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Commenter 'steve' posted what should be one of the most important sociological papers:
In almost every conversation I've had regarding racial achievement differences, socio-economics is broached. I then present situations where the gap exists, but economics, parental education, and school quality are similar (see Shaker Heights, Princeton High, and other schools in the Minority Achievement Network). So the discussion inevitably leads to overt and institutional racism. The idea is two individuals of similar ability will be judged differently according to their race. The resume experiment from Freakonomics is usually mentioned. Basically, blacks can't ascend as a group because racist employers won't hire them.
Well, Dr. Kanazawa has blown away that myth. He follows black and white individuals and compares their NLSY scores with their incomes. He found that at a given intelligence level , blacks actually make more money than whites. Clearly, this black edge can be attributed to affirmative action. HBDers need to start advertising this study because it so accurately supports our conception of society.
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This is not the first time I have heard this claim. The first time I came across it was on Stormfront, a post by David Duke introducing the findings of some other white nationalist that goes by the name of Yggdrasil that analyzed NLSY data on cognitive ability, race and income. The forum post was from 2009, while this research paper is from 2005, so obviously Kanizawa did this originally. Although, I wonder whether Yggdrasil was unaware someone else had done this before, or he knew about it and merely passed off this analysis as his own original idea.
B.B.
Here is an earlier paper from 1998 by Neal & Johnson showing that the skills gap largely explains the earnings gap.
http://www.virginia.edu/economics/papers/johnson/finaljencks.pdf
I think economist Bryan Kaplan did research and found the same thing very recently.
Link to Kaplan:
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/02/the_truth_hurts.html
Hmmm... the whole thing didn't post. I'm going to split it.
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives
/2008/02/the_truth_hurts.html
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