do results in at best tier 2. They can see that working less than that results in tier 3. They can see that their friends working less and settling for tier 3 are spending more time with family or personal interests. The can see that tier 2 is only a minor improvement physically over tier 3, and is a long way behind tier 2.