According to the Pew Research Center, relative to white men, black men are disproportionately imprisoned by a factor of almost 6.5. In my experience, American liberals believe that racism in the criminal justice system explains the bulk of that disparity or,…
Tag: neighborhood effect
Brian Boutwell and J. C. Barnes argue on Quillette that many results in sociology may be confounded by genetics, but we don’t know for sure because social scientists use research designs that don’t account for that possibility. In particular, they mention neighborhood effect, which…
Steve Sailer talks about a study from 1978 which shows that, after Warsaw was rebuilt in the aftermath of WW2 by the socialist government whose policy was to allocate housing, schools and hospitals without regard to social class, IQ was unrelated to neighborhood but…