“Ultimately, Mr. Scalise reportedly described himself as David Duke without the baggage,” Mr. Earnest said. “So it’ll be up to Republicans to decide what that says about their conference.”
17 Things We Learned About Income Inequality in 2014
No fewer than three Nobel Prize winners have done work similar to Piketty’s, and yet for some reason he was the one to become identified with the topic of wealth inequality. Even though Capital was so deeply researched that it’d be foolish to call its success entirely a fluke, it’s undeniable that Piketty gave 2014’s book-buying public what it wanted: a well-dressed, well-educated European alternative to an Occupy movement that is still aimless and now rundown.
.. In 2013, median income for a white household was $58,270, according to Census data. For Hispanics it was $40,963 and for blacks it was only $34,598. One minority group bucks the trend: Asians. In 2013, median earnings for Asian households was $67,035, surpassing the median income of all households.
Parable of the Polygons: Small Individual Bias leads to Large Collective Bias
Small individual bias can lead to large collective bias.
Equality is an unstable equilibrium. The smallest of bias can push a whole society past the tipping point. Well, what if we taught these shapes to have zero bias? (Or if you’re feeling particularly nasty today, more bias?)
.. 1. Small individual bias → Large collective bias.
When someone says a culture is shapist, they’re not saying the individuals in it are shapist. They’re not attacking you personally.
Does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) Really Measure Racial Prejudice? Probably Not.
The faster we can automatically associate people with our in-group, the less likely we will be to implicitly and overtly demonstrate racial prejudice toward them.